Documenting Civic Engagement: A Plan for the Tucson Pima Arts Council

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Civic Engagement and the Arts—2008-2009
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Arts and Humanities
Civic and Community Engagement
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Urban Studies and Planning
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This 2009 report is the product of SIAP’s collaboration with the Tucson Pima Arts Council (TPAC) on a plan to document TPAC’s impact on civic engagement in Tucson and Pima County, Arizona. The goal of the project was to develop a plan to enable TPAC to phase in systematic collection and analysis of data on various forms of engagement. The report begins with a review of the policy context in which the project was undertaken, including the findings of the Pima Cultural Plan. The report then discusses a strategy and recommendations for documenting civic engagement and outlines a staged implementation plan. Specifically, Stern and Seifert propose five strategies: improving organizational data gathering, telling stories, documenting artists and the informal cultural sector, identifying institutional networks, and using geographic information systems to integrate data for analysis.

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2009-06-01
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The project grew out of the Arts & Civic Engagement Impact Initiative of Animating Democracy (a program of Americans for the Arts) in which both TPAC and SIAP participated. The SIAP-TPAC collaboration involved a series of conference calls (Nov 2008 – April 2009) with Roberto Bedoya, TPAC executive director, and Leia Maahs, TPAC Community Arts Development Coordinator, and a trip to Tucson by Mark Stern for a three-day site visit (May 2009). Note: In 2016 the Tucson Pima Arts Council board of directors changed its name to The Arts Foundation for Tucson and Southern Arizona. Source: https://artsfoundtucson.org/about/
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