What’s Next

The Office of Arts & Culture laid a lot of groundwork to advance the goals of the Creative Edge Plan while working on sectorrelated recovery efforts. 2023 will bring forth additional resources and support to the field, including:

Bring forth programs and partnerships to help support creative businesses, foster arts journalism, support individual artists and enhance youth workforce development opportunities in the creative economy.

Launch diversity, equity and inclusion training as well as financial management training and mentoring for arts and cultural nonprofits in Sacramento County.

Launch professional development programming for individual artists.

Launch a multi-county initiative to support artists developing communications campaigns focused on climate change, civic engagement, social justice and public health. This will include hiring 5 artists in residence within the City of Sacramento as well as a sizeable grantmaking endeavor.

Source: LOA’A Foundation

Design and deploy strategies through Creative Economy Planning that propel growth in forprofit creative businesses, with a determined focus on including BIPOC creatives. OAC has engaged Creative Startups for a 6-month consulting effort that will involve:

› Investigating and identifying readily accessible growth opportunities in specific creative sectors/industries

› Designing and proposing specific strategies to support a wide range of entrepreneurs growing into (above) identified sectors while expanding access to capital, markets, and business networks;

› Designing an innovative capital access program dedicated to accelerating success of diverse creative entrepreneurs, leveraging the full spectrum of government, philanthropic, and private sector financial resources.

Continue the successful Film + Media internship and film incentive programs. Enhance relationships with other local governments to create a more consistent experience of filming in the Sacramento region.

Complete the arts and entertainment regulatory review process and propose policy changes to improve the climate for creative activity.

Kickstart projects associated with the Clean California grant program including the Del Rio Trail public art project and Florin Road Community Beautification project. Complete a public art survey of the City’s collection, establish a maintenance strategy and begin a review of next steps.