The Loudoun County Department of Parks, Recreation and Community Services (PRCS) is looking for public input to help create a Comprehensive Arts Plan for the County.
The Comprehensive Arts Plan will create a vision for the arts in Loudoun County and develop a clear set of goals and strategies regarding the development of public support of the arts that recognize and highlight the County’s unique attributes. This Arts Plan will guide the government and community for short-term and long-term arts and cultural programming. The Arts Plan will provide strategies for the visual and performing arts.
Community members will have several opportunities to share what they would like to see included in the Comprehensive Arts Plan. Designing Local, a professional firm working nationally in arts and cultural planning, is gathering public input from an online survey, focus meetings and public workshops planned from October through February 2025.
Comprehensive Arts Plan Online Survey
The Comprehensive Arts Plan Survey is a crucial first step to share your perspective on the arts and culture in Loudoun County. Please take a few minutes to provide feedback on the arts in Loudoun County.
The online survey will be open until December 1, 2024. Participants can provide their email on the survey to be invited to future arts planning events.
Eastern Loudoun Community Arts Center Planning Study
Loudoun’s Comprehensive Arts Plan is being coordinated in tandem with planned future community meetings to be conducted by the Department of Transportation and Capital Infrastructure to gather feedback on the Eastern Loudoun County Community Arts Center Planning Study. The purpose of the public meetings will be to collect preferences from interested residents for the type of facility and potential amenities for a community arts center in Eastern Loudoun.
County residents interested in the arts are encouraged to participate in both the Comprehensive Arts Plan and the Eastern Loudoun County Community Arts Center Planning Study meetings and outreach.
Background
The Loudoun County Board of Supervisors provided for an Arts Programs Initiative in January 2023. This initiative is operating within the Department of Parks, Recreation and Community Services. Temporary staffing positions have been tasked with creating art programming and visibility for the Loudoun County Art Collection, as well as managing development of a guiding Arts Plan for the County.
PRCS staff engaged in thorough research of municipal arts plans in nearby counties and developed a public call for proposals from art and cultural planning firms nationwide. A panel representing various County departments, and the Art Advisory Committee reviewed proposals, interviewed select applicants, and awarded the contract to Designing Local.
Visit loudoun.gov/arts for more information on the Loudoun County Comprehensive Arts Plan and to sign up to be notified for public input meetings in the coming months.
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