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State's Creative Economy plan visits Sacramento as arts leaders press for implementation
Summary
Megan Morgan of the California Arts Council outlined a legislatively mandated strategic plan and a 30-plus stop statewide tour; Sacramento's town hall is scheduled for Feb. 4. Commissioners asked about funding, youth engagement, and how the plan will translate into local implementation and permits for artist spaces.
Megan Morgan, race and equity manager at the California Arts Council, presented the agency's Creative Economy Work Group strategic plan to the Sacramento Arts, Culture and Creative Economy Commission on Jan. 12, saying the plan was established by legislation (referred to in the presentation as AB 01/1927) and has been developed with a statewide work group and outside contractors.
Morgan told commissioners the plan focuses on six priority action areas including workforce preparation, stabilizing and growing creative businesses, increasing revenue through cultural identity and tourism, leveraging existing state opportunities and incentives, defining and tracking return on investment for the creative economy, and building state capacity and infrastructure. She described a public outreach phase that…
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