The City of Carlsbad has developed a new Arts & Culture Master Plan including a multi-tier nesting of roles, goals, strategies and action items. This plan will be presented to the Mayor and City Council for final approval on Tuesday, June 26.
Although comprehensive and encouraging, the plan can be overwhelming for the average Carlsbad citizen. Here is a breakdown of the plan’s organization:
Roles
The plan is organized into four City roles, adding three more to the City’s current single role of providing programming.
Themes/Goals
There are primary themes/goals within each City role. These help define each role.
Strategies
A little more detail about each goal. Each goal has multiple strategies.
Action Items
Each strategy includes a number of action items. These are the details of exactly what the City will do to achieve each role’s goals. Funding is specified for each action item, although many action items with longer time frames currently rely on a suggested Transient Occupancy Tax increase.
EXAMPLE OF THE PLAN’S ORGANIZATION
1. Role: Partner
2. Theme/Goal: Foster Arts & Culture Within the Physical Realm
3. Strategy: Enhance existing venues and explore the potential for additional artistic and performance venues within the city including various funding models such as public-private partnerships.
4. Action Item: Launch a feasibility study to explore the creation of a City of Carlsbad cultural arts facility that responds to the regional interest for a larger performance venue for professional theater and can provide classrooms, rehearsal spaces and production studios
AN AREA FOR IMPROVEMENT
The plan as a whole is very strong, but it seems to devalue the community’s sizeable response in support for murals by excluding the emerging mural culture as a Top 10 action item priority. (see above graphic)
Furthermore, the only Top 10 action item within the goal of ‘Foster Arts & Culture Within the Physical Realm’ is to research and develop a feasibility plan for an artistic and performing arts center. Although exciting, this traditional space (theatre, art gallery, concert hall) does not fit the goal’s description. (see below)
Foster Arts & Culture Within the Physical Realm (pg. 50)
Today, peoples’ expectations about art, where they see it and what they experience, are changing. Many want to see arts and culture as infused within the very fabric of the city. Whether this means more artwork along city trails, new murals downtown, or local neighborhood art projects, Carlsbad residents would like to expand upon their traditional experiences of seeing art inside galleries and performance spaces, to seeing art in new and surprising ways all around them.
The action item: ‘support the continuation and development of Carlsbad’s emerging mural culture’ would better fit the goal’s description of non-traditional experiences and responds to the community’s overwhelming support for emerging mural culture in Carlsbad.
Continue reading the community comments submitted via the online surveys in support of murals!
Mural Support submitted by community via online surveys
Allow art to be displayed painted on business walls.
Bring back Art Splash & keep Carlsbad Art Wall it’s amazing to see featured artists create a masterpiece, my kids are in awe
Carosbad art wall
Continue support of the Carlsbad Art Wall curated by Bryan Snyder and other homegrown art projects.
Continue the carlsbad art wall by Snyder art!!
Continue to support and nurture the Carlsbad Art Wall developed by Snyder Art. This is such a great draw leading up to, then during the painting process, and even after each new painting goes up as we get to enjoy new art every other month.
Continue to support local artists and art projects like the mural on Grubbys or other murals throughout the Village.
Continue to support the Carlsbad Art Wall by Snyder Art
Encourage, and continue to support, the Carlsbad Art Wall project. My child was lucky enough, to have the incredible opportunity, to participate. Thanks to the Boys & Girls Club & Bryan Snyder. She still talks about it. It was an unforgettable connection, to the Arts in the Village.
Focus on Carlsbad’s cultural heritage, Spanish, Mexican, Luiseño and support the Carlsbad Art Wall developed by Snyder Art (the building on Carlsbad Village Drive @ Grubby’s).
Have plenty of free events! public art is great ( like the mural project in downtown carlsbad). Offer movies and events for all ages ( my husband and I love the foreign films at the library and we as a family enjoy the open art family days at the library). Keep it up!
I absolutely love all the streeet art in Carlsbad! From the Carlsbad Art wall, to the painted fire hydrants! I also love finding the doodles in the village! We live in such a great community and art keeps us all connected!!!
I have been involved with Bryan Snyder art community for about 10 years. All of the art Bryan has been doing throughout the community of Carlsbad has taught the entire community of Carlsbad about art. I also really love the fact that he is teaching the youth about art and a fun way to be engaged in our small community well keeping out of trouble.
I love the art wall and other at around the Village (like the tigers on Witch Creek). It gives the Village a unique flair and can be easily enjoyed by all.
I love the grubbys art wall and all the doodles around town
I would like the Carlsbad Art Wall by Snyder Art to continue. Also, bring back the Art Splash!
Add more murals in the village/barrio and create a mural art walk for tourists.
Keep Bryan Snyder funded. He knows Carlsbad and its residents and continues to keep us engaged in art on a daily basis.
Keep the art wall at Grubbies and add more. Also permanent murals. More music venues.
Keep the Art Wall in the Village. I ove to see the various forms of visual art on it and the changes each time it’s redone. The previous pieces would make an amazing calendar!!
More murals and mural tours. Let’s be a destination for arts and culture
More murals! Increasing arts education programs for young children, families, and couples, including movies in the park.
More of what is offered. Love the revolving art wall in the village! Do a scavenger hunt for art instillations etc could be fun!
More public art (murals) and low cost classes and events for citizens.
Please keep funding the arts in Carlsbad, you are a HUGH influence for the arts in other surrounding cities. I love the work of Brian Snyder and beg you to keep his mural project funded. He has started movements in your sister cities to beautify their public spaces with Mural Art.
As an example, Senior Grubbys east (exterior) wall features a mural by a different artist every couple of months. Can the city encourage local businesses to support the arts through incentives or grants as a way to draw more people to our local businesses?
Sculptures, murals, music, etc. in public places
Support Bryan Snyder art projects but also inform people better of how they could get involved in community murals or how local artists can get featured etc. Id like so see a little more funky/quirky art styles
Support local artists! Please! There is wonderful talent right here! Bryan Snyder..and many more. Stop outsourcing art! We live here because we love Carlsbad and what it represents. We identify with local artist
Support the art wall project by Brian Snyder. More temporary art in public spaces
Support young Artist such as Matt McBane and Bryan Synder.
a place for people to do street art and paintings
Beach art like the current mural at Senor Grubby’s
Art murals on the walls of city
Events such as the Art Walk. Murals around town. Artwork similar to the Carlsbad sign that establishes city pride. Artwork similar to the round about on State Street.
I like the mural in the barrio. Nice to have artwork that celebrates the city’s history, and/or work by local artists.
More art classes by known artist in Carlsbad, i.e. paint with Michael Sommers, something similar to “Catnap” mural
More art installations around town and worked into public utilities such as electrical boxes and hydrants along with murals and mosaics at overpasses
More art shows, more art classes and more murals painted around the city
More mural and street art -free public events in the village. See article in Carlsbad Magazine about Snyder art and the art hunts around town
More public art- Murals, sculpture Music- Paid festivals with better quality music- we will pay for music
I have been part of the art wall with the kids from the Boys & Girls Club. I love the lessons we teach about the difference between urban art and litter-meaning tagging etc. they have learned they can have an artistic outlet without having to break the law. Once they were part of that wall it gave them something to be a part of in the community that is ongoing. It has been really fun to watch.
I would appreciate for the city to support the “Carlsbad Art Wall developed by Snyder Art”;If you go to Global Street Art and other similar FB pages showing what is being done all over the world, you could see this type of support transforming communities everywhere.
In appropriate places…a mural (which artists could enter contest w/ replica of what the mural would look like. Also, maybe more “music/art in the park or square” in diff. areas free to public
Let the residents contribute to an Art Wall, similar to the Wyland’s Whaling Wall
More murals around the city, not just downtown.
Have a supervised mural event where all interested residents can add a touch to a city mural, feel a little ownership in the end result.
I love all the art murals that we have introduced to the city.
I love the art scavenger hunts Brain Snyder does. He does not do as many as he used to. The Christmas deecoration one he did was my favorite. Getting together and making ornaments with the community members was really fun. At the time 113 out family was somewhat new to the area and it immediately connected us to
neighbors and friends that we have now had for years.
Continue adding art on buildings and streets. Bryan Snyder has likely done more than any other individual to create and expand art in these areas. Continue supporting and working with local artists such as him.
Don’t scrub good street art on public spaces and know the difference between street art and graffiti. Open up more space like Grubbies Art Wall. Relocate the sculpture garden to a more accessible public space.
Engage local artisit to create new signage around town, murals on buildings, and in natural areas
Featured resident artists with sculptures and murals around town.
I enjoy viewing public murals on buildings and would like to see efforts continued in Carlsbad.
I love the building murals in Carlsbad! More of that would be fun. It adds so much character.
I would like to see more art in roundabouts and other street areas as well as other public buildings.
Increase murals by local artists like Brian Snyder
I love the painted hydrants and electrical boxes
Love the idea of sculpture garden, kids can enjoy Art on city buildings is always special
More art sculptures in parks/love hydrants and electrical boxes painted with great art
More murals -love em.
Mosaic tiles, painted murals, woodwork, etc
Murales donde haya paredes. Exposiciones al aire libre exelente
Murals and structural art would be nice.
murals on buildings; craft shows
murals on public buildings, additional sculptures or art around the city, fountains, etc.
Murals, art “happenings”
murals, music
Murals/sculptures
Paintings on downtown carlsbad buildings new structures keep downtown music on street at night
Pay for public art, murals etc.
Pay more artists to paint art around the city
Perserve and encourage art and murals in the village, encourage landscaping ad parks with interactive art experiences
Professional murals
Public Art enhances any public space. For example the power plant put a mural on it!
Also consider more murals on public buildings.
Public art such as murals and sculptures enhance our visual environment and has the potential to increase tourism (dollars)
Some of the local art needs to be touched up. The rotating wall is a unique idea and should be utilized in other areas of town, allowing more artist to showcase their art and it also adds to the freshness of the town, making it vibrant and new
The street art in the village is awesome. Would love to see more
I love the murals.
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