Community cultural planning involves a public-private process intended to promote arts and culture for economic and social development purposes. Today, the increased importance of creative industries and tourism has led many U.S. cities and regions to employ an analytical and cooperative process in creating distinctive cultural development plans. Artists can play a vital role in such cultural planning, from collaboration with non-artist groups, such as policymakers, arts administrators, and the general public, to implementation. In fact, many scholars have strongly encouraged artists' participation and maturation in the cultural policy community in order to create an effective cultural policy system. However, some important issues related to the participation of artists in the cultural policy arena have been marginalized, ignored, and infrequently studied. Based on interviews, survey and document analysis, this study explored artists' perceptions and experiences in order to evaluate the role they filled in a particular cultural planning process in Chattanooga, Tennessee in the United States. The analysis of the data revealed insights related to the relationship between the artists' perceptions and satisfactions with the plan, changes in the artists' ideas and knowledge base as a result of their participation in planning process, and the artists' ideas about how they benefitted from participating in the process. The purpose of this paper is to give voice to the perspectives of artists involved in cultural planning, particularly in regard to their role and participation in the planning process, and to provide knowledge that may inform the work of stakeholders involved in future cultural planning and cultural policymakers. / A Dissertation submitted to the Department of Art Education in partial fulfillment of the requirements for the degree of Doctor of Philosophy. / Spring Semester, 2013. / March 19, 2013. / Artist, Arts administration, Cultural planning, Cultural policy, Local art
agency, Public art / Includes bibliographical references. / David Gussak, Professor Directing Dissertation; Rebecca Miles, University Representative; Pat Villeneuve, Committee Member; Tom Anderson, Committee Member.
| Identifer | oai:union.ndltd.org:fsu.edu/oai:fsu.digital.flvc.org:fsu_183879 |
| Contributors | Rim, Sung-Ryun (authoraut), Gussak, David (professor directing dissertation), Miles, Rebecca (university representative), Villeneuve, Pat (committee member), Anderson, Tom (committee member), Department of Art Education (degree granting department), Florida State University (degree granting institution) |
| Publisher | Florida State University, Florida State University |
| Source Sets | Florida State University |
| Language | English, English |
| Detected Language | English |
| Type | Text, text |
| Format | 1 online resource, computer, application/pdf |
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