Cork City Council Arts Strategy 2022-2026

Strategic priority #4 - A city for artists

Strategic priority #4 - A city for artists

#4

A city for artists

Objectives

Outcomes

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Ensure our investment strategy meaningfully supports artists and those who advance arts practice in the city.

Artists are supported to develop and make work of quality, scale, ambition and criticality.

2

Create and extend professional development opportunities and

Artists and arts professionals have the knowledge, skills and professional relationships that increase their capacity to build sustainable careers.

pathways that facilitate artists and arts professionals to progress their practice and career ambitions, complementing sectoral initiatives.

We have advanced the culture and conditions that make Cork a city for artists

Goal

3

Partner with the third level education sector to maximise resources, increase networks and support cultural growth and opportunities in the city.

Connection with the city’s third level institutions is explicitly contributing to the arts and culture ecology of the city and supporting the life-cycle of artists careers.

Why this goal?

supported by an enabling arts and cultural ecology.

In 2005 Cork was European City of Culture. The designation brought pride and distinction to our city acknowledging our rich arts and cultural heritage and progressive, contemporary practices. We have enjoyed and built on the legacy of Cork 2005 since that landmark year, and we want to continue to distinguish Cork nationally and internationally as a city of art and culture. Specifically, we want Cork to be a city where artists can live and work; to be a base from where they can build a career,

4

Ensure the needs of artists and arts professionals are considered in mixed- use community infrastructure, housing and creative workspace development schemes.

Arts and cultural uses feature in the design of new city developments.

Over the next five years we will take important steps towards achieving the culture and conditions that will affirm Cork City as an attractive and feasible home for artists and arts professionals. We will marshal Cork City’s strengths as an open, compact, creative city, its designation as a UNESCO Learning City, and its highly developed arts educational infrastructure towards the achievement of this goal.

5

Understand the role of the cultural and creative industries in contributing to Cork as a city for artists.

We have a framework to advance the potential of Cork’s creative industries to expand and diversify arts and cultural production and employment opportunities.

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