Strategic Plan

The Washington State Arts Commission submitted its revised and updated 2007-2011 Strategic Plan (PDF) to the Office of Financial Management (OFM) in 2006. We refined our Goals, Objectives and Strategies to reflect constituent needs, better align with our mission and clarify our vision. The big picture drivers, and our goals:

 

  • Arts organizations and artists provide a public benefit. GOAL ONE: Expand public access to and participation in the arts to increase cultural opportunities and improve community vitality.
  • Public art enhances public spaces. GOAL TWO: Integrate public art into the state’s built environment to advance community aesthetics and dialogue.
  • Arts education helps every student. GOAL THREE: Incorporate the arts into the education of every Washington student, kindergarten through grade 12, to ensure a complete and balanced education.
  • Washington supports its artistic resources. GOAL FOUR: Expand public and private support for the arts to increase resources, improve policies, and enrich understanding and awareness.

 

We have started a new round of strategic planning. In this planning process, we hope to consider a variety of new opportunities and challenges through a thoughtful and creative process grounded in the agency’s mission and in consideration of organization capacity, resources, and authority. Our new strategic plan will be due to the Governor in June 2008 and will frame our 2009-2011 budget request.

 

Background
Like every state agency, WSAC is required to submit a strategic plan each biennium; this is the basis for the agency's budget request.

 

WSAC's plan for 2007-2009 was due to OFM on June 1, 2006; our budget request was due that August. The plan focuses on the 2007-2009 biennium but covers at least a five-year period (fiscal years 2007 through 2011).

 

In recent years, WSAC has developed a strategic plan every four years, with the plan updated and refined - usually with constituent input - for off year submittals.

 

We previously submitted a Strategic Plan in 2004 (PDF). Our 2004 plan was developed to align with the Priorities of Government (POG), and reflects budget constraints then facing the state.