Cultural Plans serve as a roadmap for a community’s arts and culture initiatives, guiding investments, partnerships, and programming. They also create a vision that captures the aspirations of local artists, organizations, and residents.
What is a Cultural Plan
Why does this matter for Louisville?
The Louisville Comprehensive Cultural plan will help to create a community-wide vision while also advising on Metro’s arts initiatives. The plan will seek to ensure that Louisville remains a thriving cultural hub that is accessible and equitable for all residents.
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Kick Off
Discovery
Begin Analysis
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Round 1 Engagement
Continue Analysis
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Round 2 Engagement
Develop & Present Vision and Guiding Principles
Develop Cultural Plan Framework
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Develop & Present Initial Recommendations
Develop & Present Cultural Plan
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Final Engagement
Adoption of Cultural Plan
Project Timeline
Where do you experience arts and culture?
Use the map to indicate locations where you experience arts and culture in Louisville! Please submit below and we will populate your asset on the map.
Do you have an asset/resource that cannot be mapped? Describe it below.
Cultural Asset Map
Focus Areas
Click the links to on the right learn more more about each subject and to contribute.
“Art and culture is the gist that makes a city a place people want to live in, not just a place they must.”
— Louisville Survey Respondent
Plan Framework Open House Series
Join us for the first look at the proposed framework for Louisville’s Comprehensive Cultural Plan!
What to Expect:
React to Initial Findings
Vision & Guiding Principles
Provide Your Input
Dates
April 22, 2025
4-7pm
Encore (Old Broadway Theater)May 15, 2025
4-7pm
Location TBDMay 30, 2025
4-7pm
Location TBDMay 31, 2025
Main Branch of Louisville Free Public Library
10am - 1pm (during Cultural Pass kick off)
Upcoming Events
About the plan
Louisville Metro Government's Office of Arts + Creative Industries is partnering with Designing Local, Artful Places, and Jon Stover & Associates on a cultural planning process for Louisville.
This process will build on existing plans like Imagine Greater Louisville, Plan 2040, and Growing Louisville Together. Louisville Metro aims to set concrete goals for growing the creative industries and their economic impact.
Key components of the Cultural Planning Process include:
Updating the Public Art Master Plan
Conducting an economic audit of the arts sector
Developing recommendations to support Louisville's creative economy