It's Survey Time!

Are you a singer, painter, sculptor, writer, photographer, designer, actor, musician, or other creative type? Are you part of an artist’s collective, musical band, theater company, gallery, cultural group, arts venue, or any other arts group? If so, it’s time to get your voice heard for Napa Valley arts. Arts Council Napa Valley, as part of our cultural planning process, has launched two separate surveys: one for individual creative people, and one for arts and cultural organizations. These anonymous surveys take only about five minutes to complete, and will give us vital information about your needs and challenges, as well as the first hard data on the economic impact of Napa Valley arts. At the end of the survey, you can enter to win fabulous prizes including a boat trip down the Napa River, lunch for two at Uva, a 2-day painting retreat, a show at the Opera House, and more!

Survey for Individual Artists of All Disciplines:
http://www.surveymonkey.com/s.asp?u=53923605296

Survey for Arts Organizations:
http://www.surveymonkey.com/s.asp?u=550423624198

If you are a creative person, or part of an arts organization, we invite you to fill out your survey today!

These surveys will help us further discover the story of arts in this community. The “maps” we developed of the layout of artists and arts organizations in each city create a startling picture. We can now compare populations of each city not just with their arts resources, but also with artist populations. For example, St Helena, with 5% of the population, has 16% of the artists and 18% of the arts resources in the county. This begs a question: why do artists want to live in St Helena? Yountville, with only 2% of the population, has 3% of the artists and a whopping 12% of the resources. If we knew nothing about Yountville, other than these statistics, we’d have to wonder: does Yountville have the population to support all of its arts resources? American Canyon, with 12% of the population, has only 2% of county arts resources. As the fastest growing city, how can we ensure that American Canyon arts resources grow to match its population? And Napa is emerging as the Big Kahuna of Napa Valley arts: 59% of the population, 59% of the artists, and 55% of arts resources.

Of course, these statistics are only a part of the story, but they go far in identifying the opportunities and challenges in each unique city. Moving forward, we’ll use all of this information to help shape the cultural plan. For instance, how do we play off the strengths in the city of Napa? How do we nurture the cities whose arts are less developed? Only through community input can we best answer these questions. The deadline to fill out the survey is May 4th; please join us in our effort to make an arts and cultural plan for Napa Valley, and fill out the survey today.