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Santa Ana Arts Future <br />Community Arts and Cultural Master Plan <br />Initiative 5.3.3 Engage all parties involved with Career Technical Education and Santa Ana's workforce <br />development in a consortium that identifies career pathways from high school through to job <br />securement in an arts and culture organization or creative field and then creates navigational systems to <br />help participants through the pipeline. <br />Implementation Lead: Higher Education Institutional Lead; SAUSD; Chamber of Commerce <br />Implementation Partners: SAUSD/Career Technical Education, charter and private high schools, higher <br />education institutions, the Santa Ana Partnership, High School Inc., Santa Ana Work Center WIOA <br />program. <br />Timeline: Short -Term (Years 1-3) to Mid -Term (Years 4-7) <br />Re.SOUrces: Partner's staff time, meeting and logistics, website costs for directory <br />Metrics: Increased participation by students in career development programs, placement figures for <br />those who are hired into the arts, culture and creative sectors. <br />6. Spaces and Places <br />Goah Identify carom unhy spaces for artistic and creative collaborations and create a roadmap <br />for new cultural facility development throulth city and ofrgaaizziiional partrner.�'hirrs. <br />Santa Ana is facing many of the same challenges as other cities throughout the nation — <br />affordable housing, the positive and negative affects of gentrification, and the challenge of <br />finding space in an urban core. It is beyond the scope of a cultural plan to solve the issue of <br />gentrification as it is more appropriately addressed though City housing and economic <br />development policies. Nonetheless, there are opportunities to identify existing vacant and <br />underdeveloped spaces in the City to be used for arts purposes at a low cost. <br />Throughout the planning process, stakeholders repeatedly noted the lack of quality arts spaces <br />and venues. It should be understood that venues are essential tools for the creation and <br />presentation of quality art. The needs are great. Downtown lacks a well-equipped performance <br />hall. Some Santa Ana arts institutions actually do most of their performances outside Santa <br />Ana. There is support for a joint partnership between the City and Santa Ana College to <br />develop a major performance hall. Likewise, smaller performance and exhibition venues <br />throughout the city are lacking. There is a great need for rehearsal space. Many planning <br />participants called for the creation of a major multicultural arts center, with theaters, dance <br />studios, galleries, and classrooms. <br />Similarly, there is a dearth of spaces for artistic creation. Artists have called for "maker spaces" <br />with shared tools for art creation in all disciplines. They call for a "hub" or gathering place for <br />artists to collaborate and exchange ideas. Other ideas include a "Museo des Artes" style artist - <br />driven or co-op gallery. Small arts organizations call for the creation of an arts incubator, <br />providing shared office space and technical assistance for small and emerging arts <br />organizations. <br />Live -work artist spaces are an opportunity for Santa Ana. There are several nonprofit arts <br />space developers who work with municipalities across the nation. For example, in the Working <br />Artists Ventura (WAV) project, 65 live -work units were developed (new construction), with <br />several market rate units on the upper stories and gallery/retail space at the ground floor. Total <br />cost of the project was $57 million. The City of Ventura's contribution was just $2.5 million, <br />35 <br />65B-39 <br />