1. Cultural Resources Workgroup
Meeting
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3. Today’s Objectives
• Come to understanding of
common goals
• Select nominations to Steering
Committee

4. Goals Discussion

5. Cultural Resource Goal Summary
From Adopted Plans

6. Cultural Resource Goal Summary
From Blue Ridge
Heritage Local Plans

7. Goals- All 5 Counties
• Historic Preservation
• Cultural Preservation
• Preserve Natural Resources

8. Goals- 4 out of the 5 Counties
• Establish and promote events and festivals
• Promote local artisans
• Link cultural and historic sites
• Increase cultural tourism
• Preserve natural environment
• Promote and preserve national forests & parks
• Heritage museums
• Rural mountain history
• Preserve & restore historic sites
• Promote small town culture and economy
• Promote farmer’s market
• Promote local food economy
• Promote agri-tourism
• Promote active local farming

9. Goals 3 out of the 5 counties
• Promote musical heritage
• Create greenways to promote cultural tourism
• Open space preservation
• Engage and educate the local community
• Preserve historic corridors

10. Goals from the Workgroup
VISION
• The region is locally and nationally recognized
for its creative placemaking, unique historical
resources and craft heritage and the creative
economy is embraced as a cornerstone for the
region.

11. Goals from the Workgroup
Education, Advocacy, Awareness
• Would like to see more field trips for students
that are based on embracing historical resources.
This can help them to embrace their place and
better understand who they are.
• Improve advocacy, involvement and engagement
in cultural arts.
• Bring arts and culture curricula back to the K-12
classroom
• Create a state regional history museum in WNC

12. Goals from the Workgroup
Arts & the Economy
• Community leaders recognize arts and culture
as a key industry and provide support-
creating the cornerstone for future growth in
the industry
• Create an innovative model supporting the
arts and culture industry that can be shared
and recognized nationally
• Build a statistical inventory “Americans for the
art’ for economic prosperity

13. Goals from the Workgroup
Data based Policy Making
• Build a statistical inventory “Americans for the
art” for economic prosperity
• Create “one voice” for the arts and culture
community in WNC
• Research studies (such as Barret Value Study)
to determine if people are actually inovled
in/support arts and culture or if it is just
something they say

14. Reality Check # 1
• One meeting in each
county
• Open House Style
• ‘Stations’ facilitated by
Workgroup and Project
Team members
• Objective:
– Introduce pubic to the
project
– Get public feedback on
Goals & Objectives

15. Additional Discussion Points
• How do we message natural resources to the
public?
• Cultural Resource metrics
• Ideas for separate complimentary projects
• Examples of places/projects that do/do not
exemplify the goals
• Project advocacy

16. Summer Work session
• Groups fully integrated
• Goal-centric
• Alternatives modeling