CITY OF DALLAS

OFFICE OF CULTURAL AFFAIRS

The mission of the Office of Cultural Affairs (OCA) is to provide equitable funding and management assistance to artists and cultural organizations through several funding programs. The budget for this program comes from the City's general fund budget as approved by the Dallas City Council.

Through guidance from the Cultural Affairs Commission, the OCA also seeks to enhance the aesthetic presence of the city through its growing Public Art Program. The Office of Cultural Affairs also oversees management and programming of all city-owned cultural facilities helping provide the public with a broad range of accessible cultural and arts programming.

The Office of Cultural Affairs has initiated several significant partnerships that help stimulate a healthy cultural system: ARTSPartners established a relationship between the City of Dallas, the Dallas Public School System and cultural organizations to provide comprehensive arts experiences to Dallas school children; The Cultural Tourism Initiative partners with the Dallas Convention & Visitors Bureau to help market the arts; and Festival Dallas helps coordinate all the cultural celebrations held in the city at various outdoor cultural facilities and performance spaces.

The Office of Cultural Affairs receives funding support from the Texas Commission on the Arts and from the National Endowment for the Arts to provide additional funding support to Dallas based organizations.

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