Collaboration for Community Art

About the Program

Category: Arts, Culture and Historic Preservation (Best in Category)

Year: 2009

Upon the recent completion of the new Encinitas Community Library, a branch of the San Diego County library system, a partnership between the City of Encinitas and the library was established to create a Civic Arts Program. In accordance with the city’s official “embracing of the arts” in its Master Plan, the county-operated library created two professional art galleries in the library: one in the lobby and another in the Community Room. These exhibition spaces have helped to foster the concept of “library as community” by integrating Encinitas’ artistic heritage into their institutions.