Tony Vicari

This Public Art Master Plan outlines a strategic approach to enhance, modernize, and sustainably expand the City of Durango's public art program, with recommendations for implementation between 2026 and 2030. It focuses on streamlining acquisition policies, diversifying funding mechanisms, and improving artist engagement processes. The plan aims to integrate public art into city infrastructure, foster community engagement, and establish Durango as a regional cultural hub to enrich its aesthetic character and diversify tourism.

The 2022 Strategic Operating Plan for the City of Durango serves as an actionable strategy to guide the organization's focus, work, and resource alignment, translating the City Council's strategic plan goals. The plan is built upon seven key pillars: Financial Excellence & High Performing Government, Affordability & Economic Opportunity, Enhanced Livability & Sense of Place, Diversity, Equity, Inclusion, Effective Infrastructure Network, Environmental Sustainability & Resilience, and Engaged Collaborative Governance. Its overarching mission is to provide efficient city services, maintain assets, manage growth, and collaborate with regional partners to improve the quality of life, envisioning Durango as an authentic, diverse, multigenerational, and thriving community that values its natural environment and manages resources in a fiscally responsible, environmental, and socially sustainable manner.