Mission
To facilitate inspiring and enduring reflections of our rich and complicated city through poetry, urban design, and visual art.
Vision
Through Poetry Paths, to knit our diverse communities through art, increase civic pride, and enhance Lancaster’s national reputation as an arts destination.
Goals
To create and administer two projects as part of Poetry Paths:
Poetry Paths on the Street and Poetry Paths in the Schools and Community
Through Poetry Paths on the Street,
- To facilitate the creation and installation of site-specific, artfully designed displays of poetry that are of a consistently high quality and that surprise, delight and move their audiences.
- To facilitate the creation and installation of site-specific, sustainable, artfully designed displays of poetry that reflect the diverse cultures, communities, histories and languages of Lancaster.
- To encourage engagement, ownership and long-term commitment of the art among city residents and neighbors.
- To enhance Lancastrians’ understanding and experience of poetry and visual art in their everyday lives.
- To communicate the mission, vision and process of Poetry Paths locally, regionally and nationally.
- To increase Lancastrians’ sense of shared community and civic pride.
- To enhance Franklin and Marshall College’s engagement with the community.
- To provide sustained opportunities for students at Franklin & Marshall to engage with the community around poetry and visual art.
Through Poetry Paths in the Schools and Community,
- To enhance Lancastrians’ understanding and experience of poetry and visual art in their everyday lives.
- To give voice to Lancastrians through poetry.
- To increase Lancastrians’ sense of shared community and civic pride through Poetry Paths programming at our partner schools and community centers.
- To support the related curricular goals and institutional missions of our partner schools and centers.
- To continue to facilitate community engagement after the Paths are installed, whenever possible with the involvement of students from Franklin & Marshall College.
