- Celebrate and elevate the local arts scene and creative energy pulsing in our city.

 

- Strengthen connections and partnerships between Trenton's many arts and culture institutions, practicing artists, creative business,and arts advocates/appreciators.

 

-Meaningfully integrate arts and culture into the revitalization of Downtown and surrounding neighborhoods.

 

-Embrace arts-based community and economic development as catalysts of positive change and restored vitality within the Creek to Canal Creative District.

 

-Raise resources to put the plan into action and to put local artists to work as leaders in the establishment of the Creative District.

 

-Demonstrate the transformative potential of arts-based and arts-supporting development such that our approach can be adapted and implemented elsewhere in Trenton, the region, and beyond.