A free service of the Broward County Commission, the Cultural Quarterly fine arts magazine, provides in-depth articles on the local, cultural scene, revealing profiles of exceptional artists and detailed listings of events and attractions.  The magazine has gone green and will now be fully accessible online only. 

The year was 1988 and the first issue of Cultural Quarterly was about to be born. It featured a Picasso Exhibit at the Museum of Art and the Florida Philharmonic Orchestra, and its publication would open the door on 20 years of service to the Broward County. Informing the population on arts, culture, history and attractions, it would grow to a distribution of 20,000 readers plus and become the most comprehensive cultural calendar in Broward County, and key to tourism in the area. 81 issues of artist’s profiles, historical culture, mayor’s messages, art news, art’s committee member profiles, art success stories, family fun, intriguing images and cultural close-ups tumbled through the years in fluent color and catchy verbiage.

Stories included the likes of James Judd, Edward Villella, Duane Hanson and the many national and international public artists in the public art and design program. It also featured guest writers from the Americans for the Arts, the Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts and the National Endowment for the Arts and has won many awards including National Association of County Information Officers, International Association of Business Communicators and ADDY awards.   More...

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More than 89 Public Art and Design projects are administered yearly and conservation of the Broward County collection of more than 250 artworks.  Established in 1976, the program has entered its fourth decade and includes the works of Duane Hanson, Clyde Butcher and Romero Britto to name a few.  More
 

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Through annual workshops and nine competitive cultural grant programs (project specific and general operating support) with awards ranging from $2,000. to $310,000., funding for eligible cultural not-for-profits, municipalities, and Broward-based individual artists.   More...

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Educational workshops for arts educators, cultural organizations administrators, public artists, grantees, and grant applicants; 4,320 attendees in 2006.

The annual Arts Teacher of the Year Award is one of South Florida's premier arts education events which annually honors the teacher of a Broward County public school who has excelled in teaching the arts to students and draws standing room only audiences.  The program celebrated its 20^th anniversary in 2005.  More...

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Sailboat Bend Artists Lofts

Artspace Projects, Inc., a Minneapolis-based not-for-profit real estate developer for the arts contracted with Broward County for the development of 37 artists live/work spaces. The West Side School site in Sailboat Bend will be the first, and will have two components: the adaptive re-use of the historic West Side School into cultural workshop space and meeting space on the first floor, and four artist units on the second floor. A new building will house more artists.   More...

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An ArtsPark is a Cultural Center for the performing, visual and literary arts including classroom and workshop space, exhibit and performance space and cultural programming by professional artists with free or low cost services to the community.

The 2000 Safe Parks and Land Preservation Bond included a $5 million budget to construct a cultural center in a park. In a competitive process, the City of Hollywood was awarded the ArtsPark funding to transform Young Circle Park. The City matched the County’s $5 million with an additional amount that is now in excess of the original $5 million.

The Board of County Commissioners was so impressed with the other applicants that additional funding from the Bond is now enabling the cities of Pembroke Pines and Miramar to also have ArtsParks.  Additionally, an ArtsPark will be built (in conjunction with a new library) in the new 115-acre Central Broward Regional Park in Lauderhill.  More...
 

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The Cultural Division has received numerous awards including Gold and Silver Addy Awards in 2004 and 2005 and 2006, from the Advertising Federation of Greater Fort Lauderdale. 

In 2007 two (2) Awards of Excellence from the National Association of County Implementation Offices for the Cultural Quarterly magazine and the "30 Years of Public Art and Design" video; eight NaCo Awards in 2006.  Americans for the Arts, in cooperation with the National Association of Counties (NACo) awarded the Broward County Board of County Commissioners the 2004 National Award for County Arts Leadership.  More...

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Cultural Division

100 South Andrews Avenue

Fort Lauderdale, FL 33301

954-357-7457

www.broward.org/arts