About Art-Speak

Art-Speak is the Agency created to serve the City of Portsmouth by implementing the Cultural Plan.

The Mayor's Blue Ribbon Committee on Arts and Culture was created in the fall of 1999 to develop a cultural plan to be incorporated into the City's master plan. The committee was comprised of Portsmouth, New Hampshire citizens representing business, cultural, community service, and education sectors. After a full year of focus groups with members of Portsmouth's academic, civic, cultural, and religious organizations, the Blue Ribbon Committee synthesized the major themes from these discussions into the following goals. These goals represent various steps Portsmouth and citizens can take to preserve and grow the city's cultural assets.