Cultural Asset Survey
We invite you to share your input in creating an inclusive Vallejo Cultural Asset Inventory.
For language assistance please contact info@solanocountyartscouncil.com.
Vallejo is a robust cultural and creative community. Solano County Arts Council is conducting an outreach effort to engage members of the community in identifying Vallejo's unique cultural assets. The results of this effort will be used to create a list of community cultural assets that broadly reflect Vallejo's perspectives and priorities.
This inventory should go beyond listing traditional cultural organizations and facilities. It should reflect
the full diversity of cultural resources and activities that contribute to Vallejo's vibrancy. See below for a definition of cultural asset.
Two Ways to Participate
In Person
Join members of the community to engage, listen, and discuss culturally relevant assets in Vallejo.
Thursday, July 17, 2025
2 pm to 4 pm
JFK Library, Joseph Room
505 Santa Clara St., Vallejo, CA
Online Survey
Take the online survey to provide your valuable input.
Submit your answers by 5 pm PST on Sunday July 20, 2025.
What is a Cultural Asset?
Professor Ross Gibson, Sydney College of the Arts
In every community that manages to sustain or revive itself over time, there are cultural factors that contribute to the vitality and robustness of the people living there. These factors are shared and creative, which is to say they are cultural and they are assets that make life valuable, that make life worth living.
These cultural assets can be material, immaterial, emotional, or even spiritual. They can be 'solid' things like concert halls, galleries, gardens, parklands and stadiums. They can be special tracts of the natural environment which encourage particular types of cultural activities. Or the climate itself might be a cultural asset if it encourages special kinds of creative and communal activities that bind people together in a place over time.
Stories too might be cultural assets if they are attached to particular peoples and places if they are powerful enough to encourage people to care about and care for their place. In these stories, values can circulate, and special memories often reside in particular locations mentioned in the tales. Thus the places mentioned in the stories can be regarded as cultural assets if people tell of these places and visit them regularly and develop regularpractices or rituals or ceremonies to care for them.