CITY OF NAPA
PROCLAMATION
Arts & Culture Month ~ April 2026
WHEREAS, the month of April has been recognized as a countywide celebration and advocacy of the arts and local culture, known as Arts in April Napa Valley, by dozens of arts and cultural organizations, hundreds of individuals, and businesses across Napa as well as by Arts Council Napa Valley for 15 years; and WHEREAS, the City of Napa enacted a Public Art Ordinance in 2010 which is intended to integrate public art into non-residential private and public development projects throughout the city. Some of those programs are Napa Art Walk, Napa Lighted Art Festival, Utility Box Art, Downtown Street Banners, Downtown Murals Program, and Napa Dia de los Muertos; and WHEREAS, these programs provide unique cultural experiences, they educate, inspire and spark conversation. They also encourage creative thinking and innovation; and WHEREAS, the arts and culture embody much of the accumulated wisdom, intellect, and imagination of humankind. The arts and culture enhance and enrich the lives of every resident; and WHEREAS, Self-expression is everyone’s birthright;
The arts serve as a common language;
The arts are critical to a healthy economy;
The arts allow us access to our past, to ourselves, and to each other; And, the arts give us a sense of place and of home.
NOW, THEREFORE, BE IT RESOLVED, that I, Scott Sedgley, Mayor of the City of Napa, along with the City Council, do hereby proclaim April 2026 as Arts & Culture Month and call upon our citizens to celebrate and promote arts and culture in our county and to specifically encourage the greater participation by those said citizens in taking action for arts and culture in their towns and cities.
Dated: April 7, 2026
SCOTT SEDGLEY, MAYOR
CITY OF NAPA
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