The purpose of the Arts Advisory Committee (AAC) is to provide leadership, vision, connection, and commitment to cultural arts development in the city of Santa Clarita. The AAC represents the broad scope and view of the community at large.

Promoting, representing, supporting, advocating, and fundraising for cultural arts development are at the core of the City of Santa Clarita Cultural Arts Master Plan. The eleven member AAC, comprised of artists, business leaders, educators, and City Commissioners, works with the Arts & Events Office on arts-related issues, policy recommendations to City Council for arts development, and provides knowledge regarding the needs of the arts community in the City.

City staff from the Arts & Events Office participated with the AAC in a strategic planning session during 2002. The strategic plan clearly and consciously layed out the work of the AAC and the Arts & Events Office for the next three to five years.

The AAC is on the ground floor of creating the City's first Arts Advisory Committee and furthering the development of arts and culture in the City of Santa Clarita.