By bringing people together, building relationships across sectors, building trust, getting creative industry leaders to be a voice for the arts community, and through advocacy and peer-pressure to other businesses to support the arts, the work drives economic returns and enlivens communities. We have to find a way to turn policy conversations into ways that impact real people.” – Maryann LombardiĬreative economy work centers the creatives, artists and entrepreneurs, and with their inclusion addresses broad community issues with innovative solutions. The systems that have been in place to support the primary economies don’t support the creative and gig economies. The work matters because the jobs are there.
“People are finding jobs and income in this work and they need infrastructure and systems to support those jobs. Technology plays a major factor in this ability to earn income and establish new careers that didn’t exist 10 years ago.
As with the industrial revolution and much later the age of information, we are currently experiencing a broad change in how people earn income via individual and creative pursuits. Major shifts in economies have long defined periods of economic growth. Please contact the Private Sector Initiatives team to learn more about bringing us to your community to talk about the creative economy and the pARTnership Movement. Over time, we plan to incorporate more success stories and program examples of this work. We are grateful to members of the Creative Economy Coalition and to those who serve on Americans for the Arts’ Private Sector Network Council including Jennifer Goulet of Creative Many Michigan and Susan Soroko of Arlington County Creative Economy, for their leadership and input into this work. Much of the concise definitions of the creative economy are a direct result of her work and that of her team. We offer thanks and recognition to Maryann Lombardi, Chief Creative Economy Officer with the Government of the District of Columbia, Office of Cable, TV, Film, Music and Entertainment for her extensive work on the subject, and for sharing her findings. We invite you to contribution research and examples so that Americans for the Arts can continue to aggregate information for the broad community of arts administrators, public officials, private business leaders and individual creatives. Finally, we encourage you to explore the National Arts Administration and Policy Publications Database and its categories related to creative economy, creative industries, economic impact and creative workforce. We offer examples of communities that are establishing programs and channeling resources into the creative economy in an effort to address broader community issues. We recognize that these definitions will manifest themselves differently in each community and encourage readers to use these tools as a starting point or as another way to view the work.
#CREATIVE KIT CENTER HOW TO#
This toolkit provides a high-level overview of how to identify and define the creative economy in your community. The result is a complex ecosystem of industries, educators, resource providers and participants that centers around creativity. Artists, creatives and makers continually seek to do their work, choosing to work with both businesses and nonprofit arts groups resulting in an ever-blurred line between the independent and private sectors. As the business landscape shifts and evolves, it’s no secret that millions of Americans are pursuing income streams that are based in creative pursuits.
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