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Public arts funding update: February
For whatever reason, this is about the time of year when things start to heat up in budget land, for the federal government and states alike. From February through May, we’ll find out a lot about where...
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Early fall public arts funding update
DOMESTIC The big news last month was the campaign for and passage of a millage (property tax) in Detroit to support the beleaguered Detroit Institute of the Arts. Hyperallergic’s Jillian Steinhauer and...
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Part of Your World: On the Arts and Wellbeing
SUMMARY: A large and emerging literature on the topic of wellbeing has a lot to teach us about the arts’ role in society. Wellbeing is a way of grouping the various components of individual and...
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MASS MoCA Visionary Has New Vision (and other August Stories)
North Adams, Massachusetts – photo by flickr user John Herr In 1986, Thomas Krens, with an MBA in hand from Yale University and new to his consultancy for the Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum in New York,...
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We’re Growing – and We Need You!
Createquity is a virtual think tank and online publication investigating the most important issues in the arts and what we, collectively and individually, can do about them. Our work is guided by a...
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Createquity Receives Grant from the Robert W. Deutsch Foundation
The Robert W. Deutsch Foundation has awarded Createquity a grant of $15,000 over one year. Based in Baltimore, the Deutsch Foundation invests in innovation in the areas of science and technology,...
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Big Bird Sells Out (And Other September Stories)
National Geographic Magazine covers display – photo by flickr user greyloch In the world of media, the line in the sand between commercial and nonprofit has long been getting washed away, but this past...
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Introducing Two New Editorial Team Members
Createquity is growing! We are pleased to introduce the two newest members of Createquity’s editorial team. Over the course of a three-month trial period that started this summer, these folks...
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White House Artists in the School House
Photograph by Joop de Graaff What would happen if you enlisted some of the most prominent artists in the country to bring the arts into the classrooms of eight struggling schools? Got the White House,...
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To Build or Not to Build (And Other October Stories)
Lincoln Center (photo by flickr user Peter Miller) Raising money is tough, and raising money for the arts can be particularly so. And yet, at this moment in New York, sixteen arts institutions in...
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The Andrew W. Mellon Foundation Invests in the Future of Createquity
Createquity finds itself at a pivotal moment in fall 2015. We have seen an exciting increase in the demand for our work since relaunching just over a year ago, and with new team members and sources of...
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A New Front in the Culture Wars (and other November stories)
Seward Johnson, “A Reason to Smile,” installed at Grounds For Sculpture, Hamilton, NJ. (Photo by Flickr user Wally Gobetz) On November 13, gunmen opened fire on approximately 1,500 unsuspecting...
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Reinventing Createquity: A Year (and a half) in Review
“leap” by Flickr user sabrina’s stash. Loyal Createquity readers, In 2014, we took a big leap, and you leaped with us. Running a traditional arts blog wasn’t feeling very exciting to us anymore, and...
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A new editorial team member
Createquity is pleased to welcome Katherine Gressel as our newest editorial team member. Katherine originally got her start with Createquity as a Writing Fellow and occasional contributing writer in...
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The Top 10 Arts Policy Stories of 2015
“Untitled” by flickr user Jakob Montrasio Each year, Createquity offers a list of the top ten arts policy stories of the past twelve months. You can read the previous editions here: 2014, 2013, 2012,...
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Leaving Behind No Child Left Behind (and Other December Stories)
“Second Grade Writing Class” by Flickr user woodleywonderworks. In July, thirteen years after the Bush Administration passed the No Child Left Behind Act (NCLB), ushering in an age of highly...
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Are you better off today than you were 15 years ago?
The New York Times Building, photo by Scott Beale / Laughing Squid One hot August day last summer, my Facebook news feed suddenly blew up with frustration directed at New York Times fact-checkers,...
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Netflix Is Taking Over (and Other January Stories)
“Netflix” by flickr user Jenny Cestnik. This month, Netflix moved one step closer to media domination, launching its streaming service in 130 countries, bringing the total number of...
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The most important issues in the arts are __________.
red check mark — photo by Flickr user kkirugi In summer 2014, Createquity overhauled its editorial structure, priorities, and online presence to place a new emphasis on investigating the most important...
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Taking Art into Their Own Hands
the artist’s hand — photo by flickr user farhad sarykov Expanding the reach of arts organizations is notoriously challenging, especially when it comes to people who make less money, have less...
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