There's so much to be found on CreativeGround -- and we've made CreativeGround's living database of creative people and places more digestible by regularly posting data "snacks" sourced straight from the site. Read on for some interesting insights into what CreativeGround's 30,000+ profiles tell us about our creative landscape -- and don't forget to check the homepage, where we always feature the newest data snack.
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New England’s creative economy is an interconnected ecosystem, and CreativeGround profiles reflect these important relationships. Over 15,000 connections between creative individuals, businesses, and organizations are tracked through profiles' "I Have Worked With" section. Read on to see some examples of the top ten types of creative entities our CreativeGround community members list as their collaborators!
Data snacks in this series posted 2023 - 2024
CreativeGround lists 541 Schools of the Arts (and counting!) that train in all kinds of creative skills and disciplines. Who are these profiles listing the most in their “I have worked with” section? Check out this month’s data snack to find out!
Did you know that there are over 400 Arts Councils/Agencies listed in CreativeGround? These are organizations whose primary purpose is to stimulate and promote the arts and increase access for the public through services, programs, and/or funding within a specific geographic area (e.g., county, state, local). Given their central role as connectors, it's not surprising to see cross-sector connections in many diverse domains, from production to distribution to support!
Over 5,000 performing groups are listed on CreativeGround -- and they are highly collaborative with one another! The top profile type listed in the “I Have Worked With” section on performing group profiles are other performing groups. Another trend: most of their top ten collaborators are profiles in the “Distribution” category, who might present work by performing groups.
Arts Centers are multi-purpose facilities for arts programming of various types, including performances, classes, workshops, and more, and you can find 491 of them on CreativeGround!
According to the I Have Worked With sections of over 6,000 artist profiles, these are the top ten types of entities that artists in our creative ecosystem work with:
CreativeGround is a platform for artists, creatives, businesses, and organizations who work in all genres. This graphic shows which discipline groups are selected the most on profiles right now, with more being added in real time as the creative landscape evolves.
Posted 2022
There are over 50 (and counting!) Institution/Business types for CreativeGround profiles to self-select from. All CreativeGround profile types are grouped into six main categories, based on the role they play in our creative economy: from support to distribution to the direct creation of art. Here's the breakdown of where our profiles fall:
Posted 2023
Over half (54%) are Profiles that Create / Produce, like individual artists/creatives, design agencies, performing groups, makerspaces...
22% Creative Profiles that Distribute creative work, like arts centers, festivals, galleries, museums...
3% Related Profiles that Distribute creative work, like health care facilities, community service organizations, restaurants...
16% Creative Profiles that Support creative work, like booking and management agencies, guilds/unions, arts councils, cultural heritage organizations...
1% Related Profiles that Support creative work, like business consultants, foundations, government departments...
4% Profiles that Educate / Train creatives, like arts institutes, schools of the arts
Learn more about CreativeGround Institution/Business Types and how they are grouped >