The New England Creative Economy Network is varied. It covers a broad spectrum of disciplines, institution/business types, activities and services, and more. Here are some tips to help you Dig In to the site, customized to your role(s).
Creative Core | Community Leader | Data Partner | Everyone, Anywhere
Jump to: Individual Artists/Creatives and Culture Bearers | Cultural Organizations | Creative Businesses
The Creative Core uses CreativeGround to gain visibility and access to learning, skill sharing, and capacity building.
As part of the Creative Core, you can:
Artists/Creatives and Culture Bearers produce cultural goods and services in all disciplines.
Search and Profile Tips for Artists/Creatives/Culture Bearers >
- Performing Artist
- Visual Artist
- Public Artist
- Literary Artist
- Teaching Artist
- Native American Artist
Cultural Organizations are a wide range of profile types, including historical societies, art centers, libraries, museums, cultural heritage organizations, and even higher education programs and municipal arts departments.
Search and Profile Tips for Cultural Organizations > (including nonprofits and embedded orgs)
- Service Organization
- Presenter
- Museum
- Library
Creative Businesses are entities ranging from a solo creative to institutions that employ thousands of people, such as advertising agencies, architecture firms, recording studios, and cinemas.
Community Leaders ; use CreativeGround to gain connection to creative economy infrastructure, tools, and community building with:
Community leaders go beyond updating and contacting profiles - you share the resource. This helps incentivize participation and allows CreativeGround to be more representative of the creative work – and workers – in our communities. This ultimately increases the investment in the creative core.
As a CreativeGround Community Leader you can:
Data partners are community leaders and national organizations who license the CreativeGround data to use as their own local cultural directory or for research projects. CreativeGround empowers data partners through access to real-time, centralized information about creative people and places. This helps them strengthen the sector and provide advocacy, resources, and support.
Data partners help to maintain the accuracy of the data on CreativeGround.
As a CreativeGround Data Partner, you can:
Everyone can gain access to the region's creative community to find places to visit, people to hire, and creative products to buy.
Anyone can find and contact the artists and creatives that make all communities in the region thrive! Non-arts organizations and individuals both within and outside of New England look to CreativeGround to connect with collaborators, commissions, performers, grant recipients, and more.
Head over to our FAQ for general questions.