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Inspiration for Your CreativeGround Journey

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

Creative Core

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:

  • Create and update free public profiles that visually represent your creative work, activities, and services
  • Demonstrate the vibrancy and connection of the New England creative economy by listing who you work with, professional accomplishments, and communities engaged 
  • Find and connect with a network of peers, supporters, and collaborators
  • Get technical and professional assistance with describing your work
  • Be identified for grants and other professional opportunities
  • Share your stories – contribute directly to the data from the ground up

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.

Search and Profile tips for for Creative Businesses >

Community Leaders

Community Leaders ; use CreativeGround to gain connection to creative economy infrastructure, tools, and community building with:

  • A map that makes the members of your creative community visible
  • An existing directory to offer your constituents and partners
  • A network of peers, supporters, and collaborators
  • Technical assistance with quantifying and tracking your creative economy

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:

  • Claim and update your organization, business, or artist/creative profile (see tips above)
  • Identify artists and resources in CreativeGround for grants and other opportunities
  • Submit suggestions for the profiles in your area with outdated information
  • Encourage profile owners to directly update their profiles
  • Share CreativeGround listings on your website to bring resources and visibility to your creative community 
  • Activate Your Network and promote CreativeGround by sharing communications and hosting meetings/events

Data Partners

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:

  • Use the established infrastructure of CreativeGround as the container for mapping your local creative assets
  • Integrate customized search results on your own website by using CreativeGround's technical API
  • Review the data and help to keep it accurate and updated
  • Share the data for advocacy and to benefit the creative community
  • Integrate the data into your grant decisions, research analysis, and program design

Everyone, Anywhere

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.