(One of Createquity’s hallmarks has been its willingness to entertain questions that many cheerleaders for the arts would prefer not to touch with a ten-foot pole: questions about the effectiveness and relevance of arts programming or advocacy strategies, about the appropriateness of the ways in which we amass knowledge, even about whether the arts reallyRead More

(Emerging leaders week at Createquity concludes with another crosspost from ARTSBlog, this one written with the help of Jean Cook of the Future of Music Coalition and Fractured Atlas‘s Adam Huttler in April 2010. It’s our statement on how we think arts leadership in the early 21st century looks different than arts leadership in theRead More

(This post was originally written in 2009 for a blog salon on Americans for the Arts’s ARTSBlog discussing emerging leaders and intergenerational dialogue. For a couple of years, it had the distinction of being the most-commented post on ARTSBlog ever, thanks to the rather cheeky tone I decided to take. It later become Createquity’s mostRead More

(Emerging leaders week at Createquity gets off to a fashionably late start with this post from 2009, one of those that helped expose the blog to a wider audience. Generational succession in the nonprofit sector was a hot topic five years ago, with early baby boomers widely expected to start retiring yet many of themRead More

(Talia Gibas week at Createquity continues with Talia’s analysis from last fall of how MOOCs (Massively Open Online Courses) could impact our practice and advocacy for arts education. As enlightening as this post is on its primary topic, my favorite part is Talia’s anecdote about a(n e)special(ly nerdy) birthday present from her dad. -IDM) TheRead More

(This week in Createquity Reruns, we’re celebrating Talia Gibas, who has been involved with the site in one way or another continuously since applying for the Createquity Fellowship two years ago. Now a stalwart member of the editorial team, she has been our resident arts education expert for all that time. Here, in one ofRead More

(Our weeklong celebration of Createquity’s Jackie Hasa concludes with the second installment of Jackie’s analysis of the role of games in the arts. This entry explains why so-called “gamification” is weak tea when it comes to exploring the true potential of interactivity, and offers a number of suggestions for how arts organizations can make betterRead More

(Jackie Hasa week at Createquity continues with the first entry in Jackie’s two-part series on games and the arts, likewise dating from Jackie’s time as a Createquity Fellow in the spring of 2012. Enjoy! -IDM) The idea of using games as a new way to engage audiences has gained immense traction in the last 5Read More

(Last week may have been tax policy week at Createquity, but it doubled as John Carnwath week, as both of the articles he’s written for the site were featured. So this week we’re following suit with three articles by Jackie Hasa, who likewise joined the Createquity editorial team in June. This one was Jackie’s firstRead More

(Tax policy week at Createquity concludes with our most popular article thus far in 2014, John Carnwath’s investigation of the value of tax credits for film and television. Are they worth the hassle? Maybe, but probably not to the extent that lawmakers in New Jersey, California, and Austin think. -IDM) About a year ago theRead More