Mood affiliation and group loyalty in the arts

Some food for thought as we navigate public debates about gun control, taxation, and the value of the arts (emphasis mine): [T]he study presents both observational and experimental data inconsistent with the hypothesis that political conservatism is distinctively associated with closed-mindedness: conservatives did no better or worse than liberals on an objective measure of cognitiveRead More

Applications Now Open for the Spring 2013 Createquity Writing Fellowship

Are you smart? A good writer? Interested in how the arts fit in to the bigger picture? Why not join this blog? The Createquity Writing Fellowship was designed to continually bring new voices into national and international conversations about the future of the arts. So far we’ve introduced eight bright, (mostly) young writers to theRead More

Createquity Office Hours in NYC December 6

Our inaugural Createquity Office Hours event in Chicago earlier this month was a success, so we’re giving it another go in New York next week! Createquity Writing Fellows past and present Katherine Gressel, Jennifer Kessler, and Jacquelyn Strycker will join me at Concrete Bar, conveniently located on West 37th St. As a reminder, Createquity Office HoursRead More

Announcing: Createquity Office Hours

As you can see from my previous post, I get around a lot these days for conferences and the like. Meanwhile, the network of Createquity Writing Fellows past and present is ever growing, and we now have representation in seven cities from coast to coast. So we’ve decided to try out a new concept hereRead More

Five Years of Createquity

Today, Createquity turns five years old. Huzzah! Since my last “blogiversary” post two years ago, Createquity has come a long way. Most significant has been the introduction of the Createquity Writing Fellowship program, which has been fantastically successful at diversifying the voice of the site, generating more content for the Arts Policy Library, helping someRead More

Live from Cleveland: Arts Philanthropy in Action

I’m going to let you in on a little secret (okay, maybe it’s not such a secret): for the better part of the past decade, I’ve been fascinated with arts philanthropy. Ever since I was a low-level staffer in the development department of the American Music Center, I wanted to know why grantmakers made theRead More

Meet the fall 2012 Createquity Writing Fellows!

Congratulations to Talia Gibas and Jacquelyn Strycker, who are the fall 2012 Createquity Writing Fellows! You’ll be seeing posts from them starting this month and running through mid-January. Here is a little more about each. I love a writer who’s not afraid of taking risks, and Talia Gibas is just that. You would think that,Read More

Gone fishin’

I’m taking a vacation from Createquity, my first in the nearly five years of writing this blog. While I’m gone, feel free to check out the great resources in the blogroll section of the site, hang out in the stacks of the Arts Policy Library, take the wayback machine via the archives, and stay tunedRead More

Wrapping up the spring 2012 Createquity Writing Fellowship

Last week, we had a flurry of posts from our Createquity Writing Fellows, Kelly Dylla and Jackie Hasa, including Arts Policy Library entries on two important studies of cultural participation and audience engagement. Now that Kelly and Jackie have successfully completed the third round of the CWF, I wanted to take a moment to highlightRead More

Congratulations to the spring 2012 Createquity Writing Fellows

I’m proud to welcome our first-ever Createquity Writing Fellows from the West Coast: Kelly Dylla and Jackie Hasa. These two ladies will be holding forth with some frequency between now and July. Because I select a small number of writers at a time based primarily on ability, I sometimes get oddly poetic intersections in interests.Read More