Attend MASSCreative’s first meeting with Leaders – May 15, 2012!

First Meeting with Leaders

MASSCreative is poised to build a powerful grassroots network of local cultural councils, arts and cultural institutions, artists, educators and arts advocates across Massachusetts.

Your Community will benefit-

Join in a Bristol County Conversation

Promote your community – Learn from others

Tuesday, May 15th, from 4:00-5:30pm
The Dedee Shattuck Gallery
1 Partners Lane, Main Road
Westport, MA 02790
www.DedeeShattuckGallery.com

MASSCreative Executive Director Matthew Wilson will share the vision & mission

Engage with arts and cultural leaders, educators, artists and community leaders from 19 Bristol County towns. Learn how Foundations and Cultural leaders are working to build strategic alliances in support of the creative economy sector.

Help MASSCreative serve your interests and needs.

Enjoy Local Food & Wine

Discover Westport’s exciting new art space

Updates on 2013 MCC budget process

About MASSCreative (via idealist.org):

Mission: MASSCreative advocates for funding for nonprofit arts, humanities, and sciences in Massachusetts. MASSCreative works to build and maintain a vital network of arts and culture organizations, businesses, creative entrepreneurs, artists and sector supporters and builds strategic alliances across sectors. A primary focus is to advocate for the nonprofit cultural sector – through state funding for Massachusetts Cultural Council and the Massachusetts Cultural Facilities Fund.

Background: The creative sector has a profound social and economic impact on the quality of life in Massachusetts by engaging community in all aspects of the arts, cultivating a shared civic culture, creating vibrant places and addressing the educational and developmental needs of youth. Artists, creative entrepreneurs, arts and cultural non-profits and businesses all contribute to the vitality of the Massachusetts economy by creating jobs, catalyzing innovation and new ways of thinking, drawing visitors and generating revenue.

MASSCreative has been established to create a positive growth environment for artists, non-profit arts organizations and creative entrepreneurs. Through the creation of an Action Network we will build and maintain a vital statewide network of arts and culture organizations, businesses and creative entrepreneurs; building strategic alliances across sectors; and working with public agencies at the local, state and federal levels to increase and expand public and private resources for culture and the arts.