Springboard for the Arts and Helicon Collaborative are excited to launch Creative People Power, a new report and framework for combining creativity-centered and people-centered development to build strong, healthy, and resilient communities. “Sometimes the most radical ideas are deceptively simple,” says Helicon Collaborative’s Alexis Frasz. “Springboard’s approach to investing in and nurturing “creative people power” […]
Springboard for the Arts is an artist-led organization, and as artists, we know that we need to do the work in order to see the results we want. When things are tough we always go back to our guiding principles and our tools and try to see what we can build. More than ever we […]
By Carl Atiya SwansonPublished on Creative Exchange, 10/12/2016.“I feel like I just got a million dollars worth of advice!” That’s what one artist commented after downloading the Work of Art toolkit.Since the Work of Art toolkit launched as a free resource in December 2015, it has been downloaded from Creative Exchange almost 2,000 times. It […]
By Carl Atiya SwansonPublished on Hyperallergic, 5/10/2016.Creative Exchange celebrates artists and their creative power to shape communities, reimagine what is possible and move social justice forward with a new collection of features and stories, Field Notes from Creative Exchange.Dedicated to helping communities mobilize the creative force of artists to solve local challenges, Creative Exchange is […]
By Carl Atiya SwansonPublished on Hyperallergic, 2/6/2016Springboard for the Arts offers Work of Art, a free workbook and video series, for individual study or use by artist groups, organizations, and schools, to help artists develop practical business skills.“How am I going to make a creative living and also have a life?” This question can be daunting […]
By Laura Zabel Published on The Guardian, 2/15/2015 From income inequality and unemployment to poverty, education and healthcare, communities around the world are facing critical challenges that require creative ideas and solutions. Any of these challenges could use an artist’s mind, a creative question or a critical thinker to help us find our way to […]