INSTITUTE FOR SUSTAINED CREATIVITY

”The Mechanics of Sustaining a Creative Life” Workshop
Creative Colorado Summit (2023)

The ISC is built on three foundational components:

  1. Mentorship and a Matchmaking Service of Real Connections. We provide nuanced, pragmatic, and real-life mentoring tailored to the specific needs and wants of artists. Through ongoing research into the paths of both historical and contemporary artists, we share proven strategies and perspectives that have led to sustainability for artists across various art forms. At the heart of this approach is connecting artists to arts leaders and professionals around the world.

  2. Bridge Between Organizations with Shared Values. We function as catalysts to connect arts leaders, organizations, foundations, corporations, nonprofits, and academic institutions. Our personal and intentional one-on-one approach creates partnerships that are designed to facilitate resource sharing and the development of concrete, pragmatic plans to reshape how the arts are taught, spoken about, and supported. These connections also aim to promote financial stability and long-term sustainability across sectors.

  3. Data Collection, Publication, and Distribution. We provide in-depth surveys, assessments, reports, and recommendations. This focus includes publishing current, evolving data and language gathered by experts and artists, our conversation book tours, and independent analysis. We also collect and analyze “professional development” curricula from higher education institutions nationwide to build a shared database. Our goal is to identify what is outdated and what is relevant, while continually mapping arts leadership on the ground throughout the United States and abroad.

WHAT WE PROVIDE:

  • Services that connect museums, academic institutions, nonprofits, artist-run spaces, galleries, and non-art organizations to share resources on how artists contribute to societal well-being.

  • Central hub and think-tank that gathers data on pathways to sustainability in order to publish reports disseminated to stakeholders and the general public.

  • Identifying, mapping, and sharing lists of community leaders in the arts globally.

  • Collaboration with academic institutions to help propagate best practices of Professional Development programming.

  • Keynote speaking at conferences, artist talks, informal get-togethers, remote meet-ups, etc.

  • Messaging and education about the arts industry to non-art centric entities and communities.