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Obama Beefs Up Overtime Pay (And Other May Stories)
The Office–by flickr user Rum Bucolic Ape Income inequality, slow economic growth and wage stagnation have been hot button issues in recent years. Last month, the Obama administration did something...
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Who Can Afford to Be A Starving Artist?
Take a minute and picture a world in which every adult on the planet is a full-time, professional artist. Arts funding and education are abundant and folks spend their days in the studios, galleries,...
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Meet Our Editorial Team in Washington, DC
Each year since 2013, Createquity has taken a moment to gather its globally-dispersed editorial team all in one place for an intense session of planning and wonkery. What originated as a half-day...
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Does Creating Art Make People Happier?
Ukulélé — photo by flickr user oh_debby In a perfect world, who should have access to the arts? Among artists, arts administrators, and arts educators the answer is likely to be unanimous: “Everyone!”...
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Brexiting the Arts (And Other June Stories)
Blue and Yellow Round Star Print Textile. Photo from Pexels. Britain stunned the world last month when it voted to leave the European Union, some forty-three years after first joining the now 27-nation...
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The State: A Friend Indeed to Artists in Need?
From Baku to Bangui, Boston to Bangkok, we need a diverse, equitable world of cultural voices for our times. Createquity imagines that a healthy arts ecosystem is one in which opportunities to make...
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Black Lives (in the Arts) Matter (And Other July Stories)
Black Lives Matter by flickr user Gerry Lauzon As controversial political stands go, “black lives matter” should rank pretty well near the bottom of the list. In any reasonable world, it would be the...
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Createquity Podcast Series 2: The Cost of Being Creative
Image: “Gogbot,” Installation at the Gogbot Media Art Festival in Enschede. By Flickr user Ineke The Fractured Atlas and Createquity teams are back with a second installment of the Createquity podcast!...
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Making Sense of Cultural Equity
The plays of a real Negro theatre must be: One: About us. That is, they must have plots which reveal Negro life as it is. Two: By us. That is, they must be written by Negro authors who understand from...
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Gifting Cultural Capital (And Other August Stories)
Basilica di Santa Maria del Fiore, Florence by Flickr user C. Many teens around the world look forward to their governments “gifting” them the right to vote and/or permission to drink alcohol, when...
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Createquity Podcast Series 3: Is Television Bad For Us?
Image: “Gogbot,” Installation at the Gogbot Media Art Festival in Enschede. By Flickr user Ineke Happy fall television premiere week! The Fractured Atlas and Createquity teams are back with a third...
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“What Works” in Arts and Culture Policy?
When it comes to evaluating medical interventions – whether a drug is safe, or if a certain kind of exercise encourages better health – evidence and data are par for the course. Yet when it comes to...
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The Game of Life (and Other September Stories)
My Console Collection by Flickr user Sarah It’s widely reported that able-bodied young men, without college degrees are underemployed and unemployed in record numbers. Despite this hardship, one recent...
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Introducing Createquity’s Inaugural Advisory Council Members
Almost exactly a year ago, Createquity received a planning grant from the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation to study potential operational models and growth strategies for the next several years. Since that...
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(Eng)Aging With the Arts Has Its Benefits
It’s no coincidence that your fox-trot-loving great-aunt lived to a ripe old age, putting you and your siblings to shame with her dexterity. A robust set of research suggests that participatory arts...
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AT&T&TimeWarner (and other October stories)
Stars at the NYC Time Warner Building (source: PENTAX Image, Creative Commons) AT&T is the latest telecommunications giant to try for a merger with the media and entertainment industry as the ink...
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With Trump in the White House, Arts Issues Are Everyone’s Issues Now
From Flickr user Ian Brown: “The Twitter logo mod is from graffiti seen on a wall during [the 2013 Gezi Park] protests in Turkey.”Earlier this month, the cast of Broadway’s most popular show made a...
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Createquity Podcast Series 4: Approaching Cultural Equity
Image: “Gogbot,” Installation at the Gogbot Media Art Festival in Enschede. By Flickr user Ineke Happy holiday season! The Fractured Atlas and Createquity teams are back with another installment of the...
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Election 2016 Shakes the Arts World (and Other November Stories)
Trump mural, Downtown Los Angeles, California, USA (Credit: Cory Doctorow, via Creative Commons) A bitter and divisive 2016 Presidential election is finally over, and Donald J. Trump’s seat in the Oval...
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Everything We Know About Whether and How the Arts Improve Lives
“Catalog” by Flickr user Beyond DC The platitudes are on the lips of every arts supporter, ready to be recalled at the first sign of a public hearing or potential funding cut. “The arts are essential –...
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