{"id":9,"date":"2013-06-08T19:28:00","date_gmt":"2013-06-08T19:28:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/localhost:8888\/spblog\/2013\/06\/08\/getting-inspired-at-creative\/"},"modified":"2015-05-29T04:11:21","modified_gmt":"2015-05-29T04:11:21","slug":"getting-inspired-at-creative","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.spindrift.com\/blog\/getting-inspired-at-creative\/","title":{"rendered":"Getting inspired at the Creative Communitives Exchange conference"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Creative Communities Exchange conference, held in Portland, ME on June 6-7 2013, introduced me to a great variety of inspirational, creative things. I heard talks on:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.brattleboromuseum.org\/2012\/10\/27\/b-e-a-n-micro-grant-dinner-2\/\" target=\"_blank\">B.E.A.N.<\/a>, a microgrant program by the Brattleboro Museum &amp; Art Center, funded through community dinners where the diner-donors voted on projects.<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/mass.gov\/hed\/CreateMA\" target=\"_blank\">CreativeNEXT Listening Tour<\/a>, a survey of 580 Massachusetts creative businesses that investigated their current status and future needs, an initiative of the Massachusetts economic development office.<a name=\"more\"><\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/haleyhouse.org\/\" target=\"_blank\">Haley House Bakery Cafe<\/a>, a nonprofit bakery, itself an offshoot of a soup kitchen and affordable housing organization. It has evolved into a vibrant, active community center involving local artists in many disciplines, as well as providing training and employment for ex-felons.<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/discoverroxbury.org\/\" target=\"_blank\">Discover Roxbury<\/a>, which produces a great variety of events featuring local art and culture. It gets the word out via the classy Art Rox! Season Guide.<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.sharonarts.org\/\" target=\"_blank\">Sharon Arts Center<\/a>, which recently merged with local college New Hampshire Institute of Art\u00a0 (I didn&#8217;t find the saga of their merger on their web site)<\/li>\n<li>Cambridge Center for Adult Ed and its <a href=\"http:\/\/www.ccae.org\/csart\/\" target=\"_blank\">Community Supported Art program<\/a>, modeled on community-supported agriculture. It gives patrons a chance to sample art collecting on a small scale, and gives artists training in marketing and the chance to experiment with small-scale\u00a0affordable pieces. http:\/\/www.ccae.org\/csart\/<\/li>\n<li>A visionary plan to convert the historic <a href=\"http:\/\/www.silverminetavern.com\/walking_tour.htm\" target=\"_blank\">Silvermine Tavern<\/a> in Norwalk, CT into an artist colony.\u00a0 I didn&#8217;t find a web page devoted the project. They are trying to develop a donor base to get the plans off the ground.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>The conference was sponsored by <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nefa.org\/\" target=\"_blank\">New England Foundation for the Arts<\/a> and\u00a0 <a href=\"http:\/\/www.creativeportland.com\/\" target=\"_blank\">Creative Portland<\/a>. It was hosted at Maine College of Art in the downtown arts district of Portland.<\/p>\n<p>For every presentation I heard, there were three more going on at the same time, a wealth of community initiatives. There\u2019s more on the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nefa.org\/events\/creative_communities_exchange_2013\" target=\"_blank\">NEFA web site.<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Creative Communities Exchange conference, held in Portland, ME in 2013, had a great variety of inspirational, creative presentations. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_themeisle_gutenberg_block_has_review":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[131,129],"tags":[19],"class_list":["post-9","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-community","category-music-business","tag-community"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.spindrift.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.spindrift.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.spindrift.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.spindrift.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.spindrift.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=9"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/www.spindrift.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":217,"href":"https:\/\/www.spindrift.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9\/revisions\/217"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.spindrift.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.spindrift.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.spindrift.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}