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    From the MCC: Mass. Mayors Rise to Arts Challenge!

    Municipal leaders from across the Commonwealth rose to the Massachusetts Cultural Council’s Mayors’ Arts Challenge with powerful testimonials on how arts and culture make their cities better places to live, work, and visit. In all 16 Bay State Mayors submitted short videos describing how the...

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  • Americans for the Arts Creative Industries Report

    Americans for the Arts Creative Industries Report

    Creative Industries: Business & Employment in the Arts reports continue to offer a research-based approach to understanding the scope and importance of the arts to the nation’s economy. While most economic impact studies of the arts have focused on the nonprofit sector (such as our...

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  • Berkshire Creative Cited as a Model of Creative Economy Inspiration

    Berkshire Creative Cited as a Model of Creative Economy Inspiration

    Berkshire Creative is not just making  an impact in Berkshire County! The Creative DC Action Agenda, presented this April, outlined a  strategy to strengthen the Washington, DC creative economy – a sector that includes design, film and video, media, museums and heritage, visual and performing...

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  • From the Berkshire Eagle: Nancy Fitzpatrick on Berkshire Creative

    From the Berkshire Eagle: Nancy Fitzpatrick on Berkshire Creative

    When Beth Seigel of Mount Auburn Associates insisted that my family’s 50-year old retail home furnishings company, Country Curtains, was a creative economy business, I was practically speechless. Beth was interviewing me in the course of researching The Berkshire Creative Economy Report, a landmark effort...

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