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OF CREATIVE ENTERPRISES AND ARTISTS
SUMMER 2018 NEWSLETTER
Summer in New England means a boatload of creative and cultural offerings in the region. Read on to get on board to your next creative destination.
Custom House Maritime Museum boats wait to leave New London, CT for the Sunset Lighthouse Tour.
HERE'S TO THE NEIGHBORHOOD

First, a little fanfare for you, for helping to get the word out about CreativeGround in your communities. Our spring cleaning emails and postcards saw a flurry of activity on the site. Keeping your profile current paints a better picture of the New England creative economy. So, thank you for:

  • Over 30 Profiles Claimed
  • 42 New Profiles
  • 45 + User Feedback and Suggestions on Profiles
  • 400 + Updates to existing profiles that hadn't been updated in the past year

Congratulations to the National Arts Strategies (NAS) Creative Community Fellows New England 2018 Cohort. For the inaugural New England cohort, NAS received half the total nominations they typically receive from the whole nation. Way to step up! Learn more about the projects your creative neighbors are implementing as fellows and leaders in the New England creative sector.

CreativeGround growth planning is coming! We will be seeking planners to collaborate on a on strategic planning processes for exciting updates and enhancements to the site. Be on the lookout for the official call.
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IN THIS ISSUE
  • What's New
  • Featured Profiles
  • Helpful Hint
  • Opportunities
  • NEFA News
CREATIVEGROUND
is brought to you by NEFA and NEFA's ongoing partnerships with:

- National Endowment for
the Arts
- Connecticut Department
of Economic & Comm-
unity Development
- Maine Arts Commission
- Massachusetts Cultural
Council
- New Hampshire State
Council on the Arts
- Rhode Island State
Council on the Arts
- Vermont Arts Council.

WHAT'S NEW
CreativeGround on the Road

May 30th (Providence, RI) Rhode Island State Council on the Arts (RISCA) hosted CreativeGround and NEFA staff members for personalized profile assistance for members of the RI Education Roster.

May 31st (Portland, ME) CreativeGround tabled at the Portland cultural planning convening, hosted by Creative Portland. Dee Schneidman (Program Director, Research & Creative Economy) presented on NEFA's Jobs in New England's Creative Economy and Why They Matter.

Invite us to your locale to hold office hours or present! Email creativeground@nefa.org.
NEFA staffer Daniela walks Rose Weaver through CreativeGround profile editing at our RISCA Education Roster workshop.
You asked, we listened.
We're continuously investigating how our site functionality can better support you and your work in the creative sector. We've recently added:
  • Date ranges to your "I Have Worked With" relationships to better show project length
  • Children's Literature Discipline
  • *Insert your idea here*
Email creativeground@nefa.org if you have thoughts on how your CreativeGround profile can better reflect you as a working creative.
FEATURED PROFILES
HELPFUL HINT
One of the most common questions about CreativeGround is, " How do I use CreativeGround to find opportunities? "

Think of CreativeGround as LinkedIn for the creatives of New England. You can use CreativeGround to dig up resources in your region, connect with collaborators, and to display yourself and your work.
  • Discover resources by using filters on the Search and Explore pages.
  • For example, I can explore by filtering by specific cities within a state and disciplines and activities/services. Here's a result you might get when looking for visual art lessons in specific towns in NH.
  • Or, I can search for presenters in CT who are members of APNNE/NEP
  • Network with potential creative collaborators, arts presenters, and cultural venues by using the Contact This Profile envelope icon on profiles of interest to you.
  • Psst. Be sure to investigate the linked profiles in the "I Have Worked With" sections, too!
  • Display yourself at your best. Keep an up-to-date, robust profile by following these suggestions.

Want more from CreativeGround? Spread the word. Get involved, bring us to your community, and/or reach out with your thoughts and suggestions.
UPDATE OR CREATE YOUR PROFILE
Have an artistic collaborator that's not on CreativeGround? Or an "I Have Worked With" connection whose profile could use some sprucin' up? Simply forget how to login and update your own profile or need to make a profile for a completely separate creative enterprise?

Keep the Creating or Updating a Profile page handy for step-by-step guidance
through profile creation and maintenance.
OPPORTUNITIES
New England Opportunities


National Opportunities


Find more opportunities for creative work on NEFA's monthly opportunities blogpost.
NEFA NEWS
Hannah Cole of  Sunlight Tax and DELVE have created a flexible online resource designed to help other artists better understand how to approach taxes! The course is full of helpful videos, downloads and worksheets to walk you through those complicated questions you have about running your art practice as a business.

*First come, first served. Limited quantity and must enroll by 8/31/2018

NEFA's sixth biennial Creative Communities Exhange (CCX) will take place in Vermont in June 2019. We've had outstanding applications for local hosts. Stay tuned to find out where we're heading, and maybe take a look at some other Creative Communities Projects to see if you're working on something that might be of value to the conversations. The call for workshops opens in October!
It's panel season at the New England Foundation for the Arts. Find out about finalists, new grant recipients, tour dates:


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Arien Wilkerson's Equators
Toto Kisaku's Requiem for
an Electric Chair
Margaret Jacobs, Metalsmith & Educator
Contact
 Morganna Becker, CreativeGround Program Associate
New England Foundation for the Arts
CreativeGround@nefa.org | 617.951.0010 x535
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