Comments on: Where art meets business

By: Valerie Schumacher

Valerie Schumacher — Wed, 04 Feb 2009 18:07:01 +0000

Thank you for all of these great comments. The discount offered is available all members at any level of any arts and culture organization. This a new offer so questions are warmly invited. CPAC is communicating with a variety of organizations about other programs and services in the area and will continue to do so. If anyone has any questions about the discount or would like to share any other information, please do not hesitate to email me directly at vls@cpacbiz.org.

By: J Anderle

J Anderle — Tue, 03 Feb 2009 18:21:31 +0000

So the discount to an Arts Entrepreneur program only goes to those who are a part of an existing service organization. Aren’t the people who could truly benefit from this program those not affiliated? This would seem to be one of the more important programs that CPAC organizes and the tobacco tax funds.

By: Tom Hitchcock

Tom Hitchcock — Tue, 03 Feb 2009 16:37:18 +0000

From what I can tell, the COSE Arts Network (www.cosearts.com) is three years old and has a few hundred members.

By: Ed Morrison

Ed Morrison — Tue, 03 Feb 2009 14:22:55 +0000

Also, is anyone linking creative industries to innovation in Northeast Ohio?

Check out this report, released in the UK last August:
Hidden Innovation in the Creative Industries

There appears to be a lot of relatively small, disconnected stuff happening in NEO in this arena. Much more is possible with more effective networks focused on a transformative agenda.

By: Ed Morrison

Ed Morrison — Tue, 03 Feb 2009 13:23:42 +0000

Late last year, Anita Campbell wrote a column on the artist entrepreneur. You can read it here. I hope the COSE folks are connecting with Anita and her networks. Here's another interesting blog post I picked up last year: Read more. Of course, all this plays into building a creative economy in Northeast Ohio. Starting in the UK in the late 1990's, the strategy of developing creative economies in cities is most developed in Europe. If you are curious, read an excellent book by Charles Landry, Creative Cities. (Without telling anyone, Richard Florida was simply following a trend started by Landry and his colleagues at Comedia.) This strategy has, in my view, tremendous opportunity in Northeast Ohio, but it has yet to be embraced by the Those Who Must be Obeyed. (Apologies to Rumpole.)