Advocacy Group For Creative Community Launched
Arts and cultural leaders from around the state have launched a new organization that will work to bring more resources to the state’s creative community and strengthen arts education.
The organization, MASSCreative, held its inaugural meeting Monday at the Hanover Theatre for the Performing Arts in downtown Worcester.
“Working artists, major creative institutions, local community arts and cultural programs, and the general public, now have a statewide voice that will advocate for policies and programs to bring creativity to our neighborhoods,” said Matt Wilson, MASSCreative’s executive director. “We are set up and ready to educate, advocate, and organize.”
MASSCreative introduced its short-term agenda to more than 75 leaders and supporters of the creative community. Already, a handful of candidates for state representative and state senator have endorsed the platform, the group said in a statement.
Among the group’s positions:
- Increase direct state investment in local, creative communities by increasing the Massachusetts Cultural Council budget for fiscal year 2014 by $3 million to $12.5 million.
- Encourage cities and towns to support their local creative communities by matching state allocations to their local cultural councils.
- Support one year of high school arts education as an admission requirement to the state university system, while ensuring access for students from low- income communities.
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