Announcing Catalyzing Vitality: New Grantmaking from the Arts & Creativity Program
Fifty-five grassroots arts organizations across Massachusetts receive a total of $7 million in flexible multi-year funding.
From Data to Development: Empowering how we Define the Creative Economy
Quantifying the true scale and impact of the creative economy as a vital part of communities across Massachusetts has historically been a challenge. Until now.
Announcing Cultural Evolution: Supporting Organizations through Business Model Transformations, a new initiative from the Arts & Creativity program
Over $3.3 million will be invested in eight leading arts organizations over three years as they transform their business models.
In New Bedford, An Inside-Out Makeover
Zeiterion Performing Arts Center is renovating its theater, but also revamping its policies on racial equity and community engagement.
Arts Leaders Team Up to Address Shared Challenges
With new funds for collaboration, four pairs of grantee partners in Barr’s ArtsAmplified initiative pursue solutions to benefit their communities and the broader arts and nonprofit sectors.
Exploring Arts Vibrancy in Massachusetts: Strengths and Opportunities
A new report and map produced by SMU DataArts for the Barr Foundation documents high levels of arts vibrancy across the state of Massachusetts and prompts an important conversation about who is included in arts datasets.
Paying Arts Workers Equitably Improves Life for Everyone
Paying arts workers equitably improves life for everyone. It’s not only the right thing to do for art workers, but also the right thing to do for communities and art itself.
Announcing the 2024 Live Arts Boston Grantees
Seeding futures for the performing arts—over $1 million in new grants to 30 individual artists in Greater Boston
Three New Community Foundations Join “Creative Commonwealth” Partnership – Cambridge, Greater Lowell, and MetroWest
Expanded initiative now includes eight community foundations. Next three years to feature new and deepened investments, experiments, and learning to advance more equitable, vibrant, and sustainable arts and creativity in communities across Massachusetts.
Embracing Risk and Adapting to Change During the Pandemic
How at the height of the pandemic, a Berkshire County arts organization defied the odds, expanding its services for people with disabilities.