Category: Arts & Creativity

Arts Leaders Team Up to Address Shared Challenges

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E. San San Wong

Director of Arts & Creativity

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Jamilah Bradshaw

Program Officer, Arts & Creativity

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.

October 11, 2024 | Category: Arts & Creativity

Exploring Arts Vibrancy in Massachusetts: Strengths and Opportunities

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Jen Benoit-Bryan

Guest Author · Director , SMU DataArts

Katie Ingersoll

Katie Ingersoll

Guest Author · Director of Communications, SMU DataArts

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.

September 12, 2024 | Category: Arts & Creativity

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.

September 11, 2024 | Category: Arts & Creativity

Announcing the 2024 Live Arts Boston Grantees

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Jamilah Bradshaw

Program Officer, Arts & Creativity

Catherine T. Morris

Catherine Morris

Director, Arts + Creativity, The Boston Foundation

Seeding futures for the performing arts—over $1 million in new grants to 30 individual artists in Greater Boston

August 08, 2024 | Category: Arts & Creativity

Three New Community Foundations Join “Creative Commonwealth” Partnership – Cambridge, Greater Lowell, and MetroWest

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E. San San Wong

Director of Arts & Creativity

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SueEllen Kroll

Senior Program Officer, Arts & Creativity

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.

November 15, 2023 | Category: Arts & Creativity

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.

October 03, 2023 | Category: Arts & Creativity

Little Amal Walks Across Massachusetts

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Alexandra Juckno

Former Program Associate, Arts & Creativity

A powerful fusion of theater and public art brings together communities to raise awareness for local and global issues

August 28, 2023 | Category: Arts & Creativity

Change from the Inside Out

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SueEllen Kroll

Senior Program Officer, Arts & Creativity

What does prioritizing racial equity in an arts organization look like? A new series shares stories and reflections from Barr partners.

June 12, 2023 | Category: Arts & Creativity

Arts Engage People in Bettering the Places They Love

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Beth Francis

Guest Author · President and CEO, Essex County Community Foundation

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Emily Bronson

Guest Author · Senior Community Engagement Officer, Berkshire Taconic Community Foundation

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Karen Ristuben

Guest Author · Program Director, Creative County Initiative , Essex County Community Foundation

Leaders from two Massachusetts community foundations on how arts and creativity enrich civic life.

May 02, 2023 | Category: Arts & Creativity

Jamilah Bradshaw Shares Perspective as a New Arts & Creativity Program Officer

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Jamilah Bradshaw

Program Officer, Arts & Creativity

Jamilah Bradshaw joined the Barr Foundation in July 2022, bringing experience as a social justice leader to the Foundation. In this conversation, she shares the perspectives she brings to this new role.

April 05, 2023 | Category: Arts & Creativity