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.
Little Amal Walks Across Massachusetts
A powerful fusion of theater and public art brings together communities to raise awareness for local and global issues
Change from the Inside Out
What does prioritizing racial equity in an arts organization look like? A new series shares stories and reflections from Barr partners.
Arts Engage People in Bettering the Places They Love
Leaders from two Massachusetts community foundations on how arts and creativity enrich civic life.
Jamilah Bradshaw Shares Perspective as a New Arts & Creativity Program Officer
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.