Project Incubator
Exploring new tools, programs and ideas can lead to the next generation of innovative solutions for artists everywhere.
The Center for Cultural Innovation (CCI) works to provide artists with funding, professional development and community-building programs, while also recognizing that other gaps exist in the ecology. To address these needs, CCI established a Project Incubator in 2007, designed to develop new knowledge, tools and programs that can result in advancements, and even breakthroughs, in the support system for artists.
CCI’s Project Incubator serves as both a “think tank” and research and development lab that works strategically with select teams of funders, artists, researchers, field practitioners and other innovation partners who have the capacity and readiness to work on specific problem-solving projects in three principal areas: Artist Research, Partnership Initiatives and Advocacy. Explore the links provided to see what we’ve been up to!
Artist Research
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Los Angeles: America’s Artist Super City(Markusen, Ann. 2010, 24 pages) Policy brief on individual artists in Los Angeles and future policy implications and opportunities, commissioned by Center for Cultural Innovation. |
San Jose Creative Entrepreneur Project: Artists’ Resource and Space Study(Markusen, Ann, Anne Gadwa and Pat Shifferd. 2008, 53 pages) A first-ever study of San Jose individual artists’ needs commissioned by the City of San Jose Office of Cultural Affairs, in partnership with the Center for Cultural Innovation. |
Nurturing California’s Next Generation Arts and Cultural Leaders(Markusen, Ann, Markusen Economic Research Associates 2011, 37 pages) A benchmark study on the nonprofit careers of next generation arts and cultural leaders in California, conducted by research economist Ann Markusen, Markusen Economic Research Associates and commissioned by the Center for Cultural Innovation for The James Irvine Foundation and The William and Flora Hewlett Foundation.
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Download reportPartnership Initiatives
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Creative Capacity FundThe Creative Capacity Fund is a collaborative funding project administered by the Center for Cultural Innovation. It provides grants to support professional development and next generation leadership opportunities for California artists and arts administrators. >MORE |
Next Gen Arts Leadership InitiativeA three-year initiative designed to strengthen and retain next generation administrative talent in the nonprofit arts field by providing individual training and professional development opportunities, convening activities, and grants to arts organizations to explore innovative policies and practices related to next generation arts leadership. >MORE |
San Jose Creative Entrepreneur ProjectIs there a role that the City of San Jose could play to make it a more artist-friendly city to both enrich its cultural vitality and advance Silicon Valley’s creative economy? This was the central question behind the San Jose Creative Entrepreneur Project. >MORE |
Advocacy
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Artists United For Health CareIn 2007, with a legislative debate on universal healthcare looming, CCI worked with a consortium of funders, technologists and health care advocates to launch a new website portal for California artists in 2007 called Artists United for Healthcare (AUFH). The website was designed to provide individual artists with information and a voice in the state’s universal healthcare legislative debate. >MORE |
Arts In The California Governor’s RaceThis project was established in June 2010 as a nonpartisan effort to ensure that issues related to the arts and the creative economy are successfully inserted into the California Governor's race. It was organized by a consortium of nonprofit arts organizations, arts support groups, artists and concerned individual supporters of the arts. >MORE |
