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Jan 18
Shows the ocean crashing agains rocks, signifying California.

Part 3 of 5: Our Creative Roots, Challenges of Analyzing Rural Regions

Review of CVSuite report : A Guide to Creatives in Rural California An Analysis of Economic Activity in the Creative Sector in California's Rural ZIP Codes The third post in the Our Creative Roots series looks at the report A Guide to Creatives in Rural California. The report was produced... read more →
  • January 18, 2017
  • Natalie Villa
  • Creative Economy, Regions, Reporting
Dec 21
Sarah Calhoun is on the right side of the image with a sign for her company, Red Ants Pants behind her.

Part 2 of 5: Our Creative Roots, Impact and the Homegrown Entrepreneur

Sarah Calhoun moved to White Sulphur Springs, Montana, in 2006, with the goal of launching her women’s workwear clothing company. She established Red Ants Pants, which was named after ant colonies where the female ants are the workers, in an old brick saddle shop she renovated on Main Street. Her... read more →
  • December 21, 2016
  • Natalie Villa
  • Creative Economy, General
Dec 07

Emsi Interviews CVSuite: Thinking Strategically About the Impact (and Definition) of the Creative Economy

CVSuite's data partner, Emsi, interviews the team about best practices in creative economy definition and the history of the Creative Vitality Suite. This blog originally appeared on Emsi's blog and was written by Joshua Wright. For more on Emsi data, click here. For good reason, the creative economy and economic development are closely... read more →
  • December 7, 2016
  • Natalie Villa
  • Creative Economy
Nov 29

Part 1 of 5: Our Creative Roots, Thoughts on Measuring a Community’s Creative Vitality

In this 5-part series we will explore creative economy from the perspective of rural communities and challenges they face. In this post, author Patrick Overton kicks off our series by sharing his perspectives on the importance of developing methods for measuring the economic impact of creativity specific to the needs of... read more →
  • November 29, 2016
  • Natalie Villa
  • Creative Economy
Nov 07

CVSuite's New Site Offers More Than Just Data

Welcome to the new CVSuite website! The new CVSuite website provides an engaging educational experience around creative economy data and showcases specific uses of the CVSuite tool. Which region indexes are higher in creativity -- Washington DC or Los Angeles? You can now visit cvsuite.org and download a free report... read more →
  • November 7, 2016
  • Natalie Villa
  • General
Oct 20

EMSI Labs: Interactive Prototypes

Emsi, the CVSuite data provider, recently launched Emsi Labs. Emsi provides the data that day to day users utilize within the CVSuite tool. According to Emsi’s blog post, the Emsi Labs are “interactive labor market prototypes” that allows users, “exclusive insights and a glimpse into the future of labor market... read more →
  • October 20, 2016
  • Natalie Villa
  • Creative Economy, General
Sep 28

What the Recent Creative Economy Reports Are Saying

As creative economies continue to grow across the globe, many cities and states are realizing the value of dedicating time to researching and evaluating the health of their own creative economies and comparing them to cities of similar sizes and demographics. Data produced by platforms like CVSuite enable cities and... read more →
  • September 28, 2016
  • Natalie Villa
  • Creative Economy
Sep 13
Infographic detailing the timeline of the maker movement. It starts at 2005 and goes to present time. There are images of people welding, playing guitar, President Obama within the infographic.

The Maker Movement Defined: How the Creative Workers are Partnering to Grow the Economy

The maker movement is described by Brooks Rainwater in How the Maker Movement Is Revitalizing Industry in American Cities as, “the platform for today’s artisans to create, craft and develop leading ideas and products.” Rainwater makes the case that the maker movement is beneficial for the economy in his article,... read more →
  • September 13, 2016
  • Natalie Villa
  • Creative Economy, General
Aug 25

New! CVSuite Now Includes Culinary Arts and Historical Restoration Codes

The Creative Vitality Suite launches new industry and occupation codes on August 26th. The new codes will enable users to explore the impact of culinary arts and restoration/construction in the creative economy. CVSuite has new industries (NAICS codes) and occupations (SOC codes): Culinary arts and architectural restoration play important roles... read more →
  • August 25, 2016
  • paul.nguyen@westaf.org
  • Data Sets
Aug 17

Creative Industries: Bigger than One Number

Our vision for the CVSuite blog is that it serve as a place to present original material. Now and again; however, an item comes to our attention that we think is important to share. Such is the case with the piece presented here. It was written by Andrew Taylor who... read more →
  • August 17, 2016
  • paul.nguyen@westaf.org
  • Creative Economy, Data Education, Data Quality, Data Sets
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