This final installment of the Our Creative Roots blog series takes a look at initiatives, toolkits and resources that have emerged from art and creative economy work in rural areas. To review, the earlier posts in the blog series were: Post 1: Thoughts on Measuring a Community’s Creative Vitality Post 2: Impact... read more →
Mar
07
Feb
17
CVSuite is pleased to announce the addition of race and ethnicity data to our existing age and gender demographic data. These new data make it easy to look at the race/ ethnic make-up of a region and allow you to dive even deeper and see these data for workers in creative industries and... read more →
Feb
14
Prior to assuming the position of executive director of Colorado Creative Industries (CCI), Margaret Hunt worked in the private sector in the area of economic development and then as the director of the Salt Lake City Office of Economic Development. Hunt has also worked as the head of the Utah... read more →
Jan
18
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 →
Dec
21
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 →
Dec
07
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 →
Nov
29
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 →
Nov
07
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 →
Oct
20
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 →
Sep
28
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 →