The Davis Square Community

The Somerville Arts Council is conducting a survey on the city's creative community and they could use your help.  They're even sweetening the deal - complete the survey and you'll be entered to win one of four $50 Amazon gift cards.

From the Somerville Arts Council:

Much of our success at the Somerville Arts Council is contingent on our listening to the creative community in Somerville. Our programming seeks to reflect the rich cultural diversity of the City and the artists, designers, and performers who have made it home. Similarly the policies we push at the City level attempt to be responsive to the needs of local artists.

As Somerville approaches a crossroads in terms of the type of change and development it expects, we need to develop surveys and reports to understand the needs of the creative community and identify points of leverage for policy intervention. Toward that goal, we are launching an asset survey and analysis with UMass Center for Policy Analysis.

Although there is no clear definition of the creative economy, it essentially encompasses those businesses, organizations, and individuals who produce and distribute cultural goods, services, and intellectual property - from art, film, photography, and music to architecture, advertising, and jewelry design.

Somerville is well-known for attracting and supporting artists; this report will make legible to others in the State how to serve the creative community. While economic impacts are an inherently crude measure of artistic expression, they are an important part of the larger narrative of how creative activity increases cultural and economic well-being.

Please take the survey now. It is only 12 questions.

All information, whether personal or financial, collected in the survey will be kept in strict confidence before being aggregated for the report.

Thanks for your support.

Take the survey.