PRESS
PRESS CONFERENCE: ACE ACT
Join MASSCreative, Sen. Paul Mark, Rep. Dan Donahue, and Community Access to the Arts for a press conference on the ACE Act on Friday, July 28th at 2:30 pm in Great Barrington, MA.
IN THE NEWS: CULTURAL EQUITY IN TOURISM BILL PRESS CONFERENCE
On Tuesday, July 11th, 2023, the MASSCreative Action Network co-hosted a press conference with Sen. Jake Oliveira, Rep. Pat Duffy, and The Polish Center of Discovery and Learning on the Cultural Equity in Tourism Bill.
PRESS CONFERENCE: CULTURAL EQUITY IN TOURISM BILL
MASSCreative, Senator Jake Oliveira, and Representative Pat Duffy invite you to join them for a press conference to publicly launch H.3244/S2194: An Act establishing a program to increase cultural equity in tourism promotion and marketing on Tuesday, July 11th at 11am in Chicopee, MA. The event is open to the public.
intern with masscreative!
We’re hiring interns to help with organizing and advocacy, communications and development, and public policy work. Read for details about responsibilities and applications.
Welcome to our new website!
Welcome to our new and improved website! Thanks to support from the Mass Cultural Council, design work by Jasmine Tudor, development by Tyler Barnett, and consulting from Andréa Hudson, we designed this new site to make it easier for artists, creatives, cultural groups, and changemakers to advocate for a more equitable and inclusive creative sector.
Massachusetts Arts and Culture Leaders Request $25 Million for Mass Cultural Council in House and Senate FY24 Budgets
MASSCreative submits letter to House and Senate leadership requesting $25M for the Mass Cultural Council in FY24 with 693 signatures.
IN THE NEWS
Boston Art Review Names Arts Policy & Civic Engagement Editor (Boston Art Review, November 13, 2025)
At the State House, Artists Speak Up for Policies to Support Massachusetts’s Creative Economy (Boston Art Review, October 25, 2025)
Facing Funding Cuts and Censorship Threats, Museums Band Together (New York Times, October 16, 2025)
Dwindling space for creative artists deserves a new approach (The Boston Globe, September 1, 2025)
Dennis Lehane on "Smoke," a Boston Mayoral Forum on Arts and Culture recap, and Mahesh Daas (GBH’s The Culture Show, August 6, 2025)
Cultural Issues at the Heart of Boston Mayoral Race (Boston Art Review, August 3, 2025)
Mayoral candidates discuss arts and culture at Strand Theatre forum (Dorchester Reporter, August 1, 2025)
Boston’s mayoral candidates try to win over artists worried about displacement and funding (WBUR, July 31, 2025)
Live with Domingo DaRosa and MASSCreative (Java with Jimmy, July 30, 2025)
Healey-Driscoll Administration Launches Live Theater Tax Credit Pilot Program (Governor Maura Healey and Lt. Governor Kim Driscoll, July 16, 2025)
As leaders of state and regional organizations, we’re sounding the alarm on Trump’s attacks on the arts (CommonWealth Beacon, June 2, 2025)
Mass. arts organizations upended as NEA claws back promised funds (WBUR, May 7, 2025)
Local arts groups count losses as NEA cancels grants (The Boston Globe, May 6, 2025)
Creative sector positions itself amidst funding battles (State House News Service, May 1, 2025)
Robert Pinsky, arts funding and advocacy, and public art in Kendall Square (GBH’s The Culture Show, April 28, 2025)
Episode 32: MASSCreative: 2025-26 Legislative Agenda, Art Advocacy Week, Create the Vote, & More (Culture Crisis Conversations Podcast, March 26, 2025)
Massachusetts announces its first state poet laureate position (Boston.com, February 8, 2025)
Boston arts organizations uneasy over possible loss of federal funding (WBUR, February 7, 2025)
‘It’s very hard to estimate what the next moves will be’: Mass. arts and culture leaders react to Trump order to pause federal funding (The Boston Globe, January 29, 2025)
Healey-Driscoll Administration Appoints Cultural Economy Advisory Council Members (Governor Maura Healey and Lt. Governor Kim Driscoll, Executive Office of Economic Development, September 20, 2024)