In June 2016, Mayor Walsh announced the Boston Creates Cultural Plan, a ten-year initiative that will align public and private resources to strengthen cultural vitality over the long-term, and weave arts and culture into the fabric of everyday life. Cities with high levels of creative capital encourage, reward and integrate imaginative thinking into all aspects of community life. Boston wants to better understand the creative capital of Boston and develop a plan that will prioritize, coordinate, and align public and private resources to strengthen this creative capital over the long term.
The goal of this research is to assist Emerson College, MassArt, local non-profits, Boston Public Schools and other stakeholders to identify educational programming, which provides tangible career opportunities and educational paths for City residents. Provide an analysis of the creative economy labor market to determine educational programming, which provides immediate access to a defined career path in the creative economy field.