Cultural entreprenurship

Alice Loy, PhDCo-founder & Director of Programs

CULTURAL ENTREPRENEURSHIP:AT THE CROSSROADS OF PEOPLE, PLACE , AND PROSPERITY

A meaningful path to prosperity

Global Center for Cultural Entrepreneurship, 2013

Connecting us to our past

Foretelling our future?

Hawaiian Islands, USA

Bali, Indonesia

Suzhou, China

San Francisco, California

México

Nuevo México

Photo: Larry Lamsa

Entrepreneurship is

The pursuit of opportunity without regard to resources currently under control.

Risk

Global Center for Cultural Entrepreneurship, 2013

Marketing

Finance

Operations

Profitable Outcomes

Team

“Entrepreneurship is

self-determination.”

~ Lisa Little Chief, PhD

“Unless communities can think about what

they have to offer themselves, they’ll

either get stuck trying to be what another

place already is, or be held back trying to be something they used

to be.”

~ Nate Berg

Global Center for Cultural Entrepreneurship, 2013

Jonathan SimsNo Reservations Productions

FACTORY ECONOMY CREATIVE ECONOMY

Creative Industries Globally

2000-2005 8.7% growth

2008 14% growth

$425 billion in trade

USA

Employs 40 million Americans

756,007 “Arts” businesses

New Mexico

12% of workforce

University of Minnesota: Bachelor of Arts degree in Cultural Entrepreneurship

Rachel Vitko

The Cultural Industries:

• Performance arts

• Fine arts

• Film and music

• Publishing

• Planning & architecture

• Food & agriculture

• Crafts

• Tourism & Recreation

• Media/journalism

Kathleen Fontaine

Global Center for Cultural Entrepreneurship, 2003

THE CREATIVE/CULTURAL ECONOMY

Creative/Cultural Economy

Creative/Cultural Clusters

Creative/Cultural

Entrepreneurs

“Cultural entrepreneurs are

functional navigators --skillful

alchemists--combining aspects and

processes from multiple systems

to create cultural balance and

improved livelihoods

for their families and

communities.”Global Center for Cultural Entrepreneurship, 2013

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GCCE’s theory of change

OUR MISSION

Creative/Cultural

Entrepreneurs

GCCE PROGRAMS

• GCCE Fellows• PowerUp! • Market Links• Northern New Mexico Cultural

Corridor• Sustainable Native Communities

Collaborative• Research and Field Development

GCCE Fellow

“We do not exist solely, we exist together.”Patricia Michaels, GCCE Fellow

Taos Pueblo Global Center for Cultural Entrepreneurship, 2013

Global Center for Cultural Entrepreneurship, 2010

Rulan Tangen, GCCE Fellow

“The challenge for an economy is to move from isolated firms

to an array of clusters, and upgrade the array of clusters to more advanced activities.”

~ Global Competitiveness Report, World Economic Forum

*Albuquerque

Northern New Mexico Cultural Corridor

*Taos

*Santa FeLos Alamos*

Pueblos *

*Los Lunas

Rio Grande Agritourism Corridor

SUSTAINABLE NATIVE COMMUNITIES COLLABORATIVE

& INDIGENOUS DESIGN & PLANNING

INSTITUTE

Children living in families with cultural

entrepreneurs:• experience less poverty• receive more education• learn indigenous language• live in two-parent households

2010 CROSSROADS REPORT

“Cultural entrepreneurship

allows a community to take its unique voice to

the world.”

“Cultural enterprises create

a venue for an exchange of spirit.”

Global Center for Cultural Entrepreneurship, 2013

What’s next?

www.culturalentrepreneur.orgAlice Loy, PhD

alice@culturalentrepreneur.org505.263.5180