New. Not Normal: Artists, the Creative Sector, and Innovation after the Pandemic

Project Added: December 28, 2021
Project Point of Contact: [email protected]
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Collaborators:

Arts, Entrepreneurship, and Innovation Lab
Center for Cultural Affairs
O’Neill School of Public and Environmental Affairs
The Arts, Entrepreneurship, and Innovation Lab is a project of the National Endowment for the Arts in cooperation with Indiana University, Purdue University—Indianapolis. This project was partially supported by Indiana University’s New Frontiers in the Arts & Humanities Program.

Location:

Bloomington, Indiana

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Urban

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OVERVIEW

New. Not Normal is a virtual symposium about entrepreneurship, innovation, and reimagining the creative sector post-COVID-19. This event explored new ideas about both the challenges and opportunities for arts workers and the creative sector, how the creative landscape has already changed and will continue to change in the future. The event focused on learning from related fields, and the application of new ideas through creative sector work.

ABOUT THE PROJECT

The symposium comes at a time when the creative sector, its
workers and organizations are facing unprecedented challenges. The
pandemic has completely changed how people engage with arts
organizations, consume and produce art, and in general, think about
the place of arts and culture in public life.
The Arts, Entrepreneurship, and Innovation (AEI) Lab is a research
lab at the Center for Cultural Affairs. Our research agenda centers on
understanding the role of arts and culture in innovation.
With this symposium, we aim to stimulate new ideas about challenges
and opportunities for arts workers and organizations to inspire and
inform how innovation will alter the creative landscape in a post-pandemic world.

Our speakers and panelists will focus on new
challenges and opportunities that were not present pre-pandemic.
In other words, they will try to answer the question, “How are things
different now, and how will things be different tomorrow?”
We invite you to actively participate in this conversation. While we
don’t promise any solutions to the problems each one of you faces
right now, we do hope to inspire you to think forward to the New, Not
Normal, state of the creative sector.

PROJECT EVALUATION

Currently not available.