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ADVOCATES TESTIFY ON CREATIVE SPACE AND PLACE ACTS
Advocates testify in support of the Creative Space Act and PLACE Act.
Advocates testify in support of the ACE Act
Advocates testify in support of the ACE Act: H.224/S.160
2025 Somerville mayoral candidates participate in a forum on arts & culture
2025 Somerville mayoral candidates participate in a Somerville Mayoral Forum on Arts & Culture.
2025 Boston mayoral candidates participate in a forum on arts & culture
2025 Boston mayoral candidates participate in a Boston Mayoral Forum on Arts & Culture.
State and Regional Sector Leaders Testify on $2.8M in Terminated NEA, NEH, and IMLS Grants
In July 2025, the House Committee on Federal Funding, Policy and Accountability held an oversight hearing on the impacts of federal funding cuts to cultural organizations.
MASSCREATIVE’S 2024 REFLECTION LETTER
Emily Ruddock, MASSCreative’s executive director, shares updates about some of our grassroots organizing and legislative achievements in 2024 and a glimpse of what we are preparing for 2025.
IN THE NEWS
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)