I know many of you filled out the Zenk survey in 2005 regarding being an artist trying to live and work in San Jose. This survey, put out by the Center for Cultural Innovation (which is doing some really good work for individual artists) and the SJ Office of Cultural Affairs is needing your input once again...please take a few moments to fill out the survey and let's be hopeful some solid direction will come out of it to promote a sustainable artists' community.
The Creative Entrepreneur Project is an initiative of the City of San José Office of Cultural Affairs (OCA), working in partnership with the Center for Cultural Innovation (CCI), that is exploring ways to support the creative work of individual artists who live or work in San José. The first step in this process is to conduct a survey of area artists through the San José Survey of Artists’ Resource Needs.
“Individual artists” are broadly defined to include all disciplines, whether commercial or nonprofit in nature. This would include not only visual artists, but theater artists, dancers and choreographers, musicians, writers, designers, photographers, filmmakers, performance artists, etc.