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Creative Minds Out Loud

A Podcast from the Massachusetts Cultural Council

Ranked #1

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Episode 22: Leadership Change Needn’t Be A Crisis

Episode 22: Leadership Change Needn’t Be A Crisis

There’s an enormous amount of generational leadership change that’s happening in our arts and cultural organizations. An... Read more

30 Nov 2016

16mins

Ranked #2

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Episode 29: Arts Center as a Platform for Community Development in Chinatown

Episode 29: Arts Center as a Platform for Community Development in Chinatown

Giles Li is Executive Director of the Boston Chinatown Neighborhood Center (BCNC), a social-services organization servin... Read more

16 Mar 2017

12mins

Ranked #3

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Episode 52: Performing Arts Centers Make Ready for First Casino in MA

Episode 52: Performing Arts Centers Make Ready for First Casino in MA

In 2018 the first casino in Massachusetts opens in Springfield. Tina D’Agostino, President of the Springfield Performing... Read more

23 Feb 2018

13mins

Ranked #4

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Episode 48: Cultural District as Framework for Unifying Community Vision

Episode 48: Cultural District as Framework for Unifying Community Vision

Wrapped inside the cozy neighborhoods of a leafy mill town in Boston’s Metro West, Maynard’s downtown is a dynamic micro... Read more

28 Dec 2017

12mins

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Episode 67: Connecting Rural Schools to Arts Education

Episode 67: Connecting Rural Schools to Arts Education

The Berkshires are home to an array of arts and culture organizations, and 13 schools districts. Connecting these two wo... Read more

31 Oct 2018

13mins

Ranked #6

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Episode 47: The Real Benefits of Visual Arts Education

Episode 47: The Real Benefits of Visual Arts Education

Lois Hetland is a MassArt professor and among the nation’s leading scholars on the value of arts education. She discusse... Read more

12 Dec 2017

14mins

Ranked #7

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Episode 25: A Capital Campaign with Lasting Impact (and a Cash Reserve!)

Episode 25: A Capital Campaign with Lasting Impact (and a Cash Reserve!)

Beryl Jolly, Executive Director of the Mahaiwe Performing Arts Center, discusses their capital campaign to restore their... Read more

5 Jan 2017

13mins

Ranked #8

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Episode 90: Technology as an Expressive Medium

Episode 90: Technology as an Expressive Medium

George Fifield, Director of Boston Cyberarts, says, “Anytime you have a technology which can create an expressive medium... Read more

17 Oct 2019

12mins

Ranked #9

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Episode 94: Look at Art. Get Paid.

Episode 94: Look at Art. Get Paid.

Through “Look at Art. Get Paid,” artists Maia Chao and Josephine Devanbu pay people who have never been to an art museum... Read more

12 Dec 2019

15mins

Ranked #10

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Episode 55: Generate and Cultivate Engagement

Episode 55: Generate and Cultivate Engagement

Zakiya Thomas, Boston Symphony Orchestra’s Executive Director of Education, Community Engagement and Inclusion, discusse... Read more

6 Apr 2018

17mins

Ranked #11

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Episode 51: Wide Perspective at the Narrows

Episode 51: Wide Perspective at the Narrows

Patrick Norton is Executive Director of the Narrows Center for the Arts, a regional destination for the visual and perfo... Read more

7 Feb 2018

12mins

Ranked #12

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Episode 50: Mission-Driven Commercial Development Afoot in Roxbury

Episode 50: Mission-Driven Commercial Development Afoot in Roxbury

Edmund Barry Gaither, Director of the National Center of Afro-American Artists, says this moment in Roxbury is “a moment... Read more

25 Jan 2018

18mins

Ranked #13

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Episode 84: Boston Ballet’s Business Plan Competition

Episode 84: Boston Ballet’s Business Plan Competition

Max Hodges, Executive Director of the Boston Ballet, shares the story of a business plan competition (à la “Shark Tank”)... Read more

12 Jul 2019

18mins

Ranked #14

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Episode 82: The ART of Taking Risks

Episode 82: The ART of Taking Risks

The American Repertory Theater’s Diane Paulus and Diane Borger share how they think about risk, and what it means to hav... Read more

13 Jun 2019

23mins

Ranked #15

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Episode 70: Out Youth Theater – Revelatory Experience for Performers and Audience

Episode 70: Out Youth Theater – Revelatory Experience for Performers and Audience

The Theater Offensive presents the diversity of lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, and queer lives in art so bold it b... Read more

12 Dec 2018

12mins

Ranked #16

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Episode 69: Iconoclast of Dance

Episode 69: Iconoclast of Dance

Choreographer and Master Teacher Adrienne Hawkins discusses the field of dance – how the making of, and support for, the... Read more

29 Nov 2018

21mins

Ranked #17

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Episode 68: Access Means Overcoming Psychological Barriers, Too

Episode 68: Access Means Overcoming Psychological Barriers, Too

Matthias Waschek, Executive Director of the Worcester Art Museum, says truly accessible museums create experiences that ... Read more

16 Nov 2018

20mins

Ranked #18

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Episode 92: Youth Voice Transforms a Neighborhood

Episode 92: Youth Voice Transforms a Neighborhood

Celina Miranda, Executive Director of Hyde Square Task Force (HSTF), discusses the integral role of young people in the ... Read more

14 Nov 2019

15mins

Ranked #19

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Episode 37: Springfield Cultural District Fuels Downtown Growth

Episode 37: Springfield Cultural District Fuels Downtown Growth

A thriving creative sector is one of our Commonwealth’s most powerful economic development assets. Morgan Drewniany, Exe... Read more

13 Jul 2017

9mins

Ranked #20

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Episode 38: Championing Civic Empowerment Then & Now

Episode 38: Championing Civic Empowerment Then & Now

Marita Rivero is the Executive Director of the Museum of African-American History, New England’s largest museum dedicate... Read more

31 Jul 2017

17mins

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