What is Creative Oklahoma?
Formed in 2006, Creative Oklahoma is a statewide non-profit organization advancing Oklahoma’s creative economy through creativity and innovation based initiatives in education, commerce and culture. The mission is to transform the state of Oklahoma through projects and collaborative ventures that help develop a more entrepreneurial and vibrant economy and an improved life quality for its citizens.
Creative Oklahoma is the first statewide non-profit organization in the nation that encourages and supports creativity in the multiple arenas of education, commerce, and culture.
What is Creative Oklahoma’s Mission?
“To establish Oklahoma as a world-renowned center of creativity and innovation in education, commerce and culture.”
The mission is to transform the state of Oklahoma through projects and collaborative ventures that help develop a more entrepreneurial and vibrant economy and an improved life quality for its citizens.
What we do:
- Through its State of Creativity Awards program, Creative Oklahoma recognizes and awards funds to further the creative endeavors of its citizens.
- Provides a variety of creative economy educational and professional development offerings including a statewide Oklahoma Creativity Forum, webinars, and workshops.
- Facilitates and supports education, commerce, and culture collaborations and projects that advance creativity such as the Innovation Challenge Index and TEDx events in Oklahoma.
- Incubates new creative projects such as the Oklahoma ArtScience Prize and the Creative Communities Commission.
- Measures creative economy impact through research.
- Creative Oklahoma has furthered Oklahoma’s national and international visibility through a series of public television films, programs and marketing initiatives.
- Represents Oklahoma in two networks – the Districts of Creativity (DC) Network based in Flanders and the National Creativity Network.
- – Oklahoma is the only North American “district of creativity” represented in the 14 member global DC Network and is a founding member of the National Creativity Network, representing creative regions in the US and Canada.
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Why Creativity?
In recent years, creativity has become a very highly valued skill. Creative people combine existing possibilities to reach new and often unexpected solutions. Creativity is an essential building block for innovation. Everyone possesses a certain level of creativity.
Imaginative solutions and new strategies are constantly needed in our ever-changing world. That is why we are working to advance Oklahoma’s creative economy.