CreArt cities.The project also aims at increasing local audiences for visual arts, artistic
creativity and contemporary art. In addition to a yearly European Exhibition that
travels between three different cities of the network, in 2013 the CreArt project
launched the EU Day of Artistic Creativity held every 21
st
March, with open activities
to enhance the participation of citizens.
Target beneficiaries:
Artists, local residents, cultural institutions and managers,
creative enterprises and entrepreneurs.The main beneficiaries of the project are the
cultural actors, both cultural managers involved daily in the management of a
cooperation project inside the Network and the local artists that can be benefited
by the mobility actions of the project: training and promotion activities in different
cities across Europe.
Stakeholders:
Cities ofValladolid,Arad (County), Lecce, Genoa, Harghita (County),
Pardubice, Aveiro, Linz, Kristiansand, Kaunas, Vilnius, Delft and Zagreb, through the
Municipality, public institutions linked to/created by it, or independent
foundations/associations.
Budget:
€3,437,300 (for the period May 2012-April 2017). For the coordinator of
the project and initiator of the initiative (Valladolid), the budget is €564,628. The
funding resources came from local administration (50 %) and the EU Culture
Programme (50 %).
Results:
Results of the project at the city level:
•
Impact on local management: the experience gained by the Fundación
Municipal de Cultura (FMC) through leading the project has helped integrate
networking in the local administration’s working methods. CreArt activities
have been fully embedded into the cultural programme of the city. For
example the annual call for artists carried out by the FMC has been merged
into the call for CreArt European exhibition.Thanks to the use of ICT (online
calls, dissemination of activities through newsletter and social media), the FMC’s
activities gained a better outreach and new links were created with the local
artistic community.
•
Impact on local cultural offer: in three years, the project has significantly
enriched Valladolid’s cultural offer. The European Day of Artistic Creativity
fosters about twenty activities in the city, where a hundred artists, museums,
galleries, shops and bars, journalism students and schools collaborate every
year.
The FMC has adapted part of its activity to the programme, enhancing the
local artists’ presence in its exhibition venues.
•
Impact on the artistic community: CreArt has opened new opportunities for
the promotion and training of local artists such as European touring
exhibitions, workshops with internationally renowned artists and a programme
of artistic residencies in other European cities.
Bottom-up initiatives have risen to promote well-established or emerging
artists from Valladolid and to facilitate access to cultural activities for new
audiences. The annual exhibition “Creadores” gathers around a common
theme some twenty local creators; “CreaVA” was conceived as a
complementary exhibition of emerging artists and as a platform for cultural
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