City Partnership

Every city
wants a
creative
economy.
Almost none
are building
one for what
comes next.

Sponsors underwrite the program and your city opens the door to its creative community. That's the whole lift we ask of city partners.

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A conversation about fit, timing, and what the partnership looks like on the ground.

The partnership
What we need from you
  • A designated liaison to help us reach local arts and cultural channels. One point of contact who knows the community.
  • In-kind venue support for the 3-day intensive, or introductions to local venues and arts centers. We'll work with whatever's available: a library, a community center, a university space.
  • Promotion through city channels (newsletters, social, email lists) to reach local artisans. We write the copy. You send it to your audience.
  • Conversations with city and arts stakeholders so we can tailor the Guild to your city's creative scene. Two or three calls before the program launches.
What your city gets
  • Economic development: new creative micro-businesses paying into the local tax base. Real businesses, not participants with certificates.
  • Equity and access: institutional-quality business training for artisans, free for participants. The same curriculum taught at Berklee College of Music.
  • Civic branding: your city's logo on certificates, marketing materials, and a public showcase. Visible, documented, shareable.
  • Ongoing artisan resources: alumni network, toolkit, and continuing access to sponsor-provided tools. The infrastructure stays after the program ends.
  • Full delivery by our team: curriculum, facilitation, coaching, and follow-up. You open the door. We run the program.

After the Guild,
the infrastructure
stays.

The program itself ends in ten weeks, but your city leaves with trained entrepreneurs, an alumni network, a toolkit, and a cohort who already know how to teach the next group what they learned.

We plant the seed for a local creative innovation center and get it running. Growing it past that point is your city's call, and you'll be equipped to make it: the people, the knowledge, and a model that's already been tested. We stick around after the official program ends, ready to help cities build on what the Guild starts.

Certificate of Completion
Artisan Name
Open Guild — Cohort 01
Program Open Guild
City Your City
Duration 10 Weeks

Cities in
conversation.

Active conversations, connections, and cities in consideration for upcoming cohorts.

St. Louis
Active conversation
Chicago
Active conversation
Pittsburgh
In consideration
Philadelphia
In consideration
Boston
Berklee connection
Providence
Brown connection
New Orleans
Loyola / Tulane connection
Kansas City
In consideration
Your city
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Let's talk about your city.

A conversation about fit, timing, and what the partnership looks like on the ground. No commitment required. Tell us about your city and your creative community, and we'll take it from there.

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We respond within 48 hours. Tell us your city, your role, and what you're trying to build.