John C. Barsness
John C. Barsness
Earlier this year, John C. Barsness, executive director, Montana Arts, attended the Creative Clusters conference in Brighton, U.K., and agreed to write about it for the Reader. A few definitions from the Creative Clusters Web site http://www.creativeclusters.com may be helpful in advance.
Creative industries: In a very literal sense, the creative industries, and the artist-entrepreneurs at the heart of them, are the manufacturers of the information economy. Cultural industries are: