2024 Creative Vitality Summit Sponsorship Packet

ABOUT THE SUMMIT

Now in its third year, the Creative Vitality™

Summit (April 9 – 10 2024, in Boulder, CO) will bring together artists, designers, technologists, arts advocates, and policy experts to consider the impact of new economic models, new forms of investment, and technological change in arts, culture, and the creative economy.

The Creative Vitality Summit is hosted by WESTAF — the Western States Arts Federation — an organization with deep experience studying the impact of arts and the creative economy, particularly in investigating and comparing regional creative vitality through the Creative Vitality Suite.

Recently, WESTAF completed a major multi-year creative economy strategic planning process for the Washington State Department of Commerce, and a national creative economy and economic recovery study with the National Assembly of State Arts Agencies.

The 2024 summit will feature a range of experts exploring topics like Artists and Extended Reality (XR), Creative Economy Policy Making in States and Regions, Transforming Investments in Artists, Creative Workers, and Communities, Artificial Intelligence and the Creative Economy, and more. Discussions will be led by a phenomenal cast of practitioners and field experts, many of whom are artists and creative entrepreneurs themselves.

Panelists will convene at the Boulder Museum of Contemporary Art and stay at the St. Julien Hotel in Boulder. Conference attendees will be able to register and experience the event virtually.

SUMMIT AGENDA

*Subject to change

Tuesday, April 9, 2024 at BMoCA and Virtually

10:00 – 11:15 am

Economy Policymaking in States and Regions

Wednesday, April 10, 2024 at BMoCA

Shannon Halberstadt, Washington Department of Commerce

Josh Blanchard, Colorado Creative Industries

David Yoshitomi, County of Ventura, California

Patton Hindle, Artadia

Gary Steuer, Bonfils-Stanton Foundation

Randy Engstrom, Third Way Creative

SUMMIT SPONSOR OPPORTUNITIES

Sponsor opportunies can be cash value or in-kind. Please contact Deputy Director, David Holland at David.Holland@westaf.org for questions.

Summit - $5,000

Tax Deduction: $4,500

Marketing Value: $500

Crest - $2,500

Tax Deduction $2,250

Marketing Value: $250

Peak - $1,000

Tax Deduction $900

Marketing Value: $100

2021 & 2022 CONFERENCES

Nearly 900 registrations across 44 States

Average of 130 unique users per session

Average 42.5% attendance rate across all sessions

ABOUT WESTAF

WESTAF weaves technology, diverse thought leadership, and innovation to energize, network, and fund public sector arts agencies and communities.

Headquartered in Denver, Colorado, WESTAF (Western States Arts Federation) is a regional nonprofit arts service organization dedicated to strengthening the financial, organizational, and policy infrastructure of the arts in the West.

WESTAF assists state arts agencies, arts organizations, and artists in their quest to serve diverse audiences, enrich the lives of local communities, and provide access to the arts and arts education for all. Through innovative programming, advocacy, research, technology, and grantmaking, WESTAF encourages the creative advancement and preservation of the arts regionally and through a national network of customers and alliances.

Founded in 1974, WESTAF is governed by a 25-member board of trustees composed of arts leaders in the West and serves the largest constituent territory of the six U.S. regional arts organizations and includes Alaska, American Samoa, Arizona, California, Colorado, Commonwealth of Northern Mariana Islands (CNMI), Guam, Hawai’i, Idaho, Montana, Nevada, New Mexico, Oregon, Utah, Washington, and Wyoming.