CultureSource is a member association for non-profit arts and cultural organizations in Southeast Michigan serving Wayne, Oakland, Macomb, Washtenaw, Livingston, Monroe and St. Clair counties. As a regional service organization, we do this work through hosting professional development workshops that grow creative and leadership capacities, presenting programs that provide space for exchanging ideas about arts and culture, and leading initiatives that bring together stakeholders interested in the public accessing creative expression.

Our MISSION is to advance cultivate creative and cultural expression in Southeast Michigan.

Our VISION is of flourishing Southeast Michigan communities that visibly benefit from a diverse and thriving arts and culture sector, which itself receives indispensable support from CultureSource.

Our GUIDING PRINCIPLES are as follows:

1. We are at our best when we work with partners and as connectors and instigators.
2. A solid financial core is essential to our capacity to serve.
3. We must embrace contemporary culture at its core and edges.
4. Cultural organizations of all sizes can be valued as community anchors.
5. We speak clearly, respectfully, and inclusively.
6. We have a responsibility to elevate voices historically oppressed by privilege.
7. We believe creativity is fundamental.

Founded in 2007 as the Cultural Alliance of Southeastern Michigan, on January 1, 2013, we became CultureSource, the source for arts and culture in Southeast Michigan. With its establishment, CultureSource filled a void that major organizations identified in the region based on shared needs for capacity building, advocacy and marketing resources, welcoming small and mid-size organizations into the conversation. Quickly, CultureSource grew from 32 member organizations to 72, now serving over 170 annually. In 2022 CultureSource acquired the national arts consulting nonprofit EmcArts, with the aim of incorporating their unique models of adaptive changemaking into our programmatic offering.

• Annual Report — 2018,  2019, 2020, 2021, 2022
• GuideStar Profile
• IRS Form 990 — 2017, 2018, 2019, 2020, 2021, 2022
• Strategy Guidebook — 2022, A guidebook to centralize the ideas, information, and aspirations guiding our decisions.
• Equity Practice — Provocations and principles that guides our team’s exploration of cultural competency.
• Statement on Culture, developed and maintained with our young leaders group, CultureMakers.

Address: 2937 E. Grand Blvd., Suite 315, Detroit, MI 48202
Phone: (313) 831-1151
Email: [email protected]
Staff: Meet the Team