Research

We must embrace contemporary culture at its core and edges. This is written into the CultureSource guiding principles and is core to our efforts to provide timely and relevant research to understand the core being of our field as well as the newest advancements that are not yet understood.

We regularly engage in practices of research and learning in order to build field knowledge and enhance our work of convening and grantmaking. In our portfolio of research activities, we are part of a research lab and have partnerships with arts research firms locally and nationally.

Arts, Entrepreneurship, and Innovation Lab
The Arts, Entrepreneurship, and Innovation Lab is a collaboration between the Indiana University Center for Cultural Affairs at the O’Neill School of Public and Environmental Affairs and the National Endowment for the Arts Research Lab program, operated in partnership with CultureSource.

Researcher Partnerships

• 8 Bridges Workshop — Sarah Lutman, Principal
• WolfBrown — Alan Brown, Principal
• Alisa Moldovanova — Associate Professor, Department of Political Science, Wayne State University

Learning Documents
Periodically we publish our learnings to offer affirming, challenging, or educational insights to practitioners, patrons, and stakeholders in our field. We also hope that these published learnings are also calls to action.

• January 2020 – What We Learned in 2019
• July 2020 – What We’re Learning in 2020