1. CULTURAL
ENTREPRENEURSHI
P:
AT THE CROSSROADS OF
PEOPLE, PLACE , AND
PROSPERITY
Alice Loy, PhD
Co-founder & Director of Programs

2. A meaningful path to
prosperity
Global Center for Cultural Entrepreneurship, 2013

3. Connecting us to our
past

4. Foretelling our
future?

5. Hawaiian Islands, USA

6. Bali, Indonesia

7. Suzhou, China

8. San Francisco, California

9. México

10. Nuevo México

11. Photo: Larry Lamsa

13. Entrepreneurship is
The pursuit of opportunity without regard to
resources currently under control.
Marketing
Profitable
Risk Outcomes
Finance
Team
Operations
Global Center for Cultural Entrepreneurship, 2013

14. “Entrepreneurship
is
self-determination.”
~ Lisa Little Chief, PhD

15. “Unless communities
can think about what
they have to offer
themselves, they’ll
either get stuck trying
to be what another
place already is, or be
held back trying to be
something they used to
be.”
~ Nate Berg

16. Jonathan Sims
No Reservations Productions
Global Center for Cultural Entrepreneurship, 2013

17. FACTORY ECONOMY
CREATIVE ECONOMY

19. University of Minnesota:
Bachelor of Arts degree in
Cultural Entrepreneurship
Rachel
Vitko

21. The Cultural Industries:
• Performance arts
• Fine arts
• Film and music
• Publishing Kathleen Fontaine
• Planning & architecture
• Food & agriculture
• Crafts
• Tourism & Recreation
• Media/journalism
Global Center for Cultural Entrepreneurship, 2003

22. THE CREATIVE/CULTURAL ECONOMY
Creative/Cultural
Economy
Creative/Cultural
Clusters
Creative/Cultur
al
Entrepreneurs

23. “Cultural entrepreneurs are functional
navigators --skillful alchemists--
combining aspects and processes from
multiple systems to create cultural
balance and improved livelihoods
for their families and communities.”
Global Center for Cultural Entrepreneurship, 2013

27. GCCE’s theory of change
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28. OUR MISSION
Creative/Cultura
l Entrepreneurs

29. GCCE PROGRAMS
• GCCE Fellows
• PowerUp!
• Market Links
• Northern New Mexico Cultural Corridor
• Sustainable Native Communities
Collaborative
• Research and Field Development

30. GCCE Fellow

31. “We do not exist solely, we exist together.”
Patricia Michaels, GCCE Fellow
Taos Pueblo
Global Center for Cultural Entrepreneurship, 2013

32. Rulan Tangen, GCCE Fellow
Global Center for Cultural Entrepreneurship, 2010

34. “The challenge for an economy is to
move from isolated firms to an
array of clusters, and upgrade the
array of clusters to more advanced
activities.”
~ Global Competitiveness Report, World Economic Forum

36. Northern New Mexico Cultural Corridor
Pueblos
* * Taos
Los
Alamos* * Santa Fe
* Albuquerque
* Los Lunas

37. Rio Grande Agritourism
Corridor

38. SUSTAINABLE NATIVE COMMUNITIES
COLLABORATIVE
&
INDIGENOUS DESIGN & PLANNING INSTITUTE

39. 2010 CROSSROADS REPORT
Children living in families with cultural entrepreneurs:
• experience less poverty
• receive more education
• learn indigenous language
• live in two-parent households

40. “Cultural
entrepreneurship
allows a community
to take its unique
voice to the world.”
“Cultural enterprises
create a venue for an
exchange of spirit.”
Global Center for Cultural Entrepreneurship, 2013

41. What’s next?

44. www.culturalentrepreneur.org
Alice Loy, PhD
alice@culturalentrepreneur.org
505.263.5180