WATCH: Eat More Art founder Sarah O'Connell and the Creative Economy on Nevada Week, Vegas PBS

See the conversation with Mickey Sprott of Clark County Public Arts, now streaming!

The Nevada Arts Council, Clark County Public Arts Office, and the City of Las Vegas Office of Cultural Affairs are involved in a first of its kind collaborative effort to help measure the impact of our Creative Economy both locally and nationwide through a study called the AEP6 (Arts Economic Prosperity Study #6).

Nevada Week on Vegas PBS invited our own Sarah O'Connell along with Mickey Sprott director of the Clark County Public Art program to talk about it:

WHAT IS AEP6?

Arts & Economic Prosperity 6 (AEP6) is an economic impact study of the nation’s nonprofit arts and culture industry. It is the largest and most inclusive study of its kind ever conducted, with a specific focus on 360 participating communities from across all 50 states plus the District of Columbia.

Eat More Art LLC is proud to assist the City of Las Vegas and Americans for the Arts with two primary data collection efforts:

• An audience-intercept survey of attendees to arts and culture events that take place in the community

• A budget and attendance survey of the comprehensive universe of nonprofit arts and culture organizations that exist in the community.

​WHY IS AEP6 IMPORTANT TO NEVADA'S FUTURE?

• Nonprofit arts and culture organizations are businesses. The Creative Economy contributes more to Nevada's GDP than Mining!

• The arts, unlike most industries, leverage significant amounts of event-related spending by their audiences to local businesses like bars and restaurants, among others.

• Arts tourists stay longer and spend more to seek out authentic cultural experiences. One-third of attendees travel from outside the county in which the activity takes place.

Be sure to fill out the anonymous survey when you attend an event. If you attend multiple events, you may fill out a questionnaire each time you are asked.

Are you holding a local arts and culture event? BE COUNTED! Email aep6study@gmail.com.

"Writer-Ready" Poet Laureate WorkshopComes to Winchester Sept. 17

Photo by Hannah Olinger on Unsplash

The Winchester Dondero Cultural Center, located at 3130 McLeod Drive near Desert Inn Road, presents “Writer Ready," hosted by Clark County Poet Laureate Angela M. Brommel from 10 a.m. to 12 p.m. on Sept. 17 Attendance for this workshop is free to the public, and prior registration is not required.

Join Angela for a conversation and collage-based workshop with artist Gig Depio as they explore the poetry of painting. Using a brief poem and 10-12 images of their own, participants will use collage to work with the tension between language and imagery as part of the composition. Those attending will need to bring images from magazines or copied from other sources that can be cut out or shared with others.

Writer-Ready is a series that includes workshops, lectures, and conversations with artists and writers during the first hour, followed by an hour-long work session to set up opportunities to write, perform and publish work. Individuals can spend work session time writing or reading even if participants don’t consider themselves to be a poet.

Attendees will receive a notebook, a pen to get started, prompts, and suggested small activities to complete before the next meeting. Nevada Humanities has also generously provided Nevada P.S. I Love You Postcard Project: Love Notes from Across the Silver State kits and copies of Sagebrush to Sandstone: A Humanities Guide to Outdoor Nevada, edited by Kathleen Kuo and Scott Dickensheets. The 100-page guide comprises poems by writers from around the state, artwork by Nevada artists depicting Nevada's natural beauty, and creative prompts accompanied by scientific text to inspire more active and reflective engagement with the world around us.

Las Vegas-based Filipino painter Gig Depio presents the conjunctions of contemporary and historical forces in the form of intense, often large-scale, figurative compositions. Depio's body of work focuses on American culture and its history, the exploration of the unfamiliar west, and later expansion and influence across the globe, especially on the convergence of American, Philippine, and Spanish histories at the turn of the 20th century and in contemporary society.

For more information about the Clark County Poet Laureate or to contact Angela, visit her at www.angelambrommel.com. Those interested in the workshop may contact the Winchester Cultural Center at (702) 455-7340 or visit the Web site at www.ClarkCountyNV.gov/parks. Clark County Parks and Recreation also can be found on social networking sites such as Twitter and Facebook

Join Clark County Poet Laureate Angela M. Brommel for Writer-Ready

Join Clark County Poet Laureate Angela M. Brommel for Writer-Ready, a series that includes workshops, lectures, and conversations with artists and writers during the first hour, followed by an hour-long work session to set up to be ready for good opportunities to write, perform and publish your work. Work session time can be spent writing or reading even if you don’t consider yourself a poet. It’s your time to get ready! Plan on attending at the Winchester Dondero Cultural Center, 3130 McLeod Drive on Saturday, Aug. 13 from 10 a.m. to noon.

Attendees will receive a notebook, a pen to get started, prompts, and suggested small activities to complete before the next meeting. Nevada Humanities has also generously provided Nevada P.S. I Love You Postcard Project: Love Notes from Across the Silver State kits and copies of Sagebrush to Sandstone: A Humanities Guide to Outdoor Nevada, edited by Kathleen Kuo and Scott Dickensheets. The 100-page guide is comprised of poems by writers from around the state paired with artwork by Nevada artists depicting Nevada’s natural beauty, as well as creative prompts accompanied by scientific text to inspire more active and reflective engagement with the world around us. Click here to read more.

For more information about the Clark County Poet Laureate or to contact Angela, visit www.angelambrommel.com.