Erie Arts and Culture is partnering with the Pennsylvania Council on the Arts to help creative entrepreneurs and their businesses. The Creative Entrepreneur Accelerator Program (CEAP) matches eligible creative entrepreneurs with free local small business consulting services and financial resources up to $2,000.
Fifty-one percent of the funds available for distribution in this program will be reserved for Black, indigenous, or persons of color (BIPOC), or individuals residing in communities identified by the Small Business Administration’s low-income communities map.
Cycle 3 is open until December 31, 2022.
The creative sector refers to a range of economic activities that are concerned with the generation or distribution of knowledge, information, creativity, and innovation, which is also often referred to as the creative industries.
Creative industries include:
- Communication & marketing
- Architecture
- Visual arts & crafts
- Design - product, interior, graphic & fashion
- Digital and analog media - film, television, web & radio
- Digital games
- The performing arts & live entertainment
- Publishing
A creative entrepreneur is an individual who is in the process of creating or has created a new business representing one or more of the creative industries.
Congratulations to the cycle 1 and cycle 2 recipients!
Cycle 1:
Robert Coxe, Holly Lynn Gibbons, Tim Vickey, Marquis Wallace, Lora Zill, Peggy Quinn, Troy Parish, Jeremy Bickling, Antonio Howard
Cycle 2:
Sarah Morgan, Rylee Louisa Prenatt, Anush Dulgaryan Bruno, Jessie Simmons, Nicole Renee Ryan, Shaddai Rodriguez, Curtis Waidley, tammy toski, Gaby Reyes, Alane Jewel, Andre Jones, Jon Bernstein, Elise Skirzynski, Todd Essman, Ansumana Gbembo, Tara Shannon
Nicole Renee Ryan - Nicole Renee Ryan Studio LLC
Andre Jones - Rabbit 3
Elise Skirzynski - Tumbled in Time Designs
