We are artists, creative practitioners, and allies who believe imagination and creative practice have a place in public life.
Res Creativa brings people across disciplines together to ask what we can do for the communities and societies we share. We want creativity at work before a crisis, helping people connect, see new possibilities, and shape what comes next.
Photograph of Ellen Harding Baker’s “solar system” quilt, 1876–ca. 1883. [Detail] Smithsonian National Museum of American History, The Public Domain Review, Public Domain
Artists know how to work with uncertainty. We try things, listen, revise, and make room for perspectives beyond our own. Those habits can serve us well wherever people are learning to live and work together.
Res Creativa is finding ways to put them to use in civic life.
Our founding members are refining an Opportunity Docket: a set of ideas for where artists and allies could help bring about change. When it’s ready, Charter Supporters will be invited to review it and, if they support it, add their names to the document.
You can join us now at no charge and follow the work as it takes shape.
Read the essays behind Res Creativa and explore what creative practice might make possible in public life.
How an insult became an anthem … and a Broadway showstopper. I woke up thinking about a feather. More precisely, I woke up thinking about the fellow who stuck a feather in his cap and called it macaroni. Why that particular scrap of childhood song had chosen to report for duty before breakfast, I cannot…