We are Creative West
At Creative West (formerly WESTAF), we build equitable systems to support and amplify creative capacity — because creativity is essential to us all.
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At Creative West (formerly WESTAF), we build equitable systems to support and amplify creative capacity — because creativity is essential to us all.
Learn More about Creative West or the State Arts Agencies
Photo Credit Jennifer Chaparro
Creativity interrupts our patterns of understanding, startling us into a richer awareness of the world. This is essential work — and it needs to be supported and amplified in our communities.
We’re a nonprofit U.S. Regional Arts Organization that serves a broad and diverse area in the western U.S., stretching from the Arctic Coast to the Desert Southwest, and from the Great Plains to the Pacific Islands.
Photo Credit Cannupa Hanska Luger
The West contains multitudes. Its people are connected and remote, practical and imaginative, and at the forefront of both cultural preservation and cultural transformation, often simultaneously. Creative West is strengthened by this complexity. It connects, challenges, and changes us — much like creativity itself.
To build the capacity of artists and arts organizations anywhere, we develop equitable technology, funding, advocacy, and policy systems for the arts — extending our impact beyond our geography.
We know that creativity is socially valuable and essential to all of us. We support the people and organizations who make it happen — in the U.S. West and beyond.
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