About Us

• Core Values
• Board
• Why Creative Professionals?
• Members

"Creativity has come to be valued—and systems have evolved to encourage and harness it—because new technologies, new industries, new wealth and all other good economic things flow from it."

–Richard Florida, The Creative Class

Creative Fresno is about using creative thinking to create a quality sense of place. We support the role of the arts within a vibrant community and embrace innovation, creativity and action to help transform Fresno into a place where we are proud to live, work and play.

Future Looks Bright

The goals of Creative Fresno are simple. We deserve a community that we can be proud to call home. Creative Fresno will continue working towards making Fresno a place knowledge workers want to be.

Creative Fresno: The Facts

In January 2004 a small group of young professionals got together to drive the popular Creative Cities Movement in Fresno. From that small initial group, Creative Fresno has moved on to become a 501(c)(3) nonprofit organization with a bold, progressive board of directors who pride themselves on being creative problem solvers. In a short amount of time, the organization has had many successes:

• MindHub — a listserv facilitating a community conversation for creative professionals throughout the Central Valley
• Participating in the Mayor’s Creative Economy Council — passionate about championing and monitoring the progress of the goals set forth in the report, Making the Grass Greener: Recommendations to Retain, Attract, Develop and Support Knowledge Workers
• Awards from the American Planning Association
• Livability Survey Report, Livability Priorities for the Fresno Creative Class
• The Mural Project in Downtown Fresno
• Monthly Creative Blenders, social gatherings at a variety of Fresno locales

With such a diverse membership and support base, Creative Fresno has the ability to engage in multiple arenas: arts, civic and business. We bring a fresh prospective to the table and demand that people not just talk about changing our community, but work together to make it happen.