360 Arts BLVD combines professional development, collective visibility, and system-changing advocacy to nurture a thriving creative class.
Powering Creative Careers.
Amplifying Artist Voices.
Driving Change.
A Letter From Our Founder
All throughout my career, I've been in rooms full of incredibly talented people who had no idea how to build a sustainable career around their work. Not because they weren't smart or driven, but because nobody had ever taught them the business side, or built them a community that could.
That's the gap 360 Arts BLVD was designed to close.
I founded this organization because creative professionals deserve more than inspiration - they deserve real tools, honest conversations, and a network of people who actually understand this sector. The financial questions, the visibility hurdles, the operational stuff nobody talks about. All of it.
This is the space we wish had existed earlier in our careers. We built it so you don't have to wait as long as we did.
Our mission: to help creative professionals build entrepreneurial skills, connect them to resources, amplify their stories, and bring their experiences into civic conversations that shape the future of our sector.
- Taryn Janelle, Founder, 360 Arts BLVD
Why 360 Arts BLVD Is a Social Enterprise
(And Why That Matters)
What’s a Social Enterprise?
We’re glad you asked! A social enterprise is an organization that uses business tools to solve social problems. The mission isn't separate from the business model, the mission is the business model.
For 360 Arts BLVD, that means we exist to solve a real, documented problem: creative professionals - artists, performers, designers, writers, musicians, storytellers - are routinely shut out of the professional infrastructure that other industries take for granted: business education, peer networks, community capital, and access to space, resources, and opportunity. The systems that help people build sustainable careers have largely been built around creatives, not for them.
We're building the infrastructure that should have always existed. And we're building it as a business, because businesses can sustain themselves, grow, pay their people fairly, and serve their communities for decades. That's the goal.
Why Not a Nonprofit?
We want to be direct here: nonprofit status is not inherently more mission-aligned than for-profit status. The legal structure of an organization doesn't determine whether it cares about the people it serves.
What nonprofit status does do is create a specific set of dependencies on donors, grants, and goodwill of funders whose priorities may shift year to year. That's not a criticism of nonprofits. Many do extraordinary work. But it's also a real constraint, and for what we're building, it's the wrong constraint.
Here's what we mean:
Our 360° Approach
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Support creative professionals by helping them build skills, access resources, and connect with community.
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Center their voices, celebrate their work, and generate real-time insight about the needs, values, and realities of the creative community.
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Translate community insight into stories, data, and strategy that guides our services and informs civic conversations.