A List of Groups Who Might be Included in the Broader Creative Community

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A List of Groups Who Might be Included in the Broader Creative Community

The "creative community" is often narrowly interpreted as limited to artists in the fine or performing arts. But the creative field is much broader and more vital. For the purposes of the Act, we might define the creative community as:

Anyone whose primary work involves imagining, designing, shaping, or expressing new forms of meaning, experience, or structure—whether in material, social, symbolic, spiritual, or conceptual terms.

Here’s a list of groups who might be included in the broader creative community under the umbrella of the Creative Freedom Act:

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Traditional Arts

• Visual artists: painters, sculptors, collage artists, illustrators

• Performing artists: dancers, actors, musicians, composers

• Literary artists: poets, novelists, playwrights, screenwriters

Folk and Vernacular Creators

• Artisans and craftspeople (weavers, potters, carpenters, printmakers)

• Tattoo artists, street artists, puppeteers

• Traditional and indigenous storytellers, oral historians

Creative Thinkers and Knowledge Designers

• Philosophers, cultural theorists, metaphysicians

• Mythographers, mystics, and cosmological modelers

• Educators designing new learning systems (especially unschooling or emergent learning facilitators)

• Curriculum designers and interdisciplinary pedagogues

Applied Creative Disciplines

• Architects and urban planners with humanistic or ecological intent

• Designers (graphic, interior, service, systems, speculative)

• Game designers and immersive experience creators

• Creative technologists, AR/VR developers working in expressive formats

Cultural Workers and Ritualists

• Community organizers using art and narrative for transformation

• Ceremonial leaders and designers of new rites of passage

• Archivists and memory-keepers

• Curators and cultural interpreters

Ecological and Earth-Based Creatives

• Permaculturists, regenerative farmers, and ecological artists

• Herbalists, seed-keepers, and rewilding educators

• Landscape designers creating spaces of beauty and healing

• Natural builders and materials experimenters

Civic and Social Imagination Workers

• Activist-artists, protest choreographers, and narrative shapers

• Political cartoonists, satirists, and dystopia/utopia writers

• Futurists and speculative designers working on post-capitalist systems

• Artists and technologists developing public imagination infrastructure

Mystical and Inner Creatives

• Spiritual teachers developing new liturgies, visual systems, or philosophical paths

• Dreamworkers, sacred geometry researchers, mandala artists

• Makers of symbolic language systems and expressive alphabets

• Asemic writers and creators of nonverbal transmission tools

Experimental and Transdisciplinary Creatives

• Intermedia artists blending science, spirituality, and performance

• DIY inventors building tools for creativity or community

• Visionary coders, biohackers, or new-media alchemists

• Story ecologists and myth-weavers creating fictional worlds to seed real change

A Note on Inclusion

This framework makes space for:

• Those outside the mainstream or outside institutions

• Non-commercial creatives working slowly or invisibly

• Intergenerational, communal, or anonymous practices

• “Amateurs” in the true sense: those who create out of love

Summary Definition for the Act

The Creative Community includes all individuals whose life-work involves the conscious cultivation of new forms, experiences, and expressions that contribute to the cultural, spiritual, ecological, aesthetic, or social imagination of a better world.

This definition allows us to be inclusive while remaining purposeful - anchoring the Act not to career status, but to intention, integrity, and imagination.

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