Creative Greensboro Annual Report 2025-26

A Home For Creative People

The Greensboro Cultural Center is more than a building, it’s creative infrastructure and home to 17 creative nonprofits, the GROW and HYERS residencies, and low cost studio rental opportunities for individual creatives. Through deeply subsidized tenant partnerships and affordable studio space, Creative Greensboro provides artists and cultural organizations with the space and resources to create, operate, collaborate, and serve the public — turning City-owned space into an investment in Greensboro’s creative sector. Greensboro Cultural Center tenants generated more than $6.1 million in reported economic activity in the 2025-2026 fiscal year, supported hundreds of workers and paid creatives, and engaged more than 637,000 patrons.

Center for Visual Artists Exhibition Opening.

Photo courtesy of Center for Visual Artists

FY 2025-26 Tenant Impact Snapshot GREENSBORO CULTURAL CENTER TENANT PARTNERS

$6.1M+ Reported Economic Activity

Includes $4.26M in compensation + $1.86M spent locally

Creative-economy infrastructure in action.

Tenants convert public cultural space into jobs, paid creative work, local publishing, programming, and public access.

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$1.86M 75,000 637,000

EMPLOYEES AND CONTRACT WORKERS SUPPORTED

DOCUMENTED YOUTH ENGAGEMENTS

3,400 1,400

ARTISTS AND CULTURAL WORKERS PAID

PARTICIPANT AND AUDIENCE ENGAGEMENTS

PROGRAMS AND CULTURAL ACTIVITIES

SPENT WITH GREENSBORO BUSINESSES AND SERVICE PROVIDERS

Note: Reported economic activity is not a formal economic-impact analysis. Figures based on self-reported FY25-26 data from 14 tenant partners.

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