Building Power MA is an organizing experiment to strengthen power and connections between cultural leaders and economic justice movements. The effort illuminates the significant cultural and socioeconomic value creatives bring to Massachusetts, while also identifying strategies to shift resources and narratives about the arts and culture sector across the state. Recognizing the structural barriers that limit artists’ and creatives’ voices, we seek to develop a participatory action research framework that promotes collective knowledge-building and decision-making. This will be done in partnership with individuals who identify under the broad umbrella of “creatives,” including artists, creative entrepreneurs, community residents, culture bearers, cultural leaders, immigrant artists, etc, with a particular focus on groups that have been and continue to be marginalized and oppressed by existing financial and cultural systems.