Michelle Bruch

Dissecting the city's arts economy

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A new measure of Minneapolis' creative economy yielded an arts scene bigger than most imagined.

Sales revenue in the creative sector amounts to $430 million, roughly 70 percent of the revenue in the Minneapolis sports industry.

"I was actually floored by that," said Gülgün Kayim, the city's arts and culture director. "We don't have the Target Center seats they have [a capacity of 20,000]. The Guthrie, that's 2,000 seats."

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