First year PhD student Tierney Bamrick was recently accepted in the inaugural Ostrom Summer Academy, a six-week program hosted by the Ostrom Workshop at Indiana University Bloomington. Its purpose is to “introduce early-career scholars and practitioners to the literatures and methodologies for which the Ostrom Workshop is known, including but not limited to: Ostrom Design Principles, Analytical Frameworks (IAD, GKC, SES), Polycentricity, and the Bloomington School.” During the Academy, Tierney will work on a project to theorize creativity as a common pool resource. This includes analysis of polycentric arts and culture systems and relates to recent expansions of Ostrom frameworks to philanthropy and knowledge commons.