From the Field
Tech as Art The National Endowment for the Arts, in collaboration with the Ford Foundation and the Knight Foundation, has just released Tech as Art: Supporting Artists Who Use Technology as a Creative Medium. This report, the result of a two-year field scan, examines contemporary creative practices and communities that center digital technology in their […]
From the Research Team
Creative Economy State Profiles Workshop NASAA’s research team recently hosted an inaugural Research Workshop to take a closer look at the Creative Economy State Profiles, an interactive tool for engaging with the U.S. Bureau of Economic Analysis’s Arts and Cultural Production Satellite Account (ACPSA) data. The workshop began by reviewing ACPSA data—value added, employment and […]
From the Field
To Stream or Not to Stream WolfBrown’s latest edition of Navigating the Crisis provides guidance for performing arts organizations on offering digital and live content as venues begin to reopen. Audience research indicates the majority of attendees are ready to resume live shows. However, with 15-20% of audience members not ready to resume in-person shows, […]
From the Research Team
SAA Grant-Making Fact Sheets State arts agency grant-making data, as provided to NASAA through Final Descriptive Reports, are an important source for describing the ways in which state arts agencies serve the public. Updated periodically, NASAA’s grant-making data provides key facts on state arts agency grant-making functions, including: General Operating Support Support for Individual Artists […]
From the Field
Solidarity Not Charity: Grantmaking in the Solidarity Economy Solidarity Not Charity: Arts & Culture Grantmaking in the Solidarity Economy, written by Nati Linares and Caroline Woolard, examines opportunities for systems change in cultural grant-making practices. The report explores and makes the case for the intersection of the cultural sector and a solidarity economy—an economy centered […]
From the Research Team
New Profiles of States’ Creative Economies NASAA’s Creative Economy State Profiles have been freshly updated with new arts and cultural production data. Produced in cooperation with the National Endowment for the Arts (Arts Endowment), the interactive dashboard visualizes details about the creative economy in all 50 states and the District of Columbia. This update features […]
From the Field
The COVID-19 Pandemic and Rural America The U.S. Department of Agriculture’s Economic Research Service has published an analysis of the impact of COVID-19 in rural areas. It found that the nonmetro counties with the highest rates of infection were in manufacturing-dependent and farming-dependent counties, while the lowest rates of infection were associated with nonmetro recreation-dependent […]
From the Research Team
State Arts Agency Revenues, Fiscal Year 2021 NASAA has released its Fiscal Year 2021 State Arts Agency Revenues report with the latest aggregate and state-specific data. This fiscal year, as states are continuing to grapple with the effects of the COVID-19 pandemic, legislative appropriations to state arts agencies totaled $402.4 million ($1.21 per capita), a […]
From the Field
Personal and Organizational Policies and Change Re-imagining Personal and Organizational Policies as Sources of Radical Change: Perspectives from a Teaching Artist, Organization, and City, written by Tina LaPadula, James Miles and Olisa “Spyc-E” Enrico, integrates stories from the authors’ roles in youth development on the power teaching artists have to disrupt systemic inequality. Each author […]
From the Research Team
Arts and Economic Recovery Research In light of the current challenges facing the U.S. economy—unprecedented in many ways—the need to better understand the role of the arts sector has never been more acute. To do so, NASAA spearheaded a novel and important research effort in collaboration with Prof. Douglas S. Noonan of Indiana University-Purdue University […]