From the Research Team
FY2026 State Arts Agency Revenues NASAA’s newly released Fiscal Year 2026 State Arts Agency Revenues report presents the funding landscape across state and jurisdictional arts agencies nationwide. Legislative appropriations totaled $646 million in FY2026, about a 6% decrease from the previous year—a shift that reflects budgetary adjustments in several large-budget states. Nevertheless, there is considerable […]
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New Policy Brief Makes the Case for Creative Aging Lifetime Arts has released a new policy brief, Creative Aging in the Healthy Aging Ecosystem, demonstrating the importance of incorporating creative aging into the general healthy-aging policy landscape. As outlined in the brief, with the population of older adults in the United States significantly increasing, policy […]
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Explore Updated Facts on SAA Grant Making NASAA’s updated grant making facts are now available, offering an in-depth look at how state and jurisdictional arts agencies (SAAs) invest public dollars to strengthen arts ecosystems nationwide. Drawing on fiscal year 2024 data and 5- to 10-year trends (FY2015-2024), these resources illustrate funding patterns across key areas […]
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New Theatre Worker Survey Theatre Communications Group’s recent report, Heart, Hustle, Survival: A Survey for Theatre Workers, provides critical, field-informed data on the economic realities facing theatre artists and workers—insights highly relevant to state arts agencies and public arts funders. Based on a survey of 188 primarily New York City based theatre workers, the report […]
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NASAA Answers Your Questions As part of NASAA’s service to state and jurisdictional arts agencies (SAAs) and the greater arts and culture field, NASAA responds to requests for information on a wide variety of arts, culture and policy topics. In fiscal year 2025, NASAA staff fulfilled 677 of these information requestsM from SAAs, partners and […]
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Does Distance Affect Attendance? In a new report from the Wallace Foundation, Proximity and Performing Arts Attendance, researchers examined if an audience member’s distance from a performing arts venue affects whether or not they will attend a live event. To do so, the research team lead three major data collection efforts between 2015 and 2022 […]
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U.S. DOT to Study State Public Art Practices Every year, the National Cooperative Highway Research Program (NCHRP)—administered by the Transportation Research Board division of the National Academies of Science, Engineering and Medicine and supported by state departments of transportation and the U.S. Department of Transportation (DOT)—gathers to select topics of study for the upcoming fiscal […]
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Study Reframes How We Understand Native Arts Participation Measuring What Matters, a new in-depth report by First Peoples Fund, illustrates the ways current survey designs often miss the full breadth of Native creative life, and demonstrates how culturally responsive survey methodologies can instead increase the accuracy and validity of survey results. Drawing on interviews with […]
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Update on NASAA’s Arts and Health Professional Learning Community It’s not too late to get involved in NASAA’s Arts and Health Professional Learning Community (PLC)! The PLC is a professional development opportunity open to all state and jurisdictional arts agency and regional arts organization staff with an interest in advancing arts and health programming in […]
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New Research Reports from the NEA This summer, the National Endowment for the Arts (NEA) published several new research reports, with topics ranging from arts participation trends to U.S. artist employment programs and more. Hidden in Plain Sight: Activating the Arts and Creative Workforce Development at HBCUs explores the ways historically Black colleges and universities […]