From the Field
State Level Transportation Artist in Residence Programs Smart Growth America released the report Transportation Artists in Residence: A Landscape of an Emerging Field (TAIR), authored by CAIR Lab. The report covers findings from examining artist-in-residence programs in state transportation agencies in conjunction with leaders of the Minnesota and Washington State departments of transportation (DOT). The […]
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2023 State Legislative Roundup NASAA has released its 2023 State Legislative Roundup, the latest in its annual review of state legislation important to state arts agencies and the arts community. As legislatures grapple with slowing revenue growth and the winding down of federal COVID-19 pandemic aid, NASAA continued to track bills affecting the spectrum of […]
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Impact of Federal Relief Funding for Arts and Culture A new study, Following the Funding: Distribution of Federal COVID-19 Relief Funds for the Arts and Culture Sector, conducted by SMU DataArts, presents a comprehensive analysis of the distribution of the unprecedented $53 billion in federal relief funding across four key programs—Paycheck Protection Program; Shuttered Venue […]
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NASAA Answers Your Questions As part of NASAA’s service to state arts agencies and the greater arts and cultural field, NASAA responds to requests for information on a wide variety of arts, culture and economic topics. In fiscal year 2023, NASAA staff fulfilled nearly 270 of these information requests from state and jurisdictional arts agencies […]
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Nonprofit Data Source and Research Tool Candid provides free demographic data, alongside other for-cost data sets, on nonprofit organizations’ board and staff. The demographic data set currently contains over 62,000 nonprofits, with 1,000 of the organizations updating their profiles with new data each month. More information on tapping into Candid’s demographic data can be found […]
New and Updated Grant Making Fact Sheets
NASAA has published a series of grant making fact sheets that provide a comprehensive overview of state arts agency (SAA) grant making in specific areas of interest. In addition to our current collection, four new fact sheets further enhance understanding of states’ public funding for the arts. Social Vulnerability Percentage below Poverty Grants by Organizational […]
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Evolving Museum Practice: Repatriation, Restitution, Reparations The American Alliance of Museums (AAM) is launching a project aimed at addressing evolving values regarding the ownership and control of museum collections, titled, The Next Horizon of Museum Practice: Voluntary Repatriation, Restitution, and Reparations. AAM has released a paper that introduces the framework and sets the stage for […]
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2023 Grants Database Update NASAA’s Grant Programs Database has been updated to reflect FY2023 and FY2024 (where available) guidelines. Part of our suite of programmatic research resources, the database is a powerful tool for analyzing state arts agencies’ grant programs and providing replicable examples and best practices for NASAA members. The database includes more than […]
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National Arts Participation Surveys The National Endowment for the Arts has published two analyses of the survey measuring arts participation during the pandemic. Arts Participation Patterns in 2022: Highlights from the Survey of Public Participation in the Arts and Online Audiences for Arts Programming: A Survey of Virtual Participation amid COVID-19 examine arts participation in-person […]
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Updates to State Arts Agency Artist Fellowships Strategy Sampler NASAA has just released an update to the State Arts Agency Artist Fellowships Strategy Sampler. The updated strategy sampler draws on fiscal year 2020 Final Descriptive Report data and grant guidelines collected in 2022 to provide comparisons among 32 state arts agency (SAA) fellowship programs, with […]