From the Field
Museums: Leading through Crisis; Legislative Updates The American Alliance of Museums (AAM) has published Reopenings: What Museums Learned Leading through Crisis, an in-depth series of three reports examining the impacts, long-term lessons and practices museums have adopted from handling the COVID-19 pandemic. As the legislative season continues, AAM has reported on Museums Advocacy Day with […]
FY2023 State Arts Agency Revenues Hit New High
NASAA has released its Fiscal Year 2023 State Arts Agency Revenues report, with the latest aggregate and state-specific data. Even considering inflationary pressures, the total legislative appropriations for state arts agencies (SAAs) in FY2023 have surpassed not only the record high points of the early 2000s, but also the all-time high of FY2022. The FY2023 […]
From the Field
Most Vibrant Cities in 2022 SMU DataArts recently released updated data from the Arts Vibrancy Index comparing the level of demand and supply of arts as well as government support across 900 communities in the United States. The index is accompanied by an Arts Vibrancy Map that allows explorers to visualize the data across the […]
From the Research Team
New Arts in Transportation Strategy Sampler NASAA recently released a new Strategy Sampler, Arts in Transportation, exploring the symbiotic relationship between arts and transportation. Arts can enhance all aspects of transportation, from transforming public spaces to enriching the traveler’s experience. The transportation arena provides the community space and opportunity for art. However, initiating and sustaining […]
From the Field
Social Prescription in the United States Tasha L. Golden, et al., have just released the results of their new study, Social Prescription in the US: A pilot evaluation of Mass Cultural Council’s “CultureRx”. The peer reviewed research, published in Frontiers in Public Health, finds that participants in Mass Cultural Council’s CultureRx social prescribing program reported […]
NASAA Resources to Fuel the Season
As states enter legislative sessions this winter, NASAA provides several customized tools to assist with educating legislators and the public about the role of state arts agencies in supporting the powerful, cross-sector impact of arts and creativity. NASAA knows that individual states have an array of strategies to inform the public and elected officials about […]
From the Field
2020 Arts Basic Survey The National Endowment for the Arts has just released the results and analysis from its Arts Basic Survey, which is a short-form version of the Survey of Public Participation in the Arts and is conducted every five years. The accompanying reports find that in the 12 months before the beginning of […]
Leveraging Partnerships in the Arts to Strengthen Public Health
The arts and creativity are increasingly recognized as necessary infrastructure for healthy and prosperous communities, regardless of community size or geography. The evidence backing the value of the arts continues to grow as more states and cities invest in arts based policies as a means to improve community health and well-being. As we presented in […]
From the Field
Chorus Operations Survey SMU DataArts, on behalf of Chorus America, has released its annual Chorus Operations Survey Report for 2022. It covers the staffing and financial health of choruses, with special attention paid to the impact of COVID-19 on choral budgets. This year’s report includes a new section on attendance levels, which consisted mostly of […]
From the Team
Ohio Equity GAP Project In 2022, the Ohio Arts Council (OAC) and NASAA collaborated on the Equitable Grantmaking Assessment Pilot Project—known as the Equity GAP Project. The objective of this initiative was to examine arts funding patterns in Ohio and help OAC work toward its goal of making arts funding opportunities more accessible to all […]