Americans for the Arts

Commissioned by the Mayor of the City of New York, this report will be of wide interest everywhere. It presents a detailed picture of how the city will change between mow and the end of the century and how the city government can prepare itself to meet those changes. Among the subjects covered are education, poverty and dependency, ethnic mix, crime, decline of manufacturing, housing, transportation, development of the waterfront, garbage disposal, parks, water supply, tax structure, and health care.

Colleges are an important part of the creative sector. We offer what is all too rare: employment for artists, scientists, and other innovative thinkers in various disciplines; spaces to develop new work; and environments that ideally allow students and faculty members to experiment, take risks, and learn from their failures. But are our institutions playing the role that they should in helping to build the creative economy?

Cities and States Get on the Creativity Train is the third in a series of nine articles on the Creative Economy.

Chicago's Millennium Park is a case study in how to create demand for downtown services and real estate.

Chicago: Arts & Commerce - A Dynamic 21st Century Economy is the fifth in a series of nine articles on the Creative Economy.

Case study of the Americana Project, a creative music education program in Sisters Oregon, mixing Americana music, story telling, and songwriting. A study of social capital, inter-generational connection, asset-based community development, and rural community-building.

Canadian book exports are important to Canada, not only commercially, but also culturally and diplomatically. In successfully exporting its cultural wares, such as books, Canada enhances its image abroad by being seen as a sophisticated country with distinct cultures. Clearly, then, the industry and the government must work together to improve Canada's lacklustre performance in book exports by developing an aggressive strategy to simulate Canadian book and rights sales abroad.

Based on data from the U. S. Department of Commerce's Bureau of Economic Analysis, consumer expenditures for admissions to performing arts events in 1991 amounted to $4.7 billion, or 0.3% less than in 1990. Even at this level expenditures for performing arts surpassed that of motion pictures for the third consecutive year. Contrary to 1990, the performing arts figure fell below spectator sports in 1991. Performing arts admission receipts totaled $4.7 billion in 1991, while admissions receipts for motion picture theatres stood at $3.7 billion (or $0.2 below the 1990 level) and admissions to

As nonprofit organizations, art museums are exempt from federal income tax in the . This exemption does not mean that tax rules have no effect on museums, however. Far from it. The various tax instruments affect art museums indirectly but dramatically. They change the incentives of individuals and corporations to make donations of art, they change the relative cost of raising capital for museum projects, and they change the incentives of museums to make passive investments in securities rather than active investments in unrelated businesses.

Arts and culture not only attract creative workers but also have a positive impact on the community. Researcher a the University of Pennsylvania's Social Impact of the Arts Project found that the presence of art and culture offering in a neighborhood has a measurable impact on the strength of the community. (p.1).

Arlington County, Va., has successfully developed a new way of working in this changing climate: the arts incubator. This new model of support is infinitely adaptable and transferable to any community interested in expanding its arts presence despite limited resources.

An updated of information contained in Research Division Note #1, providing both data for 1982 and certain revisions for 1979, 1980 and 1981.

An update of information on the arts in the GNP that takes into account the introduction of a new input/output model of the U.S. economy. New estimates are provided for 1985 and the estimates for 1982-84 are updated utilizing the new model as well as more up to date data.

An analysis of the Philadelphia cultural sector generated by the Greater Philadelphia Cultural Alliance published by the Pew Charitable Trusts and the William Penn Foundation. The report reviews data from 218 organizations and finds that the art and cultural sector provides 14,000 jobs and more than 12 million visits to the area annually. Findings also indicate that the portion of the cultural sector with the greatest need for financial investment are smaller and emerging organizations.

Americans by the millions are turning to aesthetics and the arts, not only as new areas of interest but also as favored symbols of status. This trend will have two major effects: art markets will be directly stimulated, and business firms of all types will exploit the awareness of aesthetics to improve public relations and promote sales