Americans for the Arts

This volume explores how consumption and entertainment change cities. But it reverses the "normal" causal process. That is, many chapters analyze how consumption and entertainment drive urban development, not vice versa.

This update of information in notes #1 and #6, adds data and analysis covering the years 1983 and 1984.

This study, The Status of Nonprofit Arts and Museum Institutions in the in 1976, was designed to profile the major aspects of the cultural industry, including facilities, finances, accessibility, attendance, programs, personnel, problems and plans. Survey data were drawn from information provided by a sample of 1,185 cultural organizations, including opera companies, symphony orchestras, and other music groups, theatre and dance companies and other performing arts presenters; neighborhood and community activities; ethnic and folk culture programs; arts service organizations and councils; art

This study sought to construct an econometric model for analyzing the economic behavior of the non-profit performing arts, as well as to assess the model's data requirements in the context of the NEA's interest in developing an economic data series on art and cultural institutions. Our task was complicated by the poor quality or short-term nature of available data. However, extensive raw data has been collected for a number of years by the American Symphony Orchestra League. By drawing upon the data collected by the ASOL, we believed it possible to come close to obtaining all the variables of

This study has been undertaken in the conviction that the factor of invisible internal erosion can be costed out, that in specific cases dollar figures can be put on activities which a reasonable and balanced scale of operations would require, but which at present are not being set in motion because of immediate budgetary limitations.

Want to know the best ways to disseminate Arts & Economic Prosperity 5 data to businesses in your community? This tool-kit has hard data on the best ways to reach them, along with information on how the arts sector has used the report.

This annotated bibliography focuses on broader issues about the new economy and how to understand it.

In this article we take the position that, current trends aside, the investment strategies that emerged over the last ten years can inform the cultural sector in exciting and innovative ways. We explore three specific financial investment strategies for their potential applicability in the cultural sector.

In this article I look at these new dimensions in charitable giving over the last decade—especially the rise of venture philanthropy—from the vantage point of arts and culture. Venture philanthropy has by passed the arts, but its rhetoric, principles, and priorities present challenges for arts and cultural institutions. Although venture philanthropy is neither as innovative nor as revolutionary as its proponents have claimed, some influential funders now look at philanthropic giving through a different lens and with a changed set of priorities. At the very least, arts and

In this article I review and evaluate recent work that argues for the rising importance of the cultural sector, and creativity in general, in the context of the new economy.

Within the last decade, there has been a surge of scholarship, media commentary and experimentation on what is rather loosely referred to as the “new economy.” In the opening essay of this issue of the Journal of Arts Management, Law, and Society, Kieran Healy describes the major attributes of the “new economy” as the term is being used by philosophers, pundits, and practitioners. He suggests that three defining assumptions drive the “new economy.”

Excerpted from Arts & America: Arts, Culture, and the Future of America’s Communities. This essay looks at changes in the American economy and the workforce and the role the arts may play in positively impacting those changes over the next 10–15 years and beyond. The

The arts and cultural sector is one of Southeastern Pennsylvania’s strongest assets. The 2008 Portfolio examines the vibrancy, value, and vulnerability of the cultural community for civic leaders, policymakers, cultural organizations, and the general public. Two years ago, the first edition of Portfolio was lauded as a landmark study that documented the breadth, diversity, and well-being of Southeastern Pennsylvania’s nonprofit cultural resources.

Paper presented at Second Annual International Conference on Cultural Economics and Planning, sponsored by the Association for Cultural Economics, Mastricht, Holland, May 26-28, 1982.

Paper presented at Second Annual International Conference on Cultural Economics and Planning, sponsored by the Association for Cultural Economics, Mastricht, Holland, May 26-28, 1982.