Americans for the Arts

This report traces the history, theoretical underpinnings, values, and methods of community cultural development practice, emphasizing its effectiveness as a response to the social and economic forces that weaken cultural ties, and offers recommendations to strengthen and support the field.

This report presents the results of a benchmarking study conducted for the Maricopa Regional Task Force on Arts and Culture Force (representing Maricopa County, Arizona) to compare the approach being taken to support investment in arts and culture in nine peer and competitor regions.

This report presents the outcomes of two UNESCO-sponsored conferences: Asian Regional Symposia on Arts Education, Measuring the Impact of Arts in Education, Hong Kong SAR, China (9-11 January 2004) and Transmissions and Transformations: Learning Through the Arts in Asia New Delhi, India (21-24 March 2005). Artists, educators, policy makers and experts in art and culture from across Asia prepared the papers for this report. The report argues that there is increasing evidence that the benefits of art education are multiplied when the arts are used instrumentally in education. It recommends the

This report is based on a two-and-a-half-day workshop held from the 24th to the 26th of June 2001 at UNESCO headquarters in Paris. The topic of the workshop was Research in the Arts and Cultural Industries in the U.S. and in Europe.

This report highlights findings from Arts in the Local Economy conducted by the National Assembly of Local Arts Agencies. This three-year study focuses on 33 communities ranging in population from 8,500 to 2.5 million. The study examined data from 789 nonprofit organizations in order to compile a national average.

This report defines and analyzes Louisianas cultural economy and recommends strategies through which it can be developed.

This Monograph offers an overview of the field for people new to public art and reports on results from the first-ever survey of the Publica Art Network of Americans for the Arts.

This paper provides a close reading of "Flow City," an ecological public art installation by Mierle Laderman Ukeles in the Fresh Kills landsfill site, New York City.

This paper focuses on the cultural future of small cities and on how cultural and arts organizations work together (or fail to work together) in a small city setting.

This paper explores and discusses the fairly recent phenomenon of cultural clustering strategies in the Netherlands.

This paper critically reviews claims that public art helps develop senses of identity and senses of place, contributes to civic identy, addresses community needs, etc., and provides theoretical critiques of public art's contributions to urban regeneration.

This monograph explores the entire funding network and details how the financial system in the fosters artistic creativity and preserves artistic traditions.

This handbook suggests strategies for improving an organizations ability for increasing arts and cultural participation in their community.

This groundbreaking report shows that New York's vast creative sector, from arts organizations to ad agencies, is one of the city's most important, and least understood, economic assets.

This groundbreaking report by the Center details how arts & culture is fueling economic growth in New York City neighborhoods. (Publishers description)