The study consists of two parts. The first investigates the City Center audience in New York City. The second investigates tour audiences in San Antonio and Houston, Texas and New Orleans, Louisiana, and compares them to the New York audience. Seven weeks before the opening of the Joffrey spring 1976 season at the City Center Theater, the first of the Dance in America programs, which featured the Joffrey company, was broadcast on the PBS television network with support from the Exxon Corporation and the National Endowment for the Arts.

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

This document includes samples of legislation from Arizona, Massachusetts, South Dakota and Shreveport, Louisiana that allows for the arts to benefit from gambling revenues.

The Louisiana Arts Education School Survey was an online survey not mandated by any federal or state governed agency. 51.2% responded that there was no specific budget allocation for arts education.

New Orleans, Louisiana [population: 500,000] is one of the 33 communities, ranging in population from 8,500 to 2.5 million, included in this three year study. The study examined data from 789 nonprofit organizations in order to compile a national average. The study was designed to document nonprofit arts expenditures in a cross section of American communities and demonstrate the economic impact gained from investing in the arts.

Many states have created arts-based economic development strategies to support rural communities across the who are confronting economic development issues.

In addition to the original impetus for the book, there are other reasons for the revision, even though (or perhaps precisely because) the League no longer exists: The Leagues planning and development process was as important as the product, and it has proved replicable. The New Orleans school district, using the first edition of this book as a guide, built its impressive Project Arts Connection on the League model.

A document containing the procedural policy and legislative guidelines for the Commission on the Arts, the Advisory Board to the Commission on the Arts and the Standing Committee for the Slidell Historical Museum.

The author examines tax checkoff legislation in Oregon, Alabama and Louisiana. In simple terms, a tax checkoff for the arts permits the filer of a state income tax from to designate that some portion of the tax refund should be used to fund arts activities or programs. The checkoff is strictly voluntary and although suggested amounts may be indicated on the return, there are no obligations or limitations on contributions. In general, these earmarked funds are set aside by the state department of revenue and are turned over at the end of the tax season to the appropriate recipient arts

The arts in Baton Rouge have arrived and are recognized both for their creative excellence and for their positive influence in economic and cultural renewal. Their power is being felt from downtown redevelopment to small-town Main Street and has allowed people to see themselves and feel good about themselves in the Central Business District, away in residential neighborhoods and across municipal boundaries.

This article details how the New Orleans Musicians' Clinic (founded 1998) has evolved to sustain New Orleans' musicians in mind, body and spirit by developing a unique access point to primary care, preventative health and social services and occupational outreach. Today, the clinic engages many partners, providers and funders at the federal, state and local levels to serve the increasing demand of their more than 2,400 patients.