Americans for the Arts

Community Arts Councils, Inc. (CACI) is the ancestor of today’s Americans for the Arts and as we look ahead to our 50th anniversary in 2010, we want to take this occasion to reflect upon effective arts development as we celebrate this movement that has grown from about 400 local arts agencies in 1960 to an estimated 5,000 today.

This report, prepared by the Illinois Arts Alliance, investigates the design, implementation, and funding of arts education policy in ten states.

This report provides statistical data and analysis of resources and challenges impacting the arts and cultural sector in Maricopa County, Arizona along with comparative data of nine other benchmark regions to aid in understanding characteristics that affect arts and culture.

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 is a compilation of several studies within North Carolina.

This document includes samples of percent for art ordinances from Atlanta, Georgia; Charlotte, North Carolina; King County, Washington; Los Angeles, California; Oklahoma City, Oklahoma; Philadelphia, Pennsylvania; Phoenix, Arizona; Portland, Oregon; San Jose, California; and Tampa, Florida.

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

In this report, the third of the Charlotte/Mecklenburgs third Cultural Action plan, the team of planners set forth a series of recommendations to expand and enhance the communitys cultural system. The results are grouped into seven major focus areas, all designed to secure high public participation in cultural activities.

Dissertation study of an improvisational theatre program and its impact on character education in elementary school students.

Arts and Sciences in the Charlotte Economy is a study that analyzed the economic impact of spending by nonprofit cultural organizations in Charlotte in 1994. The most comprehensive of its kind ever conducted, this report brings compelling new evidence that the nonprofit arts and sciences are a significant industry in Charlotte, supporting jobs and stimulating the local economy.

Adopted by the town council on October 11, 2001, this master plan, Art of the Triangle, was developed as a mechanism for directing the implementation of public artworks in Cary, North Carolina over the next five years.

Small and rural communities across the country continue to face drastic population shifts and economic upheaval. Many efforts are underway in these areas to create and implement economic revitalization strategies. In analyzing resources, strengths, and needs, communities are increasingly seeing the potential of their existing creative economies ﾝsectors of the economy that include arts, culture and heritage organizations, businesses, and workers ﾝas strong revenue, employment, and quality of life generators, or "creative industries."

The concept of an Arts Magnet School - a strategy that incorporates the disciplines of basic education with intensive training in art, music, dance and theater - is certainly not a Charlotte, North Carolina, invention. They are all over the country - Washington, D.C., Cincinnati, Dallas, Milwaukee, Ft. Lauderdale, even the South Bronx.

The author, a member of the State legislature of North Carolina, discusses educational reforms in North Carolina.