Statistics with demographic insights about U.S. adults’ participation across five modes of art activity: attending; reading books and literature; consuming through electronic media; making and sharing; and learning.
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Arts and Crafts Critical to Economic Innovation
Governments, schools, and other nonprofit organizations are engaged in critical budget decisions that may affect our economic development success. The assumption is that arts and crafts are dispensable extras. Research suggests, however, that disposing of arts and crafts may have negative consequences for the country’s ability to produce innovative scientists and engineers who invent patentable products and found new companies.
Nonprofit Explorer: Research Financial Data from Nonprofits
In April 2013, the IRS released structured data culled from the tax returns of almost 616,000 tax-exempt organizations. Use this database to find organizations and see details like their executive compensation, revenue and expenses, as well as download their tax filings going back as far as 2001.
The Connection Between Art, Healing, and Public Health: A Review of Current Literature
This review explores the relationship between engagement with the creative arts and health outcomes, specifically the health effects of music engagement, visual arts therapy, movement-based creative expression, and expressive writing. Although there is evidence that art-based interventions are effective in reducing adverse physiological and psychological outcomes, the extent to which these interventions enhance health status is largely unknown. Our hope is to establish a foundation for continued investigation into this subject and to generate further interest in researching the complexities of engagement with the arts and health.
Taking Note: Why Arts Organizations Should Attend to Government Statistics about Volunteering
If volunteerism is indeed a pathway to employment, then arts organizations, venues, and activities could be hotbeds for this crucial transition.
Craft Emergency Relief Fund Biennial Report
This report, whose theme is “working together to keep artists working,” takes a look at CERF+’s expanded program offerings and increased numbers of artists served during a period of great economic uncertainty. With natural disasters occurring more frequently and often with greater force, CERF+ has taken a lead role in preparedness, which is key to building resilient arts communities around the country.
This report highlights the information, stories, and testimonials that provide a picture of CERF+’s role as one of the nation’s few full-time “arts responders” – providing emergency assistance programs for craft artists, educational resources and training to help all artists be more disaster-ready, and leadership to improve the disaster safety net for artists and organizations that serve them.
