This study explores transportation challenges and seeks to identify how arts and culture can contribute to solutions.
Civic Engagement/Community Development
Building Healthy Communities: Approaching Community Health Through Heritage and Culture in Boyle Heights
A collaboration between ACTA and The California Endowment’s Building Healthy Communities Initiative, Building Healthy Communities: Approaching Community Health Through Heritage and Culture in Boyle Heights is one in a series of papers exploring connections between traditional arts and cultural practices and community well-being, as well as social change processes.
Written by Dr. Maria Rosario Jackson, Citlalli Chávez, this report is intended for anyone interested in better understanding how heritage-based arts practices can contribute to community empowerment, comprehensive neighborhood revitalization and better health outcomes, ACTA’s 32-page case study examines the Engaging Cultural Assets Pilot Project from 2011 through the fall of 2015 in Boyle Heights, a vibrant neighborhood in Los Angeles, full of challenges, assets and opportunities.
Rural Arts, Design, and Innovation in America
This report stemmed from a research collaboration with the Economic Research Service at the U.S. Department of Agriculture. It analyzes data from the Rural Establishment Innovation Survey to quantify relationships among arts organizations, design-integrated firms, and business innovators in rural settings. 14 pp.
Arts Alumni in Their Communities
This research, based on a national survey of arts graduates, demonstrates that arts majors — whether they went on to work in the arts or not — continue to make art, teach, manage, volunteer, attend events and donate to the arts in their local communities.
At What Cost? How Distance Influences Arts Attendance
This report explores the extent to which distance is relevant in the decision to attend the arts.
What Are the Paradigm Shifts Necessary for the Arts Sector to Nurture Thriving Institutions of Color?
Is the desire for organizations to “maintain [their]
own viability” or be “able to be supported with the basic necessities or sufficient funds”?
Yancey Consulting found that sustainability is the start but not the end. More viable operating conditions are irrefutably desired, but organizations ultimately aspire to thrive
[“flourish,” “prosper,” and “grow vigorously”].
So, for the context of this report, our findings and analyses for moving toward sustainability are intended as critical steps in creating a more equitable environment for historically disinvested arts and culture organizations to thrive.
