Today we are providing a one-week update and sharing information collected through April 25th. The data quantifies the US adult public’s intentions to visit 84 unique cultural organizations within the United States – from art museums and aquariums to theaters to symphonies. This is our fifth weekly update of this metric. For the week ranging from April 19-25, the data and analysis summarized below represent an additional sample of 2,112 adults.
Economic Impact
State-Level Estimates of the Arts’ Economic Value and Employment (2001-2017)
This profile features state-level estimates of arts and cultural value added, employment, and compensation derived from the Arts and Cultural Production Satellite Account (ACPSA), which is produced jointly by the NEA’s Office of Research & Analysis and the Bureau of Economic Analysis, U.S. Commerce Department. State-level arts and cultural estimates are available for total arts and cultural production, and for the 34 ACPSA industries.
The U.S. Arts and Cultural Production Satellite Account (1998-2017)
The subject of this profile is the arts economy. It is based on the Arts and Cultural Production Satellite Account (ACPSA), which is produced jointly by the National Endowment for the Arts’ Office of Research & Analysis and the Bureau of Economic Analysis, U.S. Commerce Department. Among other data, the ACPSA reveals the size of the arts and cultural sector and its contributions to the U.S. economy, the number of workers employed by those industries and their compensation figures, consumer expenditures on arts and culture, and import/export activity.
Defining and Measuring Gig Work
This report defines what constitutes gig work and provides an overview of the gig economy, in which many artists participate. Comparing the gig workforce’s size relative to the rest of the labor force, the policy brief found that 3 in 10 workers participated in gig work over the past month, and more than a third of the U.S. workforce freelances at least part time. The brief provides a useful benchmark for future research on gig workers and a baseline to see how the gig economy will change following the COVID-19 crisis.
A Sector in Peril: Philanthropy’s Role in Responding to COVID-19
Arts funders have always held sway over the sector at a disproportionately high level in relation to the amount of funding provided. Suddenly now the influence of philanthropy is arithmetically higher in that its decisions will determine who survives and who doesn’t.
Even with their collective resources foundations do not have anything close to the amount of capital needed to comprehensively meet the needs of the field at this time. Nonetheless, arts funders, working together, can be strategic in defining and deploying the kinds of capital that will provide equitable relief and opportunity to the sector as a whole.
The Arts, Bohemian scenes, and Income
Where and how does arts activity drive neighborhood revitalization? We explore the impact of arts establishments on income in US zip codes, nationally and across quantiles (from four to seven subgroups) of zip codes stratified by disadvantage (based on income and ethnicity/race). We focus on what is new here: how neighborhood scenes or the mixes of amenities mediate relationships between the arts and income.
