This report provides a forecast of state government funding for the arts in the year ahead, as budgets for fiscal year 2018 are being enacted and national funding trends are beginning to emerge.
State Arts Agencies
Facing Controversy: Arts Issues and Crisis Communications
A paper addressing the criticisms of state legislators and activists toward state arts agencies and public spending on the arts.
Education Leaders Institute Alumni Summit Report
Over the course of five years, the NEA brought together teams from 29 states to collaborate on ways to strengthen states’ arts education policies. The Education Leaders Institute Alumni Summit Report shares the significant findings of what the NEA, its partners, and eight participating alumni states learned together and how it informed the NEA’s arts education strategic plan.
State Arts Agencies’ Supplemental Funding Strategies
This policy brief provides a short overview of the array of the public and private strategies, beyond general fund dollars, currently in use for funding SAAs, as well as tips for states considering similar policies in the future.
‘Percent for Art’ Policy Brief
State percent for art policies are mechanisms for enhancing the built environment and for making public spaces more appealing, useful or accessible through the incorporation of artworks. With these policies, legislatively created in almost all cases, a small portion of the budget for construction or renovation of state buildings is set aside for the purchase, installation and/or maintenance of public artwork, which is usually installed on the grounds of the capital project.
State Arts Agency Grant Making and Funding Report
Each of America’s 50 states and six jurisdictions has a government agency that works to make the cultural, civic, economic and educational benefits of the arts available to all communities. Through services and grant making, state arts agencies increase citizen access to the arts and help each state to recognize, cultivate and promote its unique creative assets.
