Increasingly, state arts agencies are pursuing place-based creative economic development strategies in the form of cultural district policies.
State Arts Agencies
Supplemental Funding Strategies
This policy brief, updated with FY2013 revenue data, considers the various strategies and mechanisms for funding state arts agencies beyond general fund dollars.
Equal Opportunity Data Mining: National Statistics about Working Artists
What do we know about the 2.1 million artists in the United States’ labor force? To help answer that question, the NEA released “Equal Opportunity Data Mining: National Statistics about Working Artists.” This new online research tool offers 70 searchable tables with figures on working artists by state and metropolitan area, by demographic information (including race and ethnicity, age, gender, and disability status), and by residence and workplace. The public is welcome to investigate the tables, a map of state-level rankings, and links to original sources. SEE PRESS RELEASE
How Art Works – Public Forum and Report
On September 20, 2012, the National Endowment for the Arts released a new report, based on research commissioned from the Monitor Institute, entitled How Art Works. Built upon a wide-ranging literature review, and extensive interviews, workshops, webinars, and exchanges with arts leaders, community leaders, thought leaders, and policy makers around the country, the report suggests a framework and a “system map” to guide research, policy, and strategy for the agency.
A public forum, hosted by the Arts Management program at American University, explored this new report, its implications for the NEA’s strategy and research, and its resonance or potential for the larger fields of arts, culture, heritage, and humanities. The forum sessions are archived on this main site with the links to the PDF report.
Handbook for State Arts Agencies & Regional Arts Organizations
This handbook is designed to provide state and regional partners with easy access to information about applying for and carrying out NEA Partnership Agreement grants. We have consolidated and expanded upon selected information from several locations on the NEA website, with the goal of addressing the questions we most frequently receive from the field.
We hope that the information presented provides context and understanding for new agency staff and serves as a refresher for existing staff. The information provided is by no means exhaustive. It is designed to highlight aspects of Partnership Agreements that are deserving of special attention. Thus, we also included links to the locations where the complete and official information resides on the NEA website.
State Arts Agency Fiscal Year 2013 Legislative Appropriations Preview
NASAA is pleased to announce the release of the State Arts Agency Fiscal Year 2013 Legislative Appropriations Preview report. This document summarizes how state arts agencies fared during this year’s budget deliberations and includes information on the appropriations each state arts agency expects to receive for FY2013.
