Culture & Community in a Time of Crisis: A Special Edition of Culture Track is a new collaboration between LaPlaca Cohen and Slover Linett Audience Research, generously supported by The Wallace Foundation and The Barr Foundation with additional funding from The Terra Foundation for American Art and Art Bridges, along with other partners and collaborators (p.37). The study aims to shed light on how arts and culture organizations can address the hopes, fears, and needs of Americans during and following the COVID-19 pandemic.

This report offers early findings from the first wave of this national survey, fielded from April 29 to May 19, 2020, which became one of the largest arts and culture studies ever undertaken in the U.S. We offer these key insights to the field at a time of urgent need and will release deeper-dive interpretations and implications in late July.