This article provides an overview of BEA satellite accounts. It discusses source data and methodology for the arts and cultural production satellite account, offers a look at its statistics for specific industries, and notes some important next steps.
Creative Freelancers
The Creative Industries Federation surveyed around 700 creative freelancers and spoke to 50 businesses, alongside legal specialists, financial advisors and trade bodies, seeking recommendations to improve the working lives of the creative freelancer workforce. This report looks at what government can do to support the creative freelance economy.
Some of the recommendations in this report cover
policies where freelancers were not considered when
that policy was designed, such as higher education
policy or the need for freelance visas. Other concerns
common across all sub-sectors of the creative industries
included accessing legal advice, financial support and
workspace.
Creative Placemaking Case Study: Brookland-Edgewood
This case study illustrates how Creative Placemaking, the deliberate integration of arts and culture into comprehensive community development, can serve as a critical catalyst in forming equitable living and working solutions for all the social, economic, and racial constituencies of a neighborhood. It also shows how Creative Placemaking depends on collaboration across several different sectors, each with different goals, mind-sets, work styles, and skills.
In the Brookland-Edgewood case, the multi-sector network of stakeholders included a forward-thinking government agency, a visionary nonprofit, a private developer, and the existing residents of a disadvantaged neighborhood.
State of the Field: A Report from the Documentary Sustainability Summit
Released in partnership with the International Documentary Association (IDA), this report explores issues facing the documentary film community, with a goal of articulating tangible, actionable strategies and initiatives to positively impact the field and contribute to a sustainable and healthy ecosystem for documentary professionals. The report highlights key findings and recommendations from the February 2017 Documentary Sustainability Summit, a convening that brought together 80 filmmakers, producers, distributors, film festival representatives, funders, and other stakeholders in the documentary community, as well as leaders from federal, state, and local government agencies. Reflecting conversations held at the summit, the report provides a comprehensive overview of sustainability challenges, alongside case studies and additional resources, to further forward this field-wide discussion on a national level. 44 pp.
Strengthening the Bones: A Report and Follow-Up on the National Native Arts Convening held November 4 and 5, 2011
Report issued in 2012 on the first national gathering of Native arts and cultures stakeholders convened by the Native Arts and Cultures Foundation in 2011.
State Arts Agency Legislative Appropriations Preview
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.
