Over the past four years, more than 56,000 graduates from 239 different high schools, colleges, and universities have participated in this project. The 2012 report focuses on survey findings from the 2011 fall administration. To our knowledge, SNAAP is the single largest database on the educational backgrounds and careers of graduates of arts-intensive training programs. As you’ll see, some of the findings are counter-intuitive in terms of employment rates and satisfaction, results that have been consistent over the years.
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.
Set in Stone: Building America’s New Generation of Arts Facilities
In 2007, just before the domestic economy experienced a major trauma, the Cultural Policy Center at the Harris School and NORC at the University of Chicago launched a national study of cultural building in the United States.
- There was a substantial increase in cultural facilities building, particularly between 1998 and 2001 (i.e., the building boom”).
- Building in the arts grew faster than or on par with building in other sectors, particularly health and education.
- The Southern region saw a huge increase in the total number of cultural facilities during the period studied—significantly greater than other parts of the country.
- Smaller cities with fewer than 500,000 people were building as well, and many of these cities were building for the first time.
Short and Longer Term Effects of Musical Intervention in Severe Alzheimer’s Disease
Abstract:
The researchers examined short and longer term effects of musical and cooking interventions on emotional well-being of severe Alzheimer’s disease (AD) patients. These two pleasurable activities (i.e., listening to music, tasting sweets) that were collectively performed (i.e., playing music together, collaborative preparation of a cake) were compared in two groups of matched patients with AD (N = 14). Each intervention lasted four weeks (two sessions per week) and their effects were regularly assessed up to four weeks after the end of the intervention. We repeatedly evaluated the emotional state of both groups before, during, and after the intervention periods by analyzing discourse content and facial expressions from short filmed interviews as well as caregivers’ judgments of mood.
The results reveal short-term benefits of both music and cooking interventions on emotional state on all these measures, but long-term benefits were only evident after the music intervention. The present finding suggests that non-pharmacological approaches offer promising methods to improve the quality of life of patients with dementia and that music stimulation is particularly effective to produce long lasting effects on patients’ emotional well-being.
Arts Education Field Guide
The Ecosystem of Partners, Players, and Policymakers in the Field of Arts Education — it takes a village to provide a well-rounded education to every child. Use our new tool, The Arts Education Field Guide, to find the connections and partnerships that will strengthen arts education in your community.
Holding a Mirror Up to Nature: Psychological Vulnerability in Actors
For actors, the imaginative psychological process of realizing the life of a character is fundamental. Given this ability, we asked the question, do actors demonstrate increased psychological self-other awareness, including more resolution for past mourning, as compared with a control group?
