In this study the effect of long-term physical and musical activity on spatial cognitive performance, measured by mental rotation performance, is investigated in detail. Mental rotation performance is the ability to rotate a three-dimensional object using the imagination. Three groups, each consisting of 40 students, and divided by the subjects, music, sports, and education, solved a psycho-metrical mental rotation task with three-dimensional block figures. According to Adrian, The results showed a better mental rotation performance for music and sports students compared to the education students. Furthermore, the well-known gender difference favoring males was found for both sports and education student,s but not for music students.
Weaving Traditional Arts Into the Fabric of Community Health
Aware of mounting evidence that community-based arts may positively impact health and well-being, ACTA commissioned studies by UC Davis’s Center for Reducing Health Disparities and the Asian American Center on Disparities Research to formally investigate health effects and other outcomes experienced by participants in two representative programs. ACTA’s Living Cultures Grants Program funds nonprofit organizations to support exemplary projects in traditional arts in California; the Apprenticeship Program encourages the continuation of the state’s traditional arts and cultures by contracting master artists to offer intensive, one-on-one training to qualified apprentices. Weaving Traditional Arts into the Fabric of Community Health presents the UC Davis findings with an overview of selected research in the emerging field of arts-for-health, as well as scholarly references and a selection of global resources in the fields of traditional and folk arts and arts-for-health.
Legislative Appropriations Annual Survey, Fiscal Year 2012
The National Assembly of State Arts Agencies (NASAA) surveys state arts agencies twice yearly for updated appropriations and budget information. This report includes 2012 appropriations, other state arts agency revenue sources, trends over time, and per capita funding information. Non-NASAA members may purchase the full report.
Still Kicking: Aging Performing Artists in NYC and LA Metro Areas
Aging performing artists, whose diverse work includes acting, directing, choreography, and music performance and spans over seven decades, share with RCAC how they are “Still Kicking.”
How Dance Audiences Engage: Summary Report from a National Survey of Dance Audiences
This study was commissioned by Dance/USA as part of the “Engaging Dance Audiences” (EDA) initiative, a grant program focused on research and development of audience engagement practices in the dance field; the goal of the study was to assess how dance patrons “engage” with the art form, and specifically what kinds of educational or enrichment program and activities they do, or would like to do more often.
Arts and the GDP: Value Added by Selected Cultural Industries
Cultural industries are economic powerhouses and states have the data to prove it, according to a new analysis from the National Endowment for the Arts. Drawing on data from the Bureau of Economic Analysis, Arts and the GDP: Value Added by Selected Cultural Industries is a new NEA research note that examines the value added by three selected cultural industries: (1) performing arts, sports, and museums; (2) motion pictures and sound recording; and (3) publishing (including software).
Combined, these three cultural industries contributed a total of $278.4 billion to the U.S. economy in 2009. The NEA research note also looks at dollars and jobs added to individual state economies by these cultural industries.
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