The Survey of Public Participation in the Arts (SPPA) is the nation’s largest, most representative survey of adult patterns of arts participation in the United States. This report presents top?line statistics from the 2017 SPPA about U.S. adults’ participation in arts activities and examines patterns of participation in different art forms and genres. It considers the frequency of people’s arts involvement, the types of venues where such activities occurred, and why these Americans chose to participate.
A Sector in Peril: Philanthropy’s Role in Responding to COVID-19
Arts funders have always held sway over the sector at a disproportionately high level in relation to the amount of funding provided. Suddenly now the influence of philanthropy is arithmetically higher in that its decisions will determine who survives and who doesn’t.
Even with their collective resources foundations do not have anything close to the amount of capital needed to comprehensively meet the needs of the field at this time. Nonetheless, arts funders, working together, can be strategic in defining and deploying the kinds of capital that will provide equitable relief and opportunity to the sector as a whole.
On Adaptive Capacity and Resilience
As a concluding activity to the eight years of national Innovation Labs for the Arts, funded by the Doris Duke Charitable Foundation and the MetLife Foundation, EmcArts convened approximately 50 leaders in the arts whose organizations had taken part in a Lab and found the experience particularly useful in the longer term. These are among the country’s most adaptive practitioners in running arts organizations, so we were able to probe some of the more complex and fundamental questions that the work of adaptive change entails.
Envisioning the Future of Theater for Young Audiences
Recognizing the benefits of theater experiences in developing creative, adept, and resilient young people, the National Endowment for the Arts is releasing Envisioning the Future of Theater for Young Audiences. While the country copes with the ravages of COVID-19 and begins to think about what a post-pandemic world might look like, it is worth considering how best to shape a sustainable future for the field of theater for young audiences (TYA).
This report was prepared in partnership with the national association Theatre for Young Audiences/USA (TYA/USA). It follows a June 2019 meeting convened by the Arts Endowment, TYA/USA, and Theatre Communications Group to tackle some of the structural and societal challenges facing the field and consider ways to overcome those challenges.
Theatre Coronavirus Preparedness and Impact Report — March 2020
On March 13, 2020, one week after TCG conducted a “Coronavirus Preparedness for Theatres” webinar and one day after Broadway theatres went dark as a result of the growing COVID-19 pandemic, TCG launched a snapshot survey of our professional, not-for-profit member theatres to capture information about their preparedness for and early impact of the pandemic. The COVID-19 situation is rapidly developing, and much has changed even in the short time since this survey closed. TCG plans to survey our members regularly over the coming months, as part of our efforts to provide support and resources to our constituents and to advocate with the federal government, funders, and other stakeholders on behalf of the institutions, administrators, technicians, and artists who comprise the diverse theatre field that contributes so much to our country.
State-Level Estimates of the Arts’ Economic Value and Employment (2001-2017)
This profile features state-level estimates of arts and cultural value added, employment, and compensation derived from the Arts and Cultural Production Satellite Account (ACPSA), which is produced jointly by the NEA’s Office of Research & Analysis and the Bureau of Economic Analysis, U.S. Commerce Department. State-level arts and cultural estimates are available for total arts and cultural production, and for the 34 ACPSA industries.
