NASAA’s State Policy Brief on Dedicated Revenue Strategies shows how states use a variety of funding sources to support the arts. Dedicated revenue for state arts agencies can come from special taxes, gaming taxes and fees, license plate purchases, tax checkoffs, bonds and cultural trusts. Although dedicated revenues increased over the past decade, state general…
NASAA has published the latest edition of its annual State Arts Agency Grant Making and Funding report, which summarizes statistical data that NASAA aggregates through its state arts agency (SAA) revenues surveys and from SAAs’ Final Descriptive Reports. The new report highlights data from fiscal year 2017 (the most recent available) reflecting the total number of…
For more than 10 years, the State to State column in NASAA Notes—which highlights innovative and impactful policies, programs and partnerships of state arts agencies and regional arts organizations around the country—has been a wellspring of inspiration. With the recent launch of NASAA’s State to State Article Archive, however, it now is also the basis…
States measure their creative economies and unique cultural assets through a variety of methods. NASAA has created the Interactive Database of State Creative Economy Studies (IDSCES) to showcase the wide-ranging approaches to the creative economy that states have used across the country. Drawing on 98 unique, publicly available creative economy studies conducted in 45 states,…
Part of NASAA’s suite of programmatic research resources is its Grant Programs Database. Recently updated to reflect FY2018 and (where available) FY2019 guidelines, the database is a powerful tool for analyzing state arts agencies’ grant programs and surfacing replicable examples and best practices for NASAA members. The database includes more than 500 specific programs from…
NASAA launched the Creative Economy State Profiles last month. You may have seen our announcement or social media posts about all the rich data now available for every state. Produced in cooperation with the National Endowment for the Arts (NEA), this interactive dashboard visualizes details about the creative economy in all 50 states and the…
State arts agency grant-making data, as provided to NASAA through Final Descriptive Reports, are an important source for describing ways in which state arts agencies serve the public. Updated periodically, NASAA’s Grant Making data provides key facts on state arts agency grant-making functions, including: General Operating Support Support for Individual Artists Support for Arts Education…
NASAA is pleased to announce the release of State Arts Agency Revenues, Fiscal Year 2018. The release contains a new series of interactive dashboards to explore FY2018 appropriations and revenue data. View per capita appropriations for every state and jurisdiction and drill down into the series to discover top-line appropriation figures, trends over time, funding…
NASAA’s interactive Grant-Making Explorer is a useful tool for demonstrating the scope of public funding for the arts. Based on data from state arts agencies’ Final Descriptive Reports, the explorer illustrates grant-making trends over a 10-year period (fiscal years 2007-2016) for each state and for the nation as a whole. One dynamic chart focuses on…
Folk and traditional arts receive significant investment from state arts agencies due to their cultural, educational and economic importance. As a new way to communicate state arts agency support of folk and traditional arts, this interactive dashboard, State Arts Agency Support for Folk Arts looks at current and long-term support of this important discipline. This…
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