2025 State Legislative Roundup NASAA has released its 2025 State Legislative Roundup, the latest in its annual review of state legislation important to state arts agencies and the arts community. This report—which includes 127 bills curated from over 1,000 we reviewed—is designed to help arts leaders stay current on legislation and ultimately advance policy that…
Studies Highlight the Current State of Museums Two new studies explore different challenges currently faced by museums. In a report examining the physical conditions of museum facilities—Museum Facilities: Deferred Maintenance Persists and Costs to Repair Are Unknown—the U.S. Government Accountability Office (GAO) conducted a survey using a representative sample of museums in 50 states and…
Podcast Series on the State of the Theatre Field The Bridge: Building Toward re(New)ed Theatre Audiences is a new nine-episode podcast series from Theatre Communications Group (TCG) and supported by the Wallace Foundation. The series explores how theatres are reimagining audience engagement in response to ongoing challenges in the field. Drawing on insights from TCG’s…
New Arts and Health Fact Sheet and Infographic As part of our work on arts and health, NASAA is releasing a new fact sheet, Arts and Health: Evidence for the Arts Strengthening Health Outcomes, and an infographic, How Arts Participation Transforms Health. Found on our recently updated Arts and Health web page, the fact sheet…
FY2026 State Arts Agency Revenues NASAA’s newly released Fiscal Year 2026 State Arts Agency Revenues report presents the funding landscape across state and jurisdictional arts agencies nationwide. Legislative appropriations totaled $646 million in FY2026, about a 6% decrease from the previous year—a shift that reflects budgetary adjustments in several large-budget states. Nevertheless, there is considerable…
New Policy Brief Makes the Case for Creative Aging Lifetime Arts has released a new policy brief, Creative Aging in the Healthy Aging Ecosystem, demonstrating the importance of incorporating creative aging into the general healthy-aging policy landscape. As outlined in the brief, with the population of older adults in the United States significantly increasing, policy…
Explore Updated Facts on SAA Grant Making NASAA’s updated grant making facts are now available, offering an in-depth look at how state and jurisdictional arts agencies (SAAs) invest public dollars to strengthen arts ecosystems nationwide. Drawing on fiscal year 2024 data and 5- to 10-year trends (FY2015-2024), these resources illustrate funding patterns across key areas…
New Theatre Worker Survey Theatre Communications Group’s recent report, Heart, Hustle, Survival: A Survey for Theatre Workers, provides critical, field-informed data on the economic realities facing theatre artists and workers—insights highly relevant to state arts agencies and public arts funders. Based on a survey of 188 primarily New York City based theatre workers, the report…
NASAA Answers Your Questions As part of NASAA’s service to state and jurisdictional arts agencies (SAAs) and the greater arts and culture field, NASAA responds to requests for information on a wide variety of arts, culture and policy topics. In fiscal year 2025, NASAA staff fulfilled 677 of these information requestsM from SAAs, partners and…
Does Distance Affect Attendance? In a new report from the Wallace Foundation, Proximity and Performing Arts Attendance, researchers examined if an audience member’s distance from a performing arts venue affects whether or not they will attend a live event. To do so, the research team lead three major data collection efforts between 2015 and 2022…
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