Arts on Prescription Field Guide Mass Cultural Council, The Center for Arts in Medicine and Tasha Golden have released the Arts on Prescription Field Guide. The guide offers a roadmap for communities and organizations interested in generating their own arts and health partnerships and enhancing efforts to establish cross-sector partnerships. The guide shares foundational information and…
NASAA Legislative Tracking and State Legislative Roundup Each year, as part of NASAA’s efforts to understand cultural policy trends and legislative actions affecting state arts agencies, we track relevant state legislation. Over half of state legislatures have finished their regular sessions and have adjourned until the next session. Policymakers debated hundreds of bills with implications…
2022 Theatre Salary Survey Theatre Communications Group (TCG) has released the results from its annual salary survey of theatres. The 2022 TCG Salary Survey examines personnel compensation by collecting data from 158 theatres whose annual budgets ranged from $160,000 to $60 million and had an average annual operating expense of $6.1 million. Aggregate salary data…
During recent speaking engagements at the Cities Summit of the Americas, the California Arts & Culture Summit and a Pennsylvania Council for the Arts webinar, I’ve highlighted data from the Arts and Cultural Production Satellite Account and discussed the ongoing need to articulate the contributions of the arts to state economies. The National Endowment for…
Local Arts Agency Funding and Arts Vibrancy SMU Data Arts has published Local Arts Agency Funding and Arts Vibrancy, which details the positive impact local arts agencies (LAAs) have on arts communities. SMU Data Arts suggests that local governments often do not see the value that LAAs add to the local arts scene and are…
Updated Research Tool: State Creative Economy Studies NASAA has completed its annual survey of economic studies for the Interactive Database of State Creative Economy Studies. This database, produced in cooperation with the National Endowment for the Arts, is a curated collection of the creative economy studies that state arts agencies use to measure the economic…
State of the Arts in Texas Texas Cultural Trust has just published its 2023 State of the Arts Report. This biennial report offers insights on the power of arts and culture to improve educational, economic and health outcomes. The study uses a combination of statewide and national studies accompanied by examples of arts and culture…
New Profiles of States’ Creative Economies NASAA’s Creative Economy State Profiles have been freshly updated with new arts and cultural production data. Produced in cooperation with the National Endowment for the Arts (NEA), the interactive dashboard visualizes details about the creative economy in all 50 states and the District of Columbia. This update features data…
Museums: Leading through Crisis; Legislative Updates The American Alliance of Museums (AAM) has published Reopenings: What Museums Learned Leading through Crisis, an in-depth series of three reports examining the impacts, long-term lessons and practices museums have adopted from handling the COVID-19 pandemic. As the legislative season continues, AAM has reported on Museums Advocacy Day with…
NASAA has released its Fiscal Year 2023 State Arts Agency Revenues report, with the latest aggregate and state-specific data. Even considering inflationary pressures, the total legislative appropriations for state arts agencies (SAAs) in FY2023 have surpassed not only the record high points of the early 2000s, but also the all-time high of FY2022. The FY2023…
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