Part of the Americans for the Arts Artists & Communities conversation series that pairs veteran community arts leaders with emerging community arts leaders to share their visions for, experiences with, and challenges to making healthy, equitable, vibrant communities through arts and culture. As community-based work receives more recognition, and intersections and collaborations become stronger, these conversations illuminate just how artists and community arts leaders can work to sustain and maintain healthy communities through their practice.

This report outlines the successes of the San Francisco Youth Symphony's programming and highlights several statistics from their second phase. 

Part of the Americans for the Arts Artists & Communities conversation series that pairs veteran community arts leaders with emerging community arts leaders to share

Three geographically-related symphony orchestras are evaluated based on their financial stability, marketing techniques, and sensitivity to socioeconomic conditions of their respective communities. This study concludes that the viability of symphony orchestras is largely due to all three of these components of arts business and administration. 

In a blog post, Who Will Be the Next Arts Revolutionary?, Createquity outlines the story of how the nonprofit arts sector got started to offer would-be change makers some clues. Included in the post were two infographics that illustrated growth points in the art nonprofit sector. The two infographics are The Boom in U.S. Nonprofits and Continued Growth of Arts Nonprofits 1995-2015. Read the

This report is an in-depth look at the perceptions and attitudes about the arts in the United States. An Americans for the Arts and Ipsos Public Affairs survey of more than 3,000 American adults over the age of 18 in December 2015, provides current insight on topics including support for arts education and government arts funding, personal engagement in the arts, the personal benefits and well-being that come from engaging in the arts, and if/how those benefits extend more broadly to the community.

The market for symphony orchestras and universities is closely examined by assessing the behavior of Yougstown State Univeristy students and their consumption of the art form. The study investigates factors that may influence Youngstown State University students in their consumption, such as poor marketing of events, alternative forms of entertainment, and high ticket prices.

College Match Up created this infographic to suggest music careers for people with given personality traits who are deciding their direction for an college education.

In this review of their 2014/15 season, Pacific Northwest Ballet (PNB) shares objectives, strategies, outcomes and future goals for Discover Dance, a public school education program that reaches over 800 1st-8th grade students in and around Seattle.

In this e-book, Making Space: Lessons on Artistic Intervention in Uncommon Places, you’ll find the examples from three organizations whose artistic interventions have worked with uncommon sites to create unique, engaging, and transformative experiences with their audiences.