SEARCH RESULTS FOR ADVOCACY IN AMERICANS FOR THE ARTS ARCHIVE : 252 ITEMS FOUND

Author(s): Cohen, Randy
Date of Publication: 2019

NEA Appropriations History from Fiscal Years 1966 to 2019

Author(s): Cohen, Randy
Date of Publication: Mar 14, 2019

Local government funding to their Local Arts Agencies is expected to remain steady in 2019, with an estimated $860 million in funding. 

State legislative arts appropriations are expected to increase slightly, from $353.2 million in FY2018 to $360.5 million in FY2019.

Federal appropriations to the National Endowment for the Arts (NEA) increased to $155 million in 2019.

Author(s): Cohen, Randy
Date of Publication: Mar 14, 2019

The United States has exported more arts and cultural goods and services than it imported since 2006, including during the Great Recession. In 2015, the arts netted a $21-billion-dollar trade surplus.

Author(s): Cohen, Randy
Date of Publication: Mar 14, 2019

The entire U.S. arts and culture sector (i.e., nonprofit, commercial, education) is a $764 billion industry. This represents 4.2 percent of the nation’s Gross Domestic Product (GDP)—a larger share of the economy than transportation, agriculture, or construction—according to the U.S. Bureau of Economic Analysis.

Author(s): Cohen, Randy
Date of Publication: Mar 25, 2019

The arts are fundamental to our humanity. They ennoble and inspire us—fostering creativity, goodness, and beauty. The arts bring us joy, help us express our values, and build bridges between cultures. The arts are also a fundamental component of a healthy community—strengthening them socially, educationally, and economically—benefits that persist even in difficult social and economic times.

 

Author(s): Waller, Margy and Joe Grady
Date of Publication: April 2019

This pilot communications research initiative begins to qualitatively explore Americans’ current thinking about the connection between arts and health, and their responses to communications about this topic. Conversations with a diverse cross-section of individuals in the Twin Cities give us important insights into how a conversation about the arts-health connection may play out at broader scales, and the potential of this focus to attract new engagement with and support (financial and otherwise) for the arts. The pilot study was conducted as a strategic partnership between Topos,

Author(s): Cohen, Randy
Date of Publication: Apr 25, 2019

  • The United States has exported more arts and cultural goods and services than it imported since 2006, including during the Great Recession. In 2016, the arts netted a $25-billion-dollar international trade surplus.

 

Author(s): Cohen, Randy
Date of Publication: Apr 25, 2019

The entire U.S. arts and culture sector (i.e., nonprofit, commercial, education) was a $804 billion industry in 2016. This represents 4.3 percent of the nation’s Gross Domestic Product (GDP)—a larger share of the economy than transportation, agriculture, or construction—according to the U.S. Bureau of Economic Analysis. 

 

Author(s): Ed Spitzberg
Date of Publication: October 2019

The Creative Youth Development Landscape Analysis on Policy and Advocacy reviews literature and existing best practices on advocacy and funding across the intersecting fields of arts education, youth development, and nonprofit and civic engagement organizations, and recommendations on how they can be applied to the creative youth development field.

Author(s): Cohen, Randy
Date of Publication: March 2020

The arts are fundamental to our humanity. They ennoble and inspire us—fostering creativity, goodness, and beauty. The arts bring us joy, help us express our values, and build bridges between cultures. The arts are also a fundamental component of a healthy community—strengthening them socially, educationally, and economically—benefits that persist even in difficult social and economic times.

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