With billions in arts funding, businesses play a key role in ensuring the health and vitality of the nation’s arts sector.  Business support for the arts is less driven by a charitable focus than it is targeted on how the arts impact the communities in which their employees live and work.

The nonprofit arts, unlike most industries, leverage significant amounts of event-related spending by their audiences. Attendance at arts events generates related commerce for hotels, restaurants, parking garages, and more.

Cultural travelers—both domestic and international—are ideal tourists.  They spend more money and stay at their destinations longer.

Schools and employers rank a degree in the arts among the most significant indicator of a job candidate’s creativity and innovation skills.

This essay was written as a means to provide an outlook of the current understandings of what make planning and implement public art in rural areas unique.

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.

The eigth essay in the pARTnership Movement essay series addresses how the arts create jobs, spur urban renewal, attract new businesses, generate tourism revenue, and foster an environment that appeals to a skilled and educated workforce. By partnering with arts organizations, you can strengthen the health and vitality of our neighborhoods, cities, states, and nation.

Government Funding to Arts Agencies, Federal, State, and Local: 1997 - 2017 

Capturing 25 years of our Diversity in Arts Leadership Internship Program Impact through this infographic!

This fact sheet show how the National Endowment for the Arts (NEA) budget has not been keeping pace with inflation.