Publications

The National Endowment for the Arts Guide to Community-Engaged Research in the Arts and Health

Year:

2016

Responding to a need identified by the federal Interagency Task Force on the Arts and Human Development, the NEA commissioned this guide from the cognitive neuroscientist Julene Johnson, PhD, UCSF, and the arts consultant Jeff Chapline, New Art Horizons. It advises arts practitioners and biomedical or behavioral health researchers how to partner effectively in documenting and studying the contributions of...

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Guide-to-Community-Engaged-Research-in-the-Arts-and-Health-March2017.pdf

Theaters Report 22% Growth in Economic Census: 1987-1992

Year:

1998

A comparison of revenues for nonprofit and taxable theaters based on data from the Economic Censuses of 1992, 1987, and 1982. A distribution of revenue by source (private, public, etc.) is also provided for each type of theater.

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66.pdf

Three NEA Monographs on Arts Participation

Year:

2011

Research Note #101 summarizes and reflects upon key findings from three Research Reports: #52, Arts Education in America: What the Declines Mean for Arts Participation; #53, Age and Arts Participation: A Case against Demographic Destiny; and #54, Beyond Attendance: A Multi-Modal Understanding of Arts Participation.

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101.pdf

Time and Money: Using Federal Data to Measure the Value of Performing Arts Activities

Year:

2011

Research Note #102 examines large datasets from multiple federal sources to report on three broad topics related: 1) the total number, staff, and budget size of performing arts organizations; 2) U.S. consumer spending on performing arts admissions and other cultural events; and 3) Americans' daily time spent doing arts and cultural activities, including performing arts attendance. Measures of arts and...

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102.pdf

To Read or Not To Read: A Question of National Consequence

Year:

2007

This report is a new and comprehensive analysis of reading patterns of children, teenagers, and adults in the United States. To Read or Not To Read assembled data on reading trends from more than 40 sources, including federal agencies, universities, foundations, and associations. The compendium expands the investigation of the NEA's landmark 2004 report, Reading at Risk, and reveals recent...

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ToRead.pdf

To Survey American Crafts: A Planning Study

Year:

1977

An assessment of information about craft artists and their work prepared as an aid to planning of new research.

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NEA-Research-Report-2.pdf

Trends in Artist Occupations: 1970-1990

Year:

1994

A report which discusses information on various characteristics of the artist population and its position in the U.S. labor force. Data are presented in demographic contexts, as well as by artistic discipline. Based on data extracted from the 1970, 1980, and 1990 Censuses of the Population conducted by the U.S. Bureau of the Census.

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NEA-Research-Report-29.pdf

U.S. Trends in Arts Attendance and Literary Reading: 2002-2017

Year:

2018

This booklet provides national statistics on visual and performing arts attendance and literary reading rates using the 2017 Survey of Public Participation in the Arts and comparing the results with prior years (2002, 2008, and 2012). September 2018. 12 pp.

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2017-sppapreviewREV-sept2018.pdf

Turning On and Tuning In: Public Participation in the Arts Via Media in the United States

Year:

1995

This study examines and interprets data from the 1982 and 1992 Surveys of Public Participation in the Arts pertaining to participation in the arts via television, radio and sound recordings.

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NEA-Research-Report-33.pdf