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 Arts Participation 

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State Arts Policy: Trends and Future Prospects
State Arts Policy: Trends and Future Prospects
(November 2008) This study by RAND explores how state arts agencies, which play a central role in public support of the arts, are changing in response to demographic, political and economic realities.
Cultivating Demand for the Arts: Arts Learning, Arts Engagement, and State Arts Policy
Cultivating Demand for the Arts: Arts Learning, Arts Engagement, and State Arts Policy
(September 2008) This study by RAND offers a new way of thinking about the challenge of expanding arts participation by focusing more on the critical role of arts learning in cultivating demand for the arts.
Arts for All: Connecting to New Audiences
Arts for All: Connecting to New Audiences
(August 2008) How can arts organizations use marketing, research and new technologies to expand their audiences? This report on a recent Wallace conference discusses how it’s being done.
From Hip-Hop to Shakespeare: Dallas Blazes “Coordinated” Trail in Arts Education for City Young People
From Hip-Hop to Shakespeare: Dallas Blazes “Coordinated” Trail in Arts Education for City Young People
(July 2008) This “Story from the Field” explores how Dallas’s Thriving Minds initiative is expanding and improving arts learning opportunities both inside and outside of school for that city’s children.
Revitalizing Arts Education
Revitalizing Arts Education Through Community-Wide Coordination
(June 2008) In a number of urban areas in recent years, arts learning advocates have sought to counter a generation-long decline in public school arts education by forming coordinated networks of schools, cultural organizations, funders, local government and other groups to work in common to revive arts learning.
The Arts and State Government
The Arts and State Governments: At Arm's Length or Arm in Arm?
(August 2006) State arts agencies seeking increased state government support for the arts should strengthen their relationships with elected officials and raise their profile with the public.
Creating Public Value Through State Arts Agencies
Creating Public Value Through State Arts Agencies
(October 2005) How state arts agencies can build their public value by strengthening ties to people and to the arts community.
The Diversity of Cultural Participation: Findings from a National Survey
The Diversity of Cultural Participation: Findings from a National Survey
(November 2005) In-depth data and insights about what drives people to attend different types of arts events and what this means for increasing involvement.
Motivations Matter: Findings and Practical Implications of a National Survey of Cultural Participation
Motivations Matter: Findings and Practical Implications of a National Survey of Cultural Participation
(November 2005)  A groundbreaking national survey of the motivations of audiences at different kinds of arts events and the practical implications for participation-building.
The Reality Underneath the Buzz of Partnerships
The Reality Underneath the Buzz of Partnerships
(March 2005) How cultural organizations can benefit from partnerships while avoiding their potential pitfalls.
Gifts of the Muse: Reframing the Debate About the Benefits of the Arts
Gifts of the Muse - Reframing the Debate About the Benefits of the Arts
(February 2005) Public policy should be informed by a broader view of the benefits of the arts, and a stronger focus on introducing more Americans to engaging arts experiences beginning at an early age.
Partnerships Between Large and Small Cultural Organizations: A Strategy for Building Arts Participation
Partnerships Between Large and Small Cultural Organizations: A Strategy for Building Arts Participation
(August 2004)  How large and small arts organizations can help each other build participation if they can overcome the challenges of these relationships.
Arts and Non-arts Partnerships: Opportunities, Challenges, and Strategies
Arts and Non-arts Partnerships: Opportunities, Challenges, and Strategies
(August 2004)  The two-way benefits that result when arts- and non-arts organizations make the right collaborative match.
State Arts Agencies 1965-2003: Whose Interests to Serve?
State Arts Agencies 1965-2003: Whose Interests to Serve?
(June 2004)  How state arts agencies can build and broaden audiences in an environment of scarce funding and awareness.
State Arts Agencies at a Crossroads: The Search for Public Benefit
(June 2004) State arts agencies are developing innovative ways to refocus their efforts from supporting arts providers through grant-giving to the larger public benefits of their work.
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