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Recent Articles

	Youth and culture [ August 2010 | Vol. 9 | No. 1 ]
	This survey of 600 students in 10 Quebec colleges was conducted by journalists at La Presse in February 2010. Unfortunately, the report does not provide an estimate of the margin of error. Music is the predominant cultural activity of the youth surveyed.
	The Qualities of Quality: Understanding Excellence in Arts Education [ August 2010 | Vol. 9 | No. 1 ]
	This report from Harvard University’s “Project Zero” explores the “complex factors, actors, and settings that must be aligned to achieve quality in arts education”. The report argues that, while “access to arts learning experiences remains a critical national challenge”, there is also a significant challenge in ensuring that arts education opportunities are of high quality.
	Increasing arts demand through better arts learning [ August 2010 | Vol. 9 | No. 1 ]
	This brief fact sheet argues that, in addition to building new audiences through marketing campaigns, program offerings, price and convenience, “increasing the quality and access of arts learning opportunities deserves much more attention as a way of lifting arts demand in the long run”. With increased competition for leisure time, the fact sheet indicates that “the key to lifting demand for the arts may well lie in reversing the 30-year-long decline in arts learning, both in and out of schools”.
	2008 Survey of Public Participation in the Arts (Arts learning findings) [ August 2010 | Vol. 9 | No. 1 ]
	Since 1982, the National Endowment for the Arts has conducted a benchmark survey of Americans’ involvement in arts activities. Respondents were asked whether they had taken an arts lesson or class at any time in their lives, including classes in school or private lessons. While the “lifetime participation rates” of all respondents decreased somewhat between 1982 and 2008, there was a substantial decrease in most arts learning activities among 18 to 24-year-olds.
	Engaging Audiences [ March 2010 | Vol. 8 | No. 10 ]
	This report summarizes a 2009 conference that was attended by 189 arts leaders from six American cities. A recurring theme at the conference was that “it is clearly more challenging in hard times for arts organizations to take the long view and continue to devote time and effort to building new audiences, but that work and the resulting lessons are also more vital than ever to the long-term health of arts organizations and the entire arts sector”.