This month: two Canadian reports on government arts funding and two American reports that highlight the impacts of arts education in a range of arts disciplines and provide tips on how to frame a communications strategy regarding arts education.
Arts Advocacy / Impacts of the Arts / Arts and Health
This month: a focus on arts advocacy and the impacts of the arts, including Canadian and American guides to making the case for the arts, a Scottish resource on the impacts of the arts, as well as Canadian and Australian reports on the links between the arts, health and wellbeing.
This month: a guide to audience research for smaller performing arts organizations as well as three reports that highlight factors in arts participation beyond simple demographics.
This month: a focus on arts education reports from Canada and the U.S., including studies of music, museum and library education, the status of arts education in North American schools, and foundation funding for arts education.
This month: a focus on Aboriginal arts, including reports on Aboriginal curators, languages and funding programs in Canada, Aboriginal art centres in Australia, as well as a statistical profile of Aboriginal and visible minority artists in Canada.
This month: American and Canadian research on partnerships, including their potential and pitfalls, unique performing arts collaborations, partnerships between large and small cultural organizations, and the partnering of arts and non-arts organizations. These reports emphasize partnership costs, risks, benefits, challenges and strategies to overcome difficulties.
This month: a focus on arts education and literacy, including Canadian studies examining arts programs for at-risk youth, school libraries, teacher-librarians and adult literacy.
With a Canadian election coming in the next eight months, Arts Research Monitor Volume 4, No 2 summarizes some arts advocacy resources and provides a compilation of key statistics from recent Hill Strategies Research reports.
What benefits do the arts have for attendees and participants? What are the best arguments to make in advocating for the arts? Volume 4, no 1 summarizes three reports that examine the potential benefits of the arts for arts participants. The RAND report, Gifts of the Muse, has led to much discussion about the “instrumental” and “intrinsic” effects of the arts as well as the best arguments to use in arts advocacy. Volume 4, no 1 also summarizes a discussion forum based on the RAND report as well as a report from Connecticut that examines the meaning and value of arts participation.
