Town Hall at Cobb Energy Performing Arts Center
On February 15th, over 100 supporters gathered at the Cobb Energy Performing Arts Center.
The State of the Arts in Atlanta
On December 5, 2023, approximately non-profit arts organizations and funders met to discuss the state of the arts in Atlanta.
How Can We Calculate the Economic Impact of an Arts Organization (or Ecosystem)?
How can we calculate the economic impact of an arts organization (or ecosystem)?
Atlanta Arts & Culture Benchmarking Survey, 2023
This survey was sent to arts and culture nonprofits headquartered in the City of Atlanta in order to gauge their current financial health.
Arts for LA is an organization that advocates for an equitable, healthy, and vibrant Los Angeles region through the arts.
The Advisory Board for the Arts has recently completed a body of research about the capitalization of arts organizations
We are not alone in Atlanta. Savannah’s arts & culture industry is also undercapitalized.
The Advisory Board for the Arts has recently completed a body of research about the capitalization of arts organizations
Overview of Arts Organization Capitalization Needs
The Advisory Board for the Arts has recently completed a body of research about the capitalization of arts organizations
State of Visual Arts: An Evolving Bibliography
This evolving bibliography is updated as new articles and studies are released or identified. Check back regularly.
State of Performing Arts: An Evolving Bibliography
This evolving bibliography is updated as new articles and studies are released or identified. Check back regularly.
In Portland, the Miller Foundation makes an extraordinary investment in the arts.
The Miller Foundation is making an extraordinary $13.7 million investment in Oregon arts, and inviting others to join them.
Arts and culture organizations were devastated by the pandemic.
In year one of the COVID-19 pandemic, few areas of the U.S. economy were harder hit than the performing arts.
In 2023, the Americans for the Arts Study also examined the social impact of arts and culture in a community.
Investment in the nonprofit arts and culture industry builds the communities where people want to live and work.
Americans for the Arts finds that nationwide investments in arts and culture stimulate economic development.
Nationwide, the study found arts and culture organizations create jobs and generate economic activity.
Across the Atlanta region are over 1,700 arts and cultural nonprofit organizations.
The 1,700+ cultural nonprofits in Metro Atlanta generated had revenues of $632,676,988.
In 2023, Georgia is tied for last in the country in per capita spending on the arts.
Over the last decade, Georgia has consistently ranked last or near last in the nation in government arts funding.
An open letter from 38 Atlanta arts leaders
In March, a diverse group of 38 Atlanta arts leaders banded together to write an open letter that discusses the challenges of surviving the pandemic, which has proven to be “the biggest disruption to the American Arts sector in history, and the most destructive since the Great Depression.”
Chicago hired SMU Data Arts to assess financial and operating trends in Chicago.
Despite a 2022 uptick in many financial and operating trends, full recovery has not been swift nor is it guaranteed in the future.