Author: Cwi, David

Publication Year: 1981

Media Type: Book

Summary:

Paper presented at Conference on the Economic Impact of the Arts, sponsored by Cornell University, Graduate School of Business and Public Administration, held in Ithaca, New York, May 27-28, 1981.

Abstract:

Paper presented at Conference on the Economic Impact of the Arts, sponsored by Cornell University, Graduate School of Business and Public Administration, held in Ithaca, New York, May 27-28, 1981.

In recent years, state and local arts councils as well as individual arts organizations have argued that arts activities, especially the subsidized nonprofit arts, produce economic effects benefiting the entire community. The need to substantiate this argument has become increasingly important in an era of government retrenchment. If arts advocates can show that subsidized museums, theatres, symphonies and dance companies bring economic benefits to the entire community, this may increase the importance assigned to arts subsidies. It seems fair to suggest that impact studies sponsored by arts groups have had a political rather than policy focus. Advocates hoped to challenge prevailing notions depicting the arts as at best a frill and at worst a drain on the local economy. Consequently arts impact studies were typically developed to influence legislatures and local businesses to continue or increase their subsidies of the arts. (p. 22-25)

Arts & Intersections:

Categories: Creative Economies