National Arts Publications Database

The National Arts Publications Database is a bibliographic tool that gives access current and historical information on a multitude of topics related to arts administration and policy. The database contains over 7,000 bibliographic records—providing arts administrators, policy researchers, and advocates with an asset to help them locate information on arts policy and practice and arts administration resources and best practices. Many recent entries to the database may also include the actual publication for download as well. When possible, Americans for the Arts has included the publication for download, but in many cases the database is purely bibliographic by design.

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Author: Anne Basting

Publication Year: 2018

Media Type: Report

This resource from the organization Grantmakers in Aging provides an overview of the impact of the arts in aging, as well as research, participating organizations, and funders in the space.

Categories: Aging

Author: Butler, Stuart and Cabello, Marcela

Publication Year: 2018

Media Type: Report

The report first explores the way in which housing can affect the lives and success of individuals, and how the effect varies for different segments of the population.

Categories: Housing, Community Development

Author: Helicon Collaborative

Publication Year: 2018

Media Type: Report

The goal of this field scan is to understand and frame how place-based arts and cultural inter-ventions, or “creative placemaking,” can advance sustainability outcomes in the context of community development. We focused on the U.S. context, although…

Categories: Environment and Sustainability, Community Development

Image of the one pager, Arts Facts: Economic Impact of the Nonprofit Arts Industry (2018)

Author: Americans for the Arts

Publication Year: 2018

Media Type: Infographic

This one pager features data from Americans for the Arts 2017 Arts & Economic Prosperity V report providing key figures of the overall economic impact the arts industry provides.  

Categories: Advocacy, Arts Facts, Creative Economies, Creative Industries, Creative Workforce, Economic Impact

Image of the fact sheet, Arts Facts: Arts are an Export Industry (2018)

Author: Americans for the Arts

Publication Year: 2018

Media Type: Infographic

This fact sheet prepared in 2018 by Americans for the arts highlihts that arts and cultural goods and services trade surpluses reached $26.4 billion in 2014. The arts are consistently outperform the overall U.S. Balance of Trade.

Categories: Arts Facts, International, Private Sector

Image of fact sheet, Arts Facts: Creative Industries are Economic Egine (2018)

Author: Americans for the Arts

Publication Year: 2018

Media Type: Infographic

This one pager prepared in 2018 by Amercans for the Arts shows the value of Creative Industries. Nationally, 673,565 businesses are invovled in the creation or distribution of the arts, and they employ 3.48 million people, representing 4.01 percent…

Categories: Arts Facts, Creative Economies, Creative Industries, Creative Workforce

Author: Respini, Eva

Publication Year: 2018

Media Type: Book

Art in the Age of the Internet, 1989 to Today traces the relationship between internet culture and artistic practice through the work of contemporary artists such as Ed Atkins, Camille Henrot, and Anicka Yi, and looks back to pre-internet pioneers…

Categories: Visual Art, Technology and Innovation

Author: Alisha Ali; Stephan Wolfert; Jocelin E. McGovern; Jennifer Nguyen; and Adam Aharoni

Publication Year: 2018

Media Type: Periodical (article)

In this paper, we propose a treatment-derived qualitative strategy for examining written narratives created through therapeutic encounters in trauma-informed care. This investigation involves the analysis of ten trauma monologues written by military…

Categories: Arts and Military

Author: M+R

Publication Year: 2018

Media Type: Report

This study contains data about online fundraising, advocacy, and marketing.

Categories: Marketing and Communications, Fundraising

Author: Gude, Olivia

Publication Year: 2018

Media Type: Report

Public art and arts education have been intertwined by arts administrators, educators, and artists over many years. This foundational paper explores the intersection between public art and arts education by expanding on the current state of each…

Categories: Public Art, Arts Education