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: Leonard, Bob; Korza, Pam

Publication Year: 2017

Media Type: Report

The Educator Companion to Animating Democracy’s framework, Aesthetic Perspectives: Attributes of Excellence in Arts for Change, offers ideas and insights to help educators and students apply the framework in curriculum development, faculty/student…

Categories: Arts Education, Civic Dialogue and Social Change, Community Development

Author: Laramee Kidd, Susannah; Korza, Pam

Publication Year: 2017

Media Type: Report

The Evaluator / Researcher Companion to Animating Democracy’s framework, Aesthetic Perspectives: Attributes of Excellence in Arts for Change, offers ideas and insights to help evaluators and researchers apply the framework to address their needs and…

Categories: Civic Dialogue and Social Change, Community Development, Evaluation

Author: Dwyer, M. Christine; Korza, Pam; Schaffer Bacon, Barbara

Publication Year: 2017

Media Type: Report

In the Funder Companion to Animating Democracy’s framework, Aesthetic Perspectives: Attributes of Excellence in Arts for Change, author Chris Dwyer of RMC Research offers ideas and insights to help funders apply the framework to address their needs…

Categories: Civic Dialogue and Social Change, Community Development, Funding

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Author: Malpede, John and Sanchez Juarez, Christina

Publication Year: 2017

Media Type: Report

Part of the Americans for the Arts Artists & Communities conversation series that pairs veteran community arts leaders with emerging community arts leaders to share their visions for, experiences with, and challenges to making healthy, equitable…

Categories: Access and Equity, Advocacy, Artists-Resources for, Civic Dialogue and Social Change, Community Development, Creative Economies, Cultural Diversity, Cultural Facilities, Funding, Fundraising, Heritage & Preservation, Leadership, Partnerships, Performing Arts Organizations

Front cover featuring the letter I in a circle and the text "socrates sculpture park" in a bright orange

Author: Dalton, Aaron

Publication Year: 2017

Media Type: Report

The eigth essay in the pARTnership Movement essay series addresses how the arts create jobs, spur urban renewal, attract new businesses, generate tourism revenue, and foster an environment that appeals to a skilled and educated workforce. By…

Categories: Creative Economies, Economic Impact, Partnerships, Private Sector

Front cover of Arts Fact: Private Giving to Arts, Culture & Humanities: 2005 - 2015 featuring a bar and line graph

Author: Americans for the Arts

Publication Year: 2017

Media Type: Infographic

In 2015, private sector giving to the arts, culture, and humanities—by individuals, foundations, and corporations—was $17.07 billion, up 7.0 percent (6.8 percent when adjusted for inflation) from a revised $17.23 billion in 2014. This marked the…

Categories: Advocacy, Funding, Fundraising, Grantmaking, Private Sector

Front cover of Arts Facts: Business Support to the Arts (2017) featuring a line graph

Author: Americans for the Arts

Publication Year: 2017

Media Type: Infographic

With billions in arts funding, businesses play a key role in ensuring the health and vitality of the nation’s arts sector.  Business support for the arts is less driven by a charitable focus than it is targeted on how the arts impact the communities…

Categories: Advocacy, Arts Action Fund, Arts Facts, Funding, Fundraising, Private Sector

Front cover of Arts Facts: Advantages of Arts Learning Continues Over Time (2017) featuring a bar graph

Author: Americans for the Arts

Publication Year: 2017

Media Type: Infographic

This Arts Facts one pager provide data to support the connections between high invovlement in the arts learning and general academic success.

Categories: Arts Education, Arts Facts, Creative Workforce, Creative Youth Development

Front cover of Arts Facts: Access to Arts Education in Not Equitable (2017) featuring a line graph

Author: Americans for the Arts

Publication Year: 2017

Media Type: Infographic

The Arts Fact one pager show the decline of arts educatio in underserved populations.

Categories: Access and Equity, Arts Education, Arts Facts, Creative Youth Development

Author: Davidson, Ben and Peck, Emily

Publication Year: 2017

Media Type: Infographic

A Statistical Report on the Campaign Revenues of the Nation’s United Arts Funds during Fiscal Year 2016. Throughout the summer of 2017, the Americans for the Arts Private Sector Initiatives department solicited responses to the FY2016 United Arts…

Categories: Access and Equity, Cultural Diversity, Funding, Fundraising, Grantmaking, Local Arts Agencies, Partnerships, Private Sector, United Arts Funds