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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Front cover of Employee Engagement Workbook: Arts Incubators featuring various blue colors of squares

Author: Flowers, Beth

Publication Year: 2017

Media Type: Toolkit

This workbook series focuses on one of the many ways arts organizations can work with businesses—arts-based employee engagement. This broad concept can be defined as employee engagement training or a cultural experience, delivered through various…

Categories: Creative Economies, Creative Industries, Creative Workforce, Local Arts Agencies, Partnerships, Private Sector, Professional Development

Front cover featuring circles in blue, light grey and dark grey

Author: Lord, Clayton

Publication Year: 2017

Media Type: Report

"In May of 2017, Americans for the Arts deployed a 17-question anonymous demographic survey to 9,026 affiliated individuals representing the local arts field as part of our ongoing commitment to pursuing cultural equity. The survey was distributed…

Categories: Access and Equity, Cultural Diversity, Local Arts Agencies

Front cover featuring circles in blue, light grey and dark grey

Author: Lord, Clayton

Publication Year: 2017

Media Type: Report

In May of 2017, Americans for the Arts deployed a 17-question anonymous demographic survey to 9,026 affiliated individuals representing the local arts field as part of our ongoing commitment to pursuing cultural equity. The survey was distributed…

Categories: Access and Equity, Cultural Diversity, Local Arts Agencies

Front cover of New Orleans After Katrina: Public Art Amid Natural Disaster featuring purple, blue and yellow shapes with photos of the aftermath of Hurricane Katrina

Author: King, Morgana and Canzonetti, Anne, Editor

Publication Year: 2017

Media Type: Case study

Natural disasters are a part of life and unavoidable in many parts of the country. It is necessary to be prepared for when nature strikes a public art collection. This paper is a case study on the reaction to and lessons learned during the recovery…

Categories: Heritage & Preservation, Public Art, Visual Art

Front cover of Public Art Resource Center featuring blue, purple and yellow shapes with some photos of art interspersed in between

Author: Nelson, Erika

Publication Year: 2017

Media Type: Report

This essay was written as a means to provide an outlook of the current understandings of what make planning and implement public art in rural areas unique.

Categories: Community Development, Cultural Planning, Economic Impact, Public Art, Visual Art

Cover of pARTnership Movement Tool-Kit: Arts & Economic Prosperity: Using the Report's Data to Strengthen Your Case to Businesses with the text in orange, yellow, and light green

Author: Shue, Jordan

Publication Year: 2017

Media Type: Toolkit

Want to know the best ways to disseminate Arts & Economic Prosperity 5 data to businesses in your community? This tool-kit has hard data on the best ways to reach them, along with information on how the arts sector has used the report.

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

Front cover of Arts Facts: NEA Funding Fails to Keep Pace (2017) featuring a line graph

Author: Americans for the Arts

Publication Year: 2017

Media Type: Infographic

This fact sheet show how the National Endowment for the Arts (NEA) budget has not been keeping pace with inflation.

Categories: Federal, Funding, Local Arts Agencies

Front cover of Arts Facts: Arts Organization Revenue (2017) featuring a pie graph

Author: Americans for the Arts

Publication Year: 2017

Media Type: Infographic

This one pager complied by Americans for the Arts gives an overview of revenue sources for arts non profit organizations. Revenue from earned income is the largest sources of income, the remainder must be raise through contributed revenue.

Categories: Federal, Funding, Local Arts Agencies, Organizational Planning, Private Sector

Author: Borstel, John; Korza, Pam; Assaf, Andrea, Dwyer, Chris; Valdez, Mark; Brown, Denise; Schaffer Bacon, Barbara

Publication Year: 2017

Media Type: Report

Aesthetic Perspectives is a framework developed by Animating Democracy to enhance understanding and evaluation of Arts for Change—creative work at the intersection of arts and community/civic engagement, community development, and justice.  Arts for…

Categories: Civic Dialogue and Social Change, Evaluation

Fact sheet featuring black and white bar charts

Author: Americans for the Arts

Publication Year: 2017

Media Type: Infographic

Compiled from American Institutes for Research "Evaluation of Professional Development in the Use of Arts-Integrated Activities with Mathematics Content: Findings from the Evaluation of the WolfTrap Arts in Education Model Development and…

Categories: Arts Education