Author: Gibas, Talia
Publication Year: 2015
Media Type:
Excerpted from Arts & America: Arts, Culture, and the Future of America’s Communities. This essay looks at pending changes within the K–12 American formal education system and the role that the arts may play in positively impacting those changes…
Categories: Arts Education
Author: Rollins, Judy
Publication Year: 2015
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Excerpted from Arts & America: Arts, Culture, and the Future of America’s Communities. This essay looks at the role of arts in the healthcare system over the next 10 to 15 years. The full book of essays can be purchased in Americans for the Arts…
Categories: Accessibility
Author: White, Constance Y.
Publication Year: 2015
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Excerpted from Arts & America: Arts, Culture, and the Future of America’s Communities. This essay looks at how America’s transportation and building infrastructure will shift and transform over the next 10–15 years, as well as the role that the…
Categories: Transportation & Infrastructure, Community Development
Author: Sungard
Publication Year: 2015
Media Type: Infographic
This infographic from the folks at Sungard details the evolution of digital technology in the classroom. It maps out what the tech classroom looked like in 2005, looks like now, and should look like in 2025.
Categories: Technology and Innovation, Arts Education
Author: Randy Cohen
Publication Year: 2015
Media Type: Infographic
This infographic in poster size illustrates the ArtsBlog post, Top 10 Reasons to Support the arts in 2015, authored by Randy Cohen. The full blog post is reproduced in the body of this abstract.
Categories: Advocacy
Author: Silber, Bohne and Triplett, Tim
Publication Year: 2015
Media Type: Report
This report synthesizes findings across several modes of arts participation (attending the visual and performing arts, reading literature, creating/performing art, using digital media to consume art, and learning within the arts) to show how many…
Categories: Participation, Local Arts Agencies, Access and Equity
Author: Stoelinga, Sara Ray
Publication Year: 2015
Media Type: Report
In 2014, the Turnaround Arts initiative completed an evaluation report covering two years of program implementation. The final report provides a description and analysis of program impacts in the pilot cohort of 8 Turnaround Arts schools by the end…
Categories: Creative Youth Development, Arts Education, Access and Equity
Author: Dalton, Aaron
Publication Year: 2015
Media Type: Report
Arts partnerships frequently offer companies effective and cost-efficient methods of achieving critical business goals. Americans for the Arts is producing a series of eight essays that will explore and illustrate the different types of benefits…
Categories: Professional Development, Private Sector, Partnerships, Creative Workforce, Creative Industries
Author: Blume-Kohout, Margaret E.; Leonard, Sara R. and Novak Jennifer L.
Publication Year: 2015
Media Type: Report
In 2012, the National Endowment for the Arts partnered with the General Social Survey to ask why people attend arts events (specifically music, dance, theater, and visual arts). This new report looks beyond demographics to discover the attitudes,…
Categories: Participation, Accessibility
Author: Bohne Silber, Silber & Associates and Time Triplett, The Urban Institute
Publication Year: 2015
Media Type: Report
The Survey of Public Participation in the Arts (SPPA) is the largest and most comprehensive survey of U.S. arts participation, with a total sample size exceeding 37,000 adults, ages 18 and over. The latest SPPA compares arts participation rates…
Categories: Participation, Access and Equity