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: Public Art Chattanooga

Publication Year: 2017

Media Type: Sample document

Public Art Chattanooga and the Steering Committee for the Fallen Five Memorial seek artist led multi-disciplinary design team’s artistic qualifications to commemorate the fatal shootings of five servicemen on July 16, 2015, through a permanent…

Categories: Public Art

Front page of Arts Facts: Arts and Cultural Production Trade Balance (2017) featuring a line graph.

Author: Americans for the Arts

Publication Year: 2017

Media Type: Infographic

The arts have outperformed the overall United States Balance of Trade, increasing its surplus tenfold from 2006 to 2013, while the United States goods and services trade as a whole has registered a deficit every year over the same period.   

Categories: Advocacy, Economic Impact, Federal, International

Front page of Arts Facts: Creativity and the Workplace (2017) with black and grey pie chart.

Author: Americans for the Arts

Publication Year: 2017

Media Type: Infographic

Schools and employers rank a degree in the arts among the most significant indicator of a job candidate’s creativity and innovation skills.

Categories: Advocacy, Arts Action Fund, Arts Facts, Creative Workforce, Private Sector

Front page of Arts Facts: Foreign Visitors Participating in Arts & Culture While Visiting the U.S. 2005-2015 featuring a black and grey double bar graph

Author: Americans for the Arts

Publication Year: 2017

Media Type: Infographic

Cultural travelers—both domestic and international—are ideal tourists.  They spend more money and stay at their destinations longer.

Categories: Advocacy, Economic Impact, Tourism

Front page of Arts Facts: Spending by Arts Audiences (2017) featuring a black and grey pie chart and bar graph.

Author: Americans for the Arts

Publication Year: 2017

Media Type: Infographic

The nonprofit arts, unlike most industries, leverage significant amounts of event-related spending by their audiences. Attendance at arts events generates related commerce for hotels, restaurants, parking garages, and more.

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

Front page of 25 Years of the Diversity in Arts Leadership Internship Program Infographic featuring multiple, colorful pie graphs

Author: Arts & Business Council of New York

Publication Year: 2017

Media Type: Infographic

Capturing 25 years of our Diversity in Arts Leadership Internship Program Impact through this infographic!

Categories: Access and Equity, Creative Industries, Creative Workforce, Cultural Diversity, Leadership, Partnerships, Private Sector, Professional Development

Front page of Arts Facts: Arts and Cultural Production Contribution to GDP (2017) featuring two bar graphs and a line graph

Author: Americans for the Arts

Publication Year: 2017

Media Type: Infographic

The arts and culture sector is a $730 billion industry, which represents 4.2 percent of the nation’s Gross Domestic Product (GDP)—a larger share of the economy than transportation, tourism, or construction—according to the U.S. Bureau of Economic…

Categories: Advocacy, Arts Action Fund, Arts Facts, Economic Impact

Front page of Arts Facts: Government Funding to Arts Agencies (2017) featuring a line graph with blue, green and purple lines

Author: Americans for the Arts

Publication Year: 2017

Media Type: Infographic

Government Funding to Arts Agencies, Federal, State, and Local: 1997 - 2017 

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

Front page of Arts Facts: Source of Revenue for Nonprofit Arts Organizations (2017) featuring a black and grey pie chart.

Author: Americans for the Arts

Publication Year: 2017

Media Type: Infographic

Support for the nonprofit arts is a mosaic of funding sources—a delicate 60-30-10 balance of earned revenue, private sector contributions, and government support.  The chart above provides a snapshot of what the average revenue picture looks like…

Categories: Advocacy, Arts Facts, Funding, Fundraising, Local Arts Agencies

Cover image of Creative Health: The Arts for Health and Wellbeing

Author: All-Party Parliamentary Group on Arts, Health and Wellbeing

Publication Year: 2017

Media Type: Report

This 2017 study out of the UK is the result of a three-year inquiry into the state of practice and research at the intersection of the arts and social care and provides recommendations on improvements of policy and practice.

Categories: Aging