Friday, October 28, 2011
NEA Chairman Rocco Landesman Announces New Research on the Value Added By Cultural Industries
Arts.gov: There are 2.1 million artists in the United States workforce, and a large portion of them -- designers -- contribute to industries whose products Americans use every day, according to new research from the National Endowment for the Arts. Artists and Arts Workers in the United States offers the first combined analysis of artists and industries, state and metro employment rates, and new demographic information such as age, education levels, income, ethnicity, and other social characteristics.
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Good to see this. Most of the talk aboout or out of the NEA the last couple of months has been about how/who gets funding (see #supplydemand.) What the NEA research suggests to me is that instead of looking at art as something the public wants or trying to put a value on the arts, the NEA is looking at arts as a job force. Granted the two ideas are closely connected (the more arts funding will allow for arts organizations to hire more people to work) but it illustrates that the NEA is assessing the value of an industry based on something else than what consumer wants.
The numbers aren't impressive, but it gives some validity to all of our livelihoods who work in the arts.
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