Thursday, November 07, 2013
Don’t Rest on Your Laurels: Arts and Economic Prosperity IV in Fort Worth, TX
ARTSblog » Blog Archive: Here’s the truth about cities: we are all competitive. How many top-ten lists do you see every year—Most Livable, Most “Green,” Best for Families? We all want to be on that list, and no one wants to end up falling short. That’s why data can be so impactful for the decision-makers in a city, and it is precisely why economic impact studies are not new to the Fort Worth-area arts community. Yet despite our long history of participating in different regional economic impact studies, we—like so many others across the country—saw our arts funding at risk and decreasing every year. It became clear that in order for the numbers to be truly valid to our city leaders, we needed a study that reflected solely information from Fort Worth. Those past reports—as robust as they might have seemed—never quite belonged to us, and never gained the traction we hoped that they would with decision-makers.
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It's really important to make sure that all the data possible is collected and prepared for those that have the power to enact change. While this applies across issues and industries, it can be especially improtant for the arts. Fort Worth's arts have struggled for a long time, and while they are still struggling, the budget increase from the city certainly helped a lot. The problem in Fort Worth and cities like it is that the entire arts community depends on the donations of a few individuals. There's real fear that if the wrong person died in Fort Worth, nobody would pick up the slack, and the opera, the ballet, and the symphony could all go under. That is why it is so important to make sure that city halls understand how important arts are to their cities, and are ready to support them. Especially now, when the coronavirus is threatening the bottom line for so many arts organizations and artists, making sure that public funding is available for the arts is more important than ever.
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