NEA Captures Data on Artists with Day Jobs

hyperallergic.com: Not long ago we wrote about a study that took up the question of who is an artist, examining some of the ways in which defining creative workers is difficult. One of those issues stems from employment — whether the label “artist” refers only to people who work as such full time. On Monday the National Endowment for the Arts (NEA) added to the conversation by releasing a new data set called “Keeping My Day Job: Identifying U.S. Workers Who Have Dual Careers as Artists.”