Private Foundation

June 2004, 16 pages. Published by Performing Arts Research Coalition, 1156 15th Street, Suite 810, Washington, DC, 20005, 202-293-4466 x214, parc@operaamerica.org, www.operaamerica.org/parc

Download pdf: http://www.operaamerica.org/parc/PARCSummaryRpt.pdf

Americans for the Arts

This unique study combines Dun & Bradstreet data (as of January 2004) and geo-economic analysis to quantify and map business activity in six creative industries: museum/collections; performing arts; visual/photography; film/radio/TV; design/publishing; and schools/services. Creative industry reports on major metropolitan areas are on the Web site and reports on each of 437 congressional districts are available by request. Custom reports on specific geographic areas are also available for a fee.

May 2004, 53 pages. Published by Battelle Memorial Institute

Download pdf: http://www.flinn.org/docs/Vibrant_Culture-Thriving_Economy_full_213.pdf

The product of a multi-disciplinary task force in the greater Phoenix metropolitan area, this report makes the case, from an economic development point of view, for a central role for arts and culture in the region's future planning initiatives.

2002, 100 pages. The Marie Walsh Sharpe Art Foundation and the Judith Rothschild Foundation, 830 North Tejon St., Suite 120, Colorado Springs, CO 80903, (719) 635-3220, www.sharpeartfdn.org

2004, 38 pages. New York State Artist Workspace Consortium, kerry@mccarthyartsconsulting.com, www.nysawc.org

2003, 232 pages, $20.00. Cultural Policy Center, The Irving B. Harris Graduate School of Public Policy Studies, University of Chicago, 1155 East 60th St., #157, Chicago, IL 60637-2745, (773) 702-4407

Following up on Stan Hutton's introduction to arts blogs in the last Reader, in this issue we're looking at the beginnings of the philanthropic blogosphere. As with many blogs covering a specific field, philanthropic blogs tend to offer either personal journals of opinion and ideas or periodic news round-ups, brief abstracts of articles or publications and links to the original. Some, of course, provide both.

One effect of attacks on the leading agencies supporting cultural pluralism in the not-for-profit sector, which began with the Reagan administration and continued through the Clinton presidency to the present day, has been to elevate the U.S. commercial arts at the expense of the not-for-profit arts.

2002, 20 pages. Americans for the Arts, 203.371.2830, www.AmericansForTheArts.org

"When we hear talk about reducing support for the arts," writes Robert Lynch, president of Americans for the Arts, "we should ask: Who will make up for the lost economic activity?" The gist of the message of that group's Arts & Economic Prosperity report is simple and catchy: "the arts mean business."

July 2003, 25 pages. Project on Regional and Industrial Economics, Humphrey Institute of Public Affairs, University of Minnesota, 301 S. 19th Avenue, room 231, Minneapolis, MN 55455, (612) 625-8092

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