Welcome to the online home of the National Center for Arts Research, where data-driven insights help advance the arts in the U.S. It all began on February 13, 2012, when SMU’s Meadows School of the Arts and Cox School of Business hosted a public forum with the Cultural Data Project …
Creating the nation’s largest arts database requires the collaboration of multiple national organizations. We could not attempt to begin this undertaking without the full cooperation of our data, strategy, indices and dashboard creation partners. Each brings something unique and valuable to the table and we are honored to be working …
Our online resource library is geared towards the arts manager and arts leader who is looking for tools, resources, thought provoking articles and best practices that speak to the most pertinent issues confronting arts organizations nationwide. Currently, the library is divided into six content areas, each representing a domain of …
We met with Rick Lester, CEO of TRG Arts, to discuss how data-based findings have made a difference in TRG’s work and how the organization uses data in decision-making. Rick drops some gems in this short video so take a look. But if you must, here are a few highlights: …
The arts are a $135 billion national industry. That’s one of the findings in a report released by Americans for the Arts, which examined the national economic impact of nonprofit arts and cultural organizations. Arts & Economic Prosperity IV looked at data from all 50 states and the District of …
We had the pleasure of interviewing Kevin Moore, managing director of Theatre Communications Group and asked him one simple question: How do …
Our partner, the Nonprofit Finance Fund, has just released the 2013 State of the Nonprofit Sector Arts Survey Results, based on a …
We had the pleasure of interviewing Kate Levin, Commissioner of the New York City Department of Cultural Affairs and posed one question: …
Data. Big data. No data? Arts organizations fall on a spectrum with regard to their relationship to data. While some collect and …
“So what can you tell me?” is the primary question we ask of data. We use data to find out what works, …
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Talia Gibas and Amanda Keil have written a wonderful overview of our national data partner, the Cultural Data Project, that was posted …
Createquity gave a talk at the University of Chicago’s Cultural Policy Center wherein Ian David Moss, the presenter, outlined the current art …
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The City of San Diego’s Commission for Arts and Culture has consistently used data from the California CDP to create their annual …