We had the pleasure of interviewing Kate Levin, Commissioner of the New York City Department of Cultural Affairs and posed one question: How have data-based findings made a difference in your work? Her answer was incredibly thoughtful, enlightening, and full of surprising data. For example, did you know that there …
Data. Big data. No data? Arts organizations fall on a spectrum with regard to their relationship to data. While some collect and analyze their own data to inform decision-making others misinterpret and may even ignore data altogether. Sheetal Singh, in her post, Making Data an Afterthought, makes the case that …
“So what can you tell me?” is the primary question we ask of data. We use data to find out what works, what should we avoid and where the opportunities lie. On February 12, 2013, National Center for Arts Research hosted a panel discussion in conjunction with our launch event …
Createquity gave a talk at the University of Chicago’s Cultural Policy Center wherein Ian David Moss, the presenter, outlined the current art research infrastructure, how it is failing us, and what we can do to fix it. A video of the talk is below. In a subsequent blog post, Mr. …
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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 economic impact report. But what happens after an economic impact report is created? Where does the information go, and how does it help strengthen the arts community in …
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 …