2025年1月30日 · Arts and culture organizations are essential community catalysts, driving local economies and bringing people together. Excellence in the arts flourishes when we embrace the full spectrum of American creativity and experience. Our greatest strength lies in unity and shared purpose. Americans for the Arts is actively: Engaging with federal partners

Americans for the Arts serves, advances, and leads the network of organizations and individuals who cultivate, promote, sustain, and support the arts in America. Founded in 1960, Americans for the Arts is the nation's leading nonprofit organization for advancing the arts and arts education.

2023年1月27日 · The arts also teach children that there a several paths to take when approaching problems and that all problems can have more than one solution. Research has also shown impressive benefits of arts education on entire school culture—especially student motivation, attitudes, and attendance. Numerous reports discuss the ways that increased ...

Friday, April 4, 2025 @ 4:00 PM ET Join us for our second rebranded Office Hours with Our Arts Advocacy Team on Friday, April 4, 2024, at 4:00 PM ET. This session will focus on our most recent updates on National Endowment for the Arts (NEA), National Endowment for the Humanities (NEH), and Institute of Museum and Library Services (IMLS) —three federal agencies that DOGE is targeting.

monthly e-mail with listings of arts and cultural events that employees can enjoy free or at a discounted price. Boeing employees serve on the boards of 49 arts organizations and serve as volunteers for many more. In St. Louis, for example, employees volunteer through the St. Louis Regional Arts Commission’s Arts Commandos program.

Black and Hispanic students lack access to quality arts education compared to their White peers, earning an average of 30 and 25 percent fewer arts credits, respectively. As of 2020, only 19 states include arts as a key area of their state accountability system, and just 13 have done a statewide report on arts education in the last 5 years. [10]

The arts, unlike most industries, leverage significant amounts of event-related spending by their audiences. In 2017, arts attendees spent $31.47 per person, per event, beyond the cost of admission on items such as meals, parking, and lodging—vital income for local businesses. Arts travelers are ideal tourists. They stay longer and spend more ...

2024年12月5日 · High Engagement in the Arts: Nearly 80% of Americans attended, visited, or watched an arts or culture event in person over the past year, underscoring the central role of the arts in everyday life. Personal Importance : Three-quarters of Americans (76%) consider arts and culture personally important to them, with many reporting how the arts ...

WASHINGTON, D.C., October 12, 2023—Americans for the Arts (AFTA), the leading organization for research and advocacy for the arts in the United States, announces the findings of its Arts and Economic Prosperity 6 Study (AEP6), the most comprehensive economic and social impact study of the nation’s $151.7 billion nonprofit arts and culture ...

Americans for the Arts serves, advances, and leads the network of organizations and individuals who cultivate, promote, sustain, and support the arts in America. Founded in 1960, Americans for the Arts is the nation's leading nonprofit organization for advancing the arts and arts education.