Cultivating demand for the arts [Recurs electrònic] : arts learning, arts engagement, and state arts policy / Laura Zakaras, Julia F. Lowell ; commissioned by The Wallace Foundation

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Zakaras, Laura

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Publication details: Santa Monica [EUA] : RAND Corporation, 2008ISBN:

9780833041845

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Summary: Despite decades of effort to make high-quality works of art accessible to all Americans, demand for the arts has not kept pace with supply. Those who participate in the arts remain overwhelmingly white, educated, and affluent. Moreover, audiences for the arts are growing older: Each year, fewer young Americans visit art museums, listen to classical music, or attend jazz concerts or ballet performances. Optimism about the future of the arts was widespread in the 1960s and 1970s, when the number of artists and arts organizations expanded rapidly, and demand surged with increases in supply. Museums, performing arts centers, symphonies, opera companies, theaters, and dance companies proliferated and spread outside the major cities where they had been concentrated. Public funding through the newly created National Endowment for the Arts (NEA) and state arts agencies (SAAs), coupled with financial support from major foundations and individual contributors, helped accelerate and sustain the growth of arts-producing organizations. Support for arts education saw no similar increase, however. While artists and arts organizations benefited from an influx of funds, public funding for arts education stagnated and even declined. In the 1970s and, again, in the early 1990s, school districts across the country reduced their education spending, often by cutting arts specialist positions. Many of these positions have never been restored. In more recent years, general education reforms have shifted class time toward reading and mathematics, which are subject to high-stakes testing, further eroding arts education. These trends raise questions about public policy on the arts. To put it simply: Will the current priorities and practices of policymakers and major funders meet the challenges created by the diminishing demand? If not, what kinds of adjustments might reverse the decline? The findings in this report are intended to shed light on what it means to cultivate demand for the arts, why it is necessary and important to cultivate this demand, and what SAAs and other arts and education policymakers can do to help. (Font: Resum)

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Preface -- Figures -- Tables -- Summary -- Acknowledgments -- 1. Introduction -- 2. A framework for understanding supply, access, and demand -- 3. Enabling individual engagement with works of art -- 4. The support infrastructure for youth arts learning -- 5. The support infrastructure for adult arts learning -- 6. The role of state arts agencies -- 7. Conclusions and policy implications -- Appendix: A. Interviewees -- B. Taxonomy of SAA grants by type of recipient, national standard code, and RAND Category -- C. Taxonomy of SAA grants by type of activity, national standard code, and RAND category -- Bibliography

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