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Publication2024Curtains Up: Critical Factors Influencing Theater ResiliencyThis literature scan examines the current challenges facing U.S. theaters and identifies strategies and tactics that theaters adopted to survive the COVID-19 pandemic and its fallout.

Publication2023Online Audiences for Arts Programming: A Survey of Virtual Participation Amid COVID-19This research brief examines data from the Arts Module of the 2022 General Social Survey, focusing on digital arts activities during the COVID-19 pandemic.

Publication2023Arts Participation Patterns in 2022: Highlights from the Survey of Public Participation in the ArtsThis report presents key findings from the NEA’s flagship survey, which the Census Bureau administers every five years to track arts participation habits.

Publication2021Tech as Art: Supporting Artists Who Use Technology as a Creative MediumThis report is the result of a two-year research initiative exploring the multifaceted creative practices of artists who engage with digital technologies. 

Publication2021The Art of Reopening: A Guide to Current Practices Among Arts Organizations During COVID-19Arts Endowment research staff surveyed national service organizations in the arts and interviewed arts organizations and consultants about reopening practices of organizations that have resumed in-person programming in 2020, during the pandemic. This...

Publication2020Paths to Participation: Understanding How Art Forms and Activities Intersect Based on findings from the Survey of Public Participation in the Arts, the brief discusses in particular the positive association between consuming the arts digitally and attending in-person arts events.

Publication2020Arts Strategies for Addressing the Opioid Crisis: Examining the EvidencePrompted by the nation’s opioid crisis, this report reviews and analyzes 20 years of evidence about the arts’ use in pain management and in treatment of substance abuse disorders; it also highlights promising arts-based strategies in these practice a...

Publication2020Arts and Research Partnerships in PracticeThis report summarizes proceedings from a June 2019 gathering of 12 NEA Research Labs at the National Endowment for the Arts. It identifies challenges and opportunities for collaborative, transdisciplinary research projects in the arts.

Publication2020The Effects of Ticket Pricing on Arts Attendance Patterns: An Economics Literature Review (2000-2018)This research paper distills economics research, spanning nearly two decades, about the relationship between ticket pricing and public demand for visual and performing arts events. 

Publication2020Why We Engage: Attending, Creating, and Performing ArtThis report analyzes data from the 2017 Survey of Public and Participation in the Arts and the 2016 General Social Survey to identify common motivations and barriers for adults in deciding whether to participate in arts activities.

Publication2020Line by Line: Transforming Student Lives and Learning with the Art of PoetryThis report presents findings from an evaluation of Poetry Out Loud, a national arts education program supported by the National Endowment for the Arts, the Poetry Foundation, and state and jurisdictional arts agencies. 

Publication2020How Do We Read? Let's Count the WaysThis report uses data from the 2017 Survey of Public Participation in the Arts to characterize and compare adults who read books in print only, who read books electronically, and who listen to audiobooks.

Publication2019U.S. Patterns of Arts Participation: A Full Report from the 2017 Survey of Public Participation in the ArtsThis report provides detailed statistics on adults’ patterns of arts participation, based on the 2017 Survey of Public Participation in the Arts. 

Publication2019Living Traditions: A Portfolio Analysis of the National Endowment for the Arts’ Folk & Traditional Arts ProgramThis first-ever analysis of the Arts Endowment’s Folk & Traditional Arts awards portfolio explores the program’s geographic reach, its capacity to address historically underserved populations, and the activities and achievements of its grantees and p...

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