Arts and Culture Research

RAND is building a research capability in the arts to provide useful data and analysis to policymakers, arts practitioners, and the academic community. Much of the work is done within RAND Education.

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Trends and Future Prospects for the Arts Predict Changing Role for State Agencies — Nov. 18, 2008

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State arts agencies — key players within the U.S. system of public support for the arts — face a wide varitey of challenges to their typical roles as grantmakers. The author concludes that future state arts policy is likely to focus more on efforts to develop the creative economy and to grow the audience for the arts.

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Improving Arts Education Is Key To Stemming Audience Decline — Sep. 8, 2008

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Policymakers have underestimated the critical role of arts learning in supporting a vibrant nonprofit cultural sector. Despite decades of effort to make high-quality works of art available to Americans, demand for the arts has failed to keep pace with supply.

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Public and Private Collaboration Can Provide Arts Education, Aid Child Development — Jun. 18, 2008

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Amid cutbacks in school arts education funding, public and private organizations in six urban regions have collaborated to expand access to arts learning for children in and outside of public school.

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The Arts Debate: What do People Value About the Arts? — Mar. 29, 2008

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In 2006 and 2007, Arts Council England ran a large inquiry called 'the arts debate'. A summary of the feedback from this inquiry offers insight into what people value about the arts and what principles should guide publicly funded arts organizations.

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