Supporting & Related Pages:

• Non-Profit Organizations
• Economic Impact Studies

Internet Sites:

• National Endowment for the Arts
• Economics of the Arts in Cities ["Try Us! Join Americans for the Arts! Find out why over 1,000 organizations and individuals have joined Americans for the Arts."]
• www.Art-Online.com
• Economics of the Arts [This course examines the economics of the fine arts and performing arts in the United States.]
• Economic Impact of the Cultural Industry on South Carolina South Carolinians, like people everywhere, take pride in their local arts and culture. Culture creates a common identity and helps define a region's quality of life. And a healthy cultural climate helps an area to attract and retain highly skilled professionals and clean industry.

Newspaper Clippings:

• Arts under pressure: Major players in Northwest hit hard by sagging economy, Seattle Times, Jan 26, 2003; By Melinda Bargreen Seattle Times music critic (with related articles) "Some of the region's biggest performing-arts companies and museums are struggling with large deficits, including the Seattle Symphony, Bellevue Art Museum, the Northwest Chamber Orchestra and the Village Theatre. Several more are forecasting big deficits by the end of the fiscal year... In general, the grim realities of reduced contributions and declining arts-commission support have taken a toll..."

• Study reveals a 1990s arts boom in the Northwest Seattle Times, Monday, February 1, 1999 by Melinda Bargreen

  The results of (Seattle's) arts boom, in dollars and cents ... has just been tallied by a comprehensive new Corporate Council for the Arts (CCA) study on the economic impact of the arts and cultural organizations in King and Pierce counties. The study shows the arts in King County alone spawning $338.2 million annually in business sales (up by 62 percent since a similar 1992 survey) and $170.8 million in labor income, up by 54 percent.

• Turning region's nest eggs into community assets, Seattle Times, Sunday, May 25, 1997; by Mindy Cameron (editorial)
• Spare a dime for the arts? Corporations heed the call for help but a deluge of requests forces some to tighten their rules, Seattle Times April 28, 1997.

• Suzanne Sato influences AT&T donations to the arts, Seattle Times, April 28, 1997.

Literature:

Baumol, William J. and W.G.Bowen. Performing Arts: The Economic Dilemma. New York: 20th Century Fund, 1966.

DiMaggio, P.J., The Non-profit Instrument and the Infleunce of the Marketplace on Policies in the Arts, in: W. McNeil Lowry, ed., The Arts and Public Policy in the United States, Englewood Cliffs, N.J. Prentice Hall, 1984, pp. 57-99.

James Heilbrun & Charles M. Gray, The Economics of Art and Culture. Cambridge University Press. 1993.

Heilbrun, James, Art and Culture as Central Place Functions, Urban Studies 29(2), 1992, 205-15.

Netzer, D., The Subsidized Muse. New York: 20th Century Fund, 1978.

Sternberg, Rolf, FANTASY, GEOGRAPHY, WAGNER, AND OPERA, Geographical Review, July 1998, Vol. 88 (3), pp. 327-348.

Consultants:

• TEST (Yorkshire [UK])