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The AIC offers information to citizens, community leaders, and elected officials regarding the impact of arts on business, on our neighborhoods, on individuals, and on our quality of life. The AIC has developed an audience economic impact survey, which is now being distributed at regional arts events and festivals. The findings are summarized and published by the AIC annually.
ARTS Facts & Figures (NASAA)
- In fiscal year 2006, state arts agencies invested $327.5 million in creating and sustaining arts infrastructures in communities across the nation. Source: National Assembly of State Arts Agencies, Legislative Appropriations Annual Survey, FY 2006.
- America's nonprofit arts industry generates $134 billion in economic activity every year, including $24.4 billion in federal, state and local tax revenues. Source: Americans for the Arts, Arts & Economic Prosperity, 2002.
- The creative sector, whose economic function is to create new ideas or creative content, employs 38 million Americans, or 30 percent of all employed people. Source: Richard Florida, The Rise of the Creative Class, 2002.
- In 2005, more than 578,000 businesses were involved in the production or distribution of the arts and these businesses employ almost 3 million people. Source: Americans for the Arts, Creative Industries 2005: The Congressional Reports, 2005.
- Americans donated more than $13.99 billion to the arts in 2004 through individual giving, estates, foundations and corporations. Source: Giving USA Foundation, Giving USA, 2005.
- More than half of U.S. adults participate in cultural tourism. In 2002, cultural tourists spent an average of $166 more per trip than tourists not participating in cultural activities. Source: Travel Industry Association of America, The Historic/Cultural Traveler, 2003.
- American consumers spent $12.1 billion ($42 per person) on admissions to performing arts events in 2002. Source: National Endowment for the Arts, The Performing Arts in the GDP, 2002.
- More people are attending live performing arts events than professional sporting events in 10 major communities across the United States. Source: Performing Arts Research Coalition, The Value of the Performing Arts in Ten Communities, 2004.
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