This one pager features data from Americans for the Arts 2012 Arts & Economic Prosperity IV report providing key figures of the overall economic impact the arts industry provides.

Highlights from the 2015 public opinion poll, Americans Speak Out About the Arts, conducted by Ipsos on behalf of Americans for the Arts. 

Ten Reasons to Support the Arts - 2017 update

Part of the Americans for the Arts Artists & Communities conversation series that pairs veteran community arts leaders with emerging community arts leaders to share their visions for, experiences with, and challenges to making healthy, equitable, vibrant communities through arts and culture. As community-based work receives more recognition, and intersections and collaborations become stronger, these conversations illuminate just how artists and community arts leaders can work to sustain and maintain healthy communities through their practice.

"Arts and cultural economic activity – adjusted for inflation – grew 2.5 percent in 2013, according to estimates of the industries’ real value added by the Bureau of Economic Analysis (BEA). That compares with a 1.1 percent increase in 2012" (Aversa, Kern 2016).

In this infographic by the National Endowment for the Arts and the Department of Commerce, we learn the arts encompass almost half of America's copyright-intensive industries, that the demand for performing arts events has increased over 10% over the last 15 years and that arts, culture and media are some of the U.S.'s most significant exports.