In order to advocate for ourselves and our community we need the tools and resources to do so.

Key Reports about our community:

Stand Up and Be Counted – a 2009 Report on Massachusetts Artists of All Disciplines with national implications:
http://www.artistsunderthedome.org/MA_ArtistsReport2009.pdf

National

• Artists in the Workforce 1990-2005, by the National Endowment for the Arts.
  http://www.nea.gov/research/ArtistsInWorkforce.pdf

New England

• The Creative Economy: A New Definition, A Research Framework for New England and Beyond,  Including An Economic Analysis of New England’s Cultural Industries and Workforce, by the New  England Foundation for the Arts (November 2007).
  http://www.nefa.org/sites/default/files/ResearchCreativeEconReport2007.pdf
• New England’s Creative Economy: The State of the Public Cultural Sector–2005 Update,   by the New England Foundation for the Arts (August 2006).
  http://www.nefa.org/sites/default/files/ResearchNECreatEconUpdate05.pdf

California

• Crossover: How Artists Build Careers Across Commercial, Nonprofit and Community Work, by Ann  Markusen, Sam Gilmore, Amanda Johnson, Titus Levi, and Andrea Martinez (October 2006). 

  http://www.hhh.umn.edu/projects/prie/pdf/crossover.pdf

Massachusetts

• Artist’s Health Care Task Forces’ 1994 Report to Congress, by the Artists Foundation, the Boston Office of Cultural Affairs, and Boston Health Care for the Homeless.   (Excerpts from the report, pp. 11–18.) 

  http://www.kathleenbitetti.com/Pages/CongressReport.html

• Stand Up and Be Counted – a 2009 Report on Massachusetts Artists of All Disciplines:
  http://www.artistsunderthedome.org/MA_ArtistsReport2009.pdf

Minnesota

• Artists Count: An Economic Impact Study of Artists in Minnesota, by Minnesota Citizens   for the Arts (March 2007).

  http://mncitizensforthearts.org/learn/artsresearch/artists-count-2/

Washington

• Artists and the Economy Survey, by Artists Trust (Spring 2009).

  http://www.unctad.org/en/docs/ditc20082cer_en.pdf

Canada

• A Statistical Profile of Artists in Canada, Based on the 2006 Census, by Hill Strategies Research, Inc. (February 2009).  http://www.hillstrategies.com/docs/Artists_Canada2006.pdf
• Artists in Canada’s Provinces and Territories, Based on the 2006 Census, by Hill Strategies  Research, Inc. (March 2009).  http://www.hillstrategies.com/docs/Artists_provinces2006.pdf

Ireland

• Research Into the Living and Working Conditions of Artists in Ireland, by The Arts Council/an  Chomhairle Ealaíon and the Arts Council of Northern Ireland (June 2009). 

  http://www.artscouncil.ie/en/news/news.aspx?article=ee8ed460-4b83-495d-8111-e1a2584f76f8

United Kingdom

• Democratic Culture: Opening up the Arts to Everyone, by John Holden (December 2008).
  http://www.demos.co.uk/publications/democraticculture