A new National Endowment of the Arts study has looked back into the data from the 2008 Survey of Public Participation in the Arts. Expanding the definition from “benchmark” activities (like going to the opera) to the creation and viewing of art or art-related content digitally has yielded a radically different picture of American’s relationship to the arts.
The new definition shows a three-fold increase in the number of Americans taking part in art: from one in four to three in four.
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three reports: “Arts Education in America: What the declines mean for arts participation” by Nick Rabkin and E.C. Hedberg; “Beyond Attendance: A multi-modal understanding of arts participation” by Jennifer L. Novak-Leonard and Alan S. Brown; and “Age and Arts Participation: A case against demographic destiny” by Mark J. Stern.
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