NEA Research: Art Works, FY2018 - 0 views
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MiamiOH OARS on 07 Aug 17itled How Art Works, the report offers a framework for studying research topics critical to a broader public understanding of the arts' value and/or impact for individuals and communities. In December 2016, the NEA's research office updated its five-year agenda for 2017-2021, which reflects a tighter focus on Arts Participation and Arts/Cultural Assets as essential research topics. Arts Participation, in the new agenda, remains inclusive of various modes of participation and specific arts activities. These modes are: attending arts events; reading literature; creating or performing art; consuming art via electronic media; and learning in the arts. Arts/Cultural Assets denotes artists and arts workers, arts venues and platforms, and arts organizations and industries. The NEA is interested in research seeking to identify and to examine: * Factors that enhance or inhibit Arts Participation or Arts/Cultural Assets; * Detailed characteristics of Arts Participation or Arts Cultural/Assets, and their interrelationships; * Individual-level outcomes of Arts Participation, including those corresponding with the following domains: o social and emotional well-being o creativity, cognition, and learning o physiological processes of health and healing; and * Societal or community-level outcomes, including those corresponding with the following domains: o civic and corporate innovation o attraction for neighborhoods and businesses o national and/or state-level economic growth