Arts & Creative Economic Impact

The following key findings from this analysis offer a first look at the health of many of the city’s arts and cultural organizations before, during, and emerging from the pandemic–illuminating current challenges and bright spots, which resonate with those identified nationally.      

Read about how the NEA helped the arts and cultural sector to recover, rebuild, and reopen in Arkansas after the devastating impact on the arts from to COVID-19.    

This analysis uses Arts and Cultural Production Satellite Account (ACPSA) data at the state level to measure the connection between states’ overall economies and their arts and culture sectors, with a special focus on the "shock" of the Great Recession and its aftermath.    

Read why an investment in artists, creative workers, and arts organizations is vital to the nation’s post-pandemic recovery.    

This study estimates the effects of the COVID-19 crisis on the creative economy, comprised of industries such as film, advertising, and fashion as well as creative occupations like musicians, artists, performers, and designers.    

Explore how arts and cultural economic activity, adjusted for inflation, increased 13.7 percent in 2021 after decreasing 4.8 percent in 2020.