IMPACTS & BENEFITS: RESOURCES

Synthesis of the main impacts and benefits of the arts, Culture pour tous, 2010 (French only).

Why should Government support the arts?
Designed for public arts leaders and advocates, Why Should Government Support the Arts? provides answers to these questions and describes why the arts are an essential public investment. This document invites conversation and reflection about the value of the arts to American communities. It also provides resource material and research citations that any state can use to support its case for the arts. National Assembly of State Art Agencies, US, 2010.

Making the Case for Culture
Making the Case for Culture is a series of six papers that details “how and why” culture is key to our betterment. Creative City Network of Canada, 2006.

Rethinking the social impact of the arts
Study: Towards a new approach to researching the social impacts of the arts. Centre for Cultural Policy Studies de University of Warwick, UK, 2006.

An Architecture of Value
In this thought-provoking essay, the author holds a different light to Gifts of the Muse, the RAND study of arts benefits commissioned by The Wallace Foundation, and sets out a rigorous framework for capturing, mapping and evaluating the intrinsic benefits emanating from the arts experience. Alan Brown, 2006.

Gifts of the Muse: Reframing the Debate about the Benefits of the Arts
In this report documenting the most comprehensive study of its kind, the authors evaluate the strengths and weaknesses of instrumental arguments and make the case that a new approach to understanding the benefits of the arts is needed. RAND Corporation (Kevin F. McCarthy, Elizabeth Heneghan Ondaatje, Laura Zakaras and Arthur Brooks), US, 2005.

So, what’s so great about the voluntary arts?
50 points to make to policy makers and funders
50 points to make to policy makers and funders. Volontary Arts Network, UK, 2005.

Arts Promotion Kit
The materials provided in this kit illustrate why the arts and culture are vital to Canadian life.
Canada Council for the Arts, 2004.

2004 Chalmers Conference Report
This report identifies several arguments about the value of arts and culture, such as their contribution to the wealth and harmony of cities, the importance of creativity in education and the many facets of cultural diversity. Canadian Conference of the arts, 2004.

You want to be part of everything: The arts, community and learning
The report features provocative testimony to youth centered and youth directed arts programs that are creating powerful and supportive communities among young people. Arts Education Partnership, L. Smyth et L. Stevenson, Washington DC, US, 2005.

The Arts as a catalyst for improved learning outcomes for youth in detention
Evaluation of educational programs centered around the implementation of art projects aimed at youth in a detention center in Australia, Carolyn Broadbent, School of Education Australian Catholic University, Canberra, 2003.

Measuring the economic and social impact of the arts: A Review
Overview of arts impact research to complement an UK Arts Council-commissioned review on arts and social exclusion. Michelle Reeves, UK Arts Council, 2002.

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ArtsResearchMonitor
ArtsResearchMonitor.com provides synopses of qualitative and quantitative research findings in the arts and culture. It is useful to artists, arts managers, funders, policy makers, researchers and others with an interest in learning more about the arts and culture. The category Benefits & Impacts as three sections:
Economic impacts of the arts
Health benefits of the arts
Social benefits of the arts

Impact database
Bibliographical resource relating to research on the social and economic effects of arts, culture and major events. Research themes include studies on: arts and culture; arts, culture and education; arts, culture and inclusion; arts and health; arts, culture and audience development; arts, culture and the economy; cultural tourism; major cultural events; and major sporting events, with an emphasis on research published since 2000.

President's Committee on Arts and the Humanities
The President’s Committee on Arts and the Humanities (PCAH) helps to underscore the civic, social, educational, and historical value of arts and humanities in the life of our nation (US).