AEP5 Deadline Extension and the Value of the Arts
From Grace Robinson, Public Information and Research Coordinator —
Good news for TN arts organizations participating in Arts and Economic Prosperity 5 (AEP5) — the organizational survey deadline has been extended to September 30.
This extension now gives you an extra month to go online to www.da.culturaldata.org, create an account if you have not already, login, complete and submit your survey. All answers are confidential and will be submitted electronically directly to the Americans for the Arts (AFTA) and DataArts analysis team.
The organizational survey will ask questions about Fiscal Year 2015, including:
- operating expenses
- facility and equipment costs
- revenue and support
- in-kind contributions
- attendance numbers
- volunteer hours
- paid staff
By taking part in this study, you will be putting into hard data what we in the arts inherently know — the immediate and long-term positive effects arts and culture have on our communities. The data will show economic impact of the arts within specific communities, as well as on a regional, statewide and national level. Once the study is released in the summer of 2017, it will be a valuable tool to be used in conversation with stakeholders and local officials, marketing and promotion strategies and advocacy collateral.
A Colorado paper, the Reporter Herald, recently ran an editorial discussing the value of the arts, citing AFTA’s AEP4 study in 2010:
“Americans for the Arts’ Arts & Economic Prosperity IV study provided similar figures for 2010, reporting that nationally, the industry generated $135.2 billion of economic activity. Of that, $61.1 billion comes from nonprofit arts and culture organizations and $74.1 billion in event-related expenditures by their audiences …
The arts color and mold society in many ways, both commercially and aesthetically.
They indeed add value to the region.”
Click here to read to complete article.
We hope that you will take part in AEP5 by completing the organizational survey online. The contribution of data from each arts and culture organization in Tennessee is vital for the study to truly reflect the breadth and depth of the arts in our state.
If no one in your organization has received communications regarding the survey, please contact me, Grace Robinson at grace.robinson@tn.gov or 615.253.5133; or Carol White at carol.white@tn.gov or 615.253.8914.
