Arts and Theater Advocacy Links

http://www.americansforthearts.org Americans For The Arts contains downloadable PowerPoint presentations, reserarch abstracts, policy updates, advertising and marketing ideas, and resources for the ART. ASK FOR MORE campaign.

http://www.artsedge.kennedy-center.org/champions/ contains the report "Champions of Change: The Impact of The Arts on Learning" which found clear evidence that sustained involvement in particular art forms—music and theater—are highly correlated with success in mathematics and reading. While learning in other disciplines may often focus on development of a single skill or talent, the arts regularly engage multiple skills and abilities. Engagement in the arts—whether the visual arts, dance, music, theatre or other disciplines—nurtures the development of cognitive, social, and personal competencies. Moreover, high arts participation makes a more significant difference to students from low-income backgrounds than for high-income students. The executive summary and the full document are available to download from the Presidents Committee on Arts and Humanities and ArtsEdge .

http://www.pcah.gov/gaa/ "Why Your Child Needs the Arts Advantage and How to Gain It" is a brochure that highlights the findings of the two-year study reported in Gaining the Arts Advantage: Lessons from School Districts that Value Arts Education which identifies interrelating factors that contribute to the creation of strong, district-wide arts education. An executibve summary and a full document to download are available here from the Presidents Committee on Arts and Humanities.

The "The Atlanta Journal-Constitution" ran a sidebar entitled "Art vs. Sport" which crushed the assumption that professional sports were financially more beneficial to a community than the arts. Here is the text of that article.

http://www.artslynx.org/aotl/ --has many links to articles on economic impact of the arts and arts spending

http://arts.endow.gov/pub/ResearchReports.html and
http://arts.endow.gov/pub/ResearchNotes.html and
http://arts.endow.gov/pub/ResArticles.html-- dozens of reports, abstracts and articles hosted by the National Endowment for the Arts;
and here is their general Publications page: http://arts.endow.gov/pub/

http://artswire.org/~aaa/fact.html - fact sheet on economic impact of the arts from ArtsWire, another great resource.

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