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Facts & Figures
BEA/NEA Arts & Cultural Production Satellite Account (ACPSA)
A collaboration of the U.S. Department of Commerce’s Bureau of Economic Analysis (BEA) and the National Endowment for the Arts (NEA), the ACPSA is the first federal effort to provide in-depth analysis of the contributions of the arts and cultural sectors to the U.S. economy. Data released in March 2021, analyzing 2021 data, revealed the creative sector has a $10.8 billion impact and over 87,000 jobs in Wisconsin, more than the state’s beer industry (63,000), biotech industry (35,000), and papermaking industry (31,000).
Arts and Economic Prosperity 5
In 2016 The Wisconsin Arts Board and Americans for the Arts conducted this comprehensive economic impact study of Wisconsin’s nonprofit arts and culture industry. The study revealed that local nonprofit arts organizations generate $657 million in economic activity annually, resulting in nearly $75 million in local and state tax revenues, 26,695 in full-time equivalent jobs and $555 million in resident income. The AEP 6 survey results will be released in September 2023.
Wisconsin Office of Rural Prosperity
The Blue Ribbon Commission on Rural Prosperity was created by Governor Evers' Executive Order #65 to tap local perspectives on long-term, recent and future economic challenges facing the people, communities and businesses that make rural Wisconsin shine. The Commission’s report was released in December 2020.
This interactive map from SMU/DataArts includes factors that make up a community’s arts vibrancy, and which cities possess them. Providing scores for every county’s Arts Dollars, Arts Providers, Government Support, Socio-economic, and Other Leisure characteristics.
Rural Prosperity through the Arts & Creative Sector
An action guide for 21st-century rural development from the National Governors Association.
Economic Impact of the Arts in Rural Communities
A report produced in November 2017 by the National Endowment for the Arts.
Arts and Culture Are Closer Than You Realize
A report from SMU’s National Center for Arts Research, March 2017