The Arts Research Monitor provides synopses of qualitative and quantitative arts research projects. The Monitor is available here in pdf form, while our new web resource - ArtsResearchMonitor.com provides categories, quick links and easy search access to all individual Arts Research Monitor articles.
The synopses of qualitative and quantitative research findings in the Arts Research Monitor can be applied to:
arts and culture management; advocacy; business, strategic and career planning; communications; policy making; and program design.
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In this issue: a focus on international trade and foreign policy, including Hill Strategies’ analysis of data from Statistics Canada on international trade in culture goods and services as well as reports on the role of culture in Canadian foreign policy and public diplomacy.
In this issue: a number of reports on culture employment in Canada, including a Statistics Canada examination of culture occupations in non-cultural sectors, a study of a potential policy framework for creative labour, and reports on professional development in Ontario’s cultural sector.
In this issue: four reports related to arts attendance, including an American study of the intrinsic impacts of performance attendance, a Canadian examination of the social impacts of performing arts attendance, a study of attendees’ motivations, abilities and opportunities to participate, and a report on the demographic and cultural factors involved in performing arts attendance in Canada.
This special issue of the Arts Research Monitor provides a brief summary of some key issues explored at the Visual Arts Summit, held in Ottawa from November 25 to 27, 2007. The first gathering of its kind since 1941, over 450 people assembled to engage in discussions about the visual arts in Canada. Participants included artists, collectors, art dealers, arts writers, publishers, art historians, teachers, critics, curators, corporate leaders, arts service organizations and public sector funders. A more thorough summary of the Summit proceedings, prepared for the Canadian Museums Association and the Summit partners by Hill Strategies Research, will be available in the spring of 2008.
In this issue: a number of Canadian reports related to reading, publishing and literacy, including a detailed profile of the retail book market, an examination of demographic and cultural factors involved in book reading, statistics regarding youth literacy and a report on adult reading skills.
arts and culture management;
