Situation of artists / Dance / Multidisciplinary arts
Volume 16 No 7 / November 22, 201722 November 2017
In this issue: Highlights from four reports that examine different aspects of the working lives, incomes, and training of artists, including reports on Canadian dance performers, Canadian multidisciplinary artists and collectives, entrepreneurship training for American artists, and the relationship (if any) between socioeconomic status and access to a professional arts career.
Resources
Who can afford to be a starving artist?
Arts Research MonitorDrawing on the results of a variety of mostly American surveys, this brief article argues that there are “troubling signs that socioeconomic status does correlate with access to a professional arts career”.For example, an American study f… View this resource
Career Skills and Entrepreneurship Training for Artists
Arts Research MonitorThis report, based on responses from 26,200 alumni of arts programs in 43 American institutions, provides “insights into the current state of career skills and entrepreneurship education in arts schools”. The author argues that “bui… View this resource
Rewilding the arts ecosystem
Arts Research MonitorBased on 11 case studies of Canadian artists, collectives, and organizations engaged in multidisciplinary practices, this report identifies “key characteristics of multidisciplinary approaches … to develop and sustain their practices, ac… View this resource
Professional dance performers in Canada in 2016
Arts Research MonitorThis survey of 532 Canadian dance performers examines “their dance work, their demographic and family situation, their working lives and incomes, their health and well-being, as well as their career development and transitions”. The surve… View this resource
Other Resources
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