For Institutions
Advocacy
SNAAP data — both aggregate as well as institutional — are frequently used to advocate for the value of an arts education:
- Within your own institution
- In your local community
- With state and other public sector funders
- With donors and private sector grant makers
Examples
- Raymond Tymas-Jones blogs about how SNAAP findings shed light on the benefits of skills acquired through arts education.
- Steven Tepper writes about artists in the workplace for Fast Company
- Sunil Iyengar analyzes the SNAAP Special Report, “Painting with Broader Stokes: Assessing the Value of an Arts Degree”.
- A Letter to the Editor that uses SNAAP findings to demonstrate the impact of the arts in a community.
- The Dean of the University of Florida, College of Fine Arts uses SNAAP data to talk about the value of arts training on pg 4.
- SNAAP National Advisory Board Members publish op-eds that advocate for arts education based on SNAAP data. Ann Markusen, an economist, writes about important traits of arts graduates.
The Impact of the COVID-19 Pandemic on Arts and Design Alumni
The authors of this report, Dr. Rachel Skaggs, Dr. Jennifer L. Novak-Leonard and Dr. Jeff Barbee, provide insight into arts and design graduates whose work is — or before the pandemic was — in the arts, design, or creative realm by examining their working lives, economic lives, and the skills that they needed to attain or update during the first two years of the pandemic in the United States. This report was supported in part by the National Endowment for the Arts.
