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2020 Research Fellows
Each of our 2020 SNAAP Research Fellows were awarded $5,000 to support their research into the future prospects of arts graduates.
Meet Our 2020 Researchers
The Effects of High-Impact Educational Practices on Community Engagement of Arts Alumni
Hwang and Kim examine how the experience of community-based, high-impact educational practices (HIPs) during college, in conjunction with the surrounding communities’ arts infrastructure, influences art alumni’s community-engaged activities throughout their careers and lives after graduation.
Jihee Hwang and Junghwan Kim, University of Oklahoma
Parental Educational Attainment and Graduate Degrees
Whitaker and Wolniak look at inclusion and educational attainment in the arts, using SNAAP data to observe the connection between diversity and inclusion and parental education attainment in the arts. Additionally, they analyse the SNAAP cohort of art majors who go on to study business and law.
Amy Whitaker, New York University, and Gregory Wolniak, University of Georgia
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.
