For the Field
SNAAP provides value to educators, policy makers and funders through publications, events, and more.
DataBriefs
The SNAAP DataBrief provides topical findings useful to arts leaders in higher education and beyond.
2021: Volume 9, Number 2
How COVID-19 Has Impacted the Needed Skills of Arts Graduates
2021: Volume 9, Number 1
How COVID-19 Has Impacted the Needed Resources of Arts Graduates
2020: Volume 8, Number 2
The Internship Divide, Revisited
2020: Volume 8, Number 1
Which Skills Do Founders and Freelancers Need? Unpacking the Entrepreneurial Skills Gap
Reports
SNAAP publishes annual findings based on the results of the SNAAP surveys as well as special reports.
Special Report 2021
Growing Divides: Historical and Emerging Inequalities in Arts Internships
Alexandre Frenette with Gillian Gualtieri & Megan Robinson
Special Report: Spring 2020
Careers in the Arts: Who Stays and Who Leaves?
Dr. Alexandre Frenette & Dr. Timothy J. Dowd, with contributions from Dr. Rachel Skaggs & Dr. Trent Ryan
2017 SNAAP Annual Report
Arts Alumni in Their Communities
Rachel Skaggs with Alexandre Frenette, Sally Gaskill, & Angie L. Miller
2015, 2016 & 2017
Aggregate Frequency Report
Strategic National Arts Alumni Project
Conferences
The 2021 SNAAP Research Sympoisum, Learning from Arts Alumni: Supporting Careers and Addressing Inequities, will take place on October 20 – 22.
The second 3 Million Stories conference took place March 3 – 5, 2016 in Tempe, AZ.
The first SNAAP conference (March 2013) brought together arts educators, policy makers and funders to investigate the arts school of the 21st century: “3 Million Stories: Understanding the Lives and Career of America’s Arts Graduates.”
SNAAP also offers workshops to institutions to assist them in using their data.
Data Sharing
The extensive, one-of-a-kind SNAAP database (housing survey data from 2008 — 2017) is available to qualified researchers on request. Under participation agreements with SNAAP institutions, data that identifies individual institutions or individuals cannot be shared. A fee may be requested to offset the time that SNAAP analysts will need to strip the data of any identifying information and prepare the data for transmittal. Please contact info@snaaparts.org for more information.
SNAAP is committed to enabling an array of scholarship and research about art and design graduates and will share details in 2023 about ways to access data From the 2022 survey.
The next SNAAP survey will be administered in Fall 2022. * Registration for participation is open now and will remain open until July 31, 2022. * The 2022 draft survey questionnaire is now available to view. * SNAAP’s new model has moved from annual surveying to once every five years.
