Online resources for arts research?

[Ron Evans]

Hello everyone, hope this finds you well. I am working on creating a list of useful online portals for arts research and/or case studies, and thought this might be an interesting topic for the CRN list. 

What online arts research resources or portals do you consider to be useful? Please share with the group -- I'm happy to create a Google doc with all responses and post it back to the list. Perhaps it would be a useful downloadable resource for CRN members and the field.

Please post full URL and a short description if you can. Here are a couple to get us started: 

http://culturehive.co.uk/ -- Great UK-based online portal with ongoing additions of arts research, case studies, and articles. 

http://www.americansforthearts.org/by-program/reports-and-data/research-studies-publications/americans-for-the-arts-publications/research-reports -- wide range of links to reports and short "one-pagers" that are especially useful for advocacy.

What links do you suggest?

Ron

Ron Evans, Principal
Group of Minds -- Influencing audience behavior via marketing, technology, and consumer psychology
Phone: 408-646-9543 | Website | Linkedin | Twitter (@groupofminds)

[Linda Essig]

Dear Ron (and list members):

Thank you for this opportunity to mention Artivate: A Journal of Entrepreneurship in the Arts. Artivate is an open-access online journal  founded to disseminate new thinking and perspectives on arts entrepreneurship theory, practice, and pedagogy. Artivate is committed to publishing research-based articles and case studies of interest to scholars, artists, and students in the areas of entrepreneurship theory as applied to the arts; arts entrepreneurship education; arts management; arts and creative industries; public policy and the arts; the arts in community and economic development; nonprofit leadership; social entrepreneurship in or using the arts; evaluation and assessment; public practice in the arts.

Direct link: http://artivate.org

Best wishes,

Linda

Professor Linda Essig
Director, Pave Program in Arts Entrepreneurship
Co-editor, Artivate.org
ASU School of Film, Dance, and Theatre
PO Box 872002
Tempe AZ 85287
http://theatrefilm.asu.edu/initiatives/pave/
http://www.artivate.org
http://creativeinfrastructure.org/

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[Ian David Moss]

http://www.giarts.org/category/document-type/other-publications

http://artsed.issuelab.org/home

http://www.artsedsearch.org/

http://muse.jhu.edu/

 

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Hello everyone, hope this finds you well. I am working on creating a list of useful online portals for arts research and/or case studies, and thought this might be an interesting topic for the CRN list. 

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[Kelly Hill]

Hi Ron. Do you know of our Arts Research Monitor? Largely but not exclusively Canadian material:

 

http://hillstrategies.com/resources/arts-research-monitor

 

Cheers,

Kelly Hill

 

Hill Strategies Research

www.hillstrategies.com

www.facebook.com/hillstrategies

www.twitter.com/hillstrategies

Hamilton, Ontario, Canada

877-445-5494

 

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Hello everyone, hope this finds you well. I am working on creating a list of useful online portals for arts research and/or case studies, and thought this might be an interesting topic for the CRN list. 

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[Research Center for Arts and Culture]

Hello All,

www.cpanda.org is still functioning I believe until NEA fully absorbs it.

www.artsandcultureresearch.org 

   especially re:individual artists

Best,

Joan

Joan Jeffri, Director 
Research Center for Arts & Culture
National Center for Creative Aging
4125 Albemarle Street
Washington, D.C. 20016
202-895-9456
www.creativeaging.org/rcac
rc...@creativeaging.org

[james...@gmail.com]

Hi All,

I must also mention www.culturecase.org (and will redouble efforts to promote it given it didn't feature in anyone else's suggestions!)

There is also a directory of good resources here: http://www.culturecase.org/links/

James

www.jamesdoeser.com

[John McInerney]

Google Scholar is a great way to access published articles, it has been very helpful when we have investigated issues and wanted to know what research was out there. http://scholar.google.com/. you can set up alerts for key topics as well. 

our research is here: www.philaculture.org/research

[Renae Youngs]

A few more:

From AFTA - http://impact.animatingdemocracy.org/evaluation-action - annotated resources related to the Animating Democracy program / social impact; browse & search. 

From the informal learning universe (began with science learning, extends somewhat beyond) - http://informalcommons.org/ - lots of full text, citations, instruments, links out to projects, etc. (including connecting to membership of 2,000+ fellow researchers & fans at the sibling site Informal Science.

From museums (again, science origins, but strong/broad focus on exhibition & experience design in general) - http://www.exhibitfiles.org/ - many case studies & reviews, browse easily by tags.  Not necessarily peer reviewed (though I think some may be cross-posted from journals), but good for inspiration & dot-connecting.

RY

Renae Youngs, Director of Research and Evaluation

Minnesota State Arts Board

[David Seals]

Hi Ron and Everyone,

 

Here is where we post our good stuff…

 

TRG Knowledge Center

http://www.trgarts.com/TRGInsights.aspx

TRG’s knowledge center offers case studies, webinars, blog insights, and research reports on subjects like loyalty, pricing, campaign planning, data-driven decision making, and community-building, based on the firm’s 20 years of experience working with arts and cultural institutions of all genres and sizes.

 

David Seals

Director of Network Programs | TRG Arts
719-322-7933

dse...@trgarts.com

90 South Cascade Avenue, Suite 510 | Colorado Springs, CO 80903

FAX:  719-623-0077

 

Find out what’s new at TRG Arts

 

From: cultural...@googlegroups.com [mailto:cultural...@googlegroups.com] On Behalf Of Ron Evans
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[Jennifer Novak-Leonard]

Hello,

I'd like to add The Digest, from the Cultural Policy Center at the University of Chicago: http://culturalpolicy.uchicago.edu/digest/

The Digest "identifies important academic research that is often inaccessible, due to paywalls or jargon, and presents it in summary form for a broad audience of scholars, practitioners, and policymakers. Our immediate goal for The Digest is to make scholarly research more useful outside academia. Long-term, we hope The Digest also informs future research agendas by highlighting important trends and providing a shared reference point for both scholars and practitioners."

To date, the Cultural Policy Center has completed 4 issues (reviewing almost 25 academic journal articles) on the following topics:

1 - Arts Advocacy & Arts Education

2 - Creative Cities in Theory & Practice

3 - Creative Industries & Workers

4 - Digital & Postdigital

More issues/topics are forthcoming!

Jennifer Novak-Leonard

Cultural Policy Center at the University of Chicago

[Research Center for Arts and Culture]

Hi All,
I realize you would like a more extensive description and look forward to your compiled list, a great resource for the field! Best, Joan

www.cpanda.org :

CPANDA, the Cultural Policy & the Arts National Data Archive, is the world's first interactive digital archive of policy-relevant data on the arts and cultural policy in the United States. It was founded in 2001. It is a collaborative effort of Princeton University's Firestone Library and the Princeton Center for Arts and Cultural Policy Studies. The Pew Charitable Trusts ( http://www.pewtrusts.org) underwrote the original development of the archive. The National Endowment for the Arts ( http://www.arts.gov) will be taking over the content sometime in 2014 and the data will be part of a new publicly accessible archive at ICPSR, the National Archive of Data on Arts and Culture (NADAC). The CPANDA site will remain active until then.

 

www.artsandcultureresearch.org :

The Research Center for Arts and Culture, founded in 1985 at Columbia University, provides data and information in service of artists and the arts. Caught between paying homage to the artistic spirit and the almighty dollar, the arts sector must deal with issues of social welfare, censorship, public policy, and arts law and management while simultaneously dedicating itself to the continual development of significant artistic ideas and creations. While arts organizations continue to rise to this challenge, it has become increasingly clear that institutional survival in the arts at the expense of the artists themselves is no survival at all. It is for this reason that artists and arts organizations must be encouraged and aided. Part of this assistance comes in the form of reliable and consistent information, which helps us to understand the needs and objectives of those whom we serve, in their own terms.

Artists, arts institutions, academics, researchers, private funders, policy makers and students all use the Center’s research and resources for a variety of purposes. Although the data are distributed to a wide array of constituents, a frequent request for data comes from individual artists.

These data show that many artists have similar career paths, goals, and obstacles, particularly in relation to their status in society. The RCAC currently resides at the at the National Center for Creative Aging, capitalizing on its studies of jazz musicians, dancers in transition, and visual and performing artists age 62+, capitalizing on its studies of jazz musicians, dancers in transition, and visual and performing artists age 62+.

 

Joan Jeffri, Director
Research Center for Arts & Culture
National Center for Creative Aging
4125 Albemarle Street
Washington, D.C. 20016
202-895-9456
www.creativeaging.org/rcac
rc...@creativeaging.org

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[Sunil Iyengar]

Hi, all. If you have any questions about the NADAC resource (still under development) that Joan mentions below, feel free to e-mail rese...@arts.gov. Or you can ask me directly.

We're in the process of prioritizing arts-related datasets that can be loaded to the repository, as well as designing the overall look, feel, and interactivity of the site. As Joan mentions, we intend to bring over CPANDA, which the good folks at ICPSR are appraising, with eventual recommendations about which datasets to move in which order. CPANDA will be up and running at least until the migration is complete.

On our own website, we're starting to build up a catalogue of arts-related datasets (this term is loosely defined as datasets containing arts or cultural variables, but our initial focus is on the nationally representative), including what we hope are reader-friendly introductions about their usefulness for arts and cultural research. We call these Arts Data Profiles, and there are 3 so far: http://arts.gov/artistic-fields/research-analysis/arts-data-profile-series. Such datasets will be a subset of NADAC.

Other NEA research resources are listed below.

NEA research page: http://arts.gov/artistic-fields/research

NEA research publications going back to the 1970s (search by "Ascending/Descending Order" of titles by alpha or date of release): http://arts.gov/artistic-fields/Research%20%26amp%3B%20Analysis/publications

NEA research convenings: http://arts.gov/artistic-fields/research/research-convenings, and archived video of webinars, etc.: http://arts.gov/artistic-fields/Research%20%26amp%3B%20Analysis/videos

Finally, I should mention the National Endowment for the Arts collection at the National Arts Policy Archive and Library at University of Massachsetts/Amherst: http://scua.library.umass.edu/umarmot/?s=NAPAAL&go=Find

Happy hunting, comrades!

Sunil

Sunil Iyengar
Director | Office of Research & Analysis

National Endowment for the Arts

400 7th Street SW | Washington DC 20506
iyen...@arts.gov | 202-682-5654 (p) | 202-682-5677 (fax)
To join the discussion on how art works, visit the NEA at arts.gov, Facebook, Twitter, Pinterest, iTunes, and YouTube.

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From: cultural...@googlegroups.com [cultural...@googlegroups.com] on behalf of Research Center for Arts and Culture [rc...@creativeaging.org]
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Subject: Re: [cultural-research] Re: Online resources for arts research?

Hi All,
I realize you would like a more extensive description and look forward to your compiled list, a great resource for the field! Best, Joan

www.cpanda.org<http://www.cpanda.org> :
CPANDA, the Cultural Policy & the Arts National Data Archive, is the world's first interactive digital archive of policy-relevant data on the arts and cultural policy in the United States. It was founded in 2001. It is a collaborative effort of Princeton University's Firestone Library and the Princeton Center for Arts and Cultural Policy Studies. The Pew Charitable Trusts ( http://www.pewtrusts.org) underwrote the original development of the archive. The National Endowment for the Arts ( http://www.arts.gov) will be taking over the content sometime in 2014 and the data will be part of a new publicly accessible archive at ICPSR<http://www.icpsr.umich.edu>, the National Archive of Data on Arts and Culture (NADAC). The CPANDA site will remain active until then.

www.artsandcultureresearch.org<http://www.artsandcultureresearch.org> :

The Research Center for Arts and Culture, founded in 1985 at Columbia University, provides data and information in service of artists and the arts. Caught between paying homage to the artistic spirit and the almighty dollar, the arts sector must deal with issues of social welfare, censorship, public policy, and arts law and management while simultaneously dedicating itself to the continual development of significant artistic ideas and creations. While arts organizations continue to rise to this challenge, it has become increasingly clear that institutional survival in the arts at the expense of the artists themselves is no survival at all. It is for this reason that artists and arts organizations must be encouraged and aided. Part of this assistance comes in the form of reliable and consistent information, which helps us to understand the needs and objectives of those whom we serve, in their own terms.
Artists, arts institutions, academics, researchers, private funders, policy makers and students all use the Center’s research and resources for a variety of purposes. Although the data are distributed to a wide array of constituents, a frequent request for data comes from individual artists.
These data show that many artists have similar career paths, goals, and obstacles, particularly in relation to their status in society. The RCAC currently resides at the at the National Center for Creative Aging, capitalizing on its studies of jazz musicians, dancers in transition, and visual and performing artists age 62+, capitalizing on its studies of jazz musicians, dancers in transition, and visual and performing artists age 62+.

Joan Jeffri, Director
Research Center for Arts & Culture
National Center for Creative Aging
4125 Albemarle Street
Washington, D.C. 20016
202-895-9456

www.creativeaging.org/rcac<http://www.creativeaging.org/rcac>
rc...@creativeaging.org<mailto:rc...@creativeaging.org>

On Fri, Sep 19, 2014 at 4:42 PM, Jennifer Novak-Leonard <jno...@uchicago.edu<mailto:jno...@uchicago.edu>> wrote:
Hello,

I'd like to add The Digest, from the Cultural Policy Center at the University of Chicago: http://culturalpolicy.uchicago.edu/digest/

The Digest "identifies important academic research that is often inaccessible, due to paywalls or jargon, and presents it in summary form for a broad audience of scholars, practitioners, and policymakers. Our immediate goal for The Digest is to make scholarly research more useful outside academia. Long-term, we hope The Digest also informs future research agendas by highlighting important trends and providing a shared reference point for both scholars and practitioners."

To date, the Cultural Policy Center has completed 4 issues (reviewing almost 25 academic journal articles) on the following topics:
1 - Arts Advocacy & Arts Education
2 - Creative Cities in Theory & Practice
3 - Creative Industries & Workers
4 - Digital & Postdigital

More issues/topics are forthcoming!


Jennifer Novak-Leonard
Cultural Policy Center at the University of Chicago

On Tue, Sep 16, 2014 at 10:12 AM, <james...@gmail.com<mailto:james...@gmail.com>> wrote:
Hi All,

I must also mention www.culturecase.org<http://www.culturecase.org> (and will redouble efforts to promote it given it didn't feature in anyone else's suggestions!)

There is also a directory of good resources here: http://www.culturecase.org/links/

James

www.jamesdoeser.com<http://www.jamesdoeser.com>
<http://twitter.com/groupofminds>

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