3. What is the value of the arts to the community?

4. How do we make the arts as valuable as possible to the community?

5. How do we make the value of the arts more visible to the community?

6. WHAT PEOPLE CARE ABOUT Government Corporations General Public
Economic development
Infrastructure
Budgets/management
Housing
Public safety
Health and human services
Education
Energy & environment
Data/technology
Demographics
Corporations
Health and social services
Community/economic development
K-12 education
Higher education
Civic & public affairs
Disaster relief
Culture & arts
Environment
General Public
Jobs/economy
Affordable housing
Public safety/crime
Education
Health and wellness
Transportation/ infrastructure
Environment
Race/community relations
Political difference
Immigration
Religions difference

7. ? *
WHAT
ABOUT
THE ARTS
*(not hypothetical)

8. -Alexis de Tocqueville, Democracy in America (1835)
Practical People
A country concerned with “exclusively commercial habits…which seem to divert their minds from the pursuit of science, literature, and the arts.”
In the United States, “the taste for the useful predominates over the love of the beautiful.”
-Alexis de Tocqueville, Democracy in America (1835)

9. ART
Self- Actualization
Esteem
Belonging
Safety
Physiological
ART
ART

10. ABSTRACT vs. SPECIFIC VALUE
37%
will positively consider a pro-arts-funding stance in supporting a candidate
27%
give to the arts
87%
believe the arts are important to quality of life
72%
believe the arts are important to the economy
ABSTRACT
vs.
SPECIFIC
VALUE
When you ask people about the arts in general, most say they’re valuable. And almost everyone is consuming arts and culture.
But when you look at habits of support, and ask about whether they think they’re consuming arts and culture, not so much…

11. Give ’em what they want.

12. A SUPPORTIVE ENVIRONMENT
A PARTICIPATORY COMMUNITY
PRO-ARTS POLICY AND FUNDING
INFORMED CITIZENRY
ENGAGED DECISIONMAKERS

13. Do you favor or oppose government funding of arts and culture to address…
Federal
State
Local
National Endowment for the Arts