Local Arts Index
The Local Arts Index is a federal project coordinated by Americans for the Arts (AFTA). This is the first project of its kind, and it is designed to complement the National Arts Index – an annual measure of the health and vitality of the arts in the United States. The Local Arts Index is also designed to provide a common language around describing local conditions and facilitate the ability to make cross-community comparisons.
Primary and secondary data will include nonprofit and commercial arts activity for twelve indicators:
- Performing arts venues
- Local ownership of local cultural resources
- Local literary scene
- Arts festivals
- Provision of arts education
- Performance and presentation opportunities for young artists
- Coverage of local arts and culture in print media
- Reputation of artistic reach
- Tourism draw of local arts and culture
- Nightlife and the arts
- Tourism marketing of the arts
- Ethnic groups in the cultural life of the community
- Public art
- Exhibition spaces
