ART
WORKS : THE CREATIVE INDUSTRIES REPORTS
The Creative Industries are
composed of arts-centric businesses that range from
nonprofit museums, symphonies, and theaters to for-profit
film, architecture, and advertising companies. The
creative industries are the high-octane fuel that drives
the “information economy” – the
fastest growing segment of the nation’s economy.
The Creative Industries Reports offer a research-based
approach to understanding the scope and economic
importance of the arts. You can receive a report
for your county at no cost, thanks to our partnership
with Americans for the Arts (AFTA).
Americans for the Arts produced the Creative
Industries data by gathering information on
businesses from Dun & Bradstreet (D&B),
a global corporation with the resources to track
all kinds of businesses and industries. Only
those business that are registered with D&B
get counted among the Creative Industries, so even
though the South Carolina Arts Alliance has promoted
registration and the South Carolina Arts Commission
now requires a D&B number from all grant applicants,
we know that these are very conservative figures. All
arts organizations and artists need to register
with D&B. There is no cost and it only
takes a few minutes by phone or at the D&B
web site.
Nationally, the 2006 Reports state that there
are 548,000 businesses in the U.S. involved in the
creation or distribution of the arts that employ
2.9 million people – 4.3% of all businesses
and 2.2% of all employees. The creative
industries have remained strong in comparison to
business trends nationally. Between 2004 and
2006, a time when the total number of U.S. businesses
dropped 0,2%, arts businesses decreased just 0.12%. Similarly,
while employment nationally fell 5.6% during the
same time period, arts employment dipped just 3.7%.
FOR
YOUR COUNTY’S CREATIVE INDUSTRIES
REPORT, GO TO:
www.scartsalliance.net/creativeindustries
The
2007 statistic should be out in early 2008.
Advocacy
Day | What
to Expect@Advocacy Day | Advocacy
Workshop
Advocacy is Everyday | Preparation | Talking
Points |Advocacy
Update | National
Arts UpdateNational
Arts Advocacy Day | Tell
Your Story | Creative
Industry Reports | Economic
ImpactLegislative
Arts Caucus | General
Assembly Information | Sample
Letters to Legislators
