From IDS reports
Two IU professors received a new grant from the National Endowment for the Arts to research economic issues facing artists today, according to an IU press release.
The professors, Doug Noonan and Joanna Woronkowicz, both from the School of Public and Environmental Affairs, will use the $15,000 research grant to answer the questions “What was the effect of the Great Recession on the employment of artists and how have they fared during the recovery?” and “How do crowd funding campaigns for arts projects differ in their results from similar campaigns for technology and other non-arts projects?”
Noonan and Woronkowicz‘s research is one of only 19 projects chosen by the NEA for its Research: Art Works program, according to the release.
The project will take data from the U.S. Census Bureau’s Current Population Survey and from popular crowdfunding websites like Kicksarter and Indiegogo.
“We want to better understand the role of artists in creating economic value,” Noonan said in the release. “We want to develop data that shows the impact of artists on the economic fabric of society.”
Both Noonan and Woronkowicz will work with data from the 2003-2014 Current Population Surveys and the crowdfunding sites from 2009-2014 to make their research conclusions.
“We want to better understand the role of artists in creating economic value,” Noonan said in the release. “We want to develop data that shows the impact of artists on the economic fabric of society.”
“We want to better understand the role of artists in creating economic value,” Noonan said in the release. “We want to develop data that shows the impact of artists on the economy.”
Suzanne Grossman
