It wasn’t public funding, but I wonder if the ArtPlace initiative that wound down in 2020 would make an interesting jumping off point for evaluating creative placemaking : lots of public data about what was done, and one could look for lasting accomplishments, beyond “we did our project.”
It’s not cultural policy per se, but a lot of claims are made (in the UK at least) about how the funding of art schools etc. benefits the wider (private-sector) creative economy: the idea being that creatives take their skills and training with them as they switch careers across the private and public sectors. It might be possible to test this argument through LinkedIn, college alumni associations etc. but I don’t know of anyone doing so.
Thank you Christopher, good question. In the US the SNAAP research program has tried to track art school graduates, and there are estimates of annual earnings of those who stayed in the art they studied and those who went to arts-adjacent jobs or work completely separate from art. I’d like to see more (though I’ve seen some early work) modelling the decision to switch (or not) occupations - hopefully we will see more. Whether there are external effects will also be interesting, though a bear to try to estimate properly.
It wasn’t public funding, but I wonder if the ArtPlace initiative that wound down in 2020 would make an interesting jumping off point for evaluating creative placemaking : lots of public data about what was done, and one could look for lasting accomplishments, beyond “we did our project.”
Yes … it would be interesting to compare to places that sought ArtPlace support but barely missed the cut
It’s not cultural policy per se, but a lot of claims are made (in the UK at least) about how the funding of art schools etc. benefits the wider (private-sector) creative economy: the idea being that creatives take their skills and training with them as they switch careers across the private and public sectors. It might be possible to test this argument through LinkedIn, college alumni associations etc. but I don’t know of anyone doing so.
Thank you Christopher, good question. In the US the SNAAP research program has tried to track art school graduates, and there are estimates of annual earnings of those who stayed in the art they studied and those who went to arts-adjacent jobs or work completely separate from art. I’d like to see more (though I’ve seen some early work) modelling the decision to switch (or not) occupations - hopefully we will see more. Whether there are external effects will also be interesting, though a bear to try to estimate properly.