Resource Directory

Arts Alliance Illinois is partnering with the Arts Impact Initiative at the University of Illinois’ College of Fine & Applied Arts to understand the roles of art and artists in community development and social well-being to inform practice and policy in Illinois.

• Peoria’s Cultural Assets: Mapping Resources, People, and Meaning
• Chicago’s artist labor force: a comparative perspective
• The Artist Labor Force: a statistical look at Illinois in context of the U.S.
• The Status of Artists and Creative Workers

• California Creative Corps
• Colorado Creative Corps
• Arts Workers in California
• National Collaborative for Creative Work (Herberger Institute for Design and the Arts)

• Creating Healthy Communities Through Cross-Sector Collaboration (University of Florida)
• Art is Work: Policies to Support Creative Workers (American Academy of Arts and Sciences)

• The Arts and Culture Sector’s Contributions to Economic Recovery and Resiliency in the United States (National Assembly of State Arts Agencies (NASAA))
• Transforming the Workforce Development Sector through Arts & Culture (Artplace America)
• Creative Economies and Economic Recovery: Case Studies Report (National Assembly of State Arts Agencies (NASAA))
• To Accelerate our Economic Recovery, Look to the Arts (Governing)
• Creativity Sparks Economic Renewal (National League of Cities)

• Artists in the Workforce: Selected Demographic Characteristics Prior to COVID‐19 (National Endowment for the Arts)
• Arts Managers by Race, Ethnicity, and Gender: 2015‐2019 (National Endowment for the Arts)
• Artists in the Workforce: Selected Demographic Characteristics Prior to COVID‐19 (National Endowment for the Arts)
• Creative Economy State Profiles (National Assembly of State Arts Agencies (NASAA))

• CreativeWorkers.net
• Imaginator Academy