Creative Industries Study

In today’s ArtForum News:
Study Reveals Nation’s Most Art-Saturated Cities

The nonprofit organization Americans for the Arts has released its first national Creative Industries Study, which analyzes in detail the locations of arts-related businesses, institutions, and organizations in all fifty states and the District of Columbia. The study reveals that eleven metropolitan areas have more than ten thousand arts-related businesses, institutions, and organizations (both for-profit and nonprofit) each: New York tops the list with 54,895, with Los Angeles following close behind. But when ranked per capita, the metropolitan area with the highest number of arts-related businesses, institutions, and organizations is Seattle, followed by San Francisco.

Read the full report: Americans for the Arts.

Did you notice that three of the cities mentioned here are on the west coast?

I wonder if a similar study has been done of Canadian cities and how would they compare? Vancouver and Seattle are often compared because of similar climate and size, how about the arts?

June 30, 2004 in Culture by Marja-Leena