Deadline: 3/30/2020
Amount: $10,000–$100,000
Description:
The purpose of this program is to support research that investigates the value and/or impact of the arts, either as individual components of the U.S. arts ecology or as they interact with each other and/or with other domains of American life. Funding will support research projects that engage with topics that are included in the funding agency’s FY 2017-2021 Five-Year Research Agenda, which is attached as the ResearchAgenda file. In particular, the funding agency is interested in research seeking to identify and to examine:
- Factors that enhance or inhibit arts participation or arts/cultural assets
- Detailed characteristics of arts participation or arts/cultural assets and their inter-relationships
- Individual-level outcomes of arts participation, including those corresponding with the following domains:
- Social and emotional well-being
- Creativity, cognition, and learning
- Physiological processes of health and healing
- Societal or community-level outcomes, including those corresponding with the following domains:
- Civic and corporate innovation
- Attraction for neighborhoods and businesses
- National and/or state-level economic growth