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Createquity: Arts Policy Library
Every year, hundreds of research studies, books, evaluation reports, and other texts examining the impact of the arts on individuals and communities are published. In many instances, this literature is the product of an exhaustive investment of hundreds of hours of time and tens of thousands of dollars or more from foundations, universities, or the authors themselves. Yet if only a few dozen or hundred specialists ever actually end up reading the works from start to finish, what is the true impact? Most busy arts professionals, to say nothing of casual observers, don’t have time to make it all the way through even one of these documents, much less evaluate their methodology and put them into context with other research.
Enter the Createquity Arts Policy Library, which has two important goals: first, to bring greater attention to the important ongoing work in the field of arts research; and second, to synthesize (not just summarize) it for a lay audience.
To do this, each text is analyzed in three parts: first, a summary of what it says, boiled down into no more than a few paragraphs; second, an analysis of the strength of its arguments, looking at everything from statistical sampling methods to the relevance of the questions it seeks to answer; and finally, an attempt to deduce what new information the text gives us in light of the other work we’ve already read, picking out broad themes or trends that may be of interest.
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