Below is a list of our D’Art research topics. The topics are grouped into four themes: Artists, Arts Policies, Operational Policies and Statistics. Each topic has its own page where you can find the D’Art report (or the topic description) and resources ‘tagged’ by the IFACCA team. We welcome suggestions for additional resources at info@ifacca.org.
IFACCA’s research and other resources about the ways that government policies support or impact on professional artists.
Artists' remuneration
Research on policies that suggest standardised rates of pay for performing artists, as well as creative artists associated with performance.
Defining artists for tax and benefit purposes
How do governments around the world determine whether or not a person is a ‘professional’ artist for tax and benefit purposes? D'Art report number 1.
Legal services for the creative sector
Research into models of government intervention legal services that exist internationally.
Mobility: Artists' international mobility programs
Our D'Art report number 17 examines policies and strategies for international artists’ mobility and considers the different 'stakeholder' points of view.
Older artists: policies and programs of support for senior artists
Includes D'Art report number 28, which outlines a selection of policies and programs that provide support to senior artists.
Status of the artist legislation
Research and review of status of the artist legislation and policies around the world.
IFACCA’s research and other resources about policies for supporting arts and culture.
Arts advocacy
IFACCA is researching national arts advocacy campaigns to identify their key success factors, challenges, strengths and weaknesses with a view to exploring the development of a coordinated international campaign to promote the value of the arts.
Associations of arts managers
Research into associations of arts/culture managers.
Audience development initiatives
Research on audience development initiatives, policies and funding programs
Awards: Government honours for artists
In July 2012, IFACCA sought the assistance of its members in providing information on what types of government awards exist for artists, and how they are administered. This followed a query received from Roisín McDonough, the Chief Executive of the Arts Council of Northern Ireland, regarding government honour systems for artists.
Copyright management systems
D’Art report number 3 that reviews copyright agencies and systems in the USA, Australia, the UK, Ireland, Canada, and internationally.
Creative Intersections: Partnerships between the arts, culture and other sectors
D'Art No. 41, Creative Intersections: Partnerships between the arts, culture and other sectors represents one of the first attempts to research and analyse creative intersections, their forms and structures and the policies that influence them.
Cultural Planning: Toolkits for local cultural planning and provision
Research on local and regional cultural planning toolkits and research, reports or evaluations on the development, management and use of such toolkits.
Culture and Development
Dance: Successful dance policies and programs
D'Art Report number 11 provides a brief summary of dance programs, policies and challenges in various countries.
Design: Government Policies and Support for Design
Research on how arts councils and ministries of culture support and/or fund design.
Disability: Arts and disability policies
D'Art Report number 10 looks at definitions, concepts and the terminology surrounding disability in the arts.
Ecological sustainability
D'Art report 34. Good practice in supporting artists or arts organisations with creative and practical responses to ecological concerns such as environmental sustainability and climate change.
Education: Global research compendium on the impact of the arts in education
The development and publication of 'The Wow Factor: Global research compendium on the impact of the arts in education' and related resources.
Festivals: Assistance to Arts and Culture Festivals
National agency approaches to the support of arts and culture festivals. Includes D'Art report 21 (in English and Spanish).
Global financial crisis and recession: impact on the arts
Research on the likely impacts that the global economic and financial downturn will have on the arts, and policy responses to the downturn.
Human rights, culture and the arts
Intercultural dialogue through the arts and culture
D'Art report 39. This report was based on a survey designed to map views and collect cases of good practice on the (potential) role of intercultural dialogue in the arts and arts policies
International arts activity
Supporting the international activities of artists and arts organisations is a key function for many national arts funding agencies.
International cultural exchange and networking
Networking is about organisations and individuals joining forces and/or building relationships with other organisations and individuals to share knowledge, ‘products’ and experiences and to learn from each other with a common goal in mind [adapted from Networking for learning, ICCO, April 2004].
Major performing arts organisations: a review of the issues for funding agencies
Issues and best practice in the support of large, national, or major performing arts organisations.
Multidisciplinary arts: approaches to funding
The report looks at definitions of multidisciplinary arts, assessment procedures, and resources allocated to supporting the discipline.
Musical instrument banks: online materials
D'Art Report number 8 surveys programs that lend musical instruments such as instrument banks, libraries and loan schemes.
New media arts policy and practice
Identification of policy issues and key personnel.
Philanthropy: Encouraging arts philanthropy: selected resources
This report presents the interim results from IFACCA’s seventh D'Art question on how governments encourage greater philanthropy for the charitable sector through enhanced income tax provisions.
Radio: Regulation of radio music
Research into how common regulation concerning origin and language is, and if there are other cultural policy goals apart from those connected to a language policy.
Regeneration: Arts and culture in regeneration
D'Art report number 25 is an international review that explores the art/culture and regeneration nexus across three key areas of policy interest.
Residencies: International Perspectives on Artist Residencies
There appears to be a worldwide interest in artist residencies, and many government agencies are involved in supporting residency programs and/or the artists that take part in them.
Rural: Cultural development in rural and remote regions
D'Art report number 23 provides an audit of research and information on cultural development in rural and remote areas.
Trends: New Directions in Cultural Policy
How globalisation, shifts in social and economic development, and new forms of communication are generating an array of challenges and opportunities within the cultural field, and on how this is impacting on the development of our societies and nations.
Venues: Performing arts venues infrastructure policies
Research on optimal provision levels of performing arts venues and facilities.
Visual Arts: National visual arts and craft sector associations
An international survey of national non-government organisations that focus on policy development and service provision for visual artists and craftspeople and the industries they operate in. D'Art report number 29.
IFACCA’s research and other resources about policies designed to support good practice in the operation of a national arts funding agency. More resources are available in our Good Practice Guides section.
Conflict of interest policies in arts and culture funding agencies
What policies do national arts agencies use to manage conflicts of interests? D'Art report number 4.
Disability: Arts and disability policies
D'Art Report number 10 looks at definitions, concepts and the terminology surrounding disability in the arts.
Ecological sustainability
D'Art report 34. Good practice in supporting artists or arts organisations with creative and practical responses to ecological concerns such as environmental sustainability and climate change.
Ethics in cultural policy
D'Art report 24. This D'Art was used to help gather information for a project of Finland’s Ministry of Education, Science and Culture on the ethical dimensions of cultural policy.
Global financial crisis and recession: impact on the arts
Research on the likely impacts that the global economic and financial downturn will have on the arts, and policy responses to the downturn.
Grant assessment timeframes
This report analyses the length of time it takes for arts funding agencies to complete a grants giving process. D'Art report number 35.
Heritage: Defining intangible cultural heritage
The Scottish Arts Council and the Scottish Museums Council have commissioned Professor Alistair McCleery to undertake a preliminary study of the issues, both theoretical and practical, in making an inventory of intangible cultural heritage (ICH) in Scotland.
Independence of government arts funding: a review
The paper provides background to the issue of independence of arts support.
Indigenous arts policy
Information about the policy and funding programs administered by national arts funding agencies to support Indigenous arts practice
International cultural exchange and networking
Networking is about organisations and individuals joining forces and/or building relationships with other organisations and individuals to share knowledge, ‘products’ and experiences and to learn from each other with a common goal in mind [adapted from Networking for learning, ICCO, April 2004].
Multi-language literature funding
Research into international arts funding programs where applicants are not required to apply in the nation's 'official' language but can do so in their first language.
Research: Coordination of arts policy research by national governments
A look at how national government arts support agencies approach research. D'Art report number 26.
UNESCO Convention on cultural diversity
The Convention on the Protection and Promotion of the Diversity of Cultural Expressions, adopted by UNESCO in October 2005, entered into force in March 2007. The Convention seeks to strengthen the five inseparable links of the same chain: creation, production, distribution/dissemination, access and enjoyment of cultural expressions, as conveyed by cultural activities, goods and services
IFACCA’s research and other resources about arts and culture statistics and indicators
Government arts expenditure: inter-country comparisons
D'Art report 13. This interim report provides a brief introduction to issues involved in making cross-country comparisons of government expenditures on arts and culture.
Participation: International comparisons of arts participation data
After looking at cultural statistics programs internationally, D'Art Report number 7 reviews seven cross-country comparisons of cultural participation data.
Statistical indicators for arts policy
A discussion paper (D'Art report number 18) that identifies current global resources and work being undertaken to develop cultural indicators and provides a literature review on the topic.
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