The Upper Peninsula Arts and Culture Alliance (the Alliance) is pleased to announce its participation in Arts & Economic Prosperity 6 (AEP6), the most comprehensive economic impact study of the nonprofit arts and culture industry ever conducted in the United States.
Administered by Americans for the Arts, AEP6 will examine the economic impact of the arts and culture in the Alliance and 386 additional communities representing all 50 states and the District of Columbia.
The Alliance encompasses all 15 counties of the Upper Peninsula, with a goal of making arts and culture more visible, more connected, and more celebrated, as part of the broader fabric of regional U.P. Development.
The Arts & Economic Prosperity® series is conducted approximately every five years to gauge the economic impact of spending by nonprofit arts and culture organizations and the event-related spending by their audiences.
In 2017, AEP5 documented that the nonprofit arts and culture industry generated $166.3 billion in economic activity (spending by organizations plus the event-related spending by their audiences) which supported 4.6 million jobs and generated $27.5 billion in government revenue. The AEP series demonstrates that an investment in the arts provides both cultural and economic benefits.
Over 1,200 audience-intercept surveys will be collected from attendees at arts and cultural events in the U.P. now through April 2023—in total, the national sample is anticipated to surpass 250,000 surveys. A survey of nonprofit arts and culture organizations will occur from January through April 2023. The national and local findings will be made public in September 2023.
At that time, the U.P. Alliance will receive a customized report on the unique economic impact results for the U.P., including the number of jobs that are supported and the amount of government revenue that is generated by our community’s nonprofit arts industry.
For more information and a list of the communities participating in the AEP6 study, visit www.americansforthe arts.org/AEP6.
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