Indianapolis' arts organizations are grappling with the challenge of developing younger audiences. This is a national phenomenon. Why is it happening, and what can the Indianapolis arts community do to develop next-generation patrons?
Newly released findings from the most comprehensive economic impact study of the nonprofit arts and culture industry ever conducted in the United States provide compelling evidence that nonprofit arts organizations generate valuable economic activity in communities across the country.
Arts & Economic Prosperity provides compelling new evidence
that the nonprofit arts are a significant industry in Indianapolis—one that
generates $294.4 million in local economic activity...This economic impact study sends
a strong signal that when we support the arts, we not only enhance our quality of life,
but also invest in Indianapolis’s economic well being.
