Conducts business workshops and other events for arts organizations. An excellent local resource for best-business practices in the arts.

The NNAC works to build healthy, viable Chicago art communities.

First large-scale survey of teaching artists.  Focus of research is on their lives and work.  The research is to inform policy designed to make their work sustainable, more effective, and more meaningful. 

Advances policy ideas designed to democratize the arts, understand how they contribute to community vitality and the practice of democracy, use the arts to build community and develop the voices of all citizens, and provide full and inclusive opportunities for participation and expression.

RAND is building a research capability in the arts to provide useful data and analysis to policymakers, arts practitioners, and the academic community.

A collection of reports and studies with insights that organizations can use to build and sustain participation in their programs and activities.

Advocacy and research organization with a nationwide reach. Some arts research studies available, most notably the U.S. Artists Report.