Sunil Iyengar

According to results from the 2022 Survey of Public Participation in the Arts (SPPA), 39.9 percent of U.S. adults, or 101.9 million, worked with indoor plants or gardened for pleasure in the course of a year. Despite population growth, this rate is comparable to the share of Americans who gardened five or ten years before. The consistently high rate of gardening, as a … [Read more...] about How Green Is Your Thumb? Gardening, Crafts Linked with Greater Life Satisfaction Early in Pandemic

In this episode, we consider a study about the rise in women authors and what the trend means for innovation in book publishing. A transcript is available here. … [Read more...] about Quick Study: Gender-Inclusive IP Creation Benefits Consumers

The Poetry Out Loud National Finals will be held May 8-10 in Washington, D.C. For those who can’t make it in person, the events will be livestreamed. Although hybrid attendance models are a byproduct of our COVID era, the contest has welcomed virtual audiences for years. The opportunity spotlights poetry’s living heritage as a spoken art form no less than a literary one. It … [Read more...] about New Survey Reports Size of Poetry’s Audience – Streaming Included

In this episode, we look at new statistics from the Bureau of Economic Analysis, showing the pace of recovery for arts and cultural industries from 2020 to 2021. A transcript is available here. … [Read more...] about Quick Study: The Arts’ “Value Added” to GDP

Later this month, the NEA and the Bureau of Economic Analysis will release statistics on how the arts and cultural economy fared in 2021, roughly a year after COVID arrived in the U.S. The new numbers will tell us which industries have recovered, which are still ailing, and which remain surprisingly robust. The health metaphor is apt, if predictable: one of the quickest ways … [Read more...] about Arts and Well-Being Data for a New Policy Era