By Any Measure

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

In this podcast,  we meet Tsione Wolde-Michael, the new executive director of the President’s Committee on the Arts and the Humanities (PCAH.) Wolde-Michael talks about her background growing up in the twin cities as a first-generation child born to Ethiopian immigrants, her pull toward history, and her desire to work in public history where she was able to do transformative … [Read more...] about Meet Tsione Wolde-Michael, the Executive Director of the President’s Committee on the Arts and the Humanities (PCAH).

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