The Artist’s Legacy Toolkit provides guidelines and tips for documenting and archiving your work. It will help you organize and preserve your materials in ways that are practical but neither time-intensive nor expensive.
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The Artist’s Legacy Toolkit provides guidelines and tips for documenting and archiving your work. It will help you organize and preserve your materials in ways that are practical but neither time-intensive nor expensive.
Springboard for the Arts
A compilation of insights, practices, and tools from our collective experiences as artists, as an organization working with hundreds of artists in communities, and from a few of the artist practitioners whom we admire. This is a practical manual for individual artists who would like to begin or deepen this kind of artistic practice – work in and work with community.
National Endowment for the Arts (NEA)
This Arts Data Profile gives national and state-level estimates of artists in the workforce. The figures derive from American Community Survey (ACS) data covering 2015-2019. The ACS is conducted by the U.S. Census Bureau. State-level estimates are available for the total number of artists and for each individual type of artist (workers in any of 13 specific artist occupations).
Creatives Rebuild New York
CRNY launched the “Portrait of New York State Artists” survey in February 2022 to build a portrait of the needs, circumstances, and experiences of artists across New York State. CRNY used data from this survey to conduct advocacy and narrative change work, and to assess whether the funding provided to artists through CRNY’s programs helped meet the needs of individual artists in any substantive or transformational ways.