The teams from Creatives Rebuild New York (CRNY) and Artists At Work (AAW) collaborated to explore for portable benefits and other worker protection solutions tailored to the unique needs of artists and creative workers. This Snapshot is meant to inspire state and local government, philanthropy, researchers, and policymakers to further investigate the possibility of portable benefits for artists.

“Paying for Professionalism 2025: A Report on New York City Teaching Artist Compensation & Employment” provides a comprehensive overview of the financial and employment landscape for Teaching Artists in New York City. The report explores various aspects of Teaching Artist work, including compensation models, benefits, career sustainability, and challenges faced by these professionals.

IllumiNative was a Native woman-led racial and social justice organization dedicated to increasing the visibility of—and challenging the narrative about—Native peoples. NOTE: The organization sunset at the end of 2024, but the website remains with research, guides, podcasts, and other resources.

Beyond Barriers to Progression & Employment in Dance for Disabled People is a research study evidencing the barriers that disabled people experience when working in dance and one that aims to initiate wider discussions and actions across the dance sector to better support the progression and employment of disabled people. Findings are offered in a wide range of formats including long text, short text, audio, animated film, and BSL.

CRNY launched the Portrait of New York State Artists survey between February and May 2022 to build a comprehensive picture of the needs, circumstances, and experiences of artists across New York State. Explore the data through an interactive tool.

The Worlding Difference Knowledge Platform showcases the collaborative work of disabled, D/deaf, Mad, aging, e/Elder, and fat artists and scholars, including learning modules and artistic work.

Whiteness Project is conducting interviews with people from all walks of life and localities in which they are asked about their relationship to, and their understanding of, their own whiteness. Each video interview is paired with a statistic that provides a greater societal context and offers an opportunity for self-reflection by the audience on their own thoughts about race.

Helicon Collaborative’s newest research on funding patterns at national and local levels and the demographics of decision-makers in the nonprofit cultural sector.

This project came out of a series of conversations among disabled access workers whose advocacy, counsel, expertise, and labor specifically focused on transforming cultural spaces in the US to be disability-centered. We aimed to collect, document, and share current pay rates to build collective power and create clearer industry standards.

An unprecedented research campaign designed to increase our understanding of the dominant narrative about Native Americans in the United States. The research included literature reviews and environmental scans, focus groups with a variety of populations across the country, countless interviews with a range of audiences, a deep-dive social listening exploration, and more.

The map is a living document, informed by the contributions of Indigenous communities, Indigenous knowledge holders and their stories.

ArtsEdSearch is the nation’s hub for research on the impact of arts education, including dance education. A project of the Arts Education Partnership, ArtsEdSearch is an online clearinghouse of research focused on the outcomes of arts education for students and educators, both during and outside the school day.