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Friday, June 20, 2008
(Nearly) Starving Artists
Posted by kelly
"If every artist in America's work force banded together, their ranks would be double the size of the United States Army," notes
New York Times
writer Sam Roberts, reporting on a recent
nationwide artist profile released by the National Endowment for the Arts
(NEA). According to the report, in 2005, the primary employment of nearly 2 million Americans fit the criteria for an artist occupation—including architects, interior designers and window dressers in addition to fine artists—which earned them a median income of $34,800 (more than the national average of $30,100, but well under the average for "professionals"). Another 300,000 people said being an artist was their second job.
The NEA report confirms that these numbers represent a growing (nearly triple since 1970), vital, but underappreciated population. NEA chairman Dana Gioia, himself a poet, has a unique solution to the problem of underemployment of artists: Put them to work in our schools.
Click here
to download the report.
From
Artists in the Workforce
(Research Report #48), courtesy of the National Endowment for the Arts
Overheard
6/20/2008 1:48:30 PM (Eastern Daylight Time, UTC-04:00)
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