Artistic education matters: survival in the arts occupations

Bille, Trine; Jensen, Søren Sindberg

doi:10.1007/s10824-016-9278-5

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“…In our analysis of British data, the financial case for arts education, in terms of future earnings (and leaving aside exceptionally successful "stars"), is weak. Other nations' artistic labor markets may have different dynamics protecting returns on arts education (e.g., Bille & Jensen, 2016 on Denmark) and it may be the case that arts education is providing valuable skills for other sectors of the economy and other forms of economic activity beyond CCIs (Bridgstock & Cunningham, 2016). Entrepreneurial activity is clearly part of that; the Strategic National Arts Alumni Project data suggest that some 16.1% of arts graduates in the United States claim to have founded a nonprofit or for-profit at some point in their working lives (Frenette & Tepper, 2016).…”

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Cultural Capital: Arts Graduates, Spatial Inequality, and London’s Impact on Cultural Labor Markets

Oakley

Laurison

O’Brien

et al. 2017

American Behavioral Scientist

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This article looks at the degree to which spatial inequalities reinforce other forms of social inequality in cultural labor markets. It does so using the example of London, an acknowledged hub for the creative and cultural industries. Using pooled data from 2013 to 2015 quarters of the United Kingdom's. Labour Force Survey, we consider the social makeup of London's cultural labor force, and reveal the extent to which, rather than acting as an "engine room" of social mobility, London's dominance in fact reenforces social class disparities in cultural employment.

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Cultural Capital: Arts Graduates, Spatial Inequality, and London’s Impact on Cultural Labor Markets

Oakley

Laurison

O’Brien

et al. 2017

American Behavioral Scientist

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“…Bille and Jensen ( 2018 ), using Danish data, examine which factors influence whether an individual is employed in the arts. Their primary finding is that for three of five groups of art occupations, having a college degree in an arts major is a significant predictor of remaining employed in the arts.…”

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Arts majors as entrepreneurs and innovators

2020

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This study examines the role of college graduates with degrees in the arts, STEM, and other creative fields as entrepreneurs and innovators in the US economy. As creativity is a trait of art students and is important for those acting as entrepreneurs and innovators in an economy, arts majors have the potential to play an important role in these areas. Using American Community Survey data, we look to identify arts, STEM, and other creative majors who are working in entrepreneurial occupations, those where self-employment is common, and innovative industries, those that are copyright intensive. As it is possible that the nature of arts occupations may be inherently more entrepreneurial and innovative, we compare arts majors to STEM and other creative majors also likely to work in such occupations. Using logistic regression, we find that majoring in a core arts field more than doubles an individual's likelihood of working in an entrepreneurial occupation or an innovative industry relative to non-creative majors. Other creative majors, like communications and STEM majors, are also associated with an increased likelihood of working as entrepreneurs or innovators. Relative to STEM and other creative majors, majoring in a core arts field is associated with the greatest increase in the likelihood of working in an entrepreneurial occupation and third greatest increase in the likelihood of working in an innovative industry. While arts graduates play an important role in artistic creation, this paper highlights a role for these graduates as entrepreneurs and innovators in the US economy.

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“…Career success in the arts is most often measured in terms of income, with analysts looking to narrowly defined careers and finding wide inequalities (Abbing 2002;Bille and Jensen 2016;Caves 2003;Menger 1999;Montgomery and Robinson 2003;Thompson 2008;Towse 1996).…”

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The Economic World Obverse: Freedom Through Markets After Arts Education

Gerber

Childress

2017

American Behavioral Scientist

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What role does arts education play in artistic activity and income? In light of the rise of university arts education and its effects, especially the changing role of teaching in artistic careers, this paper questions key assumptions of both winner-take-all and economic-worldreversed analyses of artistic careers. While almost all studies of remuneration in the creative arts find that income is highly skewed, these dominant perspectives take an object-oriented view of artistic life that neglects the vast majority of activities that underpin and compose contemporary arts practices. Looking at arts practices more holistically and using the changing status of art teaching as an exemplar of the expanded field of artistic practice, we document the challenges that the rise of arts education present to traditional analyses of artistic careers, income, and success.

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Artistic education matters: survival in the arts occupations

Cited by 42 publications

References 12 publications

Cultural Capital: Arts Graduates, Spatial Inequality, and London’s Impact on Cultural Labor Markets

Cultural Capital: Arts Graduates, Spatial Inequality, and London’s Impact on Cultural Labor Markets

Arts majors as entrepreneurs and innovators

The Economic World Obverse: Freedom Through Markets After Arts Education

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