WyAA Data Roundup

Background

Leading up to 250^th anniversary of America in 2026, WyAA is assembling partners and supporters to conduct a series of engagements throughout 2024-2025 that will provide insight into the opportunities for cultural organizations in Wyoming while developing a greater unified voice for the state’s arts and culture sector.

This effort is designed to build on what we already know: The arts and cultural industries are an economic engine that bring people together,—contributing $1.2B to Wyoming’s economy, employing 1 in 25 Wyomingites, and offering a large and growing potential for economic diversification and quality of life for the places that Wyoming families love to live, learn, work, and play.

Tentative Timelines & Key Dates

2024 ROUNDUP
Planning Phase (January-March)
Listening Phase (March-July)
Convening Phase (July-October)

Select Resources

Surveying Your Arts Audience (A NEA Research Division Manual)

Taking Out The Guesswork: A Guide to Using Research to Build Arts Audiences by Bob Harlow

NASAA – Interactive Map of State Creative Economy Studies

NASAA – Creative Economy State Profiles

Wyoming Arts Alliance – The Soul of A Community (2016)

National Governors Association – Rural Prosperity Through The Arts & Creative Sector

Harvard Growth Lab – Wyoming Growth Perspective (2023)

Wyoming SoS – Business Database Download

WESTAF – Creative Vitality Suite