Advocacy
Business Council for the Arts (BCA) collaborates with strategic partners to inform the business community about issues affecting the growth of arts and culture in North Texas while serving as the hub for collecting economic data to support the region’s arts organizations.
Arts Economic Prosperity Study
Business Council for the Arts is pleased to support Americans for the Arts (AFTA) in their Arts & Economic Prosperity Studies, conducted every 6 years and designed to measure the economic impact of nonprofit arts and cultural organizations across the United States. The most recent Arts & Economic Prosperity 6 (2023) was the eleventh impact study by BCA over the past 26 years, and the third consecutive one with AFTA.
2023
In 2023, BCA released findings from Arts & Economic Prosperity 6 (AEP6) for the North Texas region, an economic and social impact study of North Texas non-profit arts and culture organizations and their audiences. Completed in partnership with Americans for the Arts (AFTA), key findings revealed that during 2022, North Texas non-profit arts and culture organizations and their audiences:
• Generated $1.5 billion in economic activity
• $820 million in spending by the organizations, which leveraged an additional $685 million in event-related spending by their audiences
• Supported 25,174 jobs
• Generated $313 million in local, state, and federal government revenue.
