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

2017

Dallas-Fort Worth-Arlington MSA

Download a one-page summary of the results for participating communities in North Texas:

Dallas

Irving