Changes in Urban Nonprofit Arts Institutions, 2012-2019

      This paper examines changes in the size of the nonprofit arts sector in US cities with populations between 100,000 and 300,000 people over the period from 2012 to 2019. Broadly, its objective is to discover which cities are more likely to have growing, stagnant, or shrinking nonprofit arts sectors. By examining several potential covariates such as mean income and age of the cities, the study aims to better understand why cities are more or less likely to foster active communities of artists.