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Arizona Commission on the Arts Appropriations Per Capita

Arizona Ranks 48^th in Legislative Arts Appropriations

Legislative appropriations provide core support for Arizona art organizations, enhancing quality of life for residents and bolstering the vitality of Arizona’s creative economy. Unfortunately, Arizona ranks 48^th in arts appropriations per capita spending only $0.30 per capita. As recently at 2002, Arizona ranked 25^th on this measure.

Arizona Culture

“ We believe the American Recovery and Reinvestment Plan's arts and culture sector can improve our economic condition. ” - Jack Lytle, Theater Works member, as published in The Arizona Republic, February 6, 2009

Cultural vitality is a major component of quality of life and economic prosperity. Arizona’s myriad art and culture activities showcase the state’s diversity and uniqueness and help create a place that people want to visit or call home. However, developing and sustaining a distinctive cultural identity requires fiscal and community support.

In this section, you will find indicators that measure Arizona’s cultural opportunities and participation, economic productivity, funding, and civic engagement.

Morrison Institute - AZ Views

The Arizona Indicators Panel is a statewide representative sample of Arizonans. Panel members have agreed to be surveyed online several times a year across many topic areas. This enables great depth and exploration of topics with the same sample group and solves some of the problems experienced in random sample telephone surveys. The results reported here come from two rounds of panel questions and were collected in May and July 2008.

Featured survey results on quality of life and personal time:

Most Arizonans say they have a good quality of life, but this varies with income, ethnicity, education, and age.
Issues of importance to the quality of life are basic ones: Public safety and crime, health care, and the economy. It seems that we've largely delivered on these.
Arizonans value and involve themselves in a wide variety of activities and pursuits but value most those that strengthen their family relationships, keep them healthy, and involved exercise (most often outdoors).
45% regularly attend one or more self-defined cultural events and 77% regularly participate in at least one self-defined past-time.

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