Art for policy and policy for art

The intersection of arts and public policy is three-dimensional. A multitude of direct subsidy, regulatory, and support programs are advocated and managed as "arts policy," but a wide variety of non-arts-targeted realms such as tax law, public education, public health, and urban developmen...

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Published inJournal of public affairs education : J-PAE. Vol. 30; no. 2; pp. 256 - 273
Main Authors Johnstone, Jean, O’Hare, Michael
Format Journal Article
LanguageEnglish
Published Washington National Association of Schools of Public Affairs and Administration 02.04.2024
Subjects
Artists
Arts
Cultural policy
Housing authorities
Markets
Public health education
Public policy
Teaching
Urban development
Valuation
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ISSN1523-6803
2328-9643
DOI10.1080/15236803.2023.2254631

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Summary:The intersection of arts and public policy is three-dimensional. A multitude of direct subsidy, regulatory, and support programs are advocated and managed as "arts policy," but a wide variety of non-arts-targeted realms such as tax law, public education, public health, and urban development and housing programs importantly influence artists and their encounters with their audiences. These interactions, and the complexity and thorniness born of the difficulty of clearly categorizing the arts as either market or non-market goods, as well as our difficulty in their valuation, make a particularly good area for teaching about public policy generally. And finally, policy of all kinds is too important to be made without the insights and guidance of artists, whose job is to show us the society we live in and who we are. Our "Arts and Cultural Policy" course explores this landscape for students in both fields.
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ISSN:1523-6803
2328-9643
DOI:10.1080/15236803.2023.2254631