How Do Arts and Culture Impact Michigan?
The Michigan Department of History, Arts and Libraries (HAL), in
partnership with various cultural stakeholders, is actively engaged
in cultural economic development. As a means of evaluating its cultural
economic development accomplishments and the performance of Michigan's
cultural sector, HAL and Michigan State University (MSU) are spearheading
the development of a Cultural Economic Development Tool (CEDOT),
the first online system of its kind in the nation.
Although Michigan's cultural sector is a key economic driver, it
lacks an accessible, uniform, scientific-based method for collecting,
measuring, managing, analyzing and reporting data related to its
market and non-market value(s). This makes it difficult to affirm
and articulate: (1) the cultural sector's value to different stakeholders,
including elected officials; (2) the cultural sector's capacity
to contribute to community and economic development; and (3) the
contribution of HAL's cultural economic development strategy. The
cultural sector does not have access to current information about
the size of the cultural market or the preferences and behaviors
of cultural consumers, including cultural tourists, and there is
no information to reliably assess the performance of the sector
in terms of income and market share or the well-being of organizations
and creators.
How Can
You Contribute?
A very important
part of CEDOT is the recruitment of eight online panels of voluntary
respondents from Michigan's cultural sector. Those panels include:
(1) Artists, (2) Arts Education Organizations, (3) Distributors/Retailers
(of visual arts), (4) Fair & Festival Producers, (5) Historic
Preservation, (6) Libraries, (7) Library Users, and (8) (other arts)
Organizations. Once the panels have been recruited, the panelists
will be contacted periodically with online surveys requesting current
information about their markets, suppliers, and other critical factors,
thereby enabling HAL to monitor the performance of the cultural
sector in Michigan.
Signing up to participate in one or more of
the CEDOT panels is how you can help. Your participation,
along with the participation of others, is crucial to the ability
to measure the value of Michigan's cultural sector and to demonstrate
that value to policymakers in the state.
Registering
for a CEDOT Panel
Participation
on a panel is voluntary. There is no cost to you to participate,
only the time needed to register for a panel and to respond to future
online surveys. Your privacy will be protected to the maximum extent
allowable by law, and your email address and other contact information
will not be distributed to any individual, organization, or company.
You may withdraw from a panel at any time, and you do not have to
answer particular questions on the registration form on or any of
the panel surveys.
If you have any questions about CEDOT or the online panels, feel
free to contact the research team (Ed Mahoney or Lori Langone) at
MSU by email at rirc@msu.edu
or by calling 517.432.0292.
Following is a brief description about each of the panels and the
types of organizations and individuals who should register for each
of them, as well as links to the websites for each of the panel
registration questionnaires. It
is appropriate to register for more than one panel if more than
one of them applies to your circumstances.
Artists Panel Registration
If
you consider yourself to be an artist (amateur or professional)
and you work in any of the following artistic disciplines:
dance, music, theatre, musical theatre, visual arts, design
arts, crafts, photography/holography, media arts, literature,
folk/traditional arts, or other, we invite you to register
to participate in this panel. If you are uncertain whether
your work falls into one of these disciplines, it is appropriate
for you to begin the registration; the second registration
question will explain these disciplines in greater detail
to assist you. To begin registering for this panel, click
on the link above.
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Arts Education Organizations Panel Registration
If you
are an organization that teaches any type of arts education
classes or programs, including dance, music, theater, visual
arts, design arts, crafts, photography/holography, media arts,
literature, folk/traditional arts or any other type of art
in Michigan, then your participation in this panel is welcomed.
It does not matter whether you are a for-profit organization,
an association, a non-profit organization, or an educational
institution, as long as your PRIMARY mission is arts
education. Please
submit only one application for each arts education organization.
To begin registering for this panel, click on the link above.
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Distributors/Retailers
Panel Registration
This
panel is appropriate for individuals, businesses, or organizations
(herein all described as "entities") which distribute/retail
finished visual arts, crafts, or photography/holography. These
entities could include: a gallery, a design studio, an arts
center, an art fair/festival, a craft fair, a festival, a
bookstore, a restaurant/cafe, a museum, an Internet/website-based
company, an art broker, an auction house/auction gallery,
a school/college/university, a library, or any other organization
that sells art. Please
submit only one application for each distributor/retailer.
To
begin registering for this panel, click on the link above.
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Fair
& Festival Producers Panel Registration
If you
are an organization, business, or governmental agency that
produces a fair or festival, please register to participate
in this panel. Fairs and festivals include, but are not
limited to, public events focused on unique aspects of a community;
cultural heritage celebrations; education; exhibition and
sale of goods; arts and crafts; business products or opportunities;
and charitable benefits. To begin registering for this panel,
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Historic
Preservation Panel Registration
The
historic preservation field is very diverse and includes preservation,
reconstruction, rehabilitation, restoration and beyond. It
relies on professionals and volunteers in different capacities;
as archaeologists; architects or designers; bankers or insurance
agents; contractors; developers; economic/community development
agents; educators; historic commissioners; interior designers;
landscape architects or landscapers; manufacturers or suppliers;
owners of historic agricultural, commercial, industrial, or
residential properties; realtors; students; and others. If
you consider yourself or your organization to be involved
in historic preservation in Michigan, please register to participate
in this panel. To begin registering for this panel, click
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Library
Institutions Panel Registration
If you
are a librarian or a library administrator in Michigan, we
would like you to consider participating in this panel. Unlike
the annual survey conducted by the Library of Michigan, the
panel surveys will be relatively short and done on a continuing
basis on a variety of specific issues pertaining to the role
of libraries in cultural and economic development and in overall
quality of life of residents in local communities and the
state. Members of this panel should represent public, university/college,
school, or special libraries in Michigan. Please
submit only one application for each entire library system.
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Library
Users Panel Registration
If you
are a user of any public library, academic library, K-12 school
library, or special library in Michigan, we invite you to
register for this panel. Use includes personally visiting
a library or accessing its resources through the Internet.
To begin registering for this panel, click on the link above.
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Organizations
Panel Registration
This
panel exists to capture the contribution of a diverse set
of other organizations which contribute to Michigan's arts
and culture economy. These organizations may include: a performing
group of artists, a museum of art, another type of museum,
a gallery/exhibition space, a cinema, an independent press,
a literary magazine, a fair/festival, an arts center, an arts
service organization, a union/professional association, a
school district, a school parent/teacher association, an educational
institution (not primarily focused on arts education), a historical
society/commission, a foundation, a corporation/business,
a community service organization, a correctional institution,
a health care facility, a religious organization, a seniors'
center, a parks and recreation department, a government entity,
a media outlet (including a periodical, a newspaper, a radio
station, or a television station), a cultural series organization,
an arts camp/institute, a social/human service organization,
a child care provider, or other. If
you are PRIMARILY an arts education organization,
distributor/retailer, library, or performing
arts venue please register for those respective panels,
NOT this one. Please submit only one application for each
organization. To
begin registering for this panel, click on the link above.
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