Arts & Culture

Arts and culture can have a positive impact on the lives of the most disadvantaged. NYC is considered one of the top American cities for access to arts and culture. Neither income nor education should affect New Yorkers’ ability to enjoy the arts and to take advantage of cultural opportunities. Funding of arts organizations, resident artist placements in senior centers, library branch availability, and parental education levels as a function of children’s arts participation were all used as indicators under this topic area.

To understand Arts & Culture as a function of inequality we looked at four indicators:

• Income & Funding for the Arts
• Location & Senior Access to the Arts
• Location & Public Library Availability
• Parental Education & Children’s Arts Participation

Take a look at the chart to your right for an overall picture of this topic, and then look at each indicator and the scores in context for more detail and additional findings.