2020 SOUTHERN ARIZONA CREATIVE SECTOR REBOUND AND RECOVERY SURVEY
A community wide survey exploring how COVID-19 has affected the Southern Arizona creative sector, new solutions for rebounding stronger together, and creative ideas for long-term collaboration.
As SAACA strives to best serve our Southern Arizona creative sector with new collaborations and initiatives, we are excited to share a new community wide effort: the Southern Arizona Creative Sector Rebound and Recovery Survey. We are asking for 10 – 12 minutes of our artist community's time to give feedback on how COVID-19 has affected you, explore new solutions for rebounding stronger together, and proposing creative ideas for long term collaboration.
Rebounding from the COVID-19 pandemic will require significant creative thought, community collaboration, and new ways of thinking; we firmly believe that artists are the creative force that can lead this recovery. We know the pandemic has posed significant disruptions to artists' well-being through restaurant closures, and loss of events and vending opportunities, as well as longer term challenges posed by social distancing, new cultural norms, and an economic downturn.
With that in mind, we are also announcing the launch of our second annual Momentum Creative Cities Summit on June 20 to provide meaningful resources and content for our community's recovery. Your responses in this survey will directly shape that event, as well as all other SAACA programming this year. This knowledge will help us build responsive programming and create new opportunities to support, connect and advocate for artists throughout the region.
If you wish to provide your name and email address for follow-up opportunities, you can include that in the survey. If you have any questions about the survey, please contact Matt Rolland at matt@saaca.org or 520-797-3959 x 108.
The 2020 survey will be open until May 31, 2020
Rebounding from the COVID-19 pandemic will require significant creative thought, community collaboration, and new ways of thinking; we firmly believe that artists are the creative force that can lead this recovery. We know the pandemic has posed significant disruptions to artists' well-being through restaurant closures, and loss of events and vending opportunities, as well as longer term challenges posed by social distancing, new cultural norms, and an economic downturn.
With that in mind, we are also announcing the launch of our second annual Momentum Creative Cities Summit on June 20 to provide meaningful resources and content for our community's recovery. Your responses in this survey will directly shape that event, as well as all other SAACA programming this year. This knowledge will help us build responsive programming and create new opportunities to support, connect and advocate for artists throughout the region.
If you wish to provide your name and email address for follow-up opportunities, you can include that in the survey. If you have any questions about the survey, please contact Matt Rolland at matt@saaca.org or 520-797-3959 x 108.
The 2020 survey will be open until May 31, 2020
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2019 SOUTHERN ARIZONA CREATIVE SECTOR SURVEY
A Survey of Southern Arizona Artists, Creatives and Makers on their work, Well Being, Professional Development Needs, Socioeconomic Status, Access to Healthcare and Demographics.
The cultural and economic contributions of artists, creatives and makers to their wider communities are well-known to those who actively participate and engage in arts advocacy. Less well understood are the dynamic needs of artists in key quality of life areas such as income, places of work, health insurance coverage, ongoing professional development needs, and what helps artists grow their network and thrive professionally.
To better understand these needs and how to serve them, SAACA launched an annual regional survey of the Southern Arizona Creative Sector of all disciplines to assess these measures and benchmark the needs of those who give so much back to our region.
To better understand these needs and how to serve them, SAACA launched an annual regional survey of the Southern Arizona Creative Sector of all disciplines to assess these measures and benchmark the needs of those who give so much back to our region.
The 2019 survey closed on February 10, 2020. Results will be published Summer 2020.
2018 SOUTHERN ARIZONA CREATIVE SECTOR SURVEY SUMMARY
NEXT STEPS
The Southern Arizona Arts & Cultural Alliance is proud to serve artists of all disciplines throughout the region. We plan to take action on the above data to help strengthen the infrastructure of our artistic communities through the below actionable items moving forward.
- Sharing this information with our business leaders and public elected officials to create a stronger case for the economic impact of the arts in our region
- Expanding the reach of our data capture methods in the 2020 survey through collaborative partnerships, focus groups, and in person survey engagement year round
- Creating and executing new opportunities for artists in professional development, network and capacity building