NEW NEA Research finds correlation between the arts and connectedness!

The National Endowment for the Arts has released a new research brief based on data from the U.S. Census Bureau’s Household Pulse Survey from April to July 2024. The research brief examines the relationship between arts engagement and social connectedness.

Some highlights of the findings include:

• Adults who attended live arts events were less likely than non-arts attendees to report feeling more acute levels of loneliness.

  • 2.7 percent of adults who attended live arts events in person reported “always” feeling lonely, compared with 5.1 percent of non-arts attendees.

  • 38.7 percent of arts attendees reported feeling only “rarely” lonely, compared with 25.4 percent of non-arts attendees.

• Adults who attended live arts events in the previous month were more likely than non-arts attendees to report receiving the social and emotional support they needed.

  Learn more about these research findings at: https://www.arts.gov/news/press-releases/2024/new-research-explores-arts-engagement-and-social-connectedness