A report by The National Endowment for the Arts (NEA) reveals that there are nearly two million people in the USA who identify themselves as artists. This figure is only just smaller than the US military personnel (2.2m). Artists compose 1.4 percent of the total workforce, and between them, their aggregate earnings per year total seventy billion dollars. ( I wonder how minute a fraction of the military’s annual spending this sum represents? )
Here’s an attractive pie chart in tasteful shades of brown issued by a designer at the NEA:
If you want to get as far away from artists as is possible in the USA the map below will show you which states to avoid.
Images are from Artists in the Workforce (Research Report #48), courtesy of the National Endowment for the Arts
Link to the full report, and a link to my original source: Art Knowledge News.
And, somewhat randomly, a link to The Art Appreciation Foundation who are duty bound to spend 3.2 million dollars on art every year. Want some?
