RESEARCH: ART WORKS: Grant Program Description - deadline Oct. 10, 2017
NEA url  https://www.arts.gov/grants-organizations/research-art-works/grant-progr...

The NEA is interested in research seeking to identify and to examine:

• Factors that enhance or inhibit Arts Participation or Arts/Cultural Assets;
• Detailed characteristics of Arts Participation or Arts Cultural/Assets, and their interrelationships;
• Individual-level outcomes of Arts Participation, including those corresponding with the following domains:
  • social and emotional well-being,
  • creativity, cognition,
  • and learning
  • physiological processes of health and healing; and
• Societal or community-level outcomes, including those corresponding with the following domains:
  • civic and corporate innovation,
  • attraction for neighborhoods and businesses,
  • national and/or state-level economic growth.

Funds will be awarded for projects that involve analyses of primary and/or secondary data. Primary data collection is an allowable activity under these grants, as long as a proposed project also includes analysis of that data. We will not fund projects that focus exclusively on data acquisition. Projects may include, but are not limited to, primary and/or secondary data analyses; economic impact studies; organizational research; psychological and physical health-related or therapeutic studies that take place in clinical or non-clinical settings; education studies in a variety of contexts (e.g., classrooms, informal venues, distance learning, or home-school environments); third-party evaluations of an arts program's effectiveness and impact; and statistically-driven meta-analyses of existing research so as to provide a fresh understanding of the value and/or impact of the arts. We also are interested in translational research that moves scientific evidence toward the development, testing, and standardization of new arts-related programs, practices, models, or tools that can be used easily by other practitioners and researchers.