With arts organizations navigating the new year and its unique challenges amidst the ongoing pandemic, our latest Arts Executive Poll asked arts leaders about top-of-mind priorities, from setting vaccine requirements in response to COVID-19 variants to benchmarking subscription and ticket sales this season.
Highlights from the survey include:
Most arts organizations are requiring a COVID vaccine plus the booster for internal staff and their artists/production teams. For audiences, restrictions are slightly less strict on booster shots.
Half of arts organizations are keen to work on creating an inclusive and positive staff culture, and compensation policies in 2022, along with other priorities around DEI&A and community engagement.
About half of arts organizations have higher overall budgets this year compared to the most recent pre-pandemic year.
