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Recent Study Finds Arts and Culture Contribute Over $71 Million in
Economic Activity to Onondaga County

(Syracuse, NY)—A recent study conducted by the Arts and Culture Leadership Alliance (ACLA) has found that arts and culture organizations in Onondaga County reached more than 1.8 million people and generated over $70 million in economic activity in 2009. A summary of the findings:


  • Arts and Culture reach 1.8 million people
  • Arts and Culture economic impact: $70 million
  • Arts and Culture student reach: 160,000 students
  • Arts and Culture employment: 1,060 people



    • Arts and culture attendance exceeds the total home attendance of all Syracuse University athletic events, the Syracuse Chiefs and Syracuse Crunch combined (1.4 million) and the total attendance of the New York State Fair (1 million) in 2009

    Total expenditures by the 23 organizations participating in the survey exceeded $26.3 million and event-related spending by attendees is estimated at more than $44.5 million, for a total industry impact in Onondaga County of $71 million

    Arts and culture organizations are the 18th largest employer in Onondaga County (between Verizon and Excellus Blue Cross Blue Shield). The total number of full-time equivalent jobs supported by the expenditures of arts and culture organizations and their audiences is 2,065, resulting in total household income of more than $39.5 million. In turn, this produces local government revenue of nearly $3.2 million.

    ACLA members responding to the survey included: CNY Jazz Arts Foundation; Community Folk Art Center; Cultural Resources Council; Delavan Art Gallery; Erie Canal Museum; Everson Museum of Art; Friends of Central Library; Friends of Historic Onondaga Lake; Friends of the Rosamond Gifford Zoo; Landmark Theater; Milton J. Rubenstein Museum of Science and Technology; Onondaga Historical Association; Open Hand Theater; Partners for the Arts; Skaneateles Festival; Society for New Music; Syracuse City Ballet,Syracuse Friends of Chamber Music; Syracuse International Film Festival; Syracuse Opera; Syracuse Stage; Syracuse Symphony Orchestra; and YMCA Arts Branch.

    NUMBER BREAKDOWN

    Arts and culture attendance, expenditures, and employment data were collected from reports by ACLA from its membership, primarily from data previously reported to the New York State Council on the Arts and other cultural funders. Attendance figures for the sports teams are the most current available; figures for the Fair are taken from http://nysfair.org/attendance

    Arts and culture events attracted 1,813,852 attendees in 2009, more than the 1,382,271 spectators who attended college and professional sporting events and the 971,273 people who went to the Fair. At Syracuse University, 781,324 individuals entered the Carrier Dome to see football, men's and women's basketball and men's and women's lacrosse. The Chiefs and the Crunch professional teams drew 600,947 fans.

    Employment figures are from the Syracuse Chamber of Commerce on the Onondaga County Web site, as of January 2007. Arts and culture employment includes full-time, part-time and contract workers. http://www.ongov.net/about/majorEmployers.html

    Economic impact numbers are generated by the Arts and Economic Prosperity Calculator provided by Americans for the Arts. http://americansforthearts.org/information_services/research/services/economic_impact/005.asp#calculator

     

     

     
    Arts and Culture Leadership Alliance of Central New York
    c/o Cultural Resources Council
    John H Mulroy Civic Center at Oncenter
    411 Montgomery St
    Syracuse, NY 13202
    315-435-2161
    acla@mycnyarts.org