Surveys show declining in-person attendance but robust digital engagement
Visitors walk through the Kogod Courtyard between the Smithsonian American Art Museum and National Portrait Gallery in D.C. in 2021.
In addition to drawing on the Survey of Public Participation in the Arts, the NEA’s research also cited the 2022 General Social Survey, which was administered by the National Opinion Research Center at the University of Chicago. That survey found that 82 percent of respondents watched or listened to arts activities through digital platforms between 2021 and 2022, suggesting a robust online engagement that persisted even as in-person events returned.
Style is where The Washington Post covers happenings on the front lines of culture and what it all means, including the arts, media, social trends, politics and yes, fashion, all told with personality and deep reporting. For more Style stories,Although visual arts also experienced drop-offs, the rate of change wasn’t as proportionally drastic.
Social media was the most common tool people reported using to discover arts events they ultimately attended, followed by friends, neighbors or co-workers and print/broadcast media .The survey also found that 43 percent of respondents reported going to the movies — a 16 percent decrease from 2017 — though the numbers predated the blockbuster release of “Avatar: The Way of Water” this past winter and this summer’s Barbenheimer phenomenon.
The General Social Survey, which documented the high levels of online arts engagement, found that White people were the least likely ethnic demographic to engage with the arts digitally at 64 percent, compared with 81 percent of Black respondents, 73 percent of Hispanic respondents and 89 percent of other ethnicities. Women, 18-to-24-year-olds, and minorities reported participating in more virtual arts events in the second year of the pandemic than they did from March 2020 to March 2021.
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