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Lost Art

Measuring Covid-19's devastating impact on America's creative economy

Richard Florida and Michael Seman
Brookings Institution, 2020
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8

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  • Comprehensive
  • Analytical
  • Well Structured

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As COVID-19 swept the United States, the creative economy lost jobs and sales plummeted. Richard Florida and Michael Seman report on Brooking Institution research calculating those losses from April through July 2020 (the report’s stopping point though, of course, the pandemic’s impact continued) and charting them by occupation, business type, city, state and region. The report concludes that only a large scale recovery strategy involving federal, state and local governments can save the arts and culture economy. The United States’ quality of life is at stake.

Take-Aways

  • The pandemic had a tremendous negative impact on the arts and artists in the United States from April through July 2020.
  • The pandemic affected creative industries and businesses such as ad agencies – and all who work in them – and well as creative occupations, no matter what the type or venue.
  • Regionally, the south suffered the highest creative job losses; California led all states and New York City all cities. All states experienced job losses.

About the Authors

Richard Florida, a professor at the University of Toronto’s School of Cities and Rotman School of Management, is the author of The Rise of the Creative Class and The New Urban Crisis. Michael Seman, an assistant professor of arts management at Colorado State’s LEAP Institute of the Art, is a research associate in its Regional Economic Development Institute.

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