Research on Artists:
A Working Conference at Princeton University
May 24-25, 2000
The purpose of this meeting, co-sponsored by the Princeton University
Center for Arts and Cultural Policy Studies, Columbia University
Research Center for Arts and Culture and the National Endowment
for the Arts, was three fold. First, the meeting was designed
to improve methodologies for studying artists by drawing on the
work of scholars who have addressed comparable issues in other
fields, especially the development of techniques for creating
statistically reliable samples of unknown populations. A second
purpose was to provide an opportunity for sustained discussion
of matters of mutual concern among some of the world's leading
scholars in the field of empirical studies of artists. The third
goal, which flows from the others, was to assist in the production
of several resources for the field including an annotated directory
of studies of artists; a report, based on the conference proceedings,
on the state of research on artists; and a special issue of the
journal Poetics: Empirical Research on Culture, Media and the
Arts devoted to research on artist.
The meeting included the following talks and panels:
- Response Driven Sampling as a Means of Sampling Unknown Populations:
Lessons from Research on Stigmatized Populations
- Identifying Dispersed Populations with Rare Attributes: Lessons
from Medical Research
- Research on Artists Using National Statistics
- Studying Artists' Labor Markets: Lessons from Research on
Comparable Occupational Communities
- Methods for Studying Artists through Communities and Organizations
The Directory of Studies of Artist has been published as a Center
working paper. To download a full report of the conference
proceedings click here
for the html version, and here
for the pdf version.
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