This issue of Artscapes features Passing Their Knowledge On: A Folk and Traditional Arts, Connecting Rural Wyoming to Classical Music Through the Piatigorsky Tour, 2024 Plein Air in the Parks Review, Preliminary Findings and Insights from WyAA’s Creative Economy Data Roundup Initiative, This year’s Creative Aging Project Grant Recipients, Updates from the Arts Council, Art is Everywhere, 2025 Writing Awards are Now Open, This Year’s Fellowship Recipients, 2024 Wyoming State Parks and Cultural Resources Artist in Residence Show and Sale, Wyoming Artists Bring Unique Flair to Underground Music Showcase, The Casper Artists’ Guild: A Celebration of 100 Years, 2025 Community Support Grant Dates
According to the U.S. Bureau of Economic Analysis, in 2014, there were 11,451 jobs devoted to our state’s creative sector, which is 30% above the national average and second only to New York.
The Arts contributed $763.6 billion to the U.S. economy in 2015, 4.2 percent of GDP and counted 4.9 million workers, who earned $372 billion in total compensation.
The Wyoming Arts Council believes that experiencing the arts should be accessible for all, including people with mental and/or physical disabilities, older adults, military/veterans, people living in institutions and those who lack access to the arts due to geographic isolation, cultural difference and economic hardship.