About MAC
Fact Sheet
Highlights About the State Of The Arts in Montana
and the Montana Arts Council
MONTANA'S ARTS SCENE
- Three hundred art galleries and museums
- Over 350 professional and community performing arts and visual arts organizations
- Seven symphony orchestras
- Several dozen community theatres
- Vibrant arts communities in towns large and small…music, dance, theatre, writers, visual arts and crafts.
- Internationally known visual artists and writers
- MAC programs and grants services reach people in over 250 Montana towns
- MAC arts education programs reached one out of every 5 school students in the state.
- MAC programs reach every county of the state.
MONTANA'S ECONOMIC IMPACT OF THE FY 2002 NON-PROFIT ARTS SECTOR
- Total economic impact: $85 million.
- Montana's arts have a greater employment impact than one-quarter of the state's top 100 industries.
- Close to 2,000 jobs are generated.
- $14 million in tax revenues for the federal, state and local governments are generated annually that are connected to the average Montana arts organization's activities.
- Total new economic impact generated by out-of-state earnings: $4 million.
- 1990 U.S. census: 1 of 80 people in Montana's labor market is a working artist.
- Montana population estimate for July 1, 2001: 904,433.
CURRENT MONTANA ARTS COUNCIL PROGRAMS:
- Artists in the Schools/Communities Residency Grants
- Fee Support for Touring Companies
- Folk and Traditional Arts Master/Apprenticeships
- Administers Cultural Trust grant program for the state
- Organizational Excellence Grants
- Opportunity Grants
- State of the Arts Newsletter
- Folk Arts Promotion
- Building Arts Participation Grants
- The Art of Leadership Institutes
MONTANA ARTS COUNCIL FUNDING — FISCAL YEAR 2004
Federal $595,600 (57%)
Cultural Trust $158,800 (15%)
State general fund $288,310 (28%)
Cultural & Aesthetic grants are separate from MAC budget - $402,075 in FY2004
The Montana Arts Council
Helping the arts improve education, boost local economies and revitalize communities.
