National Endowment for the Arts commissioned Demographic Data Consultants of Nashville to examine the issue of the aging of arts audience in the U.S. with data available from the 1997 Survey of Public Participation in the Arts. This study examines arts participation or attendance rates for a variety of age groupings or cohorts, to determine trends over the 1982 to 1992 decade. A specific focus of the report is baby boomers, those born between 1946 and 1965.

National Endowment for the Arts commissioned Demographic Data Consultants of Nashville to examine the issue of the aging of arts audience in the U.S. with data available from the 1997 Survey of Public Participation in the Arts. This study examines arts participation or attendance rates for a variety of age groupings or cohorts, to determine trends over the 1982 to 1992 decade. A specific focus of the report is baby boomers, those born between 1946 and 1965.