NEA Update of Creative Placemaking Research and Program – Part 2 [VIDEO]

Sunil Iyengar
Research & Analysis Director at the National Endowment for the Arts

Sunil Iyengar directs the Office of Research & Analysis at the National Endowment for the Arts. Since his arrival at the NEA in June 2006, the office has produced more than 25 research publications, hosted several research events and webinars, twice updated the NEA’s five-year strategic plan, and overseen a new and expanded survey about arts participation. In that time, the office also has created an arts system map and long-term research agenda, and has launched a research grants program. Sunil also chairs the Interagency Task Force on the Arts and Human Development.

Some of the NEA’s most recent research includes Valuing the Art of Industrial Design (2013), The Arts and Achievement in At-Risk Youth (2012), An Average Day in the Arts (2012), and The Arts and Human Development (2011). Sunil and his team have partnered with organizations such as the Brookings Institution, the National Academy of Sciences, and the National Institutes to Health to study the arts in relation to such topics as economic development and the health and well-being of older adults. For a decade, Iyengar worked as a reporter, managing editor, and senior editor for a host of news publications covering the biomedical research, medical device, and pharmaceutical industries. He writes poetry, and his book reviews have appeared in publications such as the Washington Post, New York Times, San Francisco Chronicle, The American Scholar, The New Criterion, Essays in Criticism, and Contemporary Poetry Review. Iyengar has a BA in English from the University of Michigan in Ann Arbor.

Sunil, research and analysis director at the National Endowments for the Arts, appeared on C-SPAN’s “Washington Journal” on November 29, 2013 and discussed Government’s Role in the Arts.

A Conversation with Sunil Iyengar, NEA, “Why The Arts Mean Business,” a conversation with Sandra Aistars, CEO of the Copyright Alliance.

In his presentation at the Art of Placemaking Conference Sunil presented the NEA’s latest research and thinking on creative placemaking in America. Sunil took a deep dive into some of the core metrics that NEA is using to measure the impact and effectiveness of creative placemaking projects on live-ability and economic development.