Joan Jeffri

After the ball is over.

In 2000, the Research Center for Arts and Culture at Columbia University’s Teachers College was approached by a board of persons knowledgeable about dance and the International Organization for the Transition of Professional Dancers (IOTPD) to provide data about the challenges and realities of dancers’ career transition. This first study of its kind became a coordinated inquiry into the career transition of professional dancers in eleven different countries, culminating in a report written by William Baumol, Joan Jeffri, and David Throsby. The major areas of concern are: information that confirms what the field has always known about career transition, but did not have the numbers to support; and data that surprised the researchers. Our findings show that, in many instances, expectations of current dancers and realities of former dancers sometimes differ widely, providing important information for policy makers, funders and supporters interested in furthering continued employment of artists.

The Artist Alone: Work-Related, Human, and Social Service Needs—Selected Findings

This article reports on a 1987 study of 900 statewide fellowship applicants to the New York Foundation for the Arts to document artists’ situations for health care coverage, pension and retirement plans, legal and financial services, and other work-related needs. Artist in fourteen different arts disciplines participated in three separate rounds of surveys, with response rates of 70, 59 and 58 percent. The pilot study for the Research Center’s subsequent Information on Artists study, revealed that in 1986:

Consumer Panels in the Arts, Or the Walrus and the Carpenter from the Oysters' Point of View

Abstract Major gaps in our knowledge of arts and cultural audiences can be researched using a technique common in business marketing, the consumer panel. Jeffri and Sexton alert the reader to data forthcoming from their use of a consumer panel to investigate audience behavior in relation to arts and cultural institutions and events.