ARTIST

Artist as occupation, 2012 as cycle

Two keys define this page. One is the grouped occupation string Artist. The other is the 2012 federal election cycle. The match is $1,480,398, built from 1,265 itemized gifts and 333 unique donors. Drop either key and the number changes.

Average contribution is about $1,170; average per donor is about $4,446. Those means sit near ordinary itemized individual gifts. High contribution count with a modest average is the signature of a common occupation word in a presidential year.

Musician, actor, writer, and a studio name are separate groupings if stored separately. This cell is the one-word Artist bucket.

Nearly 7% of a $22 million occupation stack

$21,874,468 is every cycle combined. $1,480,398 in 2012 is about 6.8% of that stack. Other windows hold a little more than 93%. A presidential-year cell at 6.8% is a noticeable chapter, not the occupation’s full FEC history.

Lifetime scale here reflects how often the word appears on itemized individual receipts. It is not a census of working artists.

Questions

How much did Artist-labeled donors give in 2012?

The Artist grouping’s 2012 cell is $1,480,398 in itemized individual contributions, from 1,265 contributions and 333 donors, per FEC.gov aggregates. That is the occupation-cycle join, not an arts-PAC total and not the $21,874,468 all-cycle occupation total.

Does Artist mean a specific discipline?

No. The bucket is the self-reported occupation string Artist. Visual art, performance, and other uses can land in the same cell. Related titles may sit in other groupings if the pipeline stored them separately. The overlay lists itemized rows for this cell; the industry hub holds other cycles; the cycle hub holds other employer strings from the same window.

What share of Artist FEC money fell in 2012?

About 6.8%. $1,480,398 divided by $21,874,468 is the 2012 cell’s share of the lifetime occupation bucket. Other cycles hold the rest on the industry hub. The overlay lists itemized rows for this cell; the industry hub holds other cycles; the cycle hub holds other employer strings from the same window.

Do these donations fund federal arts grants?

No. These figures are FEC individual contribution aggregates. Federal awards, including arts grants, are published by USAspending. This page does not claim that campaign gifts funded those awards. The overlay lists itemized rows for this cell; the industry hub holds other cycles; the cycle hub holds other employer strings from the same window.