Earlier this summer, the Arts and Economic Prosperity Study helped put figures to that intuitive truth. According to the report, authored by Americans for the Arts, last year alone, the arts supported the equivalent of 2,759 jobs in Providence and generated resident household income of $55.6 million. These same programs are also helping the state and local government, generating $5.5 million and $5.6 million, respectively, for the two bodies.

What does this mean for your bottom line? Supporting the arts is good business.