“The Big Read is an initiative of the National Endowment for the Arts designed to restore reading to the center of American culture. The NEA presents The Big Read in partnership with the Institute of Museum and Library Services and in cooperation with Arts Midwest”–P. 4 of cover.

“The Big Read is an initiative of the National Endowment for the Arts designed to restore reading to the center of American culture. The NEA presents The Big Read in partnership with the Institute of Museum and Library Services and in cooperation with Arts Midwest”–P. 4 of cover.

This Note examines data collected in the 1982 Survey of Public Participation in the Arts in terms of such barriers to greater arts attendance as ‘art form not available’ and ‘too far to go’. The Note relates these barriers to two different schema for describing urbanicity: urban/rural place, and metropolitan/outside metropolitan areas. 40.6 million adults were projected to have one or both of these barriers.