All of New England Listed as ‘Best States for the Arts – 2025′
A new study has just come out that ranks the Best States for the Arts in 2025, and even though Connecticut landed near the top of the list, all of New England should be proud of their rankings.
Love and appreciation for the cultural arts is instilled in us early here in New England, we paint, bring our kids to dance class or museum trips, and love our live concerts and comedy shows. Local artists everywhere beautify our old factories with gorgeous murals of bright color, while our musicians fill the air with their art in symphony halls or busking for a few bucks in New Haven.
SmileHub.com's Best States for the Arts in 2025 has compared each of the 50 states across three key dimensions and 16 metrics in order to determine their rankings of the states that provide the best and worst states for the arts. Access to the Arts, Artists Economy and Personal Finances, and Arts Education were the three key dimensions, and according to SmileHub.com's rankings Connecticut is the 16th Best State in the US for the Arts in 2025.
Connecticut's Access to the Arts ranked at #25, Artists Economy and Personal Finances ranked at #10, while Arts Education was listed at #15. The #1 state for 2025? New York. Most of our fellow New England states did better than us, Vermont was ranked at #4, Massachusetts at #7, Maine at #13, Rhode Island just nipped Connecticut by a hair to land at #15, and lowly New Hampshire was the only state in New England out of the top 20 at #23. The worst? Mississippi ranked at #50.
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