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We’re a social research firm for the cultural sector.
We use rigorous research & evaluation methods to shine new light on how people connect to the arts, museums, media, science, stories, ideas, creativity, and community. And how they could connect.
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The research has the capacity to be transformational for the O’Keeffe Museum. Slover Linett took the time to listen, understand our needs, and integrate their work with another consultant team… As a result, the staff is eager to develop and implement experimental programs to attract and retain new audiences. Peter and his team are not only experts in audience research; they are experienced, thoughtful, and sophisticated partners who are willing to think with my team.”
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A major national research initiative about how Americans have been connecting to culture, creativity and community
Our pandemic-era research collaboration with Culture Track® and Yancey Consulting has been all about equity and transformation. Read the reports from our 2021 phases: “A Place to Be Heard,” which centers Black voices, and “Rethinking Relevance,” findings from a large-scale national survey...
READ MOREThe Building Blocks of Welcome: Lessons Learned from Interviews with Black and Latinx Theatergoers for Signature Theatre
By Emily Bray & Jen Benoit-Bryan In early 2021, the Signature Theatre in NYC shared that they wanted to learn about the experiences of Black and Latinx audiences in their theater around welcome and belonging with the goal of making the theater a more...
READ MOREA toolkit for DIY audience surveying, with OF/BY/FOR ALL
We're right there with community innovator Nina Simon when she says, "Collecting good demographic data can help you smash stereotypes. It can help you make smarter strategic decisions and better programs." Well, we would believe that — we’re researchers....
READ MOREWhere is Folk Music Heading? A New Survey for Folk Alliance International
Slover Linett has done considerable research on classical music audiences and innovations over the years. But other kinds of music are also vital, evolving art-forms, with their own communities of creators and consumers. So we’ve been delighted...
READ MOREHow Can Science Connect to More Millennials? A Survey for the National Academy of Sciences
In 2018, the National Academy of Sciences closed its science museum in Washington, DC and announced a new program aimed at millennials, LabX. The LabX team engaged Slover Linett to conduct a groundbreaking national study of how science is perceived by...
READ MOREMapping the Future of the Arts at Cornell University
Slover Linett has long worked with museums and arts presenters based on college and university campuses. But until recently we hadn’t helped a major educational institution look at the big picture: What roles can the arts and creativity play in...
READ MORESupporting and studying a learning community of arts organizations in California
We’re excited to be entering the homestretch of one of our most rewarding and complex engagements: an ongoing evaluation and capacity-building project with the James Irvine Foundation and its fifteen grantee-partners in the New California Arts Fund (NCAF)...
READ MORENews & Notes
What new song will you sing in 2023? Wishing you (and ourselves!) the courage to keep learning new tunes and belt it from the heart in the new year…
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As many of you know, we’ve been expanding our team of researchers at Slover Linett, and I’m delighted to report that we’ve found a truly exceptional new colleague — Eddie Chong. Eddie has deep experience in research and data visualization, roots in the museum world, and experience doing community-embedded work…
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Inspired by some heartfelt personal reflections my friends and partner shared around our Thanksgiving table a few days ago, here are some things that have made me grateful in my professional life during 2022. And not just things, of course: people, including a few I’ve “met” only through their words…
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Do sports count as culture? Sure, there’s a culture of sports, but can we consider watching a game a cultural activity? What about playing a game? These are questions my colleagues and I seem to often come back to when designing research to understand cultural “attenders” and “non-attenders”…
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I noticed a slightly perplexing pattern recently when conducting interviews with bilingual Spanish/English speakers: when offered their choice of languages, the interviewees consistently selected English. I did not ask interviewees why they made their choice, but after spending some time reflecting on various elements of the interviews, I have developed some potential reasons…
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One of the qualities I most appreciate about the culture at Slover Linett is our growth mindset; the team actively supports each other in taking on challenges that stretch and grow our skills. I’m delighted to share three promotions today that reflect the learning and growth happening at every level of Slover Linett…
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Big thanks to #BAM for this gorgeous image: Sing Harlem Choir performing at the 2022 Annual Brooklyn Tribute to Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.
(Photo credit: Astrid Stawiarz, Getty Images for Brooklyn Academy of Music.)
We're so proud to work with amazing antiracist, justice-focused system-changers in #arts and #culture. Our sector has a unique role to play—and much more work to do. (Same goes for social #research and #evaluation.)
So let's take a breath together, remember Dr. King...and sing.
Well choreographed conversation, coming soon to your screen: @jenbenoitbryan & @melodybuyukozer taped last week with @DanceUSAorg about audiences' values, behaviors & hopes for the future.
We'll link when the video's up!
#dance #artsequity #community #artsresearch #CCTTstudy
Calling all #museum changemakers! This week, 2 info sessions on the @MuseumsMoving data study:
Thurs. 8pmET on #IGlive with @jenbenoitbryan, @mialocks & Kelli Morgan.
Fri. 12pm ET on zoom >> https://www.instagram.com/p/Cj--sw4Ng-J/?igshid=YmMyMTA2M2Y%3D
If you care about #workplaceequity in #artmuseums, join us!
Wonderful, and I hope this sparks discussion and reflection. #Trustees in the #arts and #culture field are such a crucial part of progress and transformation.
Happening right now: @jenbenoitbryan speaking to @OPERAAmerica trustees about, among other things, the #socialjustice expectations Americans bring to the #arts. (In person in NYC!)
https://www.operaamerica.org/programs/events/conferences-webinars/network-forums/national-trustee-forum/
#CCTTstudy #culturetrack Ongoing thanks to @WallaceFdn @BarrFdn et al.!
Happening right now: @jenbenoitbryan speaking to @OPERAAmerica trustees about, among other things, the #socialjustice expectations Americans bring to the #arts. (In person in NYC!)
https://www.operaamerica.org/programs/events/conferences-webinars/network-forums/national-trustee-forum/
#CCTTstudy #culturetrack Ongoing thanks to @WallaceFdn @BarrFdn et al.!
Sharp & fun new post from @cgarfin about the eye-boggling web project @ArtButSports. Who knew that sports photography rhymes with #arthistory?
And hey wait, are sports part of #culture? Serious question, with practical effects. What do you think?
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What an important intersection - this will be a terrific panel (& not just because @melodybuyukozer is my colleague).
And how vital all the "arts &" intersections are: where so much #creativity, #publicvalue, and #socialimpact are being generated these days. Can't wait to hear!
Meet up at the corner of Arts and Health?
@melodybuyukozer is heading that way on Monday, speaking on a panel about #equitable #research in #arts and #publichealth at @uflorida's “Creating Healthy Communities” conference.
https://arts.ufl.edu/sites/creating-healthy-communities/collaboration/2022-convening/
#artsresearch #artsequity
Meet up at the corner of Arts and Health?
@melodybuyukozer is heading that way on Monday, speaking on a panel about #equitable #research in #arts and #publichealth at @uflorida's “Creating Healthy Communities” conference.
#artsresearch #artsequity
Creating Healthy Communities 2022 Convening
arts.ufl.edu