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Announcing a national study of cultural audiences & the wider American community during COVID
Like others in the arts and culture sector, we’ve been asking ourselves how we can help the field during these difficult times. We believe that a shared, empirical picture of cultural audiences and the wider American public will help ground and guide a collective...
READ MORENew, free toolkit for DIY audience surveys, 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 MOREContinuing Our Inquiry with Two Wallace Foundation Arts Grantees About Audiences’ Connection to New, Unfamiliar Works
In 2019, we’ve been working again with Ballet Austin and the Goodman Theatre on related research questions: How do audiences decide to take the leap of attending dance or theater performances that they don’t know much about? Both organizations are...
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
As we put a raw, revealing year behind us, I’m thinking about all the things I’ve been grateful for during the pandemic and what I’m hopeful about for 2021. Deep breath through the mask, here we go…
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We’re thrilled to share a new report that we’ve been working on for several months: “Centering the Picture: The Role of Race & Ethnicity in Cultural Engagement in the U.S.” It’s a major analysis of national survey data from the first wave of Culture + Community in a Time of Crisis: A Special Edition of Culture Track.
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Most of what we’ve shared about the national study that we’re co-leading with our colleagues at LaPlaca Cohen, Culture and Community in a Time of Crisis, has been focused on research findings; in this post we’d like to provide a different perspective on the work—a behind-the-scenes view of the research process itself.
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Like many people across the country I am finding myself refreshing the FiveThirtyEight website multiple times a day and squinting to extract as much meaning from the numbers as I can. I love the simple probabilistic topline—Biden wins the election in x out of every 100 scenarios—but I am even more intrigued by the snake chart with every state ordered by probability and a clearly demarcated tipping point…
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Last week we co-hosted a webinar with the Morton Arboretum that focused on the unique thoughts, behaviors, attitudes, and needs of botanical garden attenders compared to the nationally representative sample of respondents to the Culture and Community in a Time of Crisis survey research…
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This is the third and final installment of my conversation with Tom O’Connor.” In the previous excerpt, we left off talking about the benefits of having systems-thinking leadership during times of change and, as Tom put it, potential redemption for a field that is coming to terms with its own complicity in longstanding systemic inequities…
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Check out @jenbenoitbryan's article in the latest volume of the Journal of Cultural Management & Cultural Policy, where she explores findings from the Culture + Community in a Time of Crisis national survey & reports.
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“... we’ve been here all along. It’s been your calculated decisions to over look us, keep us out, or deny us opportunities that keeps us away from your spaces.”
Paging all theatre-makers: Wake-up https://twitter.com/realjacsantos/status/1349572048465620996
White American theater questions how to get Black folks into their seats. Do they even like theater? Of course we do. And platforms like Clubhouse who’s rooms get FILLED, like they do NUMBERS, have shown we show up to spaces that are accessible and welcoming.
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Join us tomorrow for this free @OPERAAmerica event as @jenbenoitbryan & a panel of arts leaders examine the role opera can play as agents of civic recovery during and after the pandemic.
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Join us tomorrow for this free @OPERAAmerica event as @jenbenoitbryan & a panel of arts leaders examine the role opera can play as agents of civic recovery during and after the pandemic.
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Beautiful. Tho I wonder how many of the boards & leaders making these appointments are doing so as part of the work of real change, vs. expecting (unconsciously?) these Black leaders & colleagues to support institutional forms & norms, which are (sometimes) white, colonial, etc. https://twitter.com/CultureType/status/1342907965511262214
On the Rise: 54 Black Curators and Arts Leaders Who Took on New Appointments in 2020 | https://www.culturetype.com/2020/12/22/on-the-rise-54-curators-and-arts-leaders-who-took-on-new-appointments-in-2020/ via @culturetype
Beautiful. Tho I wonder how many of the boards & leaders making these appointments are doing so as part of the work of real change, vs. expecting (unconsciously?) these Black leaders & colleagues to support institutional forms & norms, which are (sometimes) white, colonial, etc.
On the Rise: 54 Black Curators and Arts Leaders Who Took on New Appointments in 2020 | https://www.culturetype.com/2020/12/22/on-the-rise-54-curators-and-arts-leaders-who-took-on-new-appointments-in-2020/ via @culturetype
@BenLillie Thank you, Ben. Damn did I need a laugh.
Yes, in the name of whatever we used to call "American." Or as Chris Truax just put it in this clarion op-ed: "remove Donald Trump from office today"
If you don't impeach and remove a President for staging a coup, what's the point of impeachment.