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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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Announcing Wave 2 of the National Culture + Community Research & Strategy Collaboration in 2021
Information for cultural organizations interested in participating in Wave 2 We are excited to share that we are launching a new phase of the Culture + Community research in collaboration with LaPlaca Cohen and Yancey Consulting. The second wave of this...
READ MOREAnnouncing 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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@SloverLinett’s project director Madeline Smith kicks off with the findings from "Centering the Picture: The role of race & ethnicity in cultural engagement" http://ow.ly/dg9g50DCRNB
Pls join me for the Mar 4 launch of the "Museums/Politics/Management" issue of Jrnl of Cultural Management & Cultural Policy, guest-edited by @orechet. I'll be talking w/ Jennifer Benoit-Bryan about the @CultureTrack study by @SloverLinett & @LaPlacaCohen. https://forms.office.com/Pages/ResponsePage.aspx?id=TX_ggBPjvEiKOBIRQJnqnDVO75ARhnRMkR0GfwHyxTxUMUxRUERLUkFITlpEOTlMWkZSMEQ3MDNUNy4u
Missed this a month ago, and if you did too here it is. Means a lot to us, coming from a researcher we SO respect (her vision shapes the pioneering work that @LearCenter keeps doing on #media, social change, and #equity).
You might be surprised by some of the findings in this important report on the role of #race & ethnicity in #arts & cultural engagement https://sloverlinett.com/insights/centering-the-picture-the-role-of-race-ethnicity-in-cultural-engagement/ @CultureTrack @SloverLinett #culture #BIPOC
Today at noon Central, you're invited! Our Madeline Smith and terrific #arts and #museum leaders discuss engagement, connection, and service...including findings from our analysis by race/ethnicity of a major pandemic-era survey.
Registration still open: https://twitter.com/ResnicowCulture/status/1361005575006527488
✨Join us for the return of @Wallacefdn’s series “Reimagining the Future of the Arts” on Feb. 17 at 1 pm EST. #ArtsLeaders from across the U.S. and @SloverLinett will explore how and why Americans of all backgrounds connect to #TheArts.
Register👇https://bit.ly/37aMEu9
Today at noon Central, you're invited! Our Madeline Smith and terrific #arts and #museum leaders discuss engagement, connection, and service...including findings from our analysis by race/ethnicity of a major pandemic-era survey.
Registration still open:
✨Join us for the return of @Wallacefdn’s series “Reimagining the Future of the Arts” on Feb. 17 at 1 pm EST. #ArtsLeaders from across the U.S. and @SloverLinett will explore how and why Americans of all backgrounds connect to #TheArts.
Register👇https://bit.ly/37aMEu9
@amandashires Which are the same links revealed in the Indianapolis Museum of Art's plea for a new director who will preserve whiteness. Thanks @TylerGreenBooks for those alerts, including: . And @MsDanielleDart's vital comments.
It's clear that the Newfields/IMA posting was no accident, no mistake, no miscommunication.
The racism within the posting is who Newfields is, and it's who Newfields wants to be.
The director and the nearly all-white board are screaming it as loudly as they can.
“I’d assume a lot of males aren’t speaking out because they’re comfortable in their...power & money. Why would they want it to change?” @amandashires
I want it to change. We need to talk way more about the link between racism & capitalism in the #arts.
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A New Generation Pushes Nashville to Address Racism in Its Ranks
A small contingent of country artists and industry players have been speaking up in a business that likes to shut down dissent.
www.nytimes.com
@SloverLinett presentó la 1º fase del "Culture + Community in a Time of Crisis (CCTC)" para explorar cómo los estadounidenses de todos los grupos raciales se conectan con la #cultura ,la creatividad,...;
¡Obligada lectura!
El informe: ⏬⏬⏬⏬
https://lnkd.in/ep4b9D4