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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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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
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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In engineering circles, there’s a famous, possibly apocryphal story about a course at MIT that used to begin the same way every year. The professor shows a photo of an improbably long bridge and asks the students why the structure stands instead of falling into the waves below. Student after student offers…
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In part one of our conversation, we talked about what the arts and cultural sector might learn from social work. In part two, we touch on some of the core values that arts and cultural organizations can deliver on to increase audience engagement and social relevance…
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Cory Garfin recently had a wide-ranging conversation with Tom O’Connor, a marketing and audience development consultant for the arts and culture field, about a piece he had written called “Engaging Arts Audiences in a Time of Trauma.”
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We’re excited to announce the release this morning of key findings from our national research & strategy collaboration, Culture & Community in a Time of Crisis: A Special Edition of Culture Track…
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In Chicago, we are located on the homelands of the Council of the Three Fires: the Ojibwe, Odawa, & Potawatomi Nations. Many other tribes such as the Miami, Ho-Chunk, Menominee, Sac, & Fox also called this area home.
Today, & all days, we honor their history & contributions.
Slover Linett will be closed Monday, October 12 in honor of Indigenous Peoples' Day. We encourage everyone to spend time learning about & reflecting on the history of the land on which your organizations reside.
Columbus who? Considering the narrative on Indigenous Peoples’ Day | Slover Linett
Since 1937, the United States has recognized the second Monday in October as Columbus Day, honoring the man who, in 1492, sailed the ocean blue and &#...
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Shouting out every museum + cultural worker around the globe working hard to shape change, expand our narratives, and practice community care. We don't celebrate our work, our intellectual labor, our victories, or ourselves nearly as much as we should. #MuseumWorkersChangeAgents
Thanks for joining us last week for our conversation with @MortonArboretum about the needs of botanical gardens & their communities during pandemic times.
For those who were unable to attend or if you just can't get enough, the webinar is now available!
https://sloverlinett.com/insights/botanical-gardens-in-a-time-of-crisis-targeted-results-from-a-national-study-of-attenders-and-the-public/
Our country is on fire. Can social research help?
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There's still time to join today's webinar, Botanical Gardens in a Time of Crisis, where @jenbenoitbryan & Madeline Smith will share targeted results from the national study.
We begin in one hour - register below!
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Welcome! You are invited to join a meeting: Botanical Gardens in a Time of Crisis: Targeted Results from a National Study of Attenders and the Public. After registering, you will receive a confirmation email about joining the meeting.
Soon after coronavirus started spreading in the United States, Slover Linett and LaPlaca Cohen collaborated to launch a large-scale audience research ...
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If listening to @LisaYancey interviewed by Durell Cooper doesn't change your thinking (& feeling & doing) about the work ahead, I'd be surprised. If it doesn't make you smile, well...can't help you.
Last week's vital conversation @nycaier now posted: https://nycaieroundtable.org/events/bridging-the-divide-making-connections-between-personal-impact-and-communal-change/
If listening to @LisaYancey interviewed by Durell Cooper doesn't change your thinking (& feeling & doing) about the work ahead, I'd be surprised. If it doesn't make you smile, well...can't help you.
Last week's vital conversation @nycaier now posted: https://nycaieroundtable.org/events/bridging-the-divide-making-connections-between-personal-impact-and-communal-change/