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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
I am delighted to announce several upcoming virtual conferences and panels where our team will be sharing initial findings from the national study, Culture + Community in a Time of Crisis, which closed its survey last week with a staggering 120,000 + responses from folks across the country who were willing to give their time to share their needs, hopes, and expectations. Here is how to be among the first to learn the findings…
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We are excited to share that we recently closed the first wave of our online survey for Culture & Community in a Time of Crisis: A Special COVID Edition of Culture Track. We received 120,000+ responses from museum goers and arts audiences around the U.S. who were willing to give 20 minutes of their time during these stressful days to share their situations, needs, and plans.
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We’re collaborating with our friends at LaPlaca Cohen and other partners, funders, and advisors to conduct a rapid but nuanced study cultural audiences and the wider American public during COVID…
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In these times, research matters more…and differently. Because your community and audience need to have a voice and want to be heard. We hope you and loved ones are staying safe and sane during these trying times. Our team at Slover Linett is working from home, and we’re adapting and learning fast as the situation evolves. You’ve got a lot on your mind, so we’ll be quick; here are five things we want you to know…
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As we’ve talked about what’s really unfolding around the world, I realized research can do so much more, if we’re willing to quickly let go of some old ideas. What if we thought of it as a way of empathizing and collaborating with our fellow anxious, confused humans in our communities?
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In our hurry to get our cultural content out there, let’s not forget that innovation requires a feedback loop, a creative back-and-forth with the humans in your community who need you differently now — and in some ways need you more. Feedback should be built into the process…
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We're delighted to share several upcoming virtual panels where our team will explore initial findings from the Culture + Community in a Time of Crisis national audience & community survey.
Here is how to be among the first to learn the findings:
Looking forward & embracing change: Upcoming conferences & panels from Slover Linett | Slover Linett
I am delighted to announce several upcoming virtual conferences and panels where our team will be sharing initial findings from the national study, Cu...
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@OFBYFOR_ALL @ninaksimon Looking forward! Belonging may be THE question in the arts, especially in the transitions ahead. Much as I love our #opera clients, it's hard to think of an art-form more premised on insiderness & dis-belonging (at least during the 20th century; before that, more widely "owned").
"We’ve been nearly overwhelmed logistically & completely floored emotionally."
@PLinett & Madeline Smith provide an update on the Culture + Community in a Time of Crisis survey, which closed last week.
@LaPlacaCohen @CultureTrack
An update on the national audience & community study | Slover Linett
We are excited to share that we recently closed the first wave of our online survey for Culture & Community in a Time of Crisis: A Special COVID Editi...
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“I hope that we dismantle the *gates* to our theatres.”
A million times yes, @VogelPaula. https://twitter.com/AmericanTheatre/status/1262901775834714114
Paula Vogel, addressing tonight's @TheKilroys13 party: "I hope that we do not dismantle our theatres. I hope that we dismantle the *gates* to our theatres."
We’re overwhelmed by the response to our #CultureTrack COVID survey, which closed yesterday.⠀
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Stay tuned for our study report in June!⠀
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@LaPlacaCohen @SloverLinett @WallaceFdn
We are beyond thrilled with the over *120,000* responses that were received before our #CultureTrack Covid survey closed yesterday.
Stay tuned for initial findings!
@LaPlacaCohen @CultureTrack @WallaceFdn
We've received over 100,000 responses from arts & culture attenders since the @CultureTrack Covid Study was launched & they're still rolling in. We @SloverLinett and @LaPlacaCohen are working to get findings out to you as quickly as possible. Thanks for sharing @AAMers! https://twitter.com/AAMers/status/1259204029277769729
Since it was launched, the @CultureTrack initiative seeking to ask, "How will #COVID19 change how we serve audiences?" has received 750+ participating organizations.
Learn more about the early stages of the project from @jenbenoitbryan of @SloverLinett: https://www.aam-us.org/2020/04/16/culture-and-community-in-a-time-of-crisis-join-a-national-audience-research-collaboration/
I’m revisiting the ‘04 @PBS Broadway doc, specifically thinking how theatre has had to bounce back in the past.
But this isn’t a crisis that can be solved with escapism; we need to completely rethink our work.
Tangentially, here’s a good read by @RobKendt re: @GuthrieTheater https://twitter.com/AmericanTheatre/status/1259106784943525889
Minneapolis's @GuthrieTheater announces a drastically reduced 3-show season, to begin in March 2021, at a budget that is 60 percent lower than projected https://www.americantheatre.org/2020/05/09/guthrie-to-stay-closed-until-march-2021-mini-season/
