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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 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
We’re excited to share a new white paper commissioned by the Levitt Foundation and several years in the making: Listening to the Music of Community Change—Findings from a Pre/Post Research Study at Levitt Pavilion Denver. The research examines how a new outdoor music venue has shifted perceptions and experiences of a Southwest Denver neighborhood and park over time, before and after the construction of the free music venue…
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Slover Linett is excited to announce that we are looking for a new team member to join our firm! We are hiring another Research Coordinator to support our team of social researchers in both administrative and operational ways. The role of Research Coordinator is a really special one…
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We are excited to welcome Camila Guerrero as the new Research Coordinator at Slover Linett. In this role, Camila is helping with a variety of projects across the firm in both administrative and operational ways to help move projects forward and strengthen the research studies that we lead for our clients in the cultural sector…
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Busy times around here, so we’re looking for some high-level analytical help over the next six months on an hourly basis. We’re hoping to collaborate with a quantitatively trained grad student, postdoc, or consultant who can help us conduct a mix of pre-planned and exploratory/iterative analyses of the large survey dataset from Wave 2 of Culture + Community in a Time of Transformation…
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The Culture + Community in a Time of Transformation study is in the field, and we’ve already received tens of thousands of responses to the survey. In Wave 2 of the study we are aiming to keep the cultural sector engaged with its audiences, to better serve them during the pandemic and beyond, and provide the field with actionable insights…
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We can’t wait to extend and update our understanding of how people’s circumstances, attitudes, expectations, and engagement with arts and culture may have changed after a full year of the pandemic. Their responses to this survey will let us more deeply explore the future of online participation and connection and understand the roles people want arts and culture organizations to play in social change and racial justice…
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Very happy for @RobinSparkman, heading from one great social-change-through-media-and-storytelling organization (@StoryCorps) to another (@propublica). Congrats!
Robin Sparkman Named President and co-CEO of ProPublica
StoryCorps CEO Will Succeed Richard Tofel in September
www.propublica.org
Very happy for @RobinSparkman, heading from one great social-change-through-media-and-storytelling organization (@StoryCorps) to another (@propublica). Congrats!
Robin Sparkman Named President and co-CEO of ProPublica
StoryCorps CEO Will Succeed Richard Tofel in September
www.propublica.org
We never do this with our #data. But around the house, I've been known to do a little cherry-picking.
(Ahem.) #research #grateful #sharingwiththebirds
@Muna_Abdi_Phd @ninaksimon What a crucial distillation of a very complex, central idea. Thank you! I’ve been trying to convey this to so many clients…
It is not Inclusion if you are inviting people into a space you are unwilling to change....
Ok, I'm in awe of the huge gifts #MacKenzieScott just made to progressive culture & community orgs. But it's painful to know that fortune was (is being!) made from the mistreatment & exploitation of #Amazon workers…many from the very communities those orgs are trying to lift up.
Yes! We are so grateful for your commitment to this important research. #CCTTstudy
Welcome to all of the new organizations who participated in Wave 2 of our Special Edition of Culture Track!
#CultureTrack @laplacacohen @sloverlinett #CCTTstudy
@murawski27 @esglaude Totally. I only meant to add to your exhortation to the twitterverse: Read Eddie *and* Jimmy.
You clearly had a different grad-school experience than I did 🙁