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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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New, 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
Interested in joining the most creative, community-focused research practice in the cultural sector? Or know someone who might be? / We’re kicking off the new year in growth gear. Having just promoted several outstanding members of our staff, we’re now looking for two...
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At Slover Linett, our team includes social scientists and strategists from a wide range of disciplines, such as psychology, anthropology, public policy, human-centered design, and arts administration. Because of our kaleidoscope of backgrounds, we get to push each other to think creatively about unusual combinations of research methods to meet our cultural clients’ goals.
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We’re delighted to announce the publication of new findings about an art-form we love but haven’t had the opportunity to research before: folk music. Too often, the informal, vernacular arts fly below the radar of researchers, funders, and policymakers. But they’re as vital to culture and community as any classical tradition or formal arts institution. So we were excited to work with the talented team at Folk Alliance International…
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I was honored to recently participate as a guest speaker, on behalf of Slover Linett Audience Research, during Meena Selvakumar’s Community Engagement course—where students develop an understanding of the theory and practice of community engagement to help museums become agents of change in their communities—as part of the University of Washington’s Museology program.
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It’s political polling season, which means lots of media stories about methodological social-science questions that are usually way too wonky for public consumption. (I know, I lost you at “polling.”) But if you work in audience research, those stories can grab your attention…and not in a good way.
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At Slover Linett, we focus most of our (formidable!) research chops on helping organizations connect more deeply with their audiences and communities. But sometimes we turn these skills inward to inform our own organizational learning and growth. For instance, staff surveys.
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And we're not the only ones hiring: The artist-activists behind #LookAtArtGetPaid are looking for a Program Coordinator, based in Massachusetts. Help them make important change happen in #art #museums (okay I'm biased, proud to be an advisor to #LAAGP). https://docs.google.com/document/d/1VmkJFDajdAwk9zT179x8dmzSfy4EudnKQ1ceIe0QNwo/edit
"We seek to expand the range of perspectives, life-experiences, & identities on our team, so that we can learn more about, & work to get better at, using research as a tool for greater equity, inclusion, & innovation in the cultural sectors."
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https://sloverlinett.com/news-notes/growing-our-team-and-looking-outside-the-box-two-great-positions-open/
Yep, really looking forward to working with #symphony CEOs at this session next week. Can we be both strategic and creative about engagement, in part by looking outside the #arts bubble?
"Audiences aren't monolithic. How can we think about the experiences we offer in terms of what those different audience segments need?"
@PLinett is excited to lead a session at @OrchLeague's mid-winter meeting. Registration remains open - details below:
https://americanorchestras.org/conferences-meetings/upcoming-meetings/mid-winter-managers-meeting-2020.html
"Audiences aren't monolithic. How can we think about the experiences we offer in terms of what those different audience segments need?"
@PLinett is excited to lead a session at @OrchLeague's mid-winter meeting. Registration remains open - details below:
League of American Orchestras
Welcome to the League of American Orchestras, dedicated to advancing the orchestral experience for all.
americanorchestras.org
Cool job alert! https://twitter.com/SloverLinett/status/1220077346679664641
We are kicking off the new year with growth in mind & are excited to announce the openings for a Researcher & a Research Coordinator at Slover Linett.
More info, including salary range & benefit details, below:
#audienceresearch #Hiring
https://sloverlinett.com/news-notes/growing-our-team-and-looking-outside-the-box-two-great-positions-open/
"We seek to expand the range of perspectives, life-experiences, & identities on our team, so that we can learn more about, & work to get better at, using research as a tool for greater equity, inclusion, & innovation in the cultural sectors."
Join us!
Growing our team…and looking outside the box: Two great positions open | Slover Linett
sloverlinett.com
We are kicking off the new year with growth in mind & are excited to announce the openings for a Researcher & a Research Coordinator at Slover Linett.
More info, including salary range & benefit details, below:
#audienceresearch #Hiring
Growing our team…and looking outside the box: Two great positions open | Slover Linett
sloverlinett.com
Moved & happy to see this story of #publicart actually doing what we often talk about: "pierce the bubbles" of race, spark "hard & uncomfortable" conversations "between people who had never met," help a #community look at itself. #creativeplacemaking #arts
How 17 Outsize Portraits Rattled a Small Southern Town
Newnan, Ga., decided to use art to help the community celebrate diversity and embrace change. Not everyone was ready for what they saw.
www.nytimes.com
Reading eulogies to philosopher Roger Scruton. While admiring his passion for the #arts, let's also say a permanent goodbye to his (& his generation of conservative critics') claim that #classicalmusic & the Western tradition have unique access to transcendance, greatness, value.