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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
I’m so pleased to be joining my colleagues from across the world in a few weeks at the Association of Science Technology Centers (ASTC) in Toronto. This year’s conference theme is Moonshots: Rendezvous with the Future, and there are many sessions inspired...
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In my time living in Seattle, I stumbled into the world of arts for social change: I started working with Path with Art, a local nonprofit which provides arts classes for adults who have experienced homelessness and other traumas. On a daily basis, I was able to see how transformational the ability to freely think, connect, and express can be.
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I’m excited to welcome Emily Bray as our newest collaborator and teammate at Slover Linett! In her position as Researcher, Emily will play an important role in both implementing a wide variety of research approaches and creating meaning out of complex data. As a trained community psychologist, Emily is well prepared for this work;
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Not long ago, it wasn’t considered necessary to ask “why?” Museums, the arts, and other nonprofit cultural enterprises were an assumed good, self-evidently valuable and categorically worth participating in. Culture was an end in itself. Today, though…
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Most museum and arts professionals think of personality as something that enlivens and humanizes an organization’s brand, a flavoring to be added to the message. Few treat it as a unifying principle of experience design. Yet this last P in our framework may be the most important…
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Is marketing part of the museum or arts experience? From the audience member’s point of view, yes. The promises your organization makes in its branding and communications — explicit and implicit — do more than get people in the door (or not)…
READ MORELatest Tweets
@CorinneRydman @AubreyBergauer @CAsymphony Great replies already, I would just add @guptaviolin's @Street_Symphony & their amazing collaborators; @nwsymphony, @eighthblackbird, @BlackViolin, @sethbou's Accessible Contemp. Music, @2CELLOS, @LoftOpera, @groupmuse (in some ways), & Laura Reynolds' projects @seattlesymphony.
It was great to see several of our clients, e.g. @FieldMuseum & @museumofscience Boston, putting their institutional weight behind #ClimateStrike. "Objectivity" isn't doing us any favors (stay tuned for a piece I'm writing on that). Watch @Ehmee nail that:
Field Museum Joins Youth Climate Strike in Chicago
The Field Museum will be at the center of Chicago’s youth climate strike Friday as activists across the globe hold what is expected to be one of...
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I was thrilled to share our @SloverLinett research for @labxNAS on engaging millennials in science with the #ASTC2019 conference crowd today! We had a great session with @msichicago, @AMNH, @peoriaplayhouse, and @TheTechInteract.
"Contribute new theory, research, cases and best practices for #museum leaders" to a themed issue of @CuratorJournal on #leadership. Wearing my editorial board hat here, to help spread the word. Provocative, eclectic takes welcome. (scroll down a bit)
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A sad loss for the #museum community. Danielle Rice was one of the kindest, most open-minded art museum leaders I've known. We were lucky to have worked with her in the early years of our practice. https://t.co/SkFmHzD4sW
Danielle Rice joined the museum in 2005 and was known for being a collaborative leader. https://t.co/bVBIJZlzTD
Having the privilege of being a #research consultant @SloverLinett is never boring! Our last trip to @WrightTaliesin was great, even with the flat tire and 108 degrees, we just kept on trucking (and got the data).
"A must-see, even for jaded natives...exhilarating and intimate." (Construction) hats off to our friends @ThincDesign on the @nytimesarts rave review of their new @EmpireStateBldg experience. We can't wait to step off that elevator... #museums #exhibition
The Empire State Building: Renewing the Affair
A revamped tower wants your love. It’s offering King Kong, flying steel girders — and a vertiginous ride to the 102nd floor. The city’s ...
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“Museum leadership & staff have to develop their own cultural competence to be able to curate culturally competent exhibits.”
Important words from @maryfwinters in the latest issue of @AAMers mag. cc: @SloverLinett @TheWintersGroup
