Insights

Author: Peter Linett, November 10, 2018

Peter Linett moderated the closing panel discussion at the 2018 conference of the Alliance for the Arts in Research Universities (a2ru) in Athens, Georgia. He was joined by Emil Kang of Carolina Performing Arts and the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill; Saralyn Reece Hardy of the Spencer Museum of Art, University of Kansas; and Garth Ross of Yale University. From the program description:  We know how to raise money for gleaming new arts buildings that shine a spotlight on the arts on...

Author: Peter Linett, January 23, 2018

Culture Track 2017 is the latest wave of LaPlaca Cohen’s influential, ongoing exploration of the attitudes, motivators, and barriers of cultural participants.Our friends at LaPlaca Cohen asked Peter Linett to moderate a panel discussion by cultural leaders about this year’s findings and their implications for the field. Panelist included Robert A. Kret, Director, Georgia O’Keeffe Museum; James Lujan, Department Chair of Cinematic Arts & Technology, Institute of American...

Author: Sarah Lee, October 10, 2017

 To stay relevant to changing communities, many arts organizations have been developing engagement programs — that is, programming designed to reach more and different people and involve them more actively in how art is made and experienced. While engagement efforts are often episodic or separate from an art organization’s core programming, in late 2013 a group of 10 arts nonprofits across California set out to make engagement central to their identities as part of the New California Arts...