Insights

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...