Slover Linett Audience Research

A social research & evaluation firm for the cultural sector, broadly defined: the #arts, #museums, #scicomm, #creativeplacemaking. Tweets by the whole gang.

[Slover Linett Audience Research @SloverLinett]

We're thrilled to share new #research centering Americans of color about #music listening, w/ 4 #ClassicalMusic #publicradio stations around the US.

https://t.co/0KOokOszqp

And join us for a free webinar about the study next Wednesday, w folks from @KingFM @WQXR & @WRTImusic.

[Slover Linett Audience Research @SloverLinett]

So proud to be even one spoke on this hub of great #communityresearch and inclusive #arts planning in #Massachusetts, set in motion by @BarrFdn. Inspiring piece by @Essex_CF & @BTCF leaders: https://t.co/yBGaggiMSI

@jenbenoitbryan #CreativeCommonwealth #ArtsBuildCommunity

[Slover Linett Audience Research @SloverLinett]

Great to hear that this resonates across the pond... Thank you, Roger!

[Roger Tomlinson @BrandinyourHand]

Peter Linett @SloverLinett makes telling points about working with communities: make them a full partner, see their assets as well as needs, help them achieve their goals: https://t.co/GLX2UTPlHq

[Slover Linett Audience Research @SloverLinett]

@BrandinyourHand Thank you, Roger! Coming from you that means a lot.

[Slover Linett Audience Research @SloverLinett]

...but we're sad to be losing Jen as a leader, mentor, coach, and co-creator here.

Stay tuned for some personal reflections from Jen and @plinett in the coming weeks.

#congratulations! #artsresearch #culturalpolicy #museums

[Slover Linett Audience Research @SloverLinett]

Big, bittersweet news for us: @jenbenoitbryan will be stepping down from her role as president to become dir. of #research at @SMUDataArts and a prof. @smumeadows School of the #Arts. https://t.co/KwFPLQ7RVt

We're always thrilled for colleagues who go on to amazing things... 1/2

[Slover Linett Audience Research @SloverLinett]

@PLinett's four takeaways from a recent #museumleadership gathering in DC, including:

What happens when "large museums and arts institutions are now being funded generously to do the kinds of community work that smaller and culturally specific organizations have long done..."?

[Peter Linett @PLinett]

All the attention now being paid to #arts orgs & #museums of color is because community purposes & identities are their founding principles; they didn’t come fashionably late to those, like many large, predominantly white #cultural institutions.
New post:
https://t.co/hcvXWcnNDb

[Slover Linett Audience Research @SloverLinett]

Yes. Language can be a self-fulfilling prophecy.

#artsequity #artsequity #culturalsector

[Peter Linett @PLinett]

Can we stop calling our largest #museums & #arts institutions "flagship" and smaller-budget, community-based organizations "scrappy"? Given inequities in #philanthropy and the power of language to shape policy, those terms perpetuate the status quo and keep small orgs small.
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[Slover Linett Audience Research @SloverLinett]

And @museumprogress, this was sparked by your post that @PLinett's riffing on - thanks for the smart provocation!

https://t.co/03tymww3BD

[Slover Linett Audience Research @SloverLinett]

New post from @PLinett about community-based #research as one of the ways a #cultural org or #arts funder supports its community.

It starts with seeing not just the holes & gaps in the latticework, but the connective structures that hold it all together.

https://t.co/zILxSDlbV2

[Slover Linett Audience Research @SloverLinett]

And apropos, we're excited to be talking about conducting another #research study of the #socialimpacts of folk & traditional #arts in lives and communities. (Our first was with @CalTradArts a few years ago. Learned and unlearned a lot since then!) Stay tuned...

[Peter Linett @PLinett]

So proud of my Santa Fe neighbor, artist & santero Luis Tapia, named an @NEAarts National #Heritage Fellow - our country's highest honor in the folk & traditional arts.

Great to see recognition of the political, social & protest power of his artwork.

https://t.co/gVLcrt5NVU

[Slover Linett Audience Research @SloverLinett]

Read the (beautiful) article here: https://t.co/ZNeLMs8wGp

[Slover Linett Audience Research @SloverLinett]

A "respite room" where viewers can process, mourn, repair.

This is why we love working with @deyoungmuseum & other cultural orgs that are rethinking, decolonizing, healing. Kudos to Abram Jackson & others @ FAMSF for getting that it's not just what goes on the walls...

[IMLS @US_IMLS]

Happening now: @SMUDataArts’ Zannie Voss and @SloverLinett's @PLinett join @IMLSDirector Crosby Kemper for a panel discussion to share insights about the present and future of #museums in a post-pandemic world. #IMLSMuseums #IMLSConvening

[Slover Linett Audience Research @SloverLinett]

#ICYMI here's @MellonFdn Pres. Elizabeth Alexander and @smithsonian Sec. Lonnie Bunch on the role of museums in telling the #AmericanStory. A fascinating and timely conversation:

https://t.co/I5UVbSagKH

[Slover Linett Audience Research @SloverLinett]

Big thanks to #BAM for this gorgeous image: Sing Harlem Choir performing at the 2022 Annual Brooklyn Tribute to Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.

(Photo credit: Astrid Stawiarz, Getty Images for Brooklyn Academy of Music.)

[Slover Linett Audience Research @SloverLinett]

We're so proud to work with amazing antiracist, justice-focused system-changers in #arts and #culture. Our sector has a unique role to play—and much more work to do. (Same goes for social #research and #evaluation.)

So let's take a breath together, remember Dr. King...and sing.

[Slover Linett Audience Research @SloverLinett]

Well choreographed conversation, coming soon to your screen: @jenbenoitbryan & @melodybuyukozer taped last week with @DanceUSAorg about audiences' values, behaviors & hopes for the future.

We'll link when the video's up!

#dance #artsequity #community #artsresearch #CCTTstudy

[Slover Linett Audience Research @SloverLinett]

Calling all #museum changemakers! This week, 2 info sessions on the @MuseumsMoving data study:

Thurs. 8pmET on #IGlive with @jenbenoitbryan, @mialocks & Kelli Morgan.

Fri. 12pm ET on zoom >> https://t.co/5EqAHBi29A

If you care about #workplaceequity in #artmuseums, join us!

[Barr Foundation @BarrFdn]

MA arts organizations are ready to share what they've learned from listening to local audiences.

@SloverLinett highlights key actions local arts organizations are taking to welcome and engage audiences:

https://t.co/7BZGdlmE8j