I’m working with the Arts Marketing Association UK’s Audience Diversity Academy (#ADA). One of my responsibilities as a mentor is blogging. Here’s the second of two posts I wrote for… Read more Speaking of things that aren’t easy: defining, exercising, and building values →
I’m working with the Arts Marketing Association UK’s Audience Diversity Academy (#ADA) as a mentor for their pilot round (July 2016-January 2017). One of my responsibilities is blogging. Here’s a post I… Read more Getting into the experimental state of mind →
Show of hands: who would be significantly unsettled, if not be completely terrified, by the idea of handing over your organizational social account to stranger for a day? Login, password, the… Read more Break that control habit! →
Last Wednesday, I had the honor of conducting an “Audience Engagement Boot Camp” in Columbus, OH for arts administrators and artists from across the state on behalf of National Arts… Read more Hardline Truths from #ohellohio →
Melanie here. Welcome to the fourth go at this blog post. In the previous three tries, words all sort of fell out of my brain – a big jumbled mess… Read more Melanie’s Thoughts on Learning from the Past →
How long have I been percolating on engagement and the arts? At least since 2006. In cleaning my office, found these notes from the 2006 TCG Annual Conference in Atlanta. The topic? “Building… Read more FOUND! Notes on Arts Participation as a Behavior →
Previously on A Big Eyed Fish, in defining audience engagement I noted that it was “artcentric” and differed from community engagement and audience development. In order to better show the relationship between a work of art, audience and community engagement, and audience development, I whipped up this infographic using my low-tech graphic design skills in PowerPoint: Totally clears it all up, right? Ok. Unlike a really excellent infographic, mine needs a little additional explanation. Starting with the work of art: The artwork drives our audience engagement programming choices. There’s a strong one-way relationship there and… Read more The Most Confusing Infographic Ever: audience engagement, community engagement & audience development →
New blogger request for forgiveness, the original post needed more before I moved on. All updates, made 1/24/15 appear in this fetching orange. A Google search of audience engagement yields a… Read more IMHO: Audience Engagement Definitions [now with updates!] →
