WolfBrown publishes On Our Minds, our signature newsletter, about six times a year, and three specialty newsletters corresponding to specific communities of practice that we aim to support sector-wide. On Our Minds is a great way of keeping up with our consultants and the ideas and issues defining their work. Those of you interested in lifelong arts learning will want to subscribe to Amplifying Creative Opportunities. If research on audiences and audience development is an input to your work, sign up for Audience Outlook Monitor to get information about our free calendar of professional development activities. And if you’d like to keep abreast of new developments in immersive entertainment experiences, sign up for Immersed in the Future. We look forward to staying in touch.
On Our Minds is our signature newsletter for sharing what’s new at WolfBrown. Published about six times a year, it provides a lively platform for our consultants’ updates and findings.
ISSUE 46 • September 2026
By Dr. Thomas Wolf and the WolfBrown team in the Cambridge Office One of the pleasures of consulting is the opportunity to work alongside many different organizations, each wrestling >>
ISSUE 45 • June 2026
By Alan Brown In January, Brett Egan, Gary Steuer and I co-organized a virtual convening attended by nearly 350 artists, researchers, funders, advocates, and administrators to brainstorm the future >>
ISSUE 35 • December 2025
As the year draws to a close, we take time to reflect on what has shaped our work at WolfBrown, both the milestones we’ve reached and the shifts >>
Join our Audience Outlook Monitor community. Be the first to learn about new and important research on audiences and audience development. You can find out more about all of our surveys on the Audience Outlook Monitor website.
ISSUE 45 • March 2025
By Alan Brown, John Carnwath, Erin Gold, Alan Kline, and Surale Phillips In 2023-24, with the cooperation of numerous cultural organizations, we took a deep dive into the >>
ISSUE 30 • January 2025
By Alan Brown For several years, we’ve tracked the slow but steady adoption of ticketing apps by arts organizations, particularly overseas. In the US, the Metropolitan Opera recently launched the “Met >>
ISSUE 26 • June 2024
By Alan Brown This post was published in connection with an upcoming session at the 79th Annual Conference of the League of American Orchestras, June 6-8 in Houston, Texas. >>
WolfBrown’s newest division is an intellectual property management company and project incubator for immersive experiences, primarily serving the performing arts sector. We research, conceive, develop, finance, and distribute immersive experiences in partnership with our investors and creative partners. We hope you find our Immersed in the Future newsletter informative and invite you to join us in navigating the complex programmatic space of in-real-life, augmented, immersive, and virtual experiences.
ISSUE 9 • May 2025
Dear Friends, In this brief newsletter, we’re excited to share new updates on the Representation & Distribution practice area, an essential part of Immersed in the Future. Through this >>
ISSUE 8 • January 2025
2024 has been the most ambitious and turbulent year I’ve observed in the immersive experiences sector. While both boutique and major producers are making significant strides in methodically >>
ISSUE 7 • April 2025
Dear Friends, We are thrilled to introduce you to Immersed in the Future, an innovative division of WolfBrown LLC dedicated exclusively to guiding non-profit arts organizations into the >>
WolfBrown’s Amplifying Creative Opportunities team will be reporting on, linking to, discussing, and debating what it really takes to throw open the doors of arts and culture. Our specialty newsletter will explore inclusive practices—from lullabies with young families to end-of-life art-making, conducted in collaborative and expansive ways. Join us!
ISSUE 4 • December 2025
By Anusha Mohan On the Ground Read more On the Ground posts here. Hannah Nunez, a Bloomberg Arts Internship (BAI) alumnus from Summer 2024, was featured as a >>
ISSUE 3 • November 2024
By Creative Opportunities team at WolfBrown and GIVE Colleagues This third issue of Amplifying Creative Opportunities focuses on young adulthood—the pivotal years bridging late high school and early adult life. >>
ISSUE 3 • April 2024
Re-tooling the Trade Gaining entry into an award-winning, highly-competitive arts program is often a marathon of submitting transcripts, writing a personal statement, submitting a portfolio, or taking an >>
