Newsletters

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

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.

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Equity in Strategic Planning: Walking the Equity Walk

ISSUE 18 • March 2023

By Joseph H. Kluger The journey towards a more equitable future for nonprofit arts organizations starts in the boardroom and too often ends there, as well. This issue >>

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Equity and Strategic Planning: An Interview with Stanford Thompson

ISSUE 18 • March 2023

By Dr. Thomas Wolf The journey towards a more equitable future for nonprofit arts organizations starts in the boardroom and too often ends there, as well. This issue >>

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Equity in Strategic Planning

ISSUE 18 • March 2023

By Alan Brown The journey towards a more equitable future for nonprofit arts organizations starts in the boardroom and too often ends there, as well. This issue of On >>

Audience Outlook Monitor

Join our Audience Outlook Monitor Community. Be the first to learn about new and important research on audiences and audience development.

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Explore the Future of Marketing Relationships

ISSUE 5 • May 2023

Reflect with Us On Customer Relationships Interrogating Marketing Relationships: What Problem Are We Solving?Wednesday, May 3, 1:00 – 2:00 PM EDT | 10:00 – 11:00 AM PDTWith your help, >>

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Introducing the Demographic and Buyer Behavior Survey

ISSUE 4 • April 2023

Demographic and Buyer Behavior Survey Deploys June 13: Register Now Familiarize Yourself With Our Four Basic Surveys The four basic surveys deploy once a year on a rolling >>

Audiences

(Re)Introducing Audience Outlook Monitor

ISSUE 3 • April 2023

Welcome to Audience Outlook Monitor, a community of research-minded arts and culture professionals dedicated to learning about audiences, led by WolfBrown.  AOM community members may elect to join any of our low-cost cohort >>

Immersed in the Future

WolfBrown’s new community of practice is designed to support nonprofit arts organizations as they navigate the complex programmatic space of augmented, immersive, and virtual experiences. We hope you find Immersed in the Future rewarding and invite you to join in!

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Elevating Storytelling and Emotional Connection in Immersive Design

ISSUE 4 • May 2023

As my research into the immersive paradigm goes deeper and deeper, I’m continually reminded that we are three-dimensional human beings. We do not inhabit a flat, two-dimensional world; >>

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The Future of Augmented Experiences in Theaters and Concert Halls

ISSUE 3 • March 2023

Throughout history, technological breakthroughs have opened up arts experiences for new audiences, from the spectral illusions of “Pepper’s ghost” (mid-19th century, the antecedent to contemporary holograms) to theater >>

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Commercial Exploitation of Art in a Commoditized Market

ISSUE 2 • March 2023

The number of new immersive productions coming to market in early 2023 is dizzying. Will nonprofit arts organizations figure a place for themselves in the immersive paradigm? The >>

Amplifying Creative Opportunities

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!

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Reframing Our Thinking: The Arts Inventing Opportunity Structures

ISSUE 2 • May 2023

By Dr. Dennie Palmer Wolf and Colleagues This second issue of Amplifying Creative Opportunities focuses on the concept of opportunity structures: the deliberate choices we can make that limit >>

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A Visual Experiment

ISSUE 2 • May 2023

A visual essay to get you thinking about what facilitates and what limits who gets to enter, belong, and contribute in the field of arts and culture. By >>

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Universal Design as a Foundation for Opportunity Structures

ISSUE 2 • May 2023

This piece is dedicated to the memory and work of Don Glass, an artist, educator, and researcher who devoted his considerable imagination to thinking about the many ways >>