Team: Kathleen Hill, John Carnwath, Alan Brown, Asif Majid WolfBrown will be working on an evaluation of Roundabout Theatre’s education and community programming. >>
On April 29, Tom and Dennie Wolf along with the WolfBrown team will be helping to sponsor “Evening of Harmony,” a celebration of the 15th anniversary of Play >>
Team: Alan Brown, Surale Phillips, Erin Gold In late 2025, Jazz at Lincoln Center (JALC) sought professional assistance in developing strategies to help the organization expand its audience >>
This Friday, February 6, 2026, WolfBrown Principal Dennie Wolf will be speaking on an American Folklore Society Fellows webinar exploring ideas, trends, and current complexities in folklore and >>
Outside of his work at WolfBrown, Principal Tom Wolf, like many of our team members, remains active in organizing musical performances. This video below captures a recent live >>
Carnegie Hall’s Weill Music Institute in partnership with WolfBrown announces Why Making Music Matters Now, a groundbreaking exploration of how music shapes the lives of young families. It illustrates >>
Team: Alan Brown, Steven J. Tepper In the late 2000s and early 2010s, the Association of Performing Arts Presenters (with support from the Doris Duke Charitable Foundation) invested >>
What a landmark grant program taught us about interdisciplinarity, learning, and the evolving role of presenters In the late 2000s and early 2010s, the Association of Performing Arts >>
Team: Surale Phillips What makes meaning for their audiences has been the primary focus of the survey work Surale Phillips has done for the Ojai Music Festival (OMF) >>
Team: Joe Kluger, Alan Brown, Erin Gold Having successfully weathered the challenges of COVID-19 performance disruptions, OKC Philharmonic’s leadership believed it was an appropriate time to develop a >>
Team: John Carnwath, Annick Odom, Alan Brown South Arts’ Jazz Road program is an artist-centric touring and residency grants program to spread jazz throughout the country, strengthen work opportunities and >>
Team: Alan Brown, John Carnwath Responding to a set of specific needs in the museum field, the Charles H. Wright Museum of African American History is taking the >>
Team: Alan Brown, Surale Phillips, Erin Gold, and Annick Odom WolfBrown is launching Loyalty Labs to address one of the sector’s most persistent challenges: the lack of a >>
Team: Alan Brown, Surale Phillips Orlando Shakes, the acclaimed producing theatre company serving the fast growing market of Orlando, Florida, has engaged WolfBrown as a thought partner to >>
Team: Cultural Catalysts and Surale Phillips WolfBrown has partnered with Cultural Catalysts to support the Milwaukee Symphony Orchestra in a comprehensive audience building initiative focused on its Classics >>
Orlando Shakes: Aligning Programs with Community and Market Needs Orlando Shakes, the acclaimed producing theatre company serving the fast growing market of Orlando, Florida, has engaged WolfBrown as >>
By Caralyn Spector, Joe Kluger, and Alan Brown A Thoughtful, Deliberate Path to Transformational Change Many organizations arrive at moments of crisis surprised and unprepared. Whether due to >>
Team: John Carnwath In a period of rapid growth, the Boulanger Initiative (BI)—dedicated to promoting and raising awareness of music composed by women and all gender-marginalized composers—embarked on >>
Team: Dr. Thomas Wolf, Dr. Steven Holochwost The NAMM Foundation is a non-profit supported in part by the National Association of Music Merchants and its 10,300 members around >>
Team: Surale Phillips The Cabarrus Arts Council, serving a largely rural county outside Charlotte, NC that has seen significant growth and changed demographics, is taking bold steps to enrich its >>
Team: Alan Brown, Surale Phillips, Alan Kline, Erin Gold Following a competitive RFP process, Children’s Theatre Company, the distinguished producer of youth theatre based in Minneapolis, MN, selected >>
Team: Alan Brown, Surale Phillips, Erin Gold Located in the rolling hills of Lehigh Valley just south of Bethlehem, Pennsylvania Shakespeare Festival (PSF) produces an annual summertime season >>
Team: Alan Kline, Surale Phillips The Edmonton Symphony Orchestra (ESO), located in Edmonton, Alberta, is a professional Canadian orchestra. Serving as the musical hub for Alberta’s creative capital, >>
Team: John Carnwath August 21, 2024 Developed in collaboration with WolfBrown, the Bay Area Film Production Memo, published by BAVC Media on July 10, 2024, outlines strategies to >>
WolfBrown, in collaboration with BAVC Media (Bay Area Video Coalition), has conducted a comprehensive research study, culminating in the publication of the Bay Area Film Production Memo. This >>
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The Potential of a Systems Perspective Authors: Dr. Steven J. Holochwost, Dr. Dennie Palmer Wolf, & Dr. Eleanor D. Brown Abstract: Access to arts education in the United >>
The Office for the Arts at Harvard (OFA), in partnership with WolfBrown, completed a strategic plan, developing a compelling vision and dynamic programs for the arts over the >>
Team: Alan Brown, Surale Phillips, John Carnwath, Erin Gold February 1, 2024 As Canada’s bilingual, multi-disciplinary home for the performing arts, the National Arts Centre (NAC) charged with WolfBrown to investigate >>
The National Arts Centre in Ottawa, Canada commissioned WolfBrown in fall 2023 to investigate the nature of loyalty, with an eye towards critically examining the future of customer >>
An Evaluation of the Right Brain Initiative, Arts Education Research and Program Development Team: Dennie Palmer Wolf The Right Brain Initiative is a program of the Portland-based Regional >>
by Dennie Palmer Wolf In an issue of GuildNotes, Dennie Palmer Wolf continues her article series on program evaluations with an investigation of their mid-life. Imagine that you >>
Team: Alan Brown, Surale Phillips, Erin Gold Arizona Science Center (ASC) selected WolfBrown to conduct mixed-methods research to inform the organization’s strategic planning efforts. Quantitative research conducted in >>
Team: Kathleen Hill, Dennie Palmer Wolf WolfBrown is pleased to be working with Imagination Stage, an arts and culture nonprofit in Bethesda, Maryland which empowers young people “to discover their voice >>
Team: John Carnwath, Kacie Willis In 2023, we partnered with The Regional Arts Commission of St. Louis (RAC) to ask the musicians, writers, craftspeople, designers, makers, and performers who enrich >>
Team: John Carnwath, Alan Brown, Salvador Acevedo, Anh Thang Dao-Shah, Shalini Agrawal The California Arts Council’s programs aim to allow all Californians to thrive via public support for creativity and >>
Team: Dr. Dennie Palmer Wolf Community Word Project’s mission is to facilitate culturally responsive, multidisciplinary art programs for students, teaching artists, and communities to develop and amplify their >>
Team: Dennie Palmer Wolf University City Science Center’s FirstHand program has been awarded a grant from the US Department of Education. AnLar LLC and WolfBrown will serve as >>
EdVestors is an organization that strives to improve schools in Boston. They achieve their mission by activating resources and people, learning and iterating in context, and influencing system-wide >>
WolfBrown has collaborated with the Mellon Foundation on multiple projects. These include: >>
Team: Kelly R. Fisher, Steven J. Holochwost, Kerry O’Grady, Dennie Palmer Wolf The Socioemotional Benefits of the Arts: A New Mandate for Arts Education Summary Report WolfBrown collaborated >>
Team: Steven J. Holochwost, Dennie Palmer Wolf Founded in Baltimore in 1950, Arts for Learning Maryland, formerly Young Audiences of Maryland, transforms the lives and education of Maryland >>
Team: Steven Holochwost, Dennie Palmer Wolf New Jersey Symphony’s Character, Achievement, and Music Project (CHAMPS). In 2012, NJS retained WolfBrown to assess the program’s impacts on participating students. >>
Connecticut Commission on Culture and Tourism, Arts Division Made possible by The Wallace Foundation’s State Arts Partnerships for Cultural Participation (START) Program Alan Brown The Values Study was an >>
Issues Brief Series #4 Summer 2004, Published by the John S. and James L. Knight Foundation by Alan Brown Two observations from recent studies illustrate the paradox of >>
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Team: Thomas Wolf, Dennie Palmer Wolf, Marc Goldring, Jane Culbert As part of a Kresge-funded initiative coordinated by Allied Arts of Greater Chattanooga, consultant Dr. Thomas Wolf conducted >>
During the present crisis in the Ukraine, much has been made of the fate of Russian musicians who are supporters of Vladimir Putin. Superstars like conductor Valery Gergiev and >>
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