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: 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 new strategic >>
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 Abstract: Access to arts education in the United States continues to be inequitably distributed as a function of socioeconomic status and race. >>
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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Who we are Our website address is: https://wolfbrown.com. Comments When visitors leave comments on the site we collect the data shown in the comments form, and also the >>
Working together with our many collaborators, WolfBrown generates a steady stream of influential reports and publications. We advocate for transparency and public disclosure of intellectual property whenever possible, >>
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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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Affordable market research for arts and cultural organizations. Finally. Audience Outlook Monitor is a community of research-minded arts and culture professionals dedicated to learning about audiences, led by WolfBrown. Through our free >>
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Through innovative program design, research, and evaluation, we collaborate on deepening and amplifying the creative experiences individuals can access throughout their lives. WolfBrown assists institutions and communities in designing, implementing, and evaluating creative learning programs spanning all age groups. Our innovative, sector-leading work includes basic research, integrative landscape and literature reviews, and participatory and summative program evaluations—all with the understanding of how these programs build the diverse creative capital in individuals, families, and communities. >>
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