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Folger Shakespeare Library’s Renovation

On April 20, 2024, Dr. Thomas Wolf attended a gala celebration for the completion of a $50 million renovation to the Folger Shakespeare Library in Washington, DC. The project  >>

Recent Engagements

New England Conservatory and WolfBrown Partner to Expand Innovative Musical Learning Program for Greater Boston Pre-K Centers  This summer 2024, WolfBrown will embark on a new partnership with  >>

Audience Outlook Monitor Town Hall on Accessibility

This one-hour online session invites AOM community members to share and be inspired by strategies for expanding accessibility. WolfBrown is dedicating the second phase of the Audience Outlook  >>

Research: Addressing Inequity in Arts Education

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.  >>

Strategic Plan for The Office for the Arts at Harvard (OFA)

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  >>

Recent Engagements in 2024

Assisting Middle Grades Partnership with Data Evaluation for Further Funding Opportunitie We’re pleased to embark on a new partnership with the Fund for Educational Excellence and Middle Grades Partnership (MGP) based in  >>

Music as Medicine

On December 14th, Steven Holochwost had the opportunity to present at the National Institute of Health’s Music as Medicine convening as part of a panel on music education, school readiness,  >>

Loyalty Concept Exploration with the National Arts Centre

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  >>

Loyalty Concept Exploration with the National Arts Centre

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  >>

Regional Arts and Creativity Council

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  >>

Evaluations at Mid-Life

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  >>

Arizona Science Center

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  >>

Imagination Stage: Impact Evaluation of In-School Programs and Workshops

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  >>

Regional Arts Commission: Creatives Count

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  >>

California Arts Council: Grantmaking Evaluation

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  >>

Community-Word Project

Community Word Project’s mission is to facilitate culturally responsive, multidisciplinary art programs for students, teaching artists, and communities to develop and amplify their voices and creative skills. We  >>

FirstHand at University City Science Center

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 research and evaluation partners  >>

EdVestors: Multiple Projects

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  >>

Mellon Foundation: Multiple Projects

WolfBrown has collaborated with the Mellon Foundation on multiple projects. These include:  >>

William Penn Foundation: Multiple Projects

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  >>

Arts for Learning Maryland: Impact Evaluation of Multiple Programs

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  >>

New Jersey Symphony’s CHAMPS project

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.  >>

The Values Study: Rediscovering the Meaning and Value of Arts Participation

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  >>

Initiators and Responders: Leveraging Social Context to Build Attendance

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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Allied Arts of Greater Chattanooga (Now ArtsBuild): A Citizen-driven Planning Process

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  >>

Could It Happen Again? The Fate of the Other Russian Musicians

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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Tomorrow is Another Day

During the COVID-19 pandemic, WolfBrown refined and focused our communications channels to help arts leaders navigate the crisis. With this issue of On Our Minds, we return to  >>