An essential and practical resource for the nonprofit field. Celebrating its fortieth anniversary, this classic is now updated for a new generation. Tens of thousands of staff members, >>
Americans for the Arts has published The Teaching Artist Companion to Aesthetic Perspectives: Attributes of Excellence in Arts for Change. The publication was developed by Animating Democracy, a >>
How are audiences affected by live choral music concerts? What can we conclude about their experiences? How do their experiences differ? Can we identify drivers of impact? In >>
An Evaluation of Long-Term Impact on Program Participants Team: Dennie Palmer Wolf, Steven Holochwost Community MusicWorks (CMW) is a resident string quartet, music learning center, and set of >>
Crystal Bridges Museum of American Art (CBMAA), located in Bentonville, Arkansas, has engaged the team of WolfBrown and Creative Generation to design and facilitate a convening to reimagine the future >>
Team: John Carnwath, Alan Brown, Claudia Bach Grantmakers in the Arts, the national association of arts funders, commissioned WolfBrown to establish benchmark data nationally on financial support provided >>
Team: Alan Brown, John Shibley Chorus America, the national service organization for the choral music field, has drawn on WolfBrown’s resources several times in connection with its sector-building >>
In this 15-minute video presentation, Alan Brown shares his analysis of the arts sector’s challenges emerging from the COVID-19 pandemic and contemplates what a more democratic culture might >>
With venues reopening and 90% to 95% of arts audiences vaccinated, we have entered a new stage of the pandemic. A significant share of the audience, despite being >>
Join us for a conversation with Ireland-based scholar and consultant Steven Hadley, author of Audience Development and Cultural Policy (Palgrave, 2021). Hadley’s new book adds important perspective to >>
Team: Dennie Palmer Wolf, Kathleen Hill, John Carnwath Crystal Bridges Museum of American Art (CBMAA), located in Bentonville, Arkansas, engaged the team of WolfBrown and Creative Generation to >>
Team: Alan Brown, Rebecca Ratzkin, with Sheena Johnson The arts program staff of the William and Flora Hewlett Foundation partnered with WolfBrown to support a cohort of grantee >>
Team: Alan Brown, Erin Gold Building on an initial phase of planning work completed by WolfBrown in 2018, the Detroit Symphony Orchestra commissioned WolfBrown again in 2020 to >>
Team: Alan Brown, Robert Sweibel The Madison Symphony Orchestra selected the team of WolfBrown and Sweibel Arts to undertake a two-track scope of work aimed at strengthening its >>
Team: Alan Kline, Surale Philips, Kacie Willis For over ten years, WolfBrown has collaborated with the Phoenix-based Flinn Foundation to provide technical support with audience research to a >>
Team: Surale Phillips The Zeiterion PAC, a restored historic theatre in New Bedford, Massachusetts, selected WolfBrown through a competitive RFP process to assess internal and external perceptions of >>
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Team: Tom Wolf and Joe Kluger New England Conservatory (NEC) engaged Tom Wolf and Joe Kluger of WolfBrown to assist in the development of a new Entrepreneurial Musicianship >>
Team: Joe Kluger The Hampton Roads Community Foundation engaged Joe Kluger of WolfBrown to develop recommended strategies to increase the individual and collective sustainability of the region’s major >>
Team: Joe Kluger Sarasota Opera engaged Joe Kluger of WolfBrown to facilitate its strategic planning process. It resulted in refinements to the organization’s mission and values and established >>
Team: Joe Kluger Penn Live Arts (formerly the Annenberg Center for the Performing Arts) engaged Joe Kluger of WolfBrown to facilitate a strategic planning process, which resulted in >>
Team: Joe Kluger The Joyce Theater engaged Joe Kluger of WolfBrown to provide an analysis of the compensation and benefits plan for its Executive Director and other members >>
Team: Steven Holochwost and Dennie Palmer Wolf with Arts Corps Collaborators The Creative Schools Initiative was a five-year federal grant to Arts Corps, Seattle from the AEMDD (Arts >>
Team: Alan Brown Welsh National Opera (WNO) is a Wales based opera company that performs award-winning operas in 10 cities in Wales and England. The company seeks to >>
Team: Alan Brown, John Carnwath The Qualitative Impact Framework we developed for the Canada Council for the Arts was commissioned to improve the Council’s understanding of the many >>
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Team: John Carnwath Mid Atlantic Arts Foundation engaged WolfBrown to conduct an evaluation of its USArtists International grant program. The program supports American artists who have been invited >>
Team: Alan Brown, John Carnwath, Megan Bander Lincoln Center Education (LCE), the educational arm of Lincoln Center for the Performing Arts in New York City, develops innovative programming >>
Team: Alan Brown, Rebecca Ratzkin, Zachary Kemp Boston’s Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum engaged WolfBrown to assist in developing a clearer understanding of the Gardner’s public value and to >>
Team: Alan Brown, Kyle Marinshaw The Music Center of Los Angeles County, one of the nation’s leading dance presenters, engaged WolfBrown to assess its dance programming in light >>
Team: Alan Brown, Rebecca Ratzkin, Salvador Acevedo, Monique Madara The San Francisco Symphony (SFS) is a musical institution that sets the highest possible standard for excellence in musical >>
Team: John Carnwath, Alan Brown WolfBrown was engaged by the Chicago History Museum (CHM) to build a new customer segmentation model for visitors and prospects. The research included >>
Team: Alan Brown With support from The Wallace Foundation, Lyric Opera of Chicago embarked on a significant initiative in 2015 to build audiences by encouraging crossover between its >>
Team: Alan Brown and Erin Gold University Musical Society (UMS) in Ann Arbor, Michigan is one of the nation’s largest and most prestigious presenting organizations, attracting world class >>
Team: John Carnwath, Alan Brown To strengthen the position of State Humanities Councils around the country, the Federation of State Humanities Councils (FSHC), in partnership with the National >>
WolfBrown will be partnering with the three campuses of the Ghetto Film School on a longitudinal evaluation that focuses on its student fellows and alumni. Ghetto Film School (GFS) >>
Team: Dennie Palmer Wolf, Kathleen Hill with Stanford Thompson and Emily Master of GoldSmith Partners WolfBrown will be partnering with the three campuses of the Ghetto Film School >>
WolfBrown has worked with Play On, Philly! since 2012, supporting this young organization’s rise to prominence as a national leader in the field of music education. Our consultants >>
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 >>
Team: Thomas Wolf, Jane Culbert In order to enhance the summer program offerings at Tanglewood, the summer home of the Boston Symphony Orchestra (BSO), the Orchestra contracted with >>
A Far Cry is a twice Grammy-nominated self-conducted orchestra in Boston in which decisions are made collectively and leadership rotates among the players. This structure has led to consistently >>
Team: Dennie Palmer Wolf, Thomas Wolf, Jane Culbert The Jacob Burns Film Center (JBFC) is one of America’s leading nonprofit cultural arts centers dedicated to film, visual literacy, and >>
Team: Thomas Wolf, Dennie Palmer Wolf, Jane Culbert, and Kathleen Hill with Stanford Thomas of Goldsmith Partners and a team of Harvard Undergraduate Researchers The Office for the >>
Third Street Music School Settlement is among the oldest, continually operating community music schools in the United States. At its core is an enduring commitment to welcoming children >>
Team: Alan Brown, Dennie Palmer Wolf, Thomas Wolf Big Thought is one of the largest organizations in the United States that focuses on making creative learning part of >>
Alan’s April 25th briefing highlighted results from the week’s survey deployments to three national cohorts of theaters, orchestras, and performing arts centers. Will perceptions of rising infection rates >>
Part of the dedicated executive briefing series with the Audience Outlook Monitor: COVID-19 Study >>
Responding to the Coronavirus state of emergency in 2020, the Cultural Council for Palm Beach County issued a survey about COVID-19 impacts on its constituent organizations between March >>
Audience Outlook Monitor COVID-19 Study is a collaboration of international cultural organizations working together to understand audiences preferences during the pandemic. Our partners and research notes include: Arts >>
Triple Play was a national research project led jointly by TDF (Theatre Development Fund) and Theatre Bay Area to explore the relationships between playwrights, audiences, and theatres. The >>
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 >>
WolfBrown is a leader in developing tools and methodologies for assessing the intrinsic impacts of arts experiences – how individuals are affected emotionally, intellectually, socially, and aesthetically by >>
Team: Alan Kline, Erin Gold, Surale Phillips, John Carnwath, Alan Brown, Megan Bander At the onset of the Covid-19 pandemic in 2020, WolfBrown discerned a sector-wide need to >>
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This research report from WolfBrown and the Bernard van Leer Foundation combines a comprehensive literature and landscape review that highlights the value, impact, and scaling potential of music >>
More than Measuring is the final publication of the longitudinal study that assessed the impact of ArtsPartners. The evaluation, conducted over five years in cooperation with the Dallas >>
From 1994 to 2004, a seminal decade for the arts in America, the John S. and James L. Knight Foundation invested $13 million in its Magic of Music >>
When a major region of the country announces a new cultural action plan, it is important news—especially when the plan provides a bold vision in these challenging economic >>
In her article “Freedom Machines,” Dr. Dennie Palmer Wolf outlines a bold approach to the evaluation of arts and cultural learning programs. The article is part of “Contours >>
A Participatory Evaluation of Community MusicWorks In the fall of 2009, Community MusicWorks (CMW) completed an 18-month participatory evaluation funded by The Rhode Island Foundation. Findings Summary The evaluation >>
This suite of three reports, completed in 2010, explores why donors give to arts groups in the Bay Area. It captures lessons learned by individual artists and small >>
Arts participation is being redefined as people increasingly choose to engage with art in new, more active and expressive ways. This compelling trend carries profound implications and fresh >>
Engaged audiences are a cornerstone in the foundation of a strong arts ecosystem. This report takes stock of a growing body of practice in the arts sector referred >>
Written by seasoned practitioners Thomas Wolf and Gigi Antoni, the new book More Than the Sum of Its Parts: Collaboration & Sustainability in Arts Education is a primer >>
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Nations in Neighborhoods: Assessing the Use of Folk & Traditional Arts in K-5 Student Literacy Learning Team: Dennie Palmer Wolf, Steven Holochwost Nations in Neighborhoods (NiN) is a >>
Why Does Musical Instrument Education Matter? Unlike eye color or hair color, children are not born knowing how to handle risks and failures. This attitude, often called a >>
Team: Dennie Palmer Wolf, Steven Holochwost, Alan Brown, Megan Bander with Thalia Goldstein Why Does Performing Arts Education Matter? It is hard to imagine anything more important than >>
NYO2: Analyzing the Youth Instrumentalists of NYO2 Ensemble Team: Dennie Palmer Wolf, Steven Holochwost, Henry Clapp, Haeun Moon, and Matthew Garcia NYO2 (National Youth Orchestra 2) is comprised >>
Team: Dennie Palmer Wolf, Steven Holochwost, Jane Culbert, Henry Clapp, and Kathleen Hill In 2018, Bloomberg Philanthropies engaged WolfBrown as the evaluator of its Bloomberg Arts Internship (BAI) >>
Arts for Learning Maryland (formerly Young Audiences of Maryland) announced that it has been awarded a US Department of Education grant to demonstrate arts-integrated school programs that improve >>
Part of the dedicated executive briefing series with the Audience Outlook Monitor: COVID-19 Study >>
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