Arts, Culture, and Museums

I’m Vincent E Thomas, a dancer/choreographer/professor. I move the body as a way to unearth layers of self for deeper understanding of our purpose. This is a throughline that permeates all aspects of my teaching and creative work. I’m Geri Lynn Peak. I practice evaluation through the lens of spiritual demography creating more durable and …

Arts, Culture, and Museums TIG Week: Dance as a Means of Documentation, Exploration, Interpretation and Communication of What and How We Value by Vincent E Thomas and Geri Lynn Peak Read More »

Hi! We are Angela Fingard and Daima Machang’u. Angela serves as the Managing Director of People & Programs for TimeSlips Creative Storytelling, Inc specializing in building meaningful engagement with older adults through creative communication. Daima is a licensed physician and Fulbright Scholar at Georgia State University pursuing a Masters of Public Health. He is interested in …

Arts, Culture, and Museums TIG Week: Arts Evaluation and Engaging with Elders with Memory Loss by Angela Fingard and Daima Machang’u Read More »

Hi. I’m Justin Laing, and I’m the principal consultant of Hillombo LLC, a company working to deepen praxis in the 501-c(3) sector through Black Studies informed experimentation in evaluation, organizational development and planning. In this post I offer a few ideas for identifying  ways that institutions in the 501-c3 arts system reproduce the social relations …

Arts, Culture, and Museums TIG Week: Arts Institutions and the Reproduction of Racial Capitalism by Justin Laing Read More »

Hi, I’m Rachael Jenison (MFA/MPA) and am currently serving as an AmeriCorps Member at the New York City Department of Cultural Affairs, a mayoral agency that oversees the distribution of city funds to arts and culture organizations. My focus there is on evaluation of equity-based reforms to the grant-making process. Prior to serving at DCLA, …

Arts, Culture, and Museums TIG Week: Awareness of Cognitive Biases in Organizational and Policy Evaluation in the Arts by Rachael Jenison Read More »

Hi! I’m Madeleine Pope (they/them), research associate and project manager at HG&Co, a visitor-centered planning, strategy, & evaluation firm which supports museums and cultural organizations. Having just attended my first AEA conference as a new museum evaluator, I noticed that there are some differences between my niche world of work and organizational or teaching evaluation. I’ve …

Arts, Culture, and Museums TIG Week: Hiring Non-Evaluators to Do Evaluation by Madeleine Pope Read More »

We are Jennica Nichols and Maya Lefkowich – arts-based evaluators from Vancouver, Canada. Coming into the New Year, we’ve been reflecting on lessons learned over the last year and wanted to share some with you (and welcome your thoughts too). After years of dreaming about an arts-based evaluation company, we finally started one. We launched …

Arts, Culture, and Museums TIG Week: (Mis)Adventures in Arts-Based Evaluation: Reflections on a Pandemic Practice by Maya Lefkowich and Jennica Nichols Read More »

Marcel W. Foster, MPH, here, and I use they/them pronouns. Before jumping into today’s blog (merely a preview of this week’s contributions) – I invite you to take one simple inhale and one simple exhale. via GIPHY It is of course an honor and GEEK TRIUMPH to curate the 2023 Arts, Culture, & Museum (ACM) …

Arts, Culture, and Museums TIG Week: GET. EXCITED. by Marcel W. Foster Read More »

My name is Jeremy Foutz, and I’m an ethnomusicologist, evaluator, and principal at STEAM  Workgroup, working with cultural and informal learning organizations. I’m writing this from the position of a cis white man who, although coming from a family that survived on welfare programs, had/has significant levels of privilege. This week of posts from the …

ACM TIG Week: Evaluation, risk, and our collective power by Jeremy Foutz Read More »

This post was original released on AEA365 in 2012, and was so popular the first time around, it is being reshared from the archives at the request of the Arts, Culture, and Museums TIG. Hi everyone – My name is Jennifer Novak-Leonard, and I’m a Senior Consultant with WolfBrown, an arts and cultural research and …

ACM TIG Week: Audience Impact by Jennifer Novak-Leonard Read More »

My name is Kari Ross Nelson. I am the Research and Evaluation Associate at Thanksgiving Point Institute and an independent consultant to museums and other informal learning organizations in the greater Salt Lake City area. My team at Thanksgiving Point is the research partner on an IMLS-funded project, Measurement of Museum Social Impact (MOMSI). This …

ACM TIG Week: Evaluating our Impact: Priorities and Instruments by Kari Ross Nelson Read More »