Arts, Culture, and Museums

Arts, Culture, and Museums TIG Week: Choreographing Space: Bringing Embodiment as a Kind of GIS Innovation in Evaluation by Lela Aisha Jones and Marcel W. Foster

Lela Aisha Jones is a movement performance artist and Director of Dance at Bryn Mawr College, and Marcel W. Foster is the founder of Performance Hypothesis and a published enthusiast for culturally responsive evaluation. Together, we explore how dance and choreography can transform the way we map and evaluate our world.

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Arts, Culture, and Museums TIG Week: What 16 Months of Building an Arts and Health Evaluation Toolkit Taught Us About Context, Capacity, and Participation by Jeffrey Niblack

Lela Aisha Jones is a movement performance artist and Director of Dance at Bryn Mawr College, and Marcel W. Foster is the founder of Performance Hypothesis and a published enthusiast for culturally responsive evaluation. Together, we explore how dance and choreography can transform the way we map and evaluate our world.

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Arts, Culture, and Museums TIG Week: What a Rapid Review Taught Us About Doing Participatory Evaluation Well More Than a Buzzword by Ransford Akrong and Cris Sanhueza

Hi there! We’re Ransford and Cris, an evaluation team with the University of Florida and Performance Hypothesis.

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Arts, Culture, and Museums TIG Week: The Life a Film Has After the Summit Ends by Godfrey Slavius

I am Godfrey Slavius, Managing Director of the Africa Regional Centre for the International Youth Media Summit. I coordinate delegate logistics and communications for a Summit that has, over 20 years, brought together over 1700 young delegates from 81 countries across six continents to create short films on discrimination, poverty, violence, women’s rights, the environment,

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Arts, Culture, and Museums TIG Week: Arts, Health, and Hospital Rehumanization: Lessons from Practice by Melinda Šefcic

My name is Melinda Šefcic, PhD, and I am a visual artist, researcher, and educator from Croatia. For more than a decade, I have been developing and evaluating mural interventions in hospitals and prisons, exploring how art can contribute to wellbeing, dignity, and the human experience of institutional spaces.

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Arts, Culture, and Museums TIG Week: Designing Evaluation for Human Flourishing: The Case for Creative Evaluation by Dana Smiles and Angelicque Tucker Blackmon

Hello! We’re Dr. Dana Smiles and Dr. Angelicque Tucker Blackmon, evaluators and researchers who are passionate about designing creative evaluation experiences that are both rigorous and deeply human.

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Arts, Culture, and Museums TIG Week: When Health Evaluation Meets Arts and Culture Evaluation by Jenica and Marcel Foster

Jenica serves as the lead for the Health Evaluation Topical Interest Group (TIG) for the American Evaluation Association (AEA). Marcel Foster, MPH, is the co-founder and CEO of Performance Hypothesis and serves as the Chair for the Arts, Culture, and Museum TIG for AEA. We believe that AEA is at its strongest when our various groups learn across boundaries.

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Arts, Culture, and Museums TIG Week: The Unexpected Path: How Art-Making Led Me to Arts Evaluation by Cassie Belden

Hi there! My name is Cassie Belden, MA, and I am an Evaluation & Research Specialist at University of Florida, Health Shands, Arts in Medicine in Gainesville, Florida. With Arts in Medicine at Shands Hospital, our comprehensive team of 18 paid artists work to transform the hospital experience for patients, visitors, caregivers, and staff while

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Arts, Culture, and Museums TIG Week: When Cultural Work Meets Community Anchors: Redefining Arts Support Through Participatory Evaluation by Natalie Joseph

Hi there, AEA365! I’m Natalie Joseph, MPH, CPH, a current doctoral student and alumna of the LEEAD Program (Cohort 5). I serve as a Community of Practice Evaluation Consultant at Mirror Group LLC and am the Founder of Dots & Data LLC. My work focuses on leveraging mixed methods and using a multidimensional thinking lens

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Arts, Culture, and Museums TIG Week: Art as Connective Tissue in Human Centered Evaluation Practice by Kimberly N. Harris

Hello! I’m Kimberly N. Harris, economist, founder and principal researcher & evaluator at Educa Consulting, Inc., a full-service research and evaluation company that leverages data to serve as a bridge, connecting our clients and the communities they desire to serve. Educa Consulting is a company that understands the power and importance of community in good,

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