{"id":1678,"date":"2012-04-17T10:00:57","date_gmt":"2012-04-17T15:00:57","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/artfulmanager\/?p=1678"},"modified":"2012-04-17T10:00:57","modified_gmt":"2012-04-17T15:00:57","slug":"enumerating-fresh-magical-fruit","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/artfulmanager\/main\/enumerating-fresh-magical-fruit.php","title":{"rendered":"Enumerating fresh magical fruit"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>While I was wandering the wilderness away from my blog (lots of reasons, I&#8217;ll tell you over a drink sometime), lots of important and intriguing things happened in the arts world that I didn&#8217;t get a chance to share. Chief among them was a fantastic effort by Theatre Bay Area (alongside WolfBrown) to research and test new metrics for the impact of theater. The final report (in book form) is called <a href=\"http:\/\/theatrebayarea.org\/Programs\/Intrinsic-Impact.cfm\">Counting New Beans<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Rather than exploring the economic, or social, or educational impact of attending live theater events, the project dug deep to both define and measure intrinsic impact &#8212; the emotional, cognitive, intellectual, and personal impacts that come from the experience.<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_1679\" style=\"width: 310px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/artfulmanager\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/04\/impact_chart.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-1679\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-1679\" title=\"Impact Flow Chart\" src=\"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/artfulmanager\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/04\/impact_chart-300x189.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"189\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/artfulmanager\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/04\/impact_chart-300x189.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/artfulmanager\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/04\/impact_chart.jpg 800w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-1679\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Click for full-size image.<\/p><\/div>\n<p>Clayton Lord, the project&#8217;s director and an essay contributor, gives <a href=\"http:\/\/www.howlround.com\/count-what-matters-most-by-clayton-lord\/\">a great overview of the inspiration, goals, and findings of the initiative<\/a>. You can also download and read several elements of the published work (take a look at WolfBrown&#8217;s <a href=\"https:\/\/docs.google.com\/viewer?url=http%3A%2F%2Ftheatrebayarea.org%2FPrograms%2Fupload%2Fexecsummary_samples.pdf\">executive summary in PDF format<\/a>). As a systems and modeling guy, I was particularly intrigued by the logic\/flow chart about how the &#8220;impact cycle&#8221; works &#8212; with correlation data informing the relative strength of the connections.<\/p>\n<p>Much fun. Much to read. Much to learn. Whee!<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>While I was wandering the wilderness away from my blog (lots of reasons, I&#8217;ll tell you over a drink sometime), lots of important and intriguing things happened in the arts world that I didn&#8217;t get a chance to share. 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