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Are the arts “building back better” with new audiences?

August 30, 2022 by Hannah Grannemann 10 Comments

Row X blog by Hannah Grannemann When arts organizations went into shutdown in 2020 and 2021, they asked audiences, donors, staffs, and their communities to continue supporting them even when they weren’t producing and open to the public because they were working hard during the shutdowns to improve themselves in myriad ways, including building new audiences. They weren’t going to let a good crisis go to waste, they said. In other words, they were going to “build back better”. I’m … [Read more...] about Are the arts “building back better” with new audiences?

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Associate Professor of Arts Administration at the University of North Carolina at Greensboro (UNCG). More about Hannah can be found at hannahgrannemann.com. Her forthcoming book on nonprofit fundraising will be published by the Columbia Business School Publishing imprint of Columbia University … [more] about About Hannah Grannemann

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Row X is where audience experience meets artistic practice and business strategy of arts organizations. The goal of the blog is to explore the sweet spot where these three interests overlap. Audience experience is often seen as the purview of the marketing department until the point that the … [more] about About Row X

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