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Leveraging Evaluation to Carry the Message: How the Arts Can Demonstrate Indispensability
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| Paul Lorton Jr, University of San Francisco, lorton@usfca.edu
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In economically difficult times it is important for the Arts to make the case that they are as indispensible to the broader society as 'schools and roads.' Evaluation can be a major tool in this effort.
How that can be done by Arts organizations in achieving their desired goals to survive while delivering their unique gifts to the culture is crucial to both.
The purpose of this presentation is to discuss the issues involved in the role of evaluation in informing the broader society of the role/success arts organizations have in achieving culture preservation and enhancement while, at the same time, fulfilling the needs and desires of their funding sources. While generally discussing examples from various types of arts organizations, the focus will be on the performing arts richly amplified with examples from opera companies
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I Can Critique it Because I Enjoy it
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| Lennise Baptiste, Kent State University, lbaptist@kent.edu
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A Monet exhibition provided a fertile context in which to understand the factors which shape audience responses to the arts. Using narrative inquiry the researcher analyzed audience members' responses to the exhibition. Emotional and ideological responses to Monet's work were explored. The findings are discussed by describing the transition that audience members underwent as they 'played attention' to artistic presentation. Audience members usually claim their right to critique art because of their aesthetic experiences. The results of this study provide a rationale for the inclusion of audience members in the evaluation of art programs.
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Arts Education Evaluation and Online Technology
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| Don Glass, VSA arts, dlglass@vsarts.org
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Recently, inexpensive web-hosting and storage, web-based applications, and social networking websites have fostered increased virtual professional interactions and shared work. This paper presentation discusses a VSA arts professional learning community that uses online and tele-conferencing tools for collaborative and utilization-focused evaluation for improving the design of curriculum, the provision of instruction, and an increase in understanding student learning in the arts.
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