Motivation, ability and opportunity are three key pre-requisites to cultural attendance. This paper, presented at the 8th International Conference on Arts and Cultural Management, examines how [...]
While the WolfBrown examines the intrinsic impacts of a single performance, this recent report investigates the broad social impacts of cultural activities for individuals. This report examines [...]
This report “attempts to define and measure how audiences are transformed by a live performance”. Two different surveys were conducted by six presenters with 1,730 randomly-selected [...]
Exploratory in nature, this report examines the relationship between four cultural activities (reading books, attending live performances, visiting art galleries and attending movie theatres) and [...]
Before closing the Summit, a statement was prepared to further a collective agenda for the visual arts. The statement reads: Art is the face of Canada. We, as artists, curators, collectors, [...]
Other interesting themes explored at the Summit include: Diversity National Narrative Media Coverage and Publications Diversity The growing diversity of Canadian society was discussed at the [...]
Participants perceived a disconnect between the burgeoning visual arts activity and the lack of awareness and limited funding from the municipal, provincial and federal levels. “Art is a [...]
A number of participants indicated that more can be done to make Canadians – especially children – more visually literate. “Images are everywhere, but people aren’t [...]
Statistics were presented showing that 26.7% of Canadians 15 or older visited an art gallery in 2005, or 7 million people. Between 1992 and 2005, the percentage of Canadians visiting an art [...]
How does a nation acquire and display its art collection? Collections policies were discussed at length at the Summit. Some participants perceived a danger in galleries’ reliance on [...]
