Evaluating the Detroit Symphony’s webcasts into classrooms
An intensive focus on evaluation will surround the Detroit Symphony Orchestra’s “DSO’s Live from Orchestra Hall: Classroom Edition” webcast program on April 28. Sean Fenton, Alan Brown and affiliated researcher Brian Kisida will be on-site in Detroit leading a series of focus groups, classroom observations, and an expert panel.
NATIONAL GUILD FOR COMMUNITY ARTS EDUCATIONInnovation and Sustainability in Community Arts Education In December 2009, the National Guild for Community Arts Education (the Guild) received support from the Kresge Foundation to explore how it might pursue an initiative that would promote innovation, sustainability, and enhanced capitalization among its members. The ultimate goal was to strengthen organizations … National Guild for Community Arts Education
In collaboration with staff of the New World Symphony, Alan Brown will lead a half- day seminar on concert format innovation.
Alan Brown will meet with students and faculty and deliver a public lecture at Drexel’s Westphal College of Media Arts & Design
No. 31 | published 2013
Investing In the Long View
How do we know the arts matter? Where is the added value? What is the evidence that investing in the arts has an impact? These are questions that arts presenters, administrators, and artists and performers working in the public sector are pressed to answer daily
No. 32 | published 2017
Deserving of Trust: Helping A Nonprofit Board Toward Good Governance
Good governance starts with accurate self-diagnosis. How is this done? Who does it? Who has the credibility to convince the majority of board members that such actions are necessary? These questions and more are explored in the latest volume of Sounding Board.
Upcoming Publication in Journal of Psychology of Aesthetics, Creativity, and the Arts
Steven Holochwost and Dennie Wolf’s research on the impact of choral music in juvenile justice settings will be published as “Music and Juvenile Justice” in an upcoming issue of the Journal of Psychology of Aesthetics, Creativity, and the Arts.
The Phoenix-based Flinn Foundation convenes its grantee pool for a half day of reflection on programming, sustainability and capitalization (Alan Brown, keynote speaker).
Alan Brown will present results of a study of college students at the annual conference of the Association of Performing Arts Presenters
Dennie Palmer Wolf honored by National Guild for Community Arts Education
On November 2, 2013, the National Guild for Community Arts Education awarded WolfBrown’s Dennie Palmer Wolf with its 2013 National Guild Service Award. Elizabeth Whitford, Executive Director of Arts Corps, made the following remarks in presenting Dennie with the award.
