Making Meaningful Connections: Characteristics of Arts Groups that Engage New and Diverse Participants (downloadable pdf) by Holly Sidford, Alexis Frasz and Marcelle Hinand for Focus: Arts Engagement Research.

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Researchers asked

1. Which arts organizations are most effectively engaging diverse populations and what can we learn from them?
2. Are there factors that indicate an organization’s readiness to engage more deeply with a broader population, and how can this be supported?
3. What are the points of leverage to propel change within individual organizations and the system as a whole toward greater engagement with diverse populations? and
4. What are barriers to change?