Arts and culture organizations across the United States have started using the Creating Connection research and recommendations in their communications, community outreach, and programming. Check out the examples below for tangible ideas to get started and get inspired.
Through new photos and videos, ArtsEmerson helped its audience see themselves in the experience.
How a statewide advocacy coalition is building a more vibrant, healthy, and connected community through the arts and creativity.
How a program focused on the needs of artists grew to serve the whole community
Learn how an arts service organization is extending value beyond ticket sales by tapping into memories.
How Hyde Square Task Force is expanding audiences at their cultural events through values-based messages and experiences
How embracing family connection can attract new patrons and make more people feel at home.
How an island artist retreat created more opportunities for locals and visitors to express their creativity.
Through coaching, planning, and support from the Creating Connection team, City Awake identified a set of creativity-minded strategies to build community and retain young workers.
At Boston Chinatown Neighborhood Center (BCNC), evidence of how arts, culture and creativity foster connection are all around.
Hear how one media center used Creating Connection to shift how they do business
Alison Watson of the Michigan Council for Arts and Cultural Affairs discusses how their new radio series is celebrating everyday creative expression across their state.
An interview with Thor Rasmussen, Marketing and Creativity Manager of the Saginaw Art Museum.
An interview with Vice President Suzanne Weeldreyer
An interview with Kregg Arnston, Director, Corporate Social Responsibility | Executive Director, PGE Foundation
Sheldon Theatre is showing it is more than what’s on stage. It’s become a home for creative experiences and lifelong memories.
An interview with Karen Park, Arts Program Manager at San José Office of Cultural Affairs
Portland Playhouse is connecting with more people by redefining what it means to be a theater.
Being a small organization can have its challenges. However, it can also allow a nimble team to take an idea like Creating Connection and run with it.
There’s an app for that. How reimagining the visitor experience at one museum helped foster creative problem solving and connection.
When radical is just right: how reimagining audience engagement helps patrons feel more at home and inspired.
Oh snap! How putting the patron in the picture can increase ad engagement and museum participation.
Wagner at work? How spicing up the 9 to 5 created new audiences and opportunities for Opera San Jose.
Process makes perfect. How crowdsourcing poems deepened Teatro Vision’s connection to their community.
Sometimes it’s time to try out a new dance. How letting stakeholders tell their own stories can increase ad engagement and translate into higher enrollment.
Sometimes it’s not all that jazz. How putting the patron in the picture can increase ad engagement on Facebook.
How two community theaters in Oregon used Creating Connection to increase engagement on social media and IRL
From the community to the stage and back again, Eugene Symphony has integrated Creating Connection into their entire brand experience.
