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Arts Audience Development: Why some arts organizations succeed and why some fail…

Posted On April 27, 2012 By Shoshana

This week I saw another article where an arts organization blamed their audience for the fact that they are closing their doors. “Low audience numbers,” they stated. It made me ponder what the real reasons were for the closing. Why were people not attending? There must be a reason(s), and it probably has something to… 

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