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Surrounding yourself with good people = great audience development!

Posted On June 3, 2019 By Shoshana

I finally can share something that I was personally a part of. I am one of seven main people on the Development Committee for the Longmont Performing Arts Initiative. Maybe you have heard through my posts on social media, we embarked on raising $75,000 in 75 days in order to fund half of the feasibility… 

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Who are the people in your neighborhood? – arts audience development

Posted On April 2, 2012 By Shoshana

This weekend I have been researching for one of my clients to give them ideas about who to invite to their upcoming shows.  For some reason, this Sesame Street song popped into my head: [youtube http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=V2bbnlZwlGQ] I am finding that the arts need to start meeting the people of their neighborhood – the people that… 

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Colleen Tucker

“As an individual fine artist, the Audience Development workshop helped me take a hard look at how to reach people and how to keep them engaged. Performing artists have a built in "paying audience" which may be obvious but for me I have to generate my patrons one at a time. Finding a way to interest people in my art is a full time job; I found helpful tools that I had not considered during the workshop.” —Colleen Tucker, Pastel artist

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