Featured Artist: The direct[message] Community Consultants

In this early video collaboration d[m] Community Consultants discuss how the words that programs, events, and organizations use to reach out to them has an impact.

In the Next Issue

In the spring issue…

Checklist: Barriers to Artistic Engagement

To help turn knowledge into action, we’ve created this checklist based on what they said. This is not an exhaustive list, but it’s intended to help you and your team think about ways that older adults can feel included (or excluded) in how you develop, advertise, and run your arts and cultural programs.

We can research: The time and tools it takes to ask seniors how you’re doing

When you ask ten people what their favourite colour is and four say blue, that’s something you can put in a chart. If you asked ten people to describe the last time they felt proud of something they’d created themselves, how would you chart that?

What We Learned Trying to Recreate an Open Studio Online

Sadly, as fun as that was, we still hit up hard against some of the limitations of a Zoom meeting. For example, an art crawl is loud.

Five Essential Lessons

We’d like to share five key findings from this research and our recommendations to artist-run centres and other cultural organizations that seek to serve older adults.

The Artsy Summer of ’22

One of the most valuable experiments our multidisciplinary team of artists and technicians designed was ab online art series in the summer of 2022.