Our Senior Research Analyst, Bianca Mulet, attended the AMA Conference 2023, with the theme being ‘audiences at the heart’. Read the article for her 4 key insights from the conference.
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Inflationary pressures are impacting three key audience segments, Older and Bolder, Family Frugality, and Young and Restless, in different ways. Read for the insights on each, and suggestions on targeted marketing strategies to ensure no one gets left behind.
In our latest Audience Outlook Monitor webinar, discussing the April 2023 results on how rising inflation is impacting audiences, Tandi Palmer Williams spoke to Ella Huisman, Executive Director – Audience at Adelaide Fringe, about one of the most successful campaigns of the year so far.
How are museums in Australia and Aotearoa conducting visitor research? Click to read our insights on tried and tested methods, such as surveying, to newer strategies like interactive technology.
In 2022, the Patternmakers team has been working in collaboration with the Australian Theatre for Young People on a new research resource about the power of youth arts. Find out what we know about young people and the arts, as supported by the research literature. Download the research guide for the full story.
In 2022, the Patternmakers team has been working on a project to assist with creative industries flood recovery. Here, we share the 5 top areas of need, and 6 recommendations for intervention, to ensure the creative industries flourishes again after the disaster.
Watch Tandi Palmer Williams from Patternmakers present for the FUSE Youth Arts Summit as she discusses the National Youth Arts Connections Program - a new research resource in development with ATYP.
A journalist friend asked our MD recently how the culture sector is adapting, and whether she was seeing exciting examples of digital innovation already emerging from the crisis.
To which she answered yes. And, no. And not yet. Here’s why.
In 2019 our MD Tandi Palmer Williams took to LinkedIn to share ideas with you. Here are the top articles that had us talking.
Are you applying for multi-year funding in 2019? Here are five things you can do to strengthen your work, consolidate impact and improve your chances of success in upcoming funding rounds.
The end of the year is a great time for reflection, and being the lovers of data that we are at Patternmakers, this means evaluating at our own activity. And so, here are the top five articles that you loved most from our 2018 Culture Insight & Innovation Updates.
Lately I’ve been thinking hard about how young people engage with art, culture and creativity. As mother of a one year old, my life (and arts participation patterns) have changed dramatically in the past year. Late nights at the theatre and gigs have been replaced with mornings at the museum, reading stories and pushing a pram through community festivals.
We've been thinking about where arts and culture research is heading in 2017 so we're sharing the top five trends on our radar.
Here at Patternmakers, we love hearing about new ways for people of all ages to access the arts. Here are five new projects that caught our attention...
One of the most interesting and rewarding projects I’ve ever completed was conducting an impact evaluation of the Unlimited Commissions Programme for disabled artists.
Between July and November 2015, my co-researcher Morwenna Collett and I immersed ourselves in the UK arts and disability world, to learn the language, issues and challenges that disabled artists face, and answer the question ‘Is Unlimited making a difference?’...
In June 2014 I had the pleasure of interviewing Diane Ragsdale on behalf of Native, the online magazine of the Digital R&D Fund for the Arts. Diane is based at Erasmus University in Rotterdam researching and talking about cultural economics with a specialism in the performing arts. She previously spent six years at the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation and is one of the leading thinkers on arts governance of our generation...