Arts Audience Symposium (BUS 380)

Learn how to grow your arts audience with innovative ideas from creating video content to pop-up shows to creating more social, interactive experiences. Students will present their audience-related feasibility studies for the Blue Mouse Theater, Foss Waterway Seaport, Museum of Glass, Northwest Sinfonietta, Puget Sound Book Artists, WayOut Kids, and Youth Riot Records. Community partner organizations will receive their printed feasibility studies at the symposium. Refreshments provided.

• Blue Mouse Theater (Eston Riebe, Gabriel Johnson, Hendrik Grzybowski): developing a streamlined calendar system to reduce barriers to rental bookings and improve internal communication and response rates
• Foss Waterway Seaport (Andy Tran, Jack Fenty, Kim Nguyen): social hour events/date nights to reach 16- to 23-year-olds
• Museum of Glass  (Kurandeep {Kevin} Somel, Maya Sheklow, Riley Pietenpol): how to understand young audiences (high school, college, young working) and develop ways to reach them
• Northwest Sinfonietta (Isabella Brady, Kevin Kahriman, Liana Greger): mini-concerts in bars to build a younger audience, encourage community building, and re-introduce people to amazing music
• Puget Sound Book Artists (Belinda Garrow, Hannah Hamilton, Jajaani {JJ} Gebru): educational/promotional video series to help members reconnect with PSBA values
• WayOut Kids (Jake Aigner, Ryan Hargrove , Shane Ivich): hiring an intern to increase capacity and build the YouTube audience
• Youth Riot Records  (Dominic LaFratta, Katie Hayhurst, Oliver McDaniel): pop-up shows to communicate the label’s identity and build audience (for the label and the individual artists)

For questions, please contact Prof. Lynnette Claire via email: lclaire@pugetsound.edu. If you have last minute questions, please contact her on her cell phone 253.756.8896.

Work and symposium generously sponsored by the Civic Engagement Initiative and the Student Involvement and Programs team at the University of Puget Sound.