Post by Hannah Grannemann, Guest EditorPart of the Series Audiences During the Pandemic Arts organizations weren’t sure whether audiences would want to watch online content when everything stopped this spring. If they did, what would they want to watch? Plenty of arts organizations sent surveys, but what could audiences really tell us? They only knew what they had experienced before – … [Read more...]
Archives for August 2020
New Series: Audiences During the Pandemic
Post by Guest Editor, Hannah Grannemann When the pandemic first hit and performances stopped and museums closed in mid-March, I watched. In 2017, after 17 years working in the arts, mostly in nonprofit theatre, I joined the University of North Carolina Greensboro faculty as an Assistant Professor of Arts Administration and Director of the Arts Administration Program. Just prior to … [Read more...]
Audiences and Audiencing . . .
. . . in the Time of Covid? Where even to begin? I’m happy to say that my colleague and friend Hannah Grannemann has an idea. Starting Wednesday, August 26, Hannah will serve as Guest Editor for my We the Audience blog. Over the next few months, Hannah will facilitate a dialogue with readers on the topic of the audience during this extraordinary interregnum. She’ll lead us by positing a … [Read more...]