Does Research on the Arts Matter?: Rigor and Relevance

Monday, October 19, 2:00pm – 3:15pm

Organized by Cate Fox, Program Officer, The John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation.

Presented by Betty Farrell, Executive Director, Cultural Policy Center - The University of Chicago; Cate Fox, Program Officer, The John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation; and Kate Lorenz, Executive Director, Hyde Park Art Center.

How are funding priorities in the arts set? How are information needs of cultural practitioners determined, and what role can arts research play in meeting these needs? This session will be a conversation between arts researchers, practitioners, and funders to challenge us to rethink radically and creatively how we can better work together to build knowledge in and for the field. It will present a new research-agenda-building project being conducted by the University of Chicago’s Cultural Policy Center, in partnership with the MacArthur Foundation, drawing on lessons learned from recent convenings held in Washington, DC, and Paris and consider the implications for the arts research community that is bigger, bolder, more future-oriented, and global in its focus.