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		<title>The Pew Center for Arts &amp; Heritage : Blog</title>
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		<dc:date>2014-01-17T17:30:06+00:00</dc:date>
		
		
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			<title>Ian Bogost on Gamification and Its Uses in the Arts and Culture Sector</title>
			<link>http://www.pcah.us/blog/entry/ian-bogost-on-gamification-and-its-uses-in-the-arts-and-culture-sector/</link>
			<description><![CDATA[The worlds of gaming and the arts are steadily converging and the evidence is clear: The front page of the New York Times arts section is now as likely to promote the debut of a new video game as it is an opera production, and the National Endowment for the Arts has expanded funding programs to include video game projects. In response to the increasing use of video games by artists and cultural organizations, the Center recently conducted a series of programs around the intersection of games and the arts, designed to educate a working group of Center constituents and staff. In fall 2012, Dr. Ian Bogost, a video game designer, critic, and researcher, visited the Center to discuss his work in developing games for a variety of organizations, arts and otherwise. We spoke with him about the ways that games can be used to tackle major and minor organizational...]]></description>
			<dc:date>2013-01-25T15:11:24+00:00</dc:date>
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			<title>Innovation and Resilience in a New Era for the Arts</title>
			<link>http://www.pcah.us/blog/entry/innovation-and-resilience-in-a-new-era-for-the-arts/</link>
			<description><![CDATA[An image from the Wooster Group&#39;s Video Dailies Project Profile video, ArtsFWD. The Philadelphia Cultural Management Initiative recently invited Richard Evans of EMCArts to give a presentation and lead a workshop titled "Innovation and Resilience in a New Era for the Arts." Evans&rsquo; work takes as its premise that arts organizations are operating in a new environment that will reward adaptability, engagement with constituents, and organizational flexibility. While a lot of these environmental changes are visible now, most of us are reacting to them incrementally. Our organizations are still structured to work best under the old system, which prioritized organizational stability and growth. Evans&rsquo; work provides a clear framework for creating change&mdash;&ldquo;adaptive change&rdquo;&mdash;that will help organizations succeed in the new environment. The first step is to identify your core, underlying assumptions about your business, and to hold them up to the light and see if they are still true. It&rsquo;s...]]></description>
			<dc:date>2012-06-25T14:46:23+00:00</dc:date>
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			<title>Survey of Intrinsic Impact Event Yields Positive Results</title>
			<link>http://www.pcah.us/blog/entry/survey-of-intrinsic-impact-event-yields-positive-results/</link>
			<description><![CDATA[The Pew Center for Arts &amp; Heritage and the Theatre Alliance of Greater Philadelphia co-hosted an April 23 presentation of research that measures the &ldquo;intrinsic impact&rdquo; of theater performances on audiences. Alan Brown of WolfBrown and Clayton Lord of Theatre Bay Area presented the findings, which are published in a book called Counting New Beans: Intrinsic Impact and the Value of Art. After the event, The Center wanted to learn how useful the research findings were to the attendees, and whether or not the presentation had encouraged them to revisit their current strategies for measuring intrinsic impact on their audiences. We sent a survey to the 123 professionals who attended the event, and we received 82 responses&mdash;a very healthy, nearly 67% response rate. The responses from theater professionals, at 30, was the highest number, but the survey showed that attendees came from a variety of disciplines, including 8 from the...]]></description>
			<dc:date>2012-05-02T19:13:04+00:00</dc:date>
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			<title>Exploring Gamification at the Inaugural Philadelphia Grassroots Game Conference</title>
			<link>http://www.pcah.us/blog/entry/exploring-gamification-at-the-inaugural-philadelphia-grassroots-game-confer/</link>
			<description><![CDATA[The increasing popularity of video games, which have infiltrated the realms of management and aesthetics, has increased the view of them as more than just a pastime. Video games can now be used to increase productivity and engage audiences, among other things. The old, rather narrow definition of video games is one that has shifted dramatically in recent years, with the advent of games that stretch beyond the reach of a stereotypical audience. Games are now so ubiquitous that the New York Times has begun reviewing them in its Arts section. The democratization that gaming has unleashed on the world has wrought a subsection of creation that is continually manifesting itself in increasingly intelligent iterations that are both practical and aesthetically pleasing. "Gamers" can no longer be pigeonholed into formulaic identities like "geek," "millennial," or "social outcast." Gamers are the generators of an entirely new social sphere, which continues to...]]></description>
			<dc:date>2012-04-16T18:35:12+00:00</dc:date>
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			<title>From the Field: Arts professionals respond to research on Measuring Intrinsic Impact, Part 2</title>
			<link>http://www.pcah.us/blog/entry/from-the-field-arts-professionals-respond-to-research-on-measuring-intrinsi/</link>
			<description><![CDATA[The Pew Center for Arts &amp; Heritage and the Theatre Alliance of Greater Philadelphia co-hosted a March 23 presentation of research that measured the &ldquo;intrinsic impact&rdquo; of theater performances on audiences. Alan Brown of WolfBrown and Clayton Lord of Theatre Bay Area presented the findings, which were published in a book called Counting New Beans: Intrinsic Impact and the Value of Art. After this event, we asked several of the arts professionals who attended to write about their responses to the research. This post is the second in a series in which attendees from many cultural disciplines weigh in on the benefits and highlights of the intrinsic impact measurement tools. In this edition, after the jump, we hear from&nbsp;Kate Tejada of&nbsp;1812 Productions;&nbsp;Lee Price of the&nbsp;Conservation Center for Art &amp; Historic Artifacts; and&nbsp;Grace Grillet of&nbsp;People&rsquo;s Light &amp; Theatre Company. &nbsp; Kate Tejada Managing Director, 1812 Productions I first encountered the idea...]]></description>
			<dc:date>2012-04-13T13:54:24+00:00</dc:date>
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			<title>From the Field: Arts professionals respond to research on Measuring Intrinsic Impact</title>
			<link>http://www.pcah.us/blog/entry/from-the-field-arts-professionals-respond-to-research-on-measuring-intrinsi/</link>
			<description><![CDATA[The Pew Center for Arts &amp; Heritage and the Theatre Alliance of Greater Philadelphia co-hosted a March 23 presentation of research that measured the &ldquo;intrinsic impact&rdquo; of theater performances on audiences. Alan Brown of WolfBrown and Clayton Lord of Theatre Bay Area presented the findings, which were published in a book called Counting New Beans: Intrinsic Impact and the Value of Art. After this event, we asked several of the arts professionals who attended to write about their responses to the research. This post will be the first in a series in which attendees from many cultural disciplines weigh in on the benefits and highlights of the intrinsic impact measurement tools. In the first edition of this series, after the jump, we hear from Lois Welk, Director of Dance/USA Philadelphia; Matt Braun, Executive Director of the Fleisher Art Memorial; and Arin Sullivan of the Cultural Data Project. &nbsp; Lois Welk...]]></description>
			<dc:date>2012-04-05T19:15:57+00:00</dc:date>
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			<title>Counting New Beans with WolfBrown and Theatre Bay Area</title>
			<link>http://www.pcah.us/blog/entry/counting-new-beans-with-wolfbrown-and-theatre-bay-area/</link>
			<description><![CDATA[On Friday the 23rd of March The Pew Center for Arts &amp; Heritage hosted Alan Brown of WolfBrown, and Brad Erickson and Clayton Lord of Theatre Bay Area for an event that brought together 150 arts leaders from all over Philadelphia. Alan and Clayton presented the findings of an important national study on the intrinsic impact and value of the arts. The study took place over the course of two years and focused on 18 theaters around the country, including Philadelphia-area theaters Bristol Riverside Theatre, the Arden Theatre, and People&#39;s Light &amp; Theatre Company. The study resulted in the publication, Counting New Beans: intrinsic impact and the value of art. The research conducted at theaters within the Philadelphia region received support from the Center through the Philadelphia Theatre Initiative and the Philadelphia Cultural Management Initiative. Additional support for the study came from the Doris Duke Charitable Foundation, the Andrew W....]]></description>
			<dc:date>2012-04-02T15:42:59+00:00</dc:date>
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			<title>Playwright Wendy MacLeod Takes up Residence at the Arden</title>
			<link>http://www.pcah.us/blog/entry/playwright-wendy-macleod-takes-up-residence-at-the-arden/</link>
			<description><![CDATA[Parker Posey in The House of Yes, a Wendy McLeod play that was adapted for the screen Last week The Arden Theatre Company announced that the renowned Wendy MacLeod will be the first playwright to take up residence in The Writer&#39;s Room, a new program at the Arden that is supported by the Center through PCMI. MacLeod will begin her residency in April 2012 and, after four months at the theatre, will produce a new, original play that will premiere at the Arden in July. The Catalyst Grant for the Writer&#39;s Room was awarded by PCMI because of the unique, behind-the-scenes access it will provide to audiences, who will be able to view firsthand the creative process behind a theater production. The Arden is not using this program simply as a way to bring in a playwright to produce original work; it is also using the residency as a way...]]></description>
			<dc:date>2012-02-28T17:33:41+00:00</dc:date>
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			<title>Checking in with Bartram&#8217;s Garden</title>
			<link>http://www.pcah.us/blog/entry/checking-in-with-bartrams-garden/</link>
			<description><![CDATA[Mandy and Todd planting one of 37 fruit trees in the new Bartram Orchard, with help from Philadelphia Orchard Project volunteers. One of last year&rsquo;s most unusual PCMI Catalyst Grants went to a project submitted by Bartram&rsquo;s Garden. Bartram&rsquo;s wanted to build a nursery, where they could propagate native plants. By doing so, they would be able to connect visitors to their history in stronger ways than one might achieve by just touring the property. Perhaps the greatest legacy of the Bartram family is the work they did studying the native plants of North America, then propagating them and sending them all over the world. John Bartram in particular was famous for sending seeds and cuttings of American plants to Europe to be studied and grown.&nbsp; Bartram&rsquo;s Garden thought that every visitor to their site should be able to take a plant home with them&mdash;a vision that brought with it...]]></description>
			<dc:date>2012-01-26T18:38:09+00:00</dc:date>
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			<title>PCMI Reading Group: Practically Radical</title>
			<link>http://www.pcah.us/blog/entry/pcmi-reading-group-practically-radical/</link>
			<description><![CDATA[Last week PCMI hosted a group of arts administrators in Philadelphia for its latest Reading Group, the focus of which was "Practically Radical: not-so-crazy ways to transform your company, shake up your industry, and challenge yourself" by William C. Taylor, the co-founder of Fast Company magazine. The book takes case studies of successful businesses and organizations in all fields and uses them as the basis for a discussion of how others should use those examples and think outside the box to create positive change within a company. Many of the case studies focused on centering a product or service on what the public or customer wants, which led to a stimulating question: are arts organizations deliberately unresponsive to the desires of the public? They certainly aren&#39;t that way intentionally (at least, we hope so) but sometimes by virtue of an organization&#39;s mission it falls into that category automatically. Take, for...]]></description>
			<dc:date>2012-01-09T19:36:20+00:00</dc:date>
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