SPPA Notable Quotable: Peter Linnet, Slover Linett at NORC
Photo courtesy of Peter Linett
"Perhaps the real question, then, isn’t just which genres of arts participation should be measured but also which purposes."
To mark the one-year anniversary of two NEA research reports about how Americans engaged with art during the COVID-19 pandemic, the NEA Office of Research & Analysis commissioned a series of thoughtful essays about the reports’ findings and implications—from the perspective of arts practitioners. The two surveys chronicle a historic phase of transition in our nation’s cultural life. These essays further explore these trends, discuss what they mean for the future of the arts and—most important of all—share practical insights from a cross-section of the nation’s arts and cultural leaders. The essay "Understanding ‘Other’ Arts Attendance in the United States: Reflections on Inclusion, Intersectionality, and the Democratization of the SPPA" by Peter Linett—Senior Fellow, NORC at the University of Chicago and Co-Founder, Slover Linett at NORC—considers the challenges of creating an inclusive measurement frame for arts engagement.
