Learning path for audience development - Visual Arts 2: thresholds and access
Who is our audience? Who are we reaching today? And who do we not? What place and role does our audience have within our organisation? And how do we involve artists to engage in our audience development?
Are you responsable for the audience development in your organisation? We would like to get to know you better! Together with other colleagues, we will talk about the challenges around audience development in the visual arts sector. We will put different themes on the agenda such as access, exclusion, diversity and the social role of the arts.
We will organise three sessions within the theme of audiences this year. After a first session on mission and vision, this second session is about working on thresholds and access.
During this session we are collaborating with Hybried, a collective of socially engaged consultants who guide organisations towards true inclusion and genuine polyphony.
What barriers do people face to experience visual arts, and what mechanisms create this unequal access and exclusion? How do we work on these things? We learn to understand how different characteristics such as gender, ethnicity, class, sexual orientation, religion, age, skills, ... cause these inequalities, and how they are interconnected.
- Session on mission and vision - 25 March 2025, FOMU (past)
- Session working on thresholds and access - 6 May 2025, Kunsthal Gent
- Session on the role of artists - tbc October 2025
Who?
Artists or art professionals (freelance or staff) responsible for the audience development programme of organisations presenting contemporary visual arts such as museums, arts organisations, local initiatives such as culture houses and youth organisations or private art collections.
Programme
10:00 Doors open
10:30 Welcome and introduction
11:00 Start workshop Hybried, part one
13:00 Lunch
14:00 Workshop Hybried, part two
16:00 Takeways, networking drink and visit expo
When and where
Tuesday 6 March from 10.30am to 4.30pm, in Kunsthal Gent.
The session takes place in Dutch.
Register
Register via the button at the top right.
Places are limited: priority will be given to participants who also attended the first session.
Kroniek Publiek?
In the Kroniek Publiek (NL) article series, we explore developments in dealing with audiences. Who participates and who detaches? How do audiences challenge existing ideas about art? And where do we see opportunities for the audiences of the future?
Head over to the Dutch page to read the article series.
Partners
FARO, Publiq, Lasso
Image: Anne van der Pot
