Four Word Introductions
In the first year of the project (February 2020 Summit) we asked network members to provide four words that they felt characterized their organization. Partners’ responses emphasized a few major categories of response:
- various institutional aspirations, especially organizational change for the better (via funding campaigns and strategic planning) and striving for improved community access and opportunity)
- perceived audiences, with a strong tendency for any given organization to focus exclusively on children or on a very general sense of diverse publics
- audience experience goals, with particular focus on positive leisure experiences and experiences that could support learning and curiosity
- specific domains of content expertise, which despite a shared arts mission, reflected individual organizations’ strengths in interpretation and engagement related to visual art, music, theater, history, geology, and industry . Though many of these organizations have evolved and changed over the life of the project, this information provided an early snapshot of the network’s challenges, strengths, and commonalities. In the table below, each number refers to an individual Network member; for example, all words tagged “1” came from the same person.
Institutional Aspirations
Perceived Audiences
Experience Goals
Content Expertise
11-equity 5-in transition 11-identity 11-empowerment 7-collaborative 2-free 2-far-reaching 2-changing 3-cooperative
1-kids 3-kids
1-fun 3-play 5-new discovery 7-relax 11-learning
1-art 1-music 2-art
7-children 8-children
4-history 4-geology 4-art 4-industry 8-theater 9-music 10-visual arts talent
3-community 7-community 6-cradle to grave education
8-diverse-population 9-diverse population 9-community
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