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Which New Audiences? A Great Washington Post Article and its Implications about Age, Income, and Race

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Audiences of all backgrounds found ways to connect with museums as it presented exhibitions with the help of foster youth, migrant farmers, roller-derby girls, mushroom hunters, surfers and incarcerated artists, among others. Within three years, attendance tripled.

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Who Counts? Grappling with Attendance as a Proxy for Impact

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Why do we count participants in an art activity for families at a community center but not members of the Rotary Club to whom I give a presentation about the museum? We also focused this year on working with the countywide adult education agency to start an intergenerational science program at three senior centers throughout St.