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Art Bridges Evaluation

Art Bridges believes in the power of evaluation to create meaningful change in the field. We provide support for evaluation activities that allow museums to better understand their audiences, measure program impact, and make responsive visitor-based decisions.

Getting Started with Evaluation

Partnering with the Art Bridges Research & Evaluation team starts with understanding the data needs and questions of our partners. From there, Art Bridges can provide direct research and evaluation consultation, provide an evaluation award, or help with COVES audience research.

Services Supported by Art Bridges

  • Front-End, Formative, and Summative Evaluation Awards
  • Outcomes, Goals, and Measurements Consultation
  • COVES – Art Bridges Audience Research

Note: The above list is not exhaustive. We encourage you to reach out to our team with any ideas you have to evaluate your Art Bridges project(s).

Visitor Experience Studies

COVES Spotlight

Our commitment to access includes access to insightful, actionable data. COVES is designed to help your museum measure impact and ensure meaningful, accessible art experiences.

COVES (Collaboration for Ongoing Visitor Experience Studies) is a validated survey tool that allows museums to learn directly from visitors about their museum experience. Including ongoing information about who visitors are, what their motivations for visiting are, what they do during their visit, and how they feel about their experience.

Participating museums will receive a validated survey, a $5,000 award, training, and reporting support from Art Bridges.Through this process of collecting valuable responses from visitors, museums can put visitor experience at the forefront of decision-making and better understand how they compare to other art museums.

Evaluation Resources

Explore the 2023 COVES – Art Bridges Aggregate Report to learn more about the type of data analysis that is possible with COVES and to see how Art Bridges is learning more about our impact on the field in shifting visitor demographics and experience ratings of museum visitors.

Explore the Art Bridges Evaluation toolkit to learn more about creating project goals and measurements, types of evaluation and practical examples for including evaluation in the front end and summative stages of a project.

Explore the Art Bridges Art + Wellness toolkit to learn more about wellness instruments to understand how art experiences can support emotional, social, cognitive, and physical wellness in museum visitors.

For questions or to learn more, contact our Research & Evaluation Manager, Max Fey, at evaluation@artbridgesfoundation.org.

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