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.
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 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 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 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.