Employee Engagement as a Strategy for Community Engagement. Guest post by Kathleen Riemendschneider. artsjournal.com/engage/2021/09…

Differentiation: Differentiating between seemingly related terms is important to understanding them. This post looks at outreach and education in relationship to community engagement. artsjournal.com/engage/2021/09…

Not Charity: For California's Riverside Art Museum relationship building with the area's Hispanic communities led directly to a huge influx of capital and a massive expansion of the facilities. artsjournal.com/engage/2021/10…

Slow & Simple: Engaging new communities is an existential imperative. We don’t get a choice about the fact that it takes time. Fortunately, it is best to begin slowly and simply. artsjournal.com/engage/2021/10…

Cruise Ships Turning? Changes in thinking about the importance of community engagement are happening? Are they going to be big enough and happen fast enough to save our ships? artsjournal.com/engage/?p=6491

Doing Art: Arts participation is a patently obvious foundation upon which to build broad support for the arts. Most arts organizations should seriously consider emphasizing this as a core function. artsjournal.com/engage/2021/11…

Marketing and Engagement: Both good marketing and community engagement are rooted in knowing (by asking them rather than by assuming) the people you are trying to reach. artsjournal.com/engage/2021/11…

Getting It Right: Thoughts on becoming valued by our communities in a post-pandemic world. artsjournal.com/engage/2021/11…

Our work should be about connecting people with our art. To do that we must be concerned about them, get to know them, and design our offerings to make them feel wanted. artsjournal.com/engage/2022/03…

Results from ommunity engagement can take time. It is the incalculable value of community engagement that it is the only way to fill the increasing viability gap that we face. artsjournal.com/engage/2022/03…

In some cases, relationship repair is required before any attempt at "sales" can begin. Community engagement is the only means toward that end. artsjournal.com/engage/2022/04…

The time has come to apply greater rigor to evaluating engagement processes, results, and the state of community engagement in the nonprofit arts industry. artsjournal.com/engage/2022/04…

We often assume that everyone thinks about the arts as we do because the way we think about the arts is so normal to us. However, once we learn otherwise, if we do not adjust, the fallout from not doing so is all on us artsjournal.com/engage/2022/04…

Unexamined assumptions can get in the way of successfully engaging with communities. artsjournal.com/engage/2022/04…

Far too few people to see the arts as important to them. The only solution available to us is to DO things that make the arts important to more people. artsjournal.com/engage/2022/05…

A new perspective and approach from the author of Engaging Matters. artsjournal.com/engage/2022/09…

Deadly Sin: I artsjournal.com/engage/2023/02…

Arrogance (even if unconscious) is the core of the inability to form constructive relationships with individuals and communities beyond our current constituencies. artsjournal.com/engage/2023/02…

There is no substitute for the listening and learning that effective engagement requires and there is no substitute for effective engagement if we are to make our organizations viable for the long term. artsjournal.com/engage/2023/02…

The news media would provide unlimited coverage to the arts if the public insisted upon it. To be valued like that we must do things that make us so. artsjournal.com/engage/2023/03…