Arts and Culture Funders Forum – The Heart of Culture: Measuring Value Beyond Statistics
The Arts and Culture Funders Forum will host “The Heart of Culture: Measuring Value Beyond Statistics”, online on 15 April, the second webinar in the new “Cultural Philanthropy in Action” series.
Why do arts and culture matter? With the artistic and cultural fields coming under increasing scrutiny comes the need to spell out and justify the value of arts and culture. The 2024 State of Culture report demonstrates how the “intrinsic” value remains challenging to articulate in policy terms yet the instrumentalisation of culture, recognised as a driver for non-cultural issues, is a major growing trend across European and national policies. Artists and cultural institutions are increasingly pressured by funders to demonstrate their achievements at the conclusion of a project, which fails to capture the long-term effects of arts and culture.
How is philanthropy tackling the challenge of recognising the value of arts and culture beyond quantitative data? Are funders contributing to expressing art’s impact in numbers? What are the practices in terms of monitoring, evaluation and learning that foundations can implement to avoid instrumentalising the field and putting their partners in the complex position to predict and calculate the transformative effect of their work?
The “Cultural Philanthropy in Action” webinar series invites researchers, artists, cultural practitioners, and philanthropy representatives will share their views and frame a conversation amongst foundations willing to find collaboration opportunities to support artistic freedom against instrumentalisation.
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