The Arts – It’s All About The Relationships

“It is not acceptable to have merely transactional relationships with patrons, to create artistic experiences and sell or give them away without regard for the capacity of people to receive them and find meaning in them. Audience development is not about derrieres in chairs but about brokering a relationship between people and art. To do that job well, organisations must be open to the ways that art and artists are changing and the ways that society is changing.”