Issues of Inclusion: How Visual Arts Organizations Can Use Marketing to Communicate with a Diverse Audience
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Date
2014-06
Authors
Bradley, Cat Elizabeth
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Publisher
University of Oregon
Abstract
The majority of art museums in the US market their institution primarily to traditional audiences: white, mostly female, educated, and with an upper-middle-class and above financial life-style. This capstone research explores and unpacks these habits to broaden the conversation of diversity in the art institution and the institution’s constituents. The first public touch-to-touch action indication that the establishment wishes to create an open dialogue and relationship with any community is their marketing plan and strategy. This study explores the question of how visual arts museums can use marketing to begin the conversation of inclusion with diverse audiences. I will focus on why marketing is a powerful tool for communication, why it is the institution’s responsibility to reach out to this audience, and give suggestions on how the institution can reach these audiences properly.
Description
66 pages. Examining committee chair: Dr. Eleonora Redaelli
Keywords
Diversity, Inclusion, Marketing, Constituents, Art museums