Champions For the Arts

A guide to creating equitable, inclusive, and diverse community engagement in the arts. A leading expert in audience development, Donna Walker-Kuhne has spent her career developing successful strategies for increasing access to the arts. Over the past ten years, Walker-Kuhne has travelled to over a hundred US cities and five continents to give lectures, workshops, and keynotes specifically focused on community engagement. This guide synthesises her findings into an accessible text that provides sustainable, measurable community engagement strategies for leaders in the arts community - with a specific focus on ways to drill deeper into issues of diversity, inclusion, and equity. Including case studies from around the world that offer models for creating sustainable audiences and membership, Walker-Kuhne offers a practical yet visionary way of thinking about community engagement in the arts as a vehicle for social change.