Arts Festival Impacts
Exploring impacts of a community arts festival.
Arts Festival Impacts was a collaboration between PZ and Independent Schools Victoria (ISV) that incorporated documentation and field research to investigate the impacts of ISV’s Arts Learning Festival in Melbourne, Australia.
The project involved the development of original multi-modal research instruments to understand participants’ experiences, culminating in an evaluation of the festival. The project team investigated ways the festival maked salient how the arts connect across different disciplines and the role art plays in our lives.
Arts Festival Impacts allowed PZ to begin to fill a significant gap in the literature on the impacts of festivals by exploring individual experiences, as much of the scant existing research and theory focus on community—or region-level impacts of festivals. Arts Festival Impacts aimed to offer a case study to concretely examine theoretical ideas about the impacts of festivals, and, more broadly, further PZ's research interests in exploring the impacts and characteristics of arts and cultural offerings on community audiences.
Read the article on "Listening Skill Development, Classical Music Appreciation, and Personal Response through Visual Art in a Middle School Program."
