Champions for the Arts: Lessons and Successful Strategies for Engaging Diverse Audiences [Paperback]

Considered the nation's foremost 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 traveled to over 100 U.S. cities and 5 continents to give lectures, workshops, and keynotes specifically focused on community engagement. This guide synthesizes her findings from the last decade 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.US

Acknowledged as the nation’s foremost expert in Audience Development by the Arts & Business Council,Donna Walker-Kuhnehas devoted her professional career to increasing access to the arts. She has raised over $20 million in earned income promoting the arts to multicultural communities

She is currently Vice President, Community Engagement at New Jersey Performing Arts Center, charged with developing and deepening relationships with targeted communities through partnerships, special events, and group sales. She was formerly Vice President, Marketing and Communications for New Jersey Performing Arts Center.

She is also founder of Walker International Communications Group, a boutique marketing, press, and audience development consulting agency. Her team specializes in multicultural marketing, group sales, multicultural press, and promotional events.

A veteran of over 18 Broadway productions providing multicultural marketing and group sales most recently forA Raisin in the Sun,A Streetcar Named Desire, The Gershwin's Porgy and Bess