Adapting Visual Thinking Strategies as a Tool for Evaluating the Impact of a Work of Public Art
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 15322957 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Jessica Sickler (0000-0002-0572-3377, J. Sickler Consulting, corresponding author), Keri Maxfield (0000-0003-3554-6444, The Nurture Nature Center), Kathryn Semmens (0000-0002-8822-3043, The Nurture Nature Center), Rachel Hogan Carr (0000-0002-1722-724X, The Nurture Nature Center) |
| Year | 2024 |
| Volume | 27 |
| Issue | 2 |
| Pages | 207-224 |
| Publication date | 2024-02-12 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | No |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Visitor Studies (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 1064-5578 • E-ISSN: 1934-7715 |
| Publisher | Routledge (PUBLISHER • GB) |
| DOI | 10.1080/10645578.2024.2311049 |
| OpenAlex | W4391757079 |
| Language | EN |
| References cited | 18 |
This article presents the development and application of an approach for evaluating audience response to and meaning-making from large-scale public murals, created as part of an art-science-community engagement project. The project adapted Visual Thinking Strategies (VTS) facilitation, a common technique in visual arts education, with a focus group style interview to investigate if the murals generated the intended meaning-making among members of the communities they depicted. We piloted a VTS-centered focus group discussion with three groups of community residents in Pennsylvania's Lehigh Valley. Thematic coding of observations in the discussion groups suggest that a VTS-centered focus group is an effective approach to evaluate audience meaning-making by prompting slow looking, protracted discussion, and offering a structure for discussion that keeps the facilitator from shaping topics of conversation. The affordances and limitations of this approach as a tool for research and evaluation of learning through public art and exhibitions is discussed
Affordance · Art · Conversation · Exhibition · Facilitator · Focus group · Meaning (existential · Pedagogy · Qualitative research · Social science · Sociology · The arts · Thematic analysis · Visual arts · Art Education and Development · Communication · Educational Environments and Student Outcomes · Participatory Visual Research Methods · Psychology · Social Psychology
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| Citation velocity | historical |
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| Highly cited | No |