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case studies

December 7, 2025

Advancing Emergency Planning for the Performing Arts with Low-Cost AI Tools

Generative AI tools are becoming increasingly capable at helping people organize, analyze, and make sense of complex information.

Digital Brain Interface

August 22, 2025

Did Bonnaroo 2025 Really Need To Cancel?

Say you've spent hundreds, maybe thousands of dollars to attend a music festival. You’ve either driven or flown hours, taken time off work...

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November 12, 2024

Kentucky’s Blueprint for Arts Resilience: Lessons Learned from Two Disasters

Within seven months, Kentucky’s arts communities experienced two federally declared disaster events

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December 8, 2022

A Phoenix Rises in the U.S. Virgin Islands – The Full Circle Story

In October of 2018, dance scholar and community leader Kayla Harley wrote a PAR Case Study “Keeping Dance Alive After Loss in the U.S. Virgin Islands.”  

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March 15, 2022

Reshaping an Organization’s Structure
& Programming with a Focus on Equity

When the Madison Children’s Museum, located on Capitol Square in downtown Madison, Wisconsin, closed

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November 6, 2025

Enhancing Emergency Readiness in the Performing Arts with Free AI Tools

Weather hits. Power fails. Performers, staff and audiences get sick. When that happens, a simple plan saves time and money.

Dramatic Storm Clouds

February 14, 2025

Integrating Arts-Based Experiences for Disaster Relief:
Reflections from the APHA Conference

On August 8, 2023, historic wildfires devastated the island of Maui, Hawaii. 

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August 11, 2023

Wildfire Smoke Encroachment and the Performing Arts

Wildfire smoke has had a definite impact on communities worldwide in the past five years.

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July 27, 2022

City-Wide Emergency Planning
in Las Vegas

The Office of Cultural Affairs for the City of Las Vegas received an emergency planning grant from...

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December 14, 2021

Pulling the Strings of Resiliency Planning

As performing arts organizations around the world shut their doors to in-person performances in early 2020 

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