Artistic vibrancy: self-reflection tool

A set of questions and tools to help performing arts organisations and their boards evaluate their own artistic vibrancy.

What can arts companies do to understand and assess their own artistic vibrancy in a meaningful way that contributes to the company’s ongoing development?

This self-reflection tool outlines a framework for self-assessing artistic vibrancy.  It provides questions that arts organisations and their boards can ask themselves, and methods to help answer these questions.

The Australia Council will test the tool with a group of volunteer arts companies in 2010, and will use the outcomes from the test, and any other feedback, to improve the tool to make it as useful as possible to arts organisations and their boards.

The self-reflection tool is one of a suite of resources on artistic vibrancy. The other resources are:

•    Defining artistic vibrancy: a discussion paper: a look at what artistic vibrancy means, and the traits of an artistically vibrant company

•     “Tell me honestly…”: good practice case studies of artistic self-assessment in performing arts organisations: a set of Australian and international examples of companies that have made artistic self-assessment a meaningful and useful process, and how they did it

•    Meaningful measurement: a review of the literature about measuring artistic vibrancy: for research enthusiasts, a comprehensive literature review of the academic research in this area

We welcome comments and feedback on the resources.  Please contact Jackie Bailey on j.bailey@australiacouncil.gov.au or Ph: 02 9215 9000 or Toll free: 1800 226 912.