In this workshop, participants will learn how to evaluate arts and humanities programs and how to use evaluation plans to help inform every step of project development.
Evaluation is a process through which one can determine the outcomes or successes of a project. Evaluating humanities projects is sometimes difficult because the impacts are not quantifiable. Evaluation should go beyond counting attendance—it should consider what people walked away with and how that leads to changes, action, or growth. In this workshop, we will use Animating Democracy’s Continuum of Impact guide to consider what impact you might want your programs to have and how to measure that impact. We will also consider how evaluation planning can help you develop stronger, more meaningful programs—if you start it early. Join Wisconsin Humanities’, Chrissy Widmayer, Director of Community Powered, to learn about this method and others to ground your next community-centered project.
RSVPs are required and seats are limited. To join, please send an email with your name and affiliation to: weindling@wisc.edu. Light refreshments will be available.
Chrissy Widmayer is the Director of Community Powered at Wisconsin Humanities. Community Powered is an initiative that puts the humanities tools of history, culture, and storytelling in the hands of Wisconsinites through training and educational programming. Chrissy has a PhD in Folklore Studies from the University of Wisconsin-Madison, and an MFA in Creative Writing from George Mason University. She spent over ten years teaching folklore, writing, oral history, and other humanities courses at the college level in both Wisconsin and Virginia. Her folklore research explores how communities create connections and relationships using foodways and storytelling, and has appeared in Narrative Culture, Digest: A Journal of Foodways and Culture, New Directions in Folklore, and Cultural Analysis. Chrissy is also a co-founder of WiseFolk Productions and content creator for Folkwise.