Audience Engagement
Consider how your audience/attendees will engage with the art. Producing arts in outdoor settings doesn’t have to mean a presentation on a stage with audiences sitting in chairs or on the grass. Depending on your objectives or the type of art, audience members might be encouraged to move around the space or get involved in the art-making. Installations and outdoor exhibitions don’t have the same beginnings and endings as performance events, although you might include an artist talk so artists can share information about their work and attendees can ask questions.
Examples of outdoor artist exhibits:
Examples of events that invite attendees to be part of the art-making:
- Red Dress Productions work in urban and rural outdoor settings and frequently invite community members into the creative process
- The STEPS Initiative project, Woven, was part of Arts in the Parks in 2018