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41 J. Arts Mgmt. L. & Soc'y 1 (2011)

handle is hein.journals/jartmls41 and id is 1 raw text is: THE JOURNAL OF ARTS MANAGEMENT, Routledge LAW, AND SOCIETY, 41:1 37, 2011 Copyright 0 Taylor & Francis Group, LLC Taylor& Francis Group ISSN: 1063-2921 print / 1930-7799 online DOI: 10.1080/10632921.2011.545725 Cultural Experience in Context: Sense-Making the Arts Lois Foreman-Wernet Capital University, Columbus, Ohio Brenda Dervin Ohio State University, Columbus, Ohio Recent research on arts and cultural audiences has attempted to go beyond the traditional social science surveys that assess attitudes or attendance to capture an understanding of how audiences actually experience the arts and what benefits or impacts those experiences provide. The study reported here contributes to this grow- ing body of research by presenting in-depth case studies of four individuals and their chosen cultural experiences at various times through their lives. The authors used Dervin's Sense-Making Methodology to guide the informants through highly structured but open-ended interviews designed to prompt self-reflection and elabora- tion of what each experience meant to them. Informants were selected from a larger database because of the richness of their interviews and the insight these interviews offer to the understanding of people's engagements with culture. By considering multiple cultural experiences for each informant, it was possible to gain a clearer sense of the context in which these experiences took place and how informants were impacted personally. In addition, the case studies showed how informants' respective struggles with personal and identity issues moved with them across their cultural experiences. KEYWORDS arts audiences, arts experience, cultural experience, identity, intrinsic value, qualitative research, Sense-Making Methodology This article was presented at the 35th annual Social Theory, Politics, and the Arts Conference, October, 2009, London, UK. Address correspondence to Lois Foreman-Wernet, Department of Communication, Capital Uni- versity, 1 College and Main, Columbus, OH 43209. E-mail: lforeman@capital.edu

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