Mr. Peter Linett
Peter Linett is a partner at Slover Linett Strategies Inc., a Chicago-based firm providing audience research services to cultural and educational institutions. The firm’s clients include leading museums (such as the Smithsonian Institution, the Art Institute of Chicago, the Whitney Museum of American Art, the Seattle Art Museum, and the Cleveland Museum of Natural History), performing arts organizations (including the Philadelphia Orchestra, the Chicago Symphony, the Joffrey Ballet, Seattle Opera, and the Goodman Theater), and universities (including, for the last twelve years, the University of Chicago).
Linett is also a Research Affiliate of the Cultural Policy Center at the University of Chicago, and for the Winter and Spring semesters of 2010 he was appointed as Visiting Associate. At the Cultural Policy Center, Linett helped develop a multi-year study of the effects of the recent boom in facilities investment by cultural organizations. He is currently working with the Cultural Policy Center to develop Culture Kettle, an incubator and think tank promoting innovation in the public presentation of arts, sciences, and history.
Linett serves as Associate Editor for Theory and Practice at Curator: The Museum Journal, a peer-refereed journal of scholarship and practice founded in 1958 at the American Museum of Natural History. His articles and reviews have appeared in its pages and in Museum, Museum Views, and the Wall Street Journal.
Linett is also an advisor to the Center for the Future of Museums at the American Association of Museums (AAM).
He speaks regularly at conferences and for the last five years has led the “book club” panel at AAM’s annual meeting; authors interviewed by Linett at those panels have included art historians, critics, novelists, and educators. Linett was an invited speaker at the University of Victoria on the legacy of museum scholar Stephen Weil and has lectured at the Art Institute of Chicago and the University of Chicago on the Detroit Institute of Arts’ 2007 reinstallation. Other presentations include a talk on innovation at the Art Museum Partnership’s Directors Forum in New York and a panel about cross-cultural dance attendance the National Arts Marketing Project conference in Houston.