With Metris Arts Consulting
As an employee and then as an affiliate, Laramee Kidd worked on multiple projects with Metris Arts Consulting from 2018 to 2022. Explore these projects and their other work further at www.metrisarts.com.
Heat Response Documentarian (2022) Documentation and gathering lessons learned for an initiative that uses arts strategies to engage communities of color around the issue of urban heat. Produced a project report and a StoryMap website. For the lessons learned, Laramee Kidd used a participatory sensemaking technique called Participatory Narrative Inquiry.
Cultural Asset Mapping - Year of Chicago Theatre (2022) Documentation, data collection, sense-making, and policy recommendations for a cultural asset mapping effort on the South Side and West Side of Chicago. Produced a summary report, cleaned dataset, and PowerPoint presentation.
WE-making: How Arts And Culture Unite People to Work Toward Community Well-being (2021) Revisions based on philanthropic, practitioner, and researcher feedback for a fieldwide theory of change around place-based arts and cultural strategies, social cohesion, and equitable well-being.
Creative Communities Pilot Evaluation (2020-2021) Evaluation design and learning community for a pilot creative community development grant program in four (two rural and two urban) communities in PA.
Mural Arts Institute Learning Synthesis (2020) Deep dive into the process of participatory public artmaking for lessons learned across nine projects. Wrote a summary report, three case studies, and collaborated on a learning card deck.
3Arts Evaluation Planning & Assessment (2019) Theory of change and evaluation plan for an organization that supports women artists, artists of color, Deaf artists, and artists with disabilities in Chicago.
Indiana Arts Commission Evaluation Plan & Capacity Assessment (2019) Capacity assessment, evaluation planning and capacity building for a state arts agency.
Pittsburgh Artists Working in Communities (2019) A case study of Animating Democracy’s Aesthetic Perspectives framework in action to support the deepening role for artists working in the public realm through residencies and cross-sector partnerships. This project built on Laramee Kidd’s previous work authoring the Evaluator/Researcher Companion (2017) to the Aesthetic Perspectives framework.
Arts Datathon: The First Three Years (2019) “Live Archivist” documentation and interviews, and survey data review for an assessment revisiting and clarifying the goals of a gathering in Los Angeles County at the intersection of arts and data. This project built on Laramee Kidd’s previous involvement with the Arts Datathon in 2017 and 2018 as Research Analyst and Mellon-ACLS Public Fellow at the Los Angeles County Department of Arts and Culture.