Arts Audiences is delighted to announce the successful applicants for the Build Your Audience pilot project, which will provide free expert tuition on arts marketing and audience development.

The high level of interest in the project and the quality of applications received will prove extremely useful to the Arts Audience Initiative in identifying future strands of work which may benefit arts organisations and those working in the arts.

The three organisations were selected on the basis that their projects would have a wide application across artforms and disciplines and that the outcomes would be clear and useful to others. They are:

Coisceim Dance Theatre, Dublin, whose audience project is focused on developing a marketing strategy for a national tour.

The Ark, Dublin, in association with Irish Museum of Modern Art, whose project will focus on developing programmes which meet the practical needs of schools.

The Butler Gallery, Kilkenny, whose project will focus on retaining and building on the audience base through profiling and increasing visibility

Case studies of all three consultancies will be published online at on this site in the new year to make learning outcomes available to the arts community.