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                    ArtPlay research

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                    ArtPlay is always trying to do better. We want to provide better workshops with more informed artists and staff.

                    One key way of improving our practice has been a long-standing research partnership with the University of Melbourne trying to identify the factors that determine the quality of the program we offer you. Behind ArtPlay's Bright Orange Door is a report indicating some of the learning from the culmination of seven years of research. This report involved nearly 700 children, 300 parents and over 60 artists, and helps to define why ArtPlay is so special. It points to the fact that our work is a model of good practice creating learning of international significance.

                    We have been asking questions of children, artists, parents and care-givers, ArtPlay staff and others, as well as making detailed observations and recording data on processes and the outcomes. We have scrutinised short workshops, sustained programs, drop-in days, festival events and school visits in all arts disciplines and with children of all ages.

                    We have been able to outline the characteristics of engaging practice, develop evaluation techniques and make recommendations for sustainable development and continuous improvement at ArtPlay.

                    Our partnership with the University of Melbourne has generated two large-scale research projects. Find out more at Researching ArtPlay and Signal.

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