Client
Artist-Run Centres and Collectives Conference

Year Completed
2023

Type of Work
Strategic Planning
Digital Assessment

Tackling Digital Challenges as a Collective of Arts Organizations

Bespoke conducted a digital assessment for a collective of four arts organizations: ARCA (Artist-Run Centres and Collectives Conference), On the Edge Fest, Proscenium Club and the FabFilmfest. Together we tested out a new way of working through a cohort-based sharing model that supported higher quality work by pooling together funding, streamlining processes and connecting learnings as a network.

We conducted a broad and in-depth research phase on how the arts landscape is broadly changing within the virtual space. Through shared conversations and troubleshooting across organizations, we  identified what digital challenges are organization-based versus what issues are more broadly affecting the arts.

We then developed personalized digital assessments for each of the organization's digital footprints - across websites, digital assets and virtual presence. Moving forward are pursuing a “carpooling” approach to consulting, so that we can better serve smaller arts organizations, and reduce costs while maintaining quality of the work.