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Originally Posted by garinda
If the gallery is attracting a poor, however that's decided, visitor count, that is down to bad promotion, and as I said earlier, an uninspiring curatorship. It certainly wasn't the case thirty years ago, when it was in more imaginative hands.
In the linked thread you informed us that funded by the council tax payer, H.B.C. employs a team of four salaried 'arts development' officers.
Either the people that gave them the job aren't very good at deciding who to employ, or the four people they employed aren't particularly good.
http://www.accringtonweb.com/forum/f...s-18809-5.html
Perhaps if we employed fewer people, but someone of a higher caliber, who is more able to promote a very beautiful gallery, which has a collection of world reknown, then the place would be buzzing.
I know you don't have much knowledge of the cut and thrust and reality of the business world, but with the right product, promotion, and price, which in this case is free, people come flocking. |
Thirty years ago is a long time.
HBC does not employ four 'arts development' officers, that thread is three years old and now it does not emply one arts development officer. It does employ me on a part time basis and I am trying very hard to get the Year of Culture up and running and changing the way the arts are being handled.
There are people who work at the gallery who curate exhibitions and who run education programmes. There is also a relatively new marketing officer who works part time. As part of my contract with HBC I am advising them on marketing initiatives - which are starting to be implemented - banners on the park outside, a new website being developed, leaflets which are changed monthly etc.
As for me not having any knowledge of the cut and thrust of the business world - how extremely patronising of you. Prior to me leaving the cut and thrust of the business world and having children I worked for a large PLC called SSL International - I managed a yearly budget of £21 million of own label and branded pharmaceutical products. Please do not treat me like some little poppet who is just playing at working for a living!