10 Steps to a Successful Exhibit Program

This is especially important for publicly funded organizations, which may need to publish the procedures and criteria they use for selection of works. Review by your organization’s legal advisor might be in order.

9. Seek feedback
“We put comment cards out, especially around our fifth anniversary, to judge how we were being received and what kinds of work people liked,” Ryan says. “We had thought abstract art might not do as well as others, but it came in not far behind representational painting and photography.”