As the national arts service organization for the performing arts presenting, booking and touring field, APAP often conducts studies and convenings to understand and respond to the issues facing our field and our diverse membership. We trust the skill and sensitivity Suzanne and Callahan Consulting for the Arts bring in crafting large-scale and complex research studies that are immediately usable, understandable and relevant to our field. She prioritizes our vision and our input throughout the entire process, swiftly transforming our goals into action, and her experience and insights made our conceived project richer and more impactful than we had hoped. Her rapport with the arts community, gifted facilitation of interest and research groups and keen curatorial eye allow her to craft answers to relevant questions and provide opportunities to address underrepresented topics and viewpoints. She is a valued colleague and an important leader in our community.
—Krista Bradley, Director of Programs and Resources, the Association of Performing Arts Professionals (APAP)

Callahan’s depth of understanding and commitment to the field provides us with an essential text that translates intimidating concepts into manageable practice.
—Kim Chan
Former Director of Programming, Washington Performing Arts Society

[Since your training] People are beginning to see program in a new light — as truly centered on the student’s experience rather than from a functional, administrator’s or instructor’s perspective. And we owe so much of our success in this work to you. Thanks again for lighting the fire!
—Scott Lundius
Former Director of Education, Marwen

Our special thanks go to Callahan Consulting For the Arts, whose written text and generous advice and collaborative work have added important substance and clarity to the [Impact Arts] site as a whole. Callahan’s extensive research for and annotation of the launching database of resources, tools, and frameworks forms the heart of the site.
—Pam Korza and Barbara Schaeffer Bacon,
Animating Democracy
Regarding their Impact Arts website

Thanks for two days of superb workshops, with great information, energy and insight. We gained clarity about our Creative Campus Initiative and a deeper understanding of outcome measurement. We continue to consult the evaluation products you developed for us, which provide sanity to our vision. And, we’ve shared this new way of thinking with other departments.
—Hank Lazer
Associate Provost, Creative Campus Initiative
University of Alabama, Tuscaloosa

I wonder if you know what an enormous service to the field you have provided through your work with evaluation. You have helped to shape our thinking about the process, teaching us that it should begin and end with us.
—John Killacky
Former Program Officer for Arts, The San Francisco Foundation

Through training in evaluation, Callahan gave our members new tools and strategies to improve their work. They are now empowered to define success for themselves and have deepened the impact of their programs.
—Jacob Yarrow
Former Education Director, Association of Performing Arts Professionals