Hunterdon Art Museum
Center for art, craft, and design
Programs and results
What we aim to solve
The Hunterdon Art Museum (HAM) Strategic Plan addresses the challenge of ensuring long-term financial sustainability amid increasing operating expenses, particularly labor costs, and the need for a broader and deeper base of support. The plan emphasizes the importance of diversifying and enhancing programming to attract a wider audience, leveraging the Mill's value, and leading in the regional arts community to increase individual giving and engagement.
Our programs
What are the organization's current programs, how do they measure success, and who do the programs serve?
Classes & Workshops for Adults
Professionally-led classes and workshops for adults to rekindle and/or establish their creativity and unlock their hidden talent and potential. Over 300 classes offered throughout the year.
Artistic Expressions
Artist Jim Pruznick leads this open studio class designed for adults and teens with special needs, physical limitations, developmental disabilities and/or any neurodiversity. Art-making topics are tailored to new and returning students, and include drawing, painting, sculpting, mixed media and fiber arts. “Artistic Expressions” is an art class with creative, therapeutic and social objectives, and helps build skills, dexterity and self-esteem.
Kids & Teens After-School Classes
After-school classes and workshops for kids and teens in various art mediums. Serving ages 5-16.
Summer Camps
Over 40 camp sessions in various art mediums. Serving ages 5-16.
Where we work
External reviews
Our results
How does this organization measure their results? It's a hard question but an important one.
Number of students enrolled
This metric is no longer tracked.Totals By Year
Population(s) Served
Adults, Children and youth, People with disabilities
Type of Metric
Output - describing our activities and reach
Direction of Success
Increasing
Total number of exhibitions
This metric is no longer tracked.Totals By Year
Population(s) Served
Adults, Children and youth
Type of Metric
Output - describing our activities and reach
Direction of Success
Holding steady
Number of academic scholarships awarded
This metric is no longer tracked.Totals By Year
Population(s) Served
Age groups, People with disabilities
Related Program
Artistic Expressions
Type of Metric
Output - describing our activities and reach
Direction of Success
Holding steady
Context Notes
Specifically for our Special Needs programs. Scholarships made possible by Janssen Pharmaceuticals, Investors Foundation, and donations from other generous individuals.
Number of paid registrants to classes
This metric is no longer tracked.Totals By Year
Population(s) Served
People with disabilities, Adults, Children and youth
Type of Metric
Output - describing our activities and reach
Direction of Success
Increasing
Number of campers enrolled
This metric is no longer tracked.Totals By Year
Population(s) Served
Children and youth
Related Program
Summer Camps
Type of Metric
Outcome - describing the effects on people or issues
Direction of Success
Increasing
Our Sustainable Development Goals
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Goals & Strategy
Learn about the organization's key goals, strategies, capabilities, and progress.
Charting impact
Four powerful questions that require reflection about what really matters - results.
What is the organization aiming to accomplish?
The Hunterdon Art Museum's strategic plan outlines several key goals aimed at addressing their challenges and leveraging opportunities for growth and sustainability:
Financial Stability and Growth: To secure the museum's financial health through increased fundraising, diversification of revenue sources, and growth of its endowment.
Audience Development: To broaden and deepen audience engagement by enhancing programming, improving visitor experience, and leveraging digital platforms to reach a wider demographic.
Community Engagement and Partnerships: To strengthen ties with the local and regional community through partnerships, collaborations, and community-focused events, thereby positioning HAM as a leading cultural institution in the region.
Organizational Capacity: To build the organization's capacity by investing in staff, technology, and infrastructure to support growth, improve operational efficiency, and enhance the museum's ability to deliver on its mission.
Excellence in Programming and Exhibitions: To maintain and elevate the museum's reputation for excellence in programming, exhibitions, and education by showcasing diverse, innovative, and high-quality art that engages and educates a broad audience.
These goals are designed to address the museum's immediate challenges while positioning it for long-term success and sustainability, ensuring it continues to serve as a vital cultural resource for its community.
What are the organization's key strategies for making this happen?
Community Building: HAM aims to broaden its community support by engaging a wide array of demographic groups deeply and meaningfully. This involves creating and delivering value to these groups through quality and diversity in programming and by providing leadership and support within the art community.
Diverse Programming: The strategy emphasizes diversifying programming to engage broader community segments beyond those traditionally interested in viewing or making art. This includes targeting groups interested in cultural and social experiences, supporting local artists, and providing opportunities for casual arts enthusiasts to engage with the museum. Additionally, building relationships with underserved communities through partnerships and supportive programming is a focus.
Strategic Components: The strategic plan outlines several critical components, including:
An unchanging Purpose that defines the value HAM provides to the community.
A Mission that reflects how HAM delivers value through differentiation and creates a memorable strategy story.
A Vision for a bold, long-term goal, guiding the organization towards its future aspirations without detailing every program or initiative.
What are the organization's capabilities for doing this?
Strategic Focus: The plan highlights the importance of the museum's mission, purpose, vision, and tagline in guiding its strategic direction, aiming to differentiate HAM from other arts institutions and create unique value for its constituents.
Challenges: It identifies increasing operating expenses, particularly labor costs, and a need for a broader support base beyond contemporary art enthusiasts. Additionally, it acknowledges an underinvestment in marketing and the competitive arts landscape in Hunterdon County.
Strengths: The museum's prime assets include the Mill's unique setting and the institution's reputation for high-quality programming.
Opportunities: The growth in the Hunterdon County arts scene is seen as a chance to increase arts awareness and interest, contributing to local tourism and potentially expanding HAM's audience.
Strategies for Community Engagement: The plan calls for diverse programming to engage a broad audience, including cultural and social experiences beyond traditional viewing or making art, support for local artists, and outreach to underserved communities.
Maximizing the Value of the Mill: There's a focus on reimagining the use of the Mill to encourage more frequent and longer visits, including transforming the Terrace's perception and utilization to attract new visitors.
Leadership in Hunterdon County Arts: HAM aims to raise its profile and attract visitors and donors by leading and collaborating with other arts organizations, promoting the county as an arts destination, and seeking mutually beneficial partnerships.
What have they accomplished so far and what's next?
We have expanded the communities we serve by transforming our exhibitions into virtual-reality experiences, bringing art to underserved communities and those who would otherwise not have access to our museum. We have moved our in-person classes and workshops online, which has also allowed us to expand and bring our quality programming to new communities.
How we listen
Seeking feedback from people served makes programs more responsive and effective. Here’s how this organization is listening.
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How is your organization using feedback from the people you serve?
To identify and remedy poor client service experiences, To identify bright spots and enhance positive service experiences, To make fundamental changes to our programs and/or operations, To inform the development of new programs/projects, To identify where we are less inclusive or equitable across demographic groups, To strengthen relationships with the people we serve, To understand people's needs and how we can help them achieve their goals
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Which of the following feedback practices does your organization routinely carry out?
We aim to collect feedback from as many people we serve as possible, We take steps to ensure people feel comfortable being honest with us, We look for patterns in feedback based on demographics (e.g., race, age, gender, etc.), We look for patterns in feedback based on people’s interactions with us (e.g., site, frequency of service, etc.), We engage the people who provide feedback in looking for ways we can improve in response, We act on the feedback we receive, We tell the people who gave us feedback how we acted on their feedback
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What challenges does the organization face when collecting feedback?
We don't have any major challenges to collecting feedback
Financials
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Operations
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Hunterdon Art Museum
Board of directorsas of 02/25/2024
Timothy Fraser
Cathy Ahart
Dana Lane
Jim McDevitt
Pamela Becker
Jorge Blanco
Bill Miller
Kathy Schulz
Jason Vartikar
Organizational demographics
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Equity strategies
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- We ask team members to identify racial disparities in their programs and / or portfolios.
- We analyze disaggregated data and root causes of race disparities that impact the organization's programs, portfolios, and the populations served.
- We disaggregate data to adjust programming goals to keep pace with changing needs of the communities we support.
- We employ non-traditional ways of gathering feedback on programs and trainings, which may include interviews, roundtables, and external reviews with/by community stakeholders.
- We use a vetting process to identify vendors and partners that share our commitment to race equity.
- We have community representation at the board level, either on the board itself or through a community advisory board.
- We help senior leadership understand how to be inclusive leaders with learning approaches that emphasize reflection, iteration, and adaptability.
- We engage everyone, from the board to staff levels of the organization, in race equity work and ensure that individuals understand their roles in creating culture such that one’s race identity has no influence on how they fare within the organization.