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Chloe Chittick Patton

Vice President of Research Services


Chloe Chittick Patton directs Slover Linett’s Chicago-based staff of associates, analysts, and research assistants and is responsible for maintaining the quality and consistency of the firm’s work. A key member of the leadership team, she helps chart Slover Linett’s strategic direction and foster its culture of communication, collaboration, and learning.

Chloe also leads select studies for clients in the performing arts and museum sectors, such as the Minnesota Orchestra, Lincoln Park Zoo, and Seattle Opera.

Chloe has worked in social research since 2000 and became a senior associate at Slover Linett in 2005. Since then she has directed numerous qualitative and quantitative studies for arts organizations, museums, universities, and other nonprofits, ranging from ongoing tracking studies to multi-phase “deep dive” research initiatives.

Prior to joining Slover Linett, Chloe learned ethnographic, qualitative, and quantitative research methods at AMP Insights, a Boston-based marketing agency focused on young adult consumers. For a diverse range of clients including the Ad Council, Target, and Ben & Jerry’s, she designed and managed large-scale, national research efforts and moderated focus group discussions across the US.

Chloe earned a B.A. magna cum laude in anthropology and religious studies from Colby College in Maine. She lives on Chicago’s north side with her husband and son.

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January 16, 2012 | Peter

In the arts, audience-centered business models start with the art, not the business

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In my last post, I asked where the consumers are in the Colorado symphony’s new “customer-driven” business model and promised a few examples of ways arts groups are getting audiences into the picture a little more creatively. It’s about not thinking of them as consumers or audiences in the first place, but as collaborators.

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The windy city. I’m still a New Englander at heart (go Red Sox!) but Chicago has become my adopted home. I moved here not expecting to stay more than a year or two, but I’ve been smitten with the vibrancy of this city and the easy way about it.

Few living souls know that I was a radio DJ in college. We had the 6–7am time slot, so most of our loyal listeners were Waterville locals rather than our fellow students. It was a great way to experiment with having a “public” voice while playing with one of my loves, music. These days my only DJ-ing happens on my iPod.

Finding my own creativity. I have a great passion for the arts, but was unlucky enough to get none of the talent for it myself. I come from a family with strong artistic talents and I work with cultural organizations everyday – so, fortunately, I’m able to surround myself with people whose talents I admire. Knitting is my one successful creative outlet and I just bought a sewing machine, so at least I’ve found some ways to give the right side of my brain some exercise!

Leisure reading. It’s so varied that I can’t think of a theme or genre that I tend to gravitate towards most – other than the fact that I don’t miss an issue of National Geographic. I’m usually reading a fiction and a non-fiction at the same time, to keep some variety. Right now I’m reading A Partisan’s Daughter by Louis De Bernières and just digging into A Short History of Nearly Everything by Bill Bryson; hopefully I’ll learn a thing or two.