Peter Linett has been a partner at Slover Linett Strategies since 1999, during which time he has become a thought partner to museums, arts organizations, and other cultural organizations that want to understand their audiences and develop innovative strategies for engaging them. Peter’s work focuses on art and science museums, classical music, and other sectors where the conventions of presentation are changing along with audience needs and expectations.
Peter is associate editor for theory & practice at Curator: The Museum Journal, a peer-refereed journal of scholarship and practice founded in 1958 at the American Museum of Natural History. His articles and reviews have appeared in its pages and in Museum, Museum Views, and the Wall Street Journal.
Peter is also a research affiliate at the Cultural Policy Center at the University of Chicago, where he helped develop a multi-year study of the effects of the boom in facilities investment by cultural organizations. During the winter and spring semesters of the 2010 academic year, he was a visiting associate at the Center and gave a talk on subjectivity and postmodernism in May, 2010.
Peter is currently founding Culture Kettle, a nonprofit incubator for innovation in the public presentation of the arts and sciences. He serves on the national advisory council for the Center for the Future of Museums at the American Association of Museums (AAM).
He speaks regularly at conferences and for five years led a “book club” interview and discussion panel at AAM’s annual meeting. Peter was an invited speaker at the University of Victoria on the legacy of museum scholar Stephen Weil, and has guest-lectured at the Art Institute of Chicago and the University of Chicago.
Other conference appearances have included a talk on innovation at the Art Museum Partnership’s Directors Forum in New York and a presentation of cross-cultural dance attendance research to the National Arts Marketing Project conference in Houston.
A magna cum laude graduate of Yale University, Peter pursued graduate work in philosophical aesthetics at the University of Chicago. He lives on Chicago's Lincoln Square neighborhood with his wife and twin daughters.
