Do you attend a variety of arts events?

I'd like to post some recent data I stumbled upon. The report was published in 2005 and is called, "Motivations Matter." The report was produced by the Wallace Foundation, which commissioned the Urban Institute to conduct a national survey of cultural participation.

Of particular interest to me in the findings was the following information:

"Motivations varied even among cultural forms that tend to share audiences. For instance, respondents who had been to art museums in the previous 12 months were also more likely to have been to plays and vice versa. Yet there are striking differences in the reasons that respondents go to those events. This reinforces the point that the same people may go to different types of cultural events for very different reasons. It may well be that a desire for a diversity of experiences is exactly what drives these individuals to attend diverse cultural forms."

The findings also make the following notes about frequent attendees.

"Note that frequent attendees not only attend more cultural events, they also attend a greater variety of events."
and
"...The findings show frequent arts attendees to be individuals with a wide variety of interests and the ability to derive fulfillment from a wide array of activities- both cultural and otherwise. Frequent attendees not only attend more arts events and a greater variety of arts events, but they tend to be "joiners" who are also more likely to engage in other civic, social, and religious activities."


Since many of you probably fit into the frequent attendees categories and certainly tend to be "joiners," I'm curious if these statements is true. I ask you this:

What venues do you go to? How often? Do you go to different kinds of arts events?

Putting my own attendance history (and memory) on the line, I'll answer my own questions.

Venues I've been to 3 or more times in the past year:
Delavan Art Gallery (obviously)
Everson Museum of Art
Eureka Crafts
Light Work (Robert B. Menschel Media Center)
Onondaga Historical Association and Museum
Redhouse / Rothenberg Gallery
Spark Contemporary Art Space
Spark Video Screenings
Syracuse Technology Garden
ThINC's Company Gallery
The Warehouse Gallery
Syracuse Int'l Film & Video Festival (went almost every day)

Venues I've been to once or twice in the past year:
Community Folk Art Center (CFAC)
Edgewood Gallery
Jazz Central
Landmark Theater (as part of Film Fest)
MOST (as part of Film Fest)
Onondaga Community College (Arts Across Campus)
Palace Theater (as part of Film Fest and individually)
Point of Contact Gallery
Stone Quarry Art Park
SUArt Galleries
Westcott Community Art Gallery

Conclusion:
I've certainly done very well at keeping tabs on the visual arts venues, in part due to Th3, but I've never been to a theater, Symphony, or Opera in Syracuse. I attend visual arts and film arts events, with the occasional history lesson from the OHA in the middle. For me, the statement "respondents who had been to art museums in the previous 12 months were also more likely to have been to plays and vice versa" is not as true.

Is it true for you?

-Courtney Rile
Gallery Coordinator, Delavan Art Gallery