By Philip Montgomery Rice News Staff Leadership in the arts demands vision and passion, agreed a panel of leaders in the art community who joined together to participate in a discussion at Rice. Leadership and the Arts, held on Oct. 8 in the Kyle Morrow Room of Fondren Library, was the first in the Leadership Rice Panel Discussion Series. The series brings together outstanding members of the Houston community to discuss issues of leadership in their respective areas of expertise.
All panels are open to the public.
The idea behind the panel discussion is to generate ideas pertinent to the field. The panel discussion on press and the arts led to an informal discussion about how students in art and art history may be able to write for alternative publications and fill in the gaps left by the major media, Stern said. The series of discussion panels furthers the goals of Leadership Rice. The arts panel featured representatives from Da Camera of Houston, the Community Artists Collective, Inprint, Inc., the Contemporary Arts Museum, Main Street Theater and FotoFest. Judith Brown, dean of the School of Humanities, moderated the panel.