With the guidance and counsel of experts, College representatives designed a program of courses that provides a solid grounding for professionals working in the arts regardless of the discipline or area of emphasis. An advisory board of recognized community arts leaders will guide program development and intern placements. A similar renaissance permeates many other communities. Arts activities calendars listing scores of programs in music, the visual and plastic arts, museums, and galleries spread over pages instead of being tucked into little corners. Websites have proliferated.
People can find an activity to please just about any taste without having to travel far from home.
All these organizations need directors and coworkers of all kinds to put performers and programs in place. It all looks very easy to the audience. But each exhibit or performance or program requires hours of planning, organizing, fundraising, grant-writing, board participation and management, marketing, financial management, hiring and employee development and a thousand other tasks. Busy executive directors need well-informed, impassioned colleagues to make the wonderful programs happen. For E ntry-level Arts Administrators A Certificate Program in Arts Administration is now offered through the Division of Continuing and Graduate Studies.