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of arts administration education. Our 2012 Conference - Claremont, California
Join your AAAE colleagues May 31 - June 2, 2012, in the greater Los Angeles area, as Claremont Graduate University hosts the next conference. Join us for a pre-conference session in leadership development built around the work of the Drucker-based Kravis Leadership Institute that is part of CGU.
EDUCATE | INNOVATE | ACTIVATE: 2011 Annual Conference in Boston, Mass.
Thanks to all, and especially our host member program at Boston University, for making this year's annual conference such a success. If you have resources from the conference to share with your colleagues as PDFs or PowerPoint files, please send them to Administrative Director Barbara Harkins.
Save the date for our next conference in Claremont, California, May 31-June 2, 2012.
Joan Shigekawa Keynote
Listen to the conference keynote address of Joan Shigekawa, Senior Deputy Chairman of the National Endowment for the Arts. Her keynote title is ''Arts.Gov: A Report from the Front.''
Michael Kaiser Keynote
It is a great pleasure to be here today to discuss my favorite subject: arts management training. I have long believed that the biggest problem facing the arts today, on a worldwide basis, is not a shortage of singers, or dancers, or playwrights, or conductors. It is a shortage of trained entrepreneurs to employ these artists.
Ben Cameron Keynote
We gather in a time of great stress for the professional arts community. In the wake of the global financial crisis—a crisis which, as our constantly yo-yoing Dow Jones tells us, may be far from over—the nonprofit arts have been deeply challenged.