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of arts administration education. A Message from the AAAE President
For thirty-five years, AAAE has carried the torch for the developing notion that those who run the world’s arts organizations should be educated in sound management and aesthetic principles and that the education should be based in both theory and practice. Each year our understanding of how to most effectively support arts and culture in our communities deepens.
EDUCATE | INNOVATE | ACTIVATE: The 2011 Annual Conference in Boston, Mass., April 7-9, 2011
Join your colleagues this spring for our annual conference as we explore new ways to educate our students, innovate our teaching, and activate the communities in which we live and work. Our backdrop will be the hip and historic city of Boston, Massachusetts, a wonderful blend of stylish sophistication and historic New England charm. The many exceptional cultural and educational institutions - including our host member program at Boston University - will surely lend much to our convening and conversations.
Joan Shigekawa Keynote | 2010 Conference
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 | 2010 Conference
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 | 2010 Conference
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.
AAAE is on Facebook
As an international network of arts administration educators, AAAE works to provide as many opportunities as possible for its membership to connect. Case-in-point, our new Facebook page, which will carry member news, links to important articles, photos, insights, and other such things. If you're on Facebook, become a fan! If not, we'll be waiting.Bernie Sahlins Keynote: ''The Burbage Legacy"
Bernard "Bernie" Sahlins is an American writer, director, and comedian best known as a co-founder of The Second City improvisational comedy troup. His keynote speech to the 2007 AAAE conference in Chicago spoke to the power of the intersection of art and entrepreneurship...reaching back into the 16th century to make the point. We publish his remarks here with his permission, and with deep thanks for his insights on our field.