A hands-on workshop presented by Drexel E-Learning Center. Box lunch included. Gather by 11:15 a.m. in the Creese Lobby, Grand Hall.
ADVANCED REGISTRATION REQUIRED.

WORKSHOP LOCATION: Hagerty Library L13C

Bus and box lunch included. Gather by 11:15 a.m. in the Creese Lobby, Grand Hall.
ADVANCE REGISTRATION REQUIRED.

LOCATION: 2019-2020 MacAlister

Doug Borwick, Salem College, Winston-Salem NC
Randy Pope, University of Akron, Akron OH
Ximena Varela, Drexel University, Philadelphia PA
LOCATION: 2019-2020 MacAlister

A Conversation with Alan Brown, Principal, WolfBrown

Through his studies and insights on arts audience, value, experience, and impact, Alan Brown has been providing some of the most influential and productive research shaping the field today. This interactive and informal conversation will explore his work at WolfBrown, its implications, and the challenges of connecting evidence-based theory with professional practice. He will also discuss the skills and abilities he believes are essential to arts and cultural managers (and the programs that train them) as the need for innovative leadership continues to grow.

LOCATION: AJ Drexel Picture Gallery, 3^rd Floor, Main Building

Sponsored by Drexel’s Westphal College of Media Arts and Design, the Graduate Program in Arts Administration and the Department of Performing Arts

LOCATION: AJ Drexel Picture Gallery, 3^rd Floor, Main Building

Welcome and Orientation

Andrew Taylor, President, AAAE

LOCATION: Behrakis B/C, Creese Student Center

Concurrent Sessions

Ximena Varela, Drexel University Francois Colbert, HEC Montreal

Skip Reiss, co-editor/publisher, Arts Management Newsletter

This session will introduce you to the world of academic publishing for arts administration, cultural policy, and related fields. We will discuss how to prepare your text for publication, the publishing process, and what journals exist in our field that you should be aware of.

LOCATION: Behrakis A

Richard Kamenitzer, George Mason University

Alan Salzenstein, DePaul University

Negotiation can be a significant component of an arts manager's job. Arts managers can benefit from studying this subject in many practical ways, as negotiations are present in many day-to-day management situations: the negotiation of leases, banking arrangements, employment and artist contracts, and project proposals, not to mention collective bargaining agreements. We will address teaching negotiation from an academic standpoint, as well as the application of these concepts in practice.

LOCATION: University Club

Larry Epstein, Drexel University

Greg Martino, Drexel University

Arin Sullivan, Drexel University

Andrew Taylor, University of Wisconsin-Madison.

We live in challenging times. As a result, graduating students who might otherwise have jobs in hand soon after find that employers are pulling jobs, and even offers, off the table. How can educators mitigate this employment crisis for our students through teaching, service or research?

LOCATION: MacAlister 2019-2020

LOCATION: Behrakis B

LOCATIONS: Behrakis A, University Club, MacAlister 2019-2020 (check at registration desk for each group’s specific location)

1:00 – 2:30 pm

Redefining AAAE Membership Structure? A Facilitated Discussion

John McCann, President, Partners in Performance, Inc.

LOCATION: Behrakis B/C

2:30 pm

Concurrent Sessions

Susan Badger Booth, Eastern Michigan University

This presentation will explore the benefits and challenges to making service learning more than a curriculum “add-on.” Unlike school-wide service learning projects that are not credit bearing—and involve students contributing to a finite and often highly visible community project—classroom-based service learning is often on a much smaller scale, sustained over a semester or longer. We will address curriculum design, identifying and maintaining community partners, and the benefits to students and participants.

LOCATION: Behrakis A

Anthony Rhine, Wayne State University

Carolyn Cason, Claremont Graduate University

The session addresses the central challenge facing arts organizations today, developing strong leaders who can integrate diverse groups, with conflicting agendas, who must nevertheless work interdependently. Presentation on the Leadership skills taught in the MFA Theatre Management curriculum at Wayne State University, and the Connective Leadership model taught in Claremont Graduate University's Master in Arts Management Program.

LOCATION: University Club

Joan Jeffri, Columbia University Teachers College (Respondent-driven sampling: the case of aging artists),

Michael Wilkerson, American University (Support Systems for artists)

Maria Torres (higher education cultural administration in Colombia)

LOCATION: MacAlister 2019-2020

LOCATION: Behrakis B

Neville D. Vakharia, Director, Pew Cultural Data Project, The Pew Charitable Trusts

Barbara Lippman, Senior Officer, Philadelphia Cultural Program, The Pew Charitable Trusts

Ann Stone, Senior Research and Evaluation Officer, The Wallace Foundation

Moderated by Cecelia Fitzgibbon, Drexel University

Funders from the Cultural Data Project, the Wallace Foundation and The Pew Charitable Trusts

will share their perspectives on field needs and applications related to research.

LOCATION: Behrakis B/C

Full members gather, discuss, and vote on essential issues of the association.

Coffee, tea, and continental breakfast

LOCATION: Behrakis B/C

Concurrent Sessions

Carlo LaMagna, New York University, Margaret Wyszomirski, The Ohio State University

This panel opens with thoughts on various aspects of the thesis process: finding a conceptual anchor for thesis research, understanding field practices and policies in the thesis process, and capitalizing on your thesis topic. Panelists will open with comments on how they try to guide and facilitate the experience of their students, then open the discussion to a roundtable with other conference participants.

LOCATION: Behrakis A

Sherri Helwig, University of Toronto Scarborough

How do you make the leap from ‘practitioner’ to ‘teacher’? This session will allow participants to share their questions, struggles and success stories, and take away practical ideas for translating the knowledge and skills developed in the trenches into meaningful learning experiences for students. A brief presentation will be followed by a full discussion.

LOCATION: University Club

Todd Alan Price, Wagner College

Michael Wilkerson, American University

This discussion will feature two presentations aimed at suggesting ways AAAE members can assist arts organizations in their areas with financial crises. Todd Price will present an overview of several techniques and ideas he has used to help organizations in his area, while Michael Wilkerson will discuss new paradigms in how to utilize, spend and grow endowment funds by converting these conceptually (and actually) to long term funds of various types, including annuities. Participants are invited to bring their own ideas for assisting organizations in need.

LOCATION: MacAlister 2019/2020

LOCATION: Behrakis B/C

Impact: Seeking Solutions for Assessing and Reporting on Arts-Based Civic Engagement

Barbara Schaffer Bacon - Animating Democracy, Americans for the Arts

Americans for the Arts’ Animating Democracy resides in the nexus of theory, practice and research, tracking and guiding projects that foster civic engagement through the arts. Barbara Schaffer-Bacon will discuss its current Arts and Civic Engagement Impact Initiative including findings and challenges. She will suggest ways that academic programs and practitioners can contribute to and learn from local arts-based civic engagement and social change projects.

LOCATION: Behrakis B/C

Saturday April 4

(Continued)

Concurrent Sessions

The Wisconsin Task Force on Arts and Creativity in Education recently underwent an extensive research project related to creativity and 21st century workforce development. Included are several findings that have implications for us as teachers of the next generation of arts administrators -- including an imperative to train arts organizations to move beyond a ticket sales attitude to finding more opportunities to directly involve consumers in creative activity.

LOCATION: Behrakis A

Portfolio as a Strategic Tool

Randy Pope, University of Akron

Sherri Helwig, University of Toronto Scarborough

Creating these documents and revisiting them each year prompts self evaluation, and focuses the formation of goals. They also provide a context for our work that has been useful in annual evaluations, merit evaluations, and in securing tenure.

LOCATION: University Club

Richard Maloney, Boston University (Cultural

Economic Development Policies)

Sung-ryun Rim (Cultural Planning in S. Korea)

Lawrence Epstein, Drexel University (computer games/simulations as teaching tools)

Susan Badger Booth, Eastern Michigan University (Cultural Planning)

LOCATION: MacAlister 2019/2020

Location: Behrakis B

Gary Steuer, Chief Cultural Officer for the City of Philadelphia,Office of Arts, Culture and the Creative Economy

Peggy Amsterdam, President, Greater Philadelphia Cultural Alliance

Moderator: Jean Brody, Drexel University

What research skills are essential for today’s and tomorrow’s arts administrators? How can arts administration educators best prepare students to use research to understand the macro level of understanding trends in the field and the micro level of specific and local research needed to make effective decisions on behalf of their organizations? While some arts administrators will develop and execute research, all need to understand how to effectively interpret and use research conducted by others.

LOCATION: Behrakis B/C

Bistro St. Tropez, 2400 Market St. 4^th Floor, Marketplace Design Center, Philadelphia

Join your AAAE colleagues for a great night out of classic cuisine prepared with fresh seasonal ingredients and presented with style. The evening will feature live music by the Ken Ulansey Ensemble playing a selection of classical, jazz, pop and world music.
Music sponsored by the Drexel Online Graduate Program in Arts Administration