AAAE Conference GMU and American University Arts Management Collaboration

Conference 2010: Making Connections
Join your colleagues in arts administration education in America's capital city June 3-6, 2010, for Making Connections: Preparing Cultural Leaders for Future Challenges. The American University Arts Management Program and George Mason University's Arts Management Program will co-host this year's event.

The location will provide an ideal backdrop for intensive networking, teaching, and learning, and a wealth of extraordinary speakers to inform our work and advance our vision.

The AAAE annual conference is a unique opportunity to share, to listen, to grow as educators, and to connect to international trends and issues that impact our work.

We'll begin an exciting three days as we have the past several years, with an intriguing pre-conference offering: a bus tour of the innovative Cultural Development Corporation projects in DC. Executive Director Anne Corbett will be on board to give us a first-hand account of the important work of this exciting cultural and economic development organization.

Join us later that evening at The Phillips Collection for opening remarks by Michael Kaiser, President of the John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts, fresh from his 50-state Arts in Crisis tour.

Many more special guests, fascinating keynotes, relevant workshops and peer panel presentations await you in Washington, DC. Don't miss it - register today!

11:30 am - 1:00 pm AAAE Board Meeting
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1:00 - 2:00 pm Registration Conference Orientation: Especially, but not exclusively, for first-time attendees
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2:00 - 5:30 pm Pre-Conference Program – Washington DC Tour, with Anne Corbett, Executive Director, Cultural Development Corporation. Includes a backstage tour at the Kennedy Center with Robert Pullen. Strictly limited to 27 participants. (Extra fee required)
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6:00 - 6:45 pm Opening Plenary: Michael Kaiser, President, John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts, LOCATION: The Phillips Collection
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6:45 - 8:00 pm Opening Reception: Sponsored by George Mason University and Succession
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Evening On your own.
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FRIDAY, JUNE 4
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8:30 - 9:00 am Registration and Continental Breakfast
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9:00 - 9:30 am Welcome and Orientation: Andrew Taylor, President, AAAE
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9:30 - 11:00 am Concurrent Sessions
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LEARNING FROM ONLINE EDUCATION
Rachel Shane, Jean Brody, Rose Ginther
RESEARCH IN ARTS MANAGEMENT
Antonio Cuyler, Mike Wilkerson, Carole Rosenstein
ARTS INCUBATORS & ARTS ENTERPRISE INITIATIVE
Anthony S.R. Lake, Nate Zeisler

. 11:00 - 11:15 am Break
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11:15 am - 12:30 pm Working Groups/Roundtables: Potential topics: Continuing the Undergraduate Standards Process (Helwig & Borwick), Member Field Study (Pope), Syllabus Sharing (Brody), Toward a More International AAAE (Poole, Huijsmans), Arts Entrepreneurship (Booth), Today’s students and Pop Culture (Rosewall & McGowan)
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12:30 - 2:00 pm Lunch & Program
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Emerging Leaders – What Do They Have to Tell Us? With Stephanie Evans (AFTA), Edward Clapp (20Under40), Michael Bigley (The Morris and Gwendolyn Cafritz Foundation), Alison Dornheggen (Chair, AU EALS)
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2:00 - 3:30 pm Concurrent Sessions
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CASE METHOD STUDY and NEW EDUCATION FOR FUTURE ARTS ADMINISTRATORS
Rosemary Polegato, Angela Branneman
ARTS MANAGEMENT RESEARCH: THREE RECENT STUDIES
Richard Maloney, Patricia Dewey, Carole Rosenstein
EXTERNAL INTERNSHIPS
Larry Epstein, Todd Alan Price, Kay Osborne, Rick Lester (CEO, Target Resource Group)
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3:30 - 4:00 pm Break
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4:00 - 5:30 pm Plenary: Ben Cameron, Program Director of Arts, Doris Duke Charitable Foundation


7:00 - 9:00 pm Catered Dinner, Katzen Arts Center Rotunda
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9:00 pm - ? AAAE After Hours: sing, dance, perform with and for your peers, cabaret-style. Details coming soon!
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SATURDAY, JUNE 5
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8:30 - 10:00 am Annual Membership Meeting: Full members gather, discuss, and vote on essential issues of the association. Coffee, tea, and continental breakfast
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10:00 - 11:30 am Concurrent Sessions
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SCHOLARSHIP OF TEACHING & LEARNING PROJECT
Susan Badger Booth
NEW MODELS FOR ARTS ORGANIZATIONS
Laura Zucker, Jim Undercofler
COMMUNITY THEATRE: MANAGING A STATE OF MIND
Angela Branneman, Maryo Gard Ewell
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11:30 am - 12:15 pm Lunch
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12:15 - 1:15 pm ASSESSING THE ROLE OF FORMAL EDUCATION IN ARTS ADMINISTRATION
LEADERSHIP DEVELOPMENT: REVISITING THE CONDITIONS 15 YEARS LATER
J. Dennis Rich, Dan Martin

. 1:30 - 3:00 pm Concurrent Sessions
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PRESERVING THE LEGACY OF AMERICA’S AGING ARTISTS – AN INTERDISCIPLINARY, INTERGENERATIONAL COURSE ACROSS THE UNIVERSITY
Joan Jeffri
CONTEXTS IN CULTURAL MANAGEMENT
Ximena Varela, Constance DeVereaux, Richard Maloney, Sherri Helwig
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3:00 - 3:30 pm Break
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3:30 - 5:00 pm Plenary: CULTURAL INSTITUTIONS AND DIPLOMACY
Kimber Craine, Director of Program Initiatives, President’s Committee on the Arts and Humanities

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5:00 - 6:00 pm Closing Reception: Kreeger Lobby – American University Art Museum
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6:30 - 7:30 pm AAAE Board Meeting
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Evening On your own

The Association of Arts Administration Educators (AAAE) is an international organization incorporated as a nonprofit institution within the United States. Its mission is to represent college and university graduate and undergraduate programs in arts administration, encompassing training in the management of visual, performing, literary, media, cultural and arts service organizations. Founded in 1975, the AAAE was created to provide a forum for communication among its members and advocate formal training and high standards of education for arts administrators. The Association, moreover, encourages its members to pursue, publish, present and disseminate research in arts management and administration to strengthen the understanding of arts management issues in the academic and professional fields.

Recognition of arts administration as a profession is a recent development. Because formal education was not begun until the mid-1960's, the profession is still in its adolescence, even as arts institutions are demanding higher levels of sophistication from their administrators.

The Association believes that higher education remains the appropriate response to these demands and to the present and future management needs of the arts. Information is available on each member program's history, purpose, background, administration, degree(s), curriculum and application procedure through this web site.

http://www.artsmanagement.net/