Past Events

November 19, 2009 Albert Nocciolino speaks with Arts Management Students Anderson Gallery, 10am-12 noon

Albert Nocciolino serves as President & CEO of NAC Entertainment, Ltd., a diversified entertainment and theatrical company specializing in the presentation of National Touring Broadway shows in the Northeast.  He has also co-produced the following national tours:  Peter Pan starring Cathy Rigby, Annie, Full Monty, Guys and Dolls starring Maurice Hinds, Fame, and West Side Story among others.  He has received Tony Awards in 2005 for Spamalot (Best Musical) and in 2002 for Thoroughly Modern Millie (Best Musical). Albert has been a Tony Award voting member since 1982.  He is a member of the Executive Committee of the League of American Theaters and Producers, a founding member and Chairman of the National Touring Theatre Council, and a member of the Independent Presenter’s Network (IPN). 

November 10, Working Party on Cultural Policy and Diplomacy, Baldy Center for Law and Social Policy 12pm - 2pm

Imaging Cultural Policy: Post 1989 Berlin in Photographs

Dr. Miriam Paeslack

This presentation concerns itself with the retrospective consideration of urban transformations in Berlin in contemporary artistic (conceptual) photography. How do artists critically reflect the effects of cultural policy in Berlin? What are the different layers of its genesis? What do creative projects and images tell us about processes of forgetting and remembering in the city? And to what extend can artistic endeavors help us understand the complex network of cultural policy decisions that shape a city?

Miriam Paeslack dedicates her research to different aspects of the relationships between the photographic image and urban space. She has delivered talks and has chaired panels on her interdisciplinary work at international conferences such as CAA and MSA, and at universities in the US and Europe.

Paeslack studied Art History and the History of Law in Germany, Italy and the United States, and received her PhD at Freiburg University. She has written numerous articles in German and in English publications focusing on contemporary as well as 19th and 20th century urban imagery. Her first book on Berlin photography of the Second Empire, Imaging a Nation. Berlin Photography in the Wilhelmine Era, is forthcoming in German in 2010.

A light lunch will be served prior to the presentation.  RSVP to Nadejda Petrova, The Baldy Center for Law and Social Policy: npetrova@buffalo.edu

November 13, 2009 Advertising and the Law, Baldy Center for Law & Social Policy

October 22, 2009 Music Management: Elaine Lipcan, Slee Hall 4.30pm-7pm

Elaine Lipcan of Opus 3 Artists in NYC will address students about artist management, and the areas of developing an artist roster, start up considerations and artist needs, negotiating a contract on behalf of an artist and how current technology is driving the market and sales.  Now in her tenth year in the performing arts field, she has worked in both the non- and for-profit sectors of the industry.  In the late 1990s she held the position of General Manager and Director of Booking for the Nikolais Louis Dance Company managing institutional projects, international touring and transfer of the renowned Nikolais/Louis archive to Ohio University Libraries.  In 2000 she joined Micocci Productions, a small full-service agency in New York, managing North American performances for Marcel Marceau and a roster of avant-garde theater directors and companies, among them Lee Brewer and SITI Company.  During her four years with Micocci Productions she implemented a new technology infrastructure for the firm, was responsible for domestic booking and managed tour marketing support for the artist roster. 

At Opus 3 Artists, she is the East Coast representative agent, working with presenting organizations and symphony orchestras in twelve US states, Ontario and Quebec and handles tour booking for artists and companies as diverse as the Alvin Ailey American Dance Theater, Nadja Salerno-Sonnenberg, Orpheus Chamber Orchestra and The Chieftains.  In addition she manages Jamie Bernstein and Forbidden Broadway for symphony pops concerts. She is a mentor for arts professionals at the annual Association of Performing Arts Presenters Conference

October 19, Working Party on Cultural Policy and Diplomacy, Baldy Center for Law and Social Policy 12pm - 2pm

What is the Function of a Rubber Duck?  Australia and the Quest for a National Cultural Policy

Dr. Julian Meyrick, La Trobe University

 

In 2007, members of Australia’s state-based Cultural Ministers Council agreed with the federal government to head towards “a framework for national co-operation in the arts and culture”.  For a country long divided along state/federal lines, this says much about the spirit of political co-operation that currently exists between them.  But what, when it is at home, is a national cultural policy, and is it a good thing?  Recently, my six year old son asked me ‘what is the function of a rubber duck?’ – a question analogous to the sort governments typically ask when intervening in the cultural sector. 

This seminar looks at the history of public assistance to the arts in Australia and at the various policies and strategies that have structured and dispersed it.  Like President Obama, the current Prime Minister, Kevin Rudd, is a left-of-centre figure, voted in on a similar tide of progressive sentiment.  What vision of culture lies at the heart of his policy endeavours?  In a world afflicted by economic, social and ecological ills, is a national cultural policy a forward step, or will it just add another layer of expensive bureaucratic formalism to an already burdened state?

A Research Fellow at La Trobe University, an Honorary Fellow at Deakin University, and a professional theatre director with many award-winning shows to his credit, Julian has written extensively in the fields of theatre history, dramaturgy and cultural policy.  He is a a member of the federal government’s Creative Australia Advisory Group.

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September 24, Shaw Festival, Niagara on the Lake, class visit

Thursday 24 September, 2009 First year and International Issues in Theatre Management course will visit the Shaw Festival, Niagara on the Lake, Canada, and meet Senior Management including Executive Director Colleen Blake as well as attend an evening performance of Garson Kanin's Born Yesterday.  Students from the program will be undertaking fieldwork projects with the company in the spring semester.

 

August 27 Welcome Event for Alumni and Students

10am Thursday 27 August, 2009 Venue: Anderson Gallery  Faculty, alumni, students will meet up for our annual welcome events at Anderson Gallery where most of our classes are held, 1 Martha Jackson Place Buffalo, NY 14214-1212
(716) 829-3754 Click here for map

Professor Romain Laufer "Language, Law, and Management: The Issue of Jurisprudence", 13 May 2009 5:30-7:30pm at The Saturn Club

Romain Laufer, Professor of Marketing, HEC Paris "Language, Law, and Management: The Issue of Jurisprudence". 

RSVP by May 8 to Anita Mazurek amazurek@buffalo.edu if you wish to attend this event

The word jurisprudence exists both in the French and English languages but has different meanings. In French it refers to case law and precedent. In English it refers to philosophy of law and the theory of law. This difference seems to contradict commonly received notions which tend to link French culture with dogmatism and English culture with empiricism or pragmatism. This paradox is all the more striking when one considers the way in which countries which use common law (such as England or the US) are compared to countries which use civil law (such as France).  In countries which practice common law, it is understood to be developed through time by the way in which concrete cases are dealt with by courts whereas in the countries which practice civil law, it is supposed to be defined by an a priori codification produced by legislative bodies. (more information continued at bottom of page.)

May 14 and 15 2009  College International de Philosophie and Humanities Institute and UB Arts Management Program discussion  

cosponsored by the UB Humanities Institute. and the Baldy Center for Law and Social Policy at the Conference Center, 509 O'Brian Hall.  14 May 9am - 5pm, 15 May 9.30am to noon.

                              

                               

                               

La question de l'innovation : Comment être pragmatique lorsque l'on produit de l'inconnu ?  The question of innovation :  can one be pragmatic if one produces the unknown?  

• Romain Laufer, (Professor of Marketing, HEC Paris and member of the College International de Philosophie),
• Pierre Guillet de Monthoux (Stockholm Business School and Nurope),
• Bengt Kristensson Uggla Amos Anderson Chair of Philosophy, Culture and Management at the Swedish University in Finland, Åbo Akademi University (Turku) and Nurope,
• Jean-Francois Bordron, Director (CeReS - Semiotics Research Centre), Universite de Limoges,
• Armand Hatchuel Management and Design at the Ecole des Mines de Paris (via video link), and in collaboration with Mathias Bejean (CGS-École des Mines-ParisTech)
• Ruth Bereson, Director UB Arts Management Program,
• Kevin Mulcahy Sheldon Beychok Distinguished Professor, LSU
• T. Sasitharan, Director Theatre Training Research and Practice, Singapore

Program

9.00     Welcome and Introduction Ruth Bereson.
9.15 - 10.15  Romain Laufer
10.20 -- 11.20 Pierre Guillet de Monthoux
11.20 – 11.45 COFFEE BREAK
11.45 - 12.45  Bengt Kristensson Uggla

12.45 - 2pm LUNCH

2pm - 3pm T. Sasitharan,
3pm - 3.30pm Coffee Break

3.30 - 4.30 pm    Kevin Mulcahy

FRIDAY
9.30 am    Introduction Romain Laufer.  Points to discuss at the end

10.00 -- 11.00  Armand Hatchuel (via video link), in collaboration with Mathias Bejean
11.00 – 11.20 COFFEE BREAK
11.20 – 12.20        Jean-Francois Bordron
12.20 - 1pm  Group discussion.  Conclusions, recommendations.  Journal of Arts Management Law and Society.

                            Three Research Workshops Organized  by the

                              College International de Philososphie  ( CIPh)

                                          Questioning Pragmatism

The project consists in the organization in a limited period of time (From May 2009 to June 2010) of three one-day workshops dealing with the questions raised by what appears to be the triumph of pragmatism.

General statement of the question

The triumph of pragmatism is a theme which manifests itself under a variety of forms: in the renewed interest for the sophistic movement, rhetoric and the analysis of ordinary language, in the increasing attention devoted in France for the  tradition left by the American pragmatic philosophers as well as by the increasing importance devoted in the French intellectual and cultural life by the most concrete dimensions of social and economic life as it manifests itself in the development of organized collective action and management.

This general theme proposed under the heading Questioning Pragmatism shall be developed under three subtopics which will be dealt with in three different workshops.

The question of the symbolic dimension: Can pragmatism do without recourse to an a priori symbolic structure?

• The question raised by the bureaucratic phenomenon: What is the meaning of pragmatism when the major social actors are bureaucratic entities?
• The question linked to the role of  innovation: How is it possible to be pragmatic when one produces the unknown.

This way of connecting this three topics results from the fact that they can be considered as three complementary and contemporary manners of considering the forms taken by rhetoric.

Classical rhetoric can be analysed at three levels:

a/ the level of rhetorical technique as such

b/ The level of the presuppositions of the technique, which allows to distinguish among   rhetorical genres ( it may be noted that these presuppositions and the technical level are in a dual relationship  as any rhetorical action implies a  set of presuppositions and vice versa.)

c/ Finally the level of the foundations of the presuppositions defined above. These foundations allow to elaborate on the different types of links which allow to  relate philosophy and rhetoric . Of this relationship classical philosophy offers three contrasted views: that of Plato, that of Aristotle and that of the sophists.

By definition these three levels are in continuous interaction thus they cannot be analysed separately. If we nevertheless choose to organize three separate workshops it is because each of these levels corresponds to a different way of questioning pragmatism as well as to different research traditions and communities. The fact of presenting three workshops under the same heading allows underscoring the links between these various points of view.

Thus the first workshop ( which will take place on May 14/15 2009 at the Baldy Center, University at Buffalo) addresses the question of the process of technical production itself. It will deal directly with issues raised by the description and the control of design, creation and  innovation processes be they in the fields of  science and technology or of artistic and economic activities.

The second workshop  (which will take place in 2010) corresponds to the fact that one of the major characteristics of modern rhetoric is that it is the product of the actions of bureaucracies in a context which is dominated by the development of science and technology. The question is to question the effect of this characteristic on the definition of rhetorical genres, the  conditions of felicity ( as defined in the theory of  speech-acts) or on the research and the teaching in the fields linked to the management of organizations.

Finally the third workshop (which will take place on June 13 2009, at the Ecole des Mines de Paris)  addresses the issue  related to the foundations of pragmatism is the one which is the most directly related to the   consideration of the philosophical traditions as such.

Presented by the College International de Philosophie and the UB Arts Management Program in association with the UB Humanities Institute.

Romain Laufer at Saturn Club continued....

The aim of the presentation is to consider what the difference between the meaning of the notion of jurisprudence in English and in French may teach us about management, a word which has circulated throughout history between the France and England and was eventually officially admitted into the French language by the French Academy which is an institution which is supposed to define what can and cannot be considered ‘French Language’. (For in France language, like law, is supposed to be composition of propositions produced by a formal and competent authority.) Consequences pertaining to the relationship between language law and management and the history of the teaching of law and management in France, England and the USA will be discussed.

Seminar with Renata Stih and Frieder Schnock to their work on Politics and Policies of Memorialization,  March 27, 2009 12:30-2pm

Stih and Schnock exploded onto the international art scene in the 1990s with their work on holocaust memorials, and, in particular, two provocative projects, “Places of Remembrance in the Bavarian Quarter” (1992) and “Bus Stop” (1995), which fundamentally changed the discourse on the politics and policies of memorialization.  The questions they ask about how collective memory is encoded in the landscape of daily life has caused politicians and artists to rethink the concept of the memorial, moving from a centralized, monolithic monument to the embedded and dispersed fragment.

Since these seminal projects, they have gone on to address issues of how memory functions in the social sphere and in the spaces of the city with projects such as “The City as Text: Jewish Munich” (2007).  Their most recent work has shifted to the policies and politics of collecting.  They view art collections as places of collective memory, which they have explored in exhibitions such as “The Art of Collecting: Flick in Berlin” (2004).  “Show Your Collection,” an art documentation project in collaboration with major museums in Munich, opened last month.   

Renata Stih is a professor at the University of Applied Sciences in Berlin, working in painting, drawing, art and technology, pop culture, theatre, film, and media.  Dr. Frieder Schnock is an art historian, critic, and curator, with a wide range of interests ranging from 18th-century landscape gardens and photography to curatorial projects involving museums, private collections, and galleries. Their work has met with critical acclaim as “radical” and “historically illuminating” attempts to provoke discussion about the immediate but often obscured relationship of the German past to its present.

Dr Jorge Heine, Distinguished Fellow,

Centre for International Governance Innovation presents:

"New Challenges to the World's Second Oldest Profession:

The Theory and Praxis of Twenty First Century Diplomacy"

Baldy Centre 12:30pm- 2pm March 20, 2009. 

 

The traditional model of diplomacy, founded on the principles of national sovereignty and of  statecraft, is becoming less relevant as a field of new, influential actors enter the international system.  Diplomats must now engage a vastly larger number of players in host countries, as the age-old "club model" of diplomacy gives way to a less hierarchical "network model".  This paper calls for a new approach -- one in which diplomats project their nation's values and interests to the growing field of international players, focusing on a critical set of issue areas of special relevance to the mission.  Although the environment in which diplomacy is practised has changed drastically, the adaptive behaviour of many diplomats and foreign ministries has not always kept pace with this new reality.  This is part of the reason they are not fully able to take advantage of the many opportunities offered by increased international flows and interactions.  Drawing on the author's diplomatic experience in South Africa and India, it is argued that diplomats are no longer sheltered from the political realm; that they are more accessible by and have wider access to non-state actors; and they must respond to the vast array of demands these new factors pose.

Jorge Heine is a Distinguished Fellow at the Centre for International Governance Innovation (CIGI) and a CIGI Chair in International Governance cross-appointed to Wilfrid Laurier University. He is also Vice-President of the International Political Science Association (IPSA). Previously, Dr. Heine served as Chile's Ambassador to India, Bangladesh and Sri Lanka (2003-2007). He was previously Ambassador of Chile to South Africa (1994-1999), as well as a cabinet minister in the Chilean government.

A lawyer and political scientist, he holds a PhD in Political Science from Stanford University, has been a Visiting Fellow at St Antony's College, Oxford and a Research Associate at The Wilson Center in Washington DC. He has held postdoctoral fellowships from SSRC and the Guggenheim Foundation and has been a consultant to the United Nations, the Ford Foundation and Oxford Analytica. He is the author, co-author or editor of eight books, including The Last Cacique: Leadership and Politics in a Puerto Rican City (Pittsburgh University Press, Choice Magazine Outstanding Academic Book of 1994), A Revolution Aborted: The Lessons of Grenada (Pittsburgh University Press, 1991) and, with Leslie Manigat, Cross Currents and Cleavages: International Relations of the Contemporary Caribbean (Holmes&Meier, 1988) and has published some sixty articles in journals and symposium volumes.

His opinion pieces have been published in The New York Times, The Washington Post and The International Herald Tribune. He was the first ambassador to present credentials to President Nelson Mandela, and for two years in a row (1997 and 1998), Johannesburg's leading newspaper, The Star, selected him among the 100 most influential personalities in South Africa.

Emeritus Professor John Pick, Europe's first professor of Arts Management gives classes on Research in the Field of Arts Management.

Distinguished Affiliated Scholar Professor John Pick visited the program February 25 - March 5 and discuss

The Aesthetic Contract with students and faculty of the program. 

             

 

First Year Arts Management students to attend Museum Advocacy Day Conference in Washington DC

The first year class will travel to Washington D.C. February 22-24 as part of the introductory law and advocacy course.  They will visit museums, attend the conference and by guided in discussion by their instructor Professor Andy Finch. 

For information about the AAM Museum Advocacy day click here.

 

Thursday, November 6, 2008 3:00 – 5:30 pm 107 O'Brian Hall, UB Law School Film Screening and Discussion Be Like Others (Canada, Iran, UK, USA, 74 mins) with discussion by film director, Tanaz Eshaghian

Canada, Iran, UK, USA 2008 | Run time: 74 min. | Director: Tanaz Eshaghian

Would it surprise you to know that sex change operations are legal in Iran, a theocratic state with strict social mores and fundamentalist values? More than 20 years ago, Ayatollah Khomeini issued a fatwa (religious edict) making sex changes permissible for "diagnosed transsexuals." Yet homosexuality remains punishable by death. Forced to live in secret for fear of retribution, a generation of young Iranian men are adopting an identity legally allowed to them-transsexual. In pursuit of what one man simply calls "a decent life," they flock to the country's best-established gender reassignment surgeon, where they are counselled by 24-year-old Vida, an eloquent post-op woman who claims to be "reborn" but warns the men of the dangers they face. Intimate and unflinching, Be Like Others accompanies several young men through their transformations. Capturing the complexities of Iranian society, it's a fascinating portrait of people on the fringes of Iranian life looking for acceptance through the most radical of means.   

About the director:  Tanaz Eshaghian was born in Iran in 1974 and emigrated to the United States shortly after the 1979 revolution.  She grew up in New York, where she continued to speak Persian at home with her mother.  In 1996, she graduated from Brown University in Semiotics.  Her first film "I Call Myself Persian," completed in 2002, told the story of how Iranians living in the U.S. were affected by prejudice and xenophobia after 9/11. In "Love Iranian-American Style," completed in 2006, she filmed her traditional Iranian Jewish family, both in New York and Los Angeles, documenting their obsession with marrying her off and her own cultural ambivalence. For BE LIKE OTHERS, her début feature-length film, Eshaghian returned to Iran for the first time in 25 years.

Wednesday, October 29, Baldy Centre Working Group luncheon presentation

with Dorothy Noyes, Director, Center for Folklore Studies, Ohio State University Organized by the Baldy Centre Working Group on Cultural Policy and Cultural Diplomacy

Dorothy Noyes is Associate Professor in the Department of English and Director of OSU's Center for Folklore Studies. She studies the collective representations of plural societies, with an emphasis on how intergroup relations are articulated and manipulated through traditional performance genres. Her most recent book, Fire in the Plaça: Catalan Festival Politics After Franco (University of Pennsylvania Press, 2003), won the 2005 Book Prize of the Fellows of the American Folklore Society. Currently she is in the midst of a series of articles on intellectual property and the social organization of creativity, as well as a book project tentatively entitled Voicing Redemption: Industrial Feudalism and the Folk in Modern Europe. She serves on the Executive Board of the American Folklore Society and as the Chair of its Committee on International Issues.

Emeritus Professor John Pick, Europe's first professor of Arts Management gives classes on Research in the Field of Arts Management.

Distinguished Affiliated Scholar Professor John Pick visited the program September 25 - October 5 and discuss The Aesthetic Contract with students and faculty of the program. 

Friday, September 26  -- The Aesthetic Contract

Monday, September 29 -- Research in Arts Management

Wednesday, October 1 -- Research in Arts Management

Friday, October 3 -- Arts Management Matters

Thursday 25 September, Visit the Shaw Festival, Niagara on the Lake, Canada

Students from the International Issues in Theatre Management course visited the Shaw Festival, Niagara on the Lake, Canada, and met Senior Management including Executive Director Colleen Blake and attended a performance of Mrs Warren's Profession directed by Jackie Maxwell. 

Art of Management Conference in BANFF Sep 2008

Journeys and their perambulations: inquiries in artworlds and organisations

Alumna Erica Pastore and second year student Kate Boisvert have had their submitted abstracts accepted into different tracks at the Art of Management Conference in Banff 9-12 September, 2008.  Erica Pastore received a full bursary to the conference awarded by the University of Essex, England.

Program Director Dr Ruth Bereson will be co convening the track Journeys and their Perambulations: inquiries in artworlds and organisations. with Nina Kivinen, Åbo Akademi, Åbo Finland, Bengt Kristensson Uggla, Amos Anderson Chair of Philosophy, Culture and Management Åbo Akademi, Finland and Nomadic University Nurope and Distinguished Affiliated Professor Pierre Guillet de Monthoux, Stockoholm University, and Nurope. 

Dr Vlado Kotnik from Luljana meets students

On Dr Kotnik's first US visit students from the program met with him to show him local cultural activities in Buffalo, ranging from attending a performance of Verdi's Requiem at the Buffalo Philharmonic Orchestra, visiting the Albright Knox Art Gallery and tasting a local favourite, "buffalo wings" at the anchor bar.  Dr Kotnik's work on opera is well known to students and he presented them with copies of Monitor ZSA Reflections on Opera.  To find more information about Dr Kotnik's work click here.

Dr. Bereson and Patrick Fagan take Arts Management students to the Broadway League Spring Road Conference April 15-17

Students of the program are in New York City for the Broadway League's 19th Annual Spring Road Conference, "Curtain Up!"  The students will attend a variety of programs including seminars on marketing, licensing, revenue management, programming, and advertising, as well as open forums with Broadway casts and creatives.

Keeping up with the law: taking a look at charity, giving and the arts. Current topics which affect artists, managers, collectors, trustees, donors and the public. 

Albright Knox Art Gallery, Friday April 4 5pm- 6.30pm

This event will be held at the Albright Knox Art Gallery.  The panel will discuss legal issues which affect artists, managers, collectors, trustees, donors and the public.  Moderator:  Andrew Spong (2nd year arts management and law student).   Panelists include Andy Finch Arts Lobbyist, Ed Cardoni, Director Hallwalls Contemporary Arts Centre, Sandra Olsen, Director UB Art Galleries, Patrick Kilcullen, Chief Financial Officer Albright-Knox Art Gallery.

 

Arts Advocacy Day Washington D.C. March 31 and April 1 2008

Students from the program who have received the Arts Advocacy Award visited Washington DC to take part in Arts Advocacy day.

"The 21st annual Arts Advocacy Day is the only national event that brings together a broad cross section of America's cultural and civic organizations, along with hundreds of grassroots advocates from across the country, to underscore the importance of developing strong public policies and appropriating increased public funding for the arts"

Lauren White reports:

This spring, students from the UB Arts Management program had the opportunity to attend Arts Advocacy Day in Washington D.C.  This purpose of this conference, sponsored by Americans for the Arts, is to educate arts leaders about current cultural policy issues and to prepare them for lobby visits with state legislators.   

When the students arrived at the conference, they were each given a copy of the Arts Advocacy Day Congressional Arts Handbook.  This handbook outlined this year’s central policy issues, providing background to each issue, talking points for lobby visits, and recommended action.  It also included the voting records for members of Congress in regards to support of the arts.

The conference included a series of lectures and discussions that would prepare attendees for their lobby visits.   In addition to a general overview of federal arts policy, the morning session centered around the ways in which arts leaders can garner support for the arts throughout the year.  Topics included e-advocacy, letter-writing, public speaking and writing op-ed articles in newspapers.   

During lunch, students met with their state team captains to discuss their plans for the following day’s lobby visits.  Each student lobbied with a different state:  Kate Boisvert worked with Maine’s team; Jayne Hughes worked with Ohio; Hauda Kayrouz-Tawk worked with Michigan; and Lauren White worked with Missouri.  Separating into different state teams allowed the students to work in smaller groups and gain more hands-on experience in their visits. 

After meeting their state captains, the students were educated on how to make a case for the arts in their lobby visits through facts, figures, and story-telling.  Topics included the impact of cultural organizations on the economy and the effects of arts education in improving cognitive and communication skills and deterring delinquency.  A role play was also enacted in order to illustrate a typical lobby visit with legislators. 

This year’s central arts issues were also discussed at length:

• Support to the NEA (National Endowment for the Arts):  Congress is urged to support a budget of $176 million for the NEA in the Fiscal Year 2009 Interior Appropriations bill. This would restore the NEA’s budget to its 1992 level, raising it $33.3 million from the Fiscal Year 2008 appropriation of $144.7 million. 
• Support to America’s Museums (Institute of Museum and Library Services):  Congress is urged to support an increase of $15 million to the IMLS to fund grants to museums in the Fiscal Year 2009 Labor-HHS-Education appropriations bill. 
• Encouraging charitable gifts to arts and culture:  Congress is urged to reinstate the IRA Charitable Rollover provision, which allows individuals to roll funds from their IRA to charity.  Members of Congress are also urged to cosponsor S.548 or H.R. 1524, the artist fair-market deduction bill.  This bill would allow artists to take a fair-market value deduction for donations of original works to arts organizations.  Currently, artists, writers and composers can only deduct the cost of materials. 
• Strengthening arts education in No Child Left Behind:  Congress is urged to make provisions to retain the arts in the definition of “core academic subjects of learning”, reauthorize the Arts in Education Programs of the U.S. Department of Education,  improve national data collection and research in arts education, and require states to annually report on student access to all core academic subjects. 
• Improving the visa process for foreign guest artists:  Congress is urged to enact the Arts Require Timely Service Act which requires U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services to reduce processing times for petitions filed by arts organization to a maximum of 45 days. 
• Protecting performing arts technology:  The Federal Communications Commission (FCC) has considered the possibility of immediately authorizing  unlicensed electronics (cell phones, laptops, PDAs) to operate within the “white space” that is used by theatres, churches and sportscasters.  Congress is urged to protect the “white space” radio frequencies to prevent interference in public performances, ceremonies and events.  Congress is encouraged to instruct the FCC Chairman to preserve the ability of wireless microphones used in performing arts venues to operate without interference.  Congress is also urged to support legislation that would ensure adequate testing before permitting new devices and to oppose legislation that would allow unlicensed devices to threaten wireless microphone use.

 

After the conference, the students attended the Nancy Hanks Lecture on Arts and Public Policy at the Kennedy Center, featuring guest speaker Daniel Pink.  Pink is the author of A Whole New Mind and Free Agent Nation, and spoke on the importance of arts education in the “new” American economy that requires individuals to think not only rationally, but creatively.  To Pink, the arts teach people to “see differently” and improve their ability to identify relationships and think contextually. 

Following Daniel Pink’s lecture, the students attended the Emerging Arts Leaders Reception in downtown Washington.  At the reception, the University at Buffalo students met with students from Arts Management and Arts Administration programs at Drexel, Columbia University, and American University.  In addition to networking, they discussed arts advocacy and their theses projects over quesadillas and nachos.

The next morning, April 1, students travelled to Capitol Hill to meet with their state teams.  In small groups, they met with members of Congress and their staffs to urge their support of the arts.  The meetings at each office were brief, typically 15-30 minutes each.  Alongside the leaders of arts councils and cultural organizations from their assigned state, the students presented information and told personal stories about how the arts have had an impact in their communities and in their own lives.   The students reported positive responses from their legislators and several confirmations of support to specific requests.

This trip provided the UB Arts Management students the opportunity to learn about American cultural policy, gain experience in arts advocacy, and to network with arts leaders, legislators and arts management students from around the country. 

 

Saturday 23 February 2008 Symposium -- Hong Kong Arts Festival

Dr  Ruth Bereson was the moderator for the Hong Kong Arts Festival Symposium 'How should we fund the arts?' The syposium asked what funding models for the arts may be best suited to the rapidly changing conditions of the early 21st century. Each model brings with it assumptions and choices about the vision of society we wish to pursue. Are different approaches suited to different cultures? What can we learn from recent experience?

Sunday 18 November.  Visit to the National Ballet of Canada and tour of the new Canadian Opera House

Kevin Garland, Executive Director of the National Ballet of Canada visited the program and spoke to students about the company. She was previously executive director of the Canadian Opera House Corporation. She has also been an National Ballet of Canada board member for ten years.  On November 18th, 2007 Arts Management students had the opportunity to visit the National Ballet of Canada at their new facilities, The Four Seasons Center for the Performing Arts in Toronto, Canada. While there, they were given to a backstage tour of the facility by Executive Director Kevin Garland. The students also attended a matinee performance featuring the choreography of Jerome Robbins including Glass Pieces (music by Phillip Glass), In the Night (music by Frederic Chopin), and West Side Story Suite (music by Leonard Bernstein).
To find out more about the National Ballet of Canada click here

     

Distinguished Affiliated Professor Pierre Guillet de Monthoux October 10-11 2007

Building on a year of successful work between Arts Management Faculty and Students and Professor Pierre Guillet de Monthoux, which comprised study of his book The Art Firm (SUP 2004), his film Masters of Business Art and the Fields of Flow Musical 'Liedership', a visit to Documenta in Kassel with NUROPE by a number of students and the Summer school in Gattieres France a new volume of the Arts Management Occasional Paper Series guest edited by Erica Pastore (masters student) entitled Journeys through Arts and Management will be launched.  Professor Guillet de Monthoux will be visiting the program to discuss the outcomes of this year long project and to work alongside students and faculty towards exciting international inquiry into this field.

Dr Carole Rosenstein "The Regulation of Public Space as Cultural Policy" The Baldy Center for Law and Social Policy 509 OBrien Hall Wednesday 3 October at 2pm

Policies that control cultural practice in public spaces such as plazas, town centers, parks, landscapes and streetscapes impact cultural life significantly. Can painters and sculptors establish studios in the central city? Do police allow performances on street corners and in plazas? What kinds of artwork are promoted through public art programs? Are murals protected? Data from a nine-city study of cultural policies and other institutional practices that impact artist's careers and communities suggest that policies that regulate public space also have important implications for cultural democracy because they assymetrically impact grassroots organizations and individual artists.

Carole Rosenstein is a new faculty member in the Arts Management Program at UB. She studies cultural policy, public culture and cultural democracy. Since 2000, she has worked as a cultural policy researcher and analyst at the Urban Institute in Washington, DC, where she continues as an Affiliated Scholar. Dr. Rosenstein is author of "Diversity and Participation in the Arts" and "How Cultural Heritage Organizations Serve Communities", and has contributed to numerous other Urban Institute research publications on the arts and culture. Her work has been published in Semiotica, Ethnologies and The Journal of Arts Management, Law and Society. She holds a Ph.D. in anthropology from Brandeis University, and was a 2007 Rockefeller Humanities Fellow at the Smithsonian Institution's Center for Folklife and Cultural Heritage. Her current research includes a study of public funding for museums commissioned by the Institute for Museum and Library Services, and a joint project with Tulane University and University of New Orleans examining how cultural policy can support living culture in New Orleans.

Visit to the Shaw Festival, Niagara on the Lake Monday 1 October, 2007

Students from the International Theatre Management Course will visit the Shaw Festival Theatre, Niagara on the Lake and are to meet senior management and provided a tour of the venue.  For more information about the Shaw Festival click here.

Visiting Scholar Clemens Thornquist 1 October, 2007 UB Anderson Gallery 6.30pm

Visiting Scholar Clemens Thornquist will be affiliated with the UB arts management Program over the next two years

presenting his current post doctoral research.

 

 

 

Music Management: Elaine Lipcan 20 September, 2007  Venue Slee Hall Lobby 4.30pm - 7.30pm

Elaine Lipcan of Opus 3 Artists in NYC will address students about artist management, and the areas of developing an artist roster, start up considerations and artist needs, negotiating a contract on behalf of an artist and how current technology is driving the market and sales.  Now in her tenth year in the performing arts field, she has worked in both the non- and for-profit sectors of the industry.  In the late 1990s she held the position of General Manager and Director of Booking for the Nikolais Louis Dance Company managing institutional projects, international touring and transfer of the renowned Nikolais/Louis archive to Ohio University Libraries.  In 2000 she joined Micocci Productions, a small full-service agency in New York, managing North American performances for Marcel Marceau and a roster of avant-garde theater directors and companies, among them Lee Brewer and SITI Company.  During her four years with Micocci Productions she implemented a new technology infrastructure for the firm, was responsible for domestic booking and managed tour marketing support for the artist roster. 

At Opus 3 Artists, she is the East Coast representative agent, working with presenting organizations and symphony orchestras in twelve US states, Ontario and Quebec and handles tour booking for artists and companies as diverse as the Alvin Ailey American Dance Theater, Nadja Salerno-Sonnenberg, Orpheus Chamber Orchestra and The Chieftains.  In addition she manages Jamie Bernstein and Forbidden Broadway for symphony pops concerts. She is a mentor for arts professionals at the annual Association of Performing Arts Presenters Conference

Welcome to Students and Faculty -- UB Galleries 2nd Floor 10am 24 August 2007

The Arts Management Faculty welcomed back our students from the inaugural class and meet the incoming class at a reception in UB Galleries on August 24.

November 29 - December 15, 2006
Visiting Scholar Clemens Thornqvist

Clemens Thornqvist is head of the BA Fashion Program, at the Swedish School of Textiles at the University College of Borås, Sweden. PhD Dissertation: The Savage and the Designed: Robert Wilson and Vivienne Westwood as Artistic Managers will be joining the program to undertake research in art and management.  Clemens' visit is assisted by Hallwalls Contemporary Art Centre.  Clemens is currently undertaking a 3 year post-doc project supported by The Wallander Foundation, Handelsbanken, as well as The School of Business, Stockholm University and the Swedish School of Textiles, University College of Borås to undertake research in collaborative artistic processes, with special focus on fashion design.

November 13-17 2006

Emeritus Professor John Pick returned to UB to join the inaugural class in discussions about Managing the Arts, The Aesthetic Contract and to work with them on case studies and research questions in Arts Management and Cultural Policy.

 

     

Tuesday November 7 2006, 12:00 - 2:00, 5th Floor Conference Center, 509A O'Brian Hall

Mark Popiel, Director, Immigration Services International Education Services

is hosted by the Cultural Policy and Diplomacy and the Migration Policy and Pluralism Working Parties of the Baldy Center for Law & Social Policy

With the continued expansion of international enterprises and the increased mobility of people, things, and services between state lines, Immigration Law has become a way of life for private businesses, research entities, the academia, the arts and entertainment community, as well regular people seeking admission to the United States.

While it is important to note that the U.S. Immigration Law evolved on a regular basis prior to the tragic events of 9/11/2001, the post 9/11/2001 era has been characterized by heightened security checks, greater restrictions in the issuance of U.S. visas overseas, and increased apprehension about travel to the United States by the international community.

 

 

 

Wednesday, November 1 2006 12 - 2pm The Conference Center, 5th Fl., O'Brian Hall Working Group Presentation

Arts Management and Cultural Policy in Turbulent Times

Professor Milena Dragicevic-Sesic will discuss her recent research with the The Baldy Center for Law and Social Policy Working Group on Cultural Policy and Diplomacy

Milena Dragicevic Sesic is Professor of Cultural Management and Theory of Mass Media at the Faculty of Dramatic Arts in Belgrade. She holds the position of UNESCO Chair in Interculturalism and Mediation in the Balkans at the University of Arts in Belgrade, where she was Rector from 2001-2004. She acts as a consultant for numerous international organisations including UNESCO, the Council of Europe, the European Cultural Foundation, the Foundation Marcel Hicter and Pro Helvetia, and is a member of the ELIA Board, the Chair of the Art & Culture Sub Board of the Open Society Institute in Budapest. She was awarded the 'Commandeur dans l'Ordre des Palmes Académiques' by the French Ministry of Education and was President of the Jury of the Cultural Policy Research Award.

Cultural Policy and Diplomacy -- a view from the Balkans
Some obstacles, barriers and inconveniences in establishing international cultural cooperation in the region of the Balkans

Click here for more information about Professor Milena Dragicevic-Sesic.

 

Thursday, October 5, 2006

Arts Management Program Event at UB's Jacobs Executive Development Center. The inaugural Arts Management Program class has met with Arts and Business community leaders and are pictured here with Program Director Dr. Ruth Bereson, Mr. Patrick Fagan, and Distinguished Visiting Scholar Professor Pierre Guillet de Monthoux.

 

 

 

 

Tuesday October 3 at 7pm

Venue: Hallwalls Contemporary Arts Center

Distinguished Visiting Scholar
Professor Pierre Guillet de Monthoux

The Arts Management Program, Hallwalls Contemporary Art Center and The UB Humanities Institute and the New York Council for the Humanities are pleased to bring to Buffalo the United States premier of "Masters of Business Art" directed by Pierre Guillet de Monthoux 

The film was premiered at the Basel Art Fair in June of this year.

The film will screen at 7pm followed by a discussion with the film's director.

 

This activity is supported by a grant from the New York Council for the Humanities, a state affiliate of the National Endowment of the Humanities.

A Fields of Flow Musical, "Liedership", Franz Schubert Schwungsongs for Aesthetic Management

Pierre Guillet de Monthoux, Author of The Art Firm. Aesthetic Management and Metaphysical Marketing from Wagner to Wilson. Stanford University Press 2004

For more about Pierre Guillet de Monthoux's recent projects see: http://www.nurope.eu/people.html

 

May 3, 2006

Teaching Arts Management
Emeritus Professor John Pick outlines how to develop and teach case studies in Arts Management to teachers in the program.

 

May 2, 2006

"The Baldy Center for Law and Social Policy"

Cultural Policy Research - A working Party on Cultural Policy at UB Faculty Seminar Series with Ruth Bereson, Program in Arts Management and Emeritus Professor John Pick. 

Also includes discussion of " Fats Domino Is Missing: An Analysis of Arts and Cultural Policy Making in the Wake of Hurricane Katrina"