Past Events
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.
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"