Telephone:(843) 953-5474
Fax:(843) 953-7068
Email:chandlerk@cofc.edu

Courses:

• ARTM 310 Advanced Arts Management

• PUBA 502 Cultural Administration and Applied Research at Avery
  
• PUBA 660 Contemporary Perspectives
  on Arts Management
  
• PUBA 661 Advanced Arts Management

Karen Chandler, Associate Professor in Arts Management, has taught in the Arts Management Program since 1999. Currently, she teaches arts management courses in both the undergraduate program and master's program in public administration. She is also Co-Principal of the Charleston Jazz Initiative (www.charlestonjazz.net). From 2001-2004, she served as director of C of C’s Avery Research Center for African American History and Culture. Chandler received a bachelor's degree in music education from Hampton University, a master's in music education from Columbia University-Teachers College, and a doctorate in studies in arts and humanities from New York University

Chandler formerly served as Director of the University of Virginia's African-American Cultural Center from 1983 to 1989 and then as an Assistant Professor of Arts Management at American University in Washington before coming to the College of Charleston.

Chandler serves on the boards of Creative Spark Center for the Arts, South Carolina Arts Alliance, Art Forms and Theatre Concepts, the editorial board of the Journal of Public Management and Social Policy, the Charleston Development Academy Charter School, and as a volunteer Literary Coordinator for the MOJA Arts Festival in Charleston. As a fundraiser, she has received grants for the Charleston Jazz Initiative from Wachovia Foundation, The Humanities Council of South Carolina, and Charleston County Council in addition to C of C funding.

Chandler's publications include Curtain Up on the Friends: A History of the Friends of the Kennedy Center Volunteers published by the John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts (2006); Charleston: A Cradle of Jazz (ed., 2006); two articles in the Journal of Arts Management, Law and Society -- “’…But the Greatest of These Is Charity’: The Charleston Jazz Initiative’s Study of the Jenkins Orphanage Bands” (with Jack McCray, Winter 2005) and “Rethinking the Use of the Case Study in the Arts Management Classroom” (Winter 2000); and “Project on Management Studies in the Arts: A Paradigm for Case Studies in Arts Management” in the Theatre Management Journal (December 1997).