National Arts Leader Luncheon

On February 17, the Arts Management Program, with the support of the City of Charleston’s Office of Cultural Affairs, hosted a luncheon featuring three distinguished national arts leaders.

Thirty-five representatives from the Charleston area arts community gathered at the Blacklock House to hear remarks by Jonathan Katz, Chief Executive Officer for the National Assembly of State Arts Agencies; Jonathan Herman, Associate Director for the National Guild of Community Schools of the Arts; and Michael McLaughlin, Leadership and Millennium Projects Coordinator for the National Endowment for the Arts.

Topics included trends in national and state funding for the arts, current National Endowment for the Arts funding options for arts organizations, and innovative partnerships connected to the Creative Communities program.

The luncheon was part of an ongoing series in which local arts management professionals have an opportunity to meet with leaders in the field. Previous guests of the series have included Bill Ivey, Former Chairman of the NEA and Founding Director of the Vanderbilt University Arts Policy Center and Ellen McCollouch-Lovell, Director of the Center for Arts and Culture and a former Senior Advisor to Hillary Rodham-Clinton.

Photos from this event can be seen in the photo gallery: page 7.

Welcome: Anja Urbanski

Anja Urbanski has joined the Arts Management Program family as a part-time administrative assistant. She received her BA from the College of Charleston in 1993 and worked at Spoleto Festival USA for six years, most recently as Director of Institutional Giving. She left Spoleto in 1999 to open Vintage Restaurant and Wine Bar in downtown Charleston, which she currently runs with her husband.

Internship Awareness: Lori Kornegay

Arts Managment Students are actively serving as interns in many arts affiliated organizations. The following is a list of the Charleston organizations where they are working:

· Charleston Underground Theatre
· Gibbes Musuem of Art
· Office of Cultural Affairs/Piccolo Spoleto
· Robert Ivey Ballet Compnay
· Charleston Antiques Symposium
· Halsey Gallery
· Atlantic Southeast Ballet Co.
· Children’s Museum of the Lowcountry
· International Piano Series
· Terry Katz Gallery
· Ella Richardson Gallery
· Charleston Concert Association
· Spoleto Festival USA
· Theatre 99
· Soiree, Inc.
· The Actor’s Theatre of South Carolina

Students Receive Prominent Arts Internships in Washington, D.C.

Two College of Charleston Arts Management majors, Christina Leventis and Amanda Swenson, have received internships with nationally prominent arts organizations in Washington, D.C. for the summer of 2003.

Christina Leventis, a Senior and Columbia, South Carolina native, has been selected as an intern with the John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts Vilar Internship Program. After graduation, she will assist the Dance Program in coordinating dance residencies and planning and presenting dance productions at the Kennedy Center.

Following the completion of her internship in August, Leventis has been invited to continue through December in a temporary, full-time position with the Dance Program.

Durham, North Carolina, native Amanda Swenson, who will be a senior at the College of Charleston in the fall of 2003, has been selected as a summer intern with Wolf Trap National Park for the Performing Arts. Swenson will work with the Development Office at Wolf Trap to assist with fundraising events, grant writing and fundraising activities.