ARGUS: Arts Management

Sydney Brown, Arts Management graduate Fall 2001

Sydney Brown, Arts Management graduate Fall 2001, has been accepted in the internship component of the Vilar Institute for Arts Management at the John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts. The Vilar Institute for Arts Management is a dynamic learning environment for the development of performing arts managers and professional development opportunities for arts managers currently working in the field. The Vilar institute is made possible through the generous support of Alberto W. Vilar.

Charles LeGette, Arts Management graduate Fall 2001, has been accepted in the Master of Arts Management program at Carnegie Mellon University. This program conbines training from two highly recognized Carnegie Mellon schools. The H. John Heinz III School of Public Policy and Management has long been recognized as one of the country’s top ten schools for training students in public and non-profit management, and the College of Fine Arts is among the top arts schools in the United States.

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Arts Management Program students, attended the Arts Alliance’s annual South Carolina Arts Advocacy Day

Scott Shanklin-Peterson and Lori Kornegay, along with several Arts Management Program students, attended the Arts Alliance’s annual South Carolina Arts Advocacy Day in Columbia, February 5, at the Statehouse. State Legislators joined the students at the Legislative Appreciation Luncheon in honor of the Legislative Arts Caucus.

In addition to participating in the National Arts Advocacy Day in Washington, D.C., Scott will be attending the 25th National Conference of the Association of Arts Administration Educators in New York in April.
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The Arts Management Program and the Avery Research Center for African American Studies are co-sponsoring the 28th Annual Conference on Social Theory, Politics and the Arts to be held October 3-5 in Charleston. For conference information go to http://www.cofc.edu/~artsmgmt/
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Arts Management is offering two new courses next fall. Dean Valerie Morris will be teaching Arts in Education focusing on building partnerships of artists and arts organizations with schools and other community organizations. Dale Rosengarten will be teaching a course which is cross-listed by Arts.