
“This class will ‘pull back the curtain’ on art museums, galleries, theaters, companies, festivals, and other venues and events to help us understand how they're staffed, funded, managed, promoted, assessed, and improved. We'll learn first-hand about the creative economy and creative placemaking by visiting arts and cultural organizations and by walking around cities and communities impacted by them including Dublin and Galway.” - Julie Olberding
Explore theories and practical skills needed to manage arts and cultural organizations in the United States and Ireland, including art museums, galleries, theaters, symphonies, dance companies, and music festivals. We’ll visit various types of arts and cultural organizations, ranging from larger, well-established, national entities such as the National Irish Museum and the Department of Tourism, Culture, Arts, Gaeltacht, Sport and Media in Dublin to smaller, newer, community-based organizations such as the Galway Dance Project and Blue Teapot Theater Company. Along the way, we’ll compare Irish and American practices in such areas as governance systems and structures, program development and management, fund raising, volunteer and community engagement, and marketing and communications.
This course can be taken for upper-division undergraduate credit or for graduate credit.