by Morrie Warshawski, C2Arts Consultant
"God bless the flexible, because they never get bent out of shape."
-Anonymous
Every nonprofit this last year of the decade has been living life in the fast lane - a daily version of Double Jeopardy where the categories keep changing, the stakes keep rising, and where there are a plethora of difficult questions with only a few right answers. How to survive in an environment that has become increasingly unpredictable; an environment where being nimble is no longer an option, but
rather a requirement?
CSU East Bay Launches California’s first On-line Professional Certificate in Arts Management
Responding to demand for skilled leaders
in changing not-for-profit arts sector
The not-for-profit arts field faces an urgent need for trained leaders with management skills, partly the result of a generational change as those who entered the field in the 1970s and 80s are now retiring. As organizational founders leave and the field matures, arts organization managers, board directors and foundations ask where the trained leaders of the future will come from. There are few college undergraduate programs in arts administration, and graduate programs that exist focus mainly on academics and research.
in changing not-for-profit arts sector
The not-for-profit arts field faces an urgent need for trained leaders with management skills, partly the result of a generational change as those who entered the field in the 1970s and 80s are now retiring. As organizational founders leave and the field matures, arts organization managers, board directors and foundations ask where the trained leaders of the future will come from. There are few college undergraduate programs in arts administration, and graduate programs that exist focus mainly on academics and research.The project team for development of the Arts Management Career Development Certificate includes Thomas Hird, Chair CSU East Bay, Theatre and Dance, Kathy Ferber, Program Director, CSU East Bay, Nonprofit Management Certificate Program Division of Continuing and International Education; Margaret Perry, Chair, CSU San Bernardino, Theatre Arts; Anne Smith, Ph.D. Course Syllabus Developer; and C2Arts associates Sabrina Klein, Ph.D. Creative Education Consultant and Belinda Taylor Marketing, Communications and Branding Consultant. Amy Kweskin will be teaching Leadership in the Arts - The Arts Sector beginning February 22.
