Course Information
Spring 2004: MET AR 690 The Art World
Fall
2003:
MET AR 690 The Art World, MET
AR 802/803 Internship
Fieldwork
Professor Daniel Ranalli is the founding director of the Boston University
graduate program in arts administration. Professor Ranalli came to Boston
University full-time in 1992. He had previously been the Director of an
arts administration graduate program at another university for 7 years.
With a graduate degree in Economics (public policy) and a career as a successful
arts administrator, visual artist and arts writer, Daniel Ranalli brings
a unique perspective to his teaching and advising. Professor Ranalli's extensive
background in the arts includes over a decade as an arts administrator,
over 25 years as a working professional visual artist and nearly 20 years
in higher education as an administrator and teacher. Professor Ranalli has
worked closely with the National Endowment for the Arts and several state
arts councils in developing programs to support individual artists. He served
as the Director of the Massachusetts Artists-in-Residence program for five
years in the 1970s and has served on several NEA and state advisory groups
and peer panels. Ranalli has also worked as the director of a university
art gallery, the executive director of an arts workshop center, currently
serves on the board of trustees and the exhibition committee of the Provincetown
Art Museum, and as the President of a city arts council. Professor Ranalli
has also written extensively on the visual arts and the art world for a
number of publications including Art New England where he contributed the
"FORUM" column for over 13 years. This column was one of the first to integrate
art criticism with an analysis of the art world's political and economic
infrastructure. As an artist, Ranalli's work is in the public collections
of over 25 museums here and abroad including the Museum of Modern Art (NY),
Boston Museum of Fine Arts, San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, Smithsonian
National Gallery of Art, Baltimore Museum of Fine Arts and DeCordova Museum.
Since 1974 he has had over 100 solo and group shows of his work and has
received artist fellowships and grants from the National Endowment for the
Arts, the Massachusetts Cultural Council, EarthWatch, the Sea Grant program
and others.
M.A. Boston University; B.A. Clark University.