{"id":2834,"date":"2016-01-20T12:06:15","date_gmt":"2016-01-20T17:06:15","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.bu.edu\/artsadmin\/?page_id=2834"},"modified":"2024-10-17T15:08:01","modified_gmt":"2024-10-17T19:08:01","slug":"research","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/artsadmin\/research\/","title":{"rendered":"Research, Symposia, and Convenings"},"content":{"rendered":"<style>\nli {margin-bottom: 10px;}\nh3 {font-weight: bold;}\np.symposiaPanelists {line-height: 20px; margin-left: 15px;}\n<\/style>\n<h2>Research<\/h2>\n<p>As engaged, leading arts practitioners, the Arts Administration faculty contribute to the knowledge of the field through research and writing. Here is a sample of articles, publications, and conference presentations by our faculty:<\/p>\n<div class=\"bu_collapsible_container \" aria-live=\"polite\" data-customize-animation=\"false\"><h3 class=\"bu_collapsible\" aria-expanded=\"false\"tabindex=\"0\" role=\"button\">Douglas DeNatale<\/h3><div class=\"bu_collapsible_section\" style=\"display: none;\"><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>\u201cCareer Impacts of the Pandemic: A Longitudinal Study.\u201d Social Theory, Politics, and the Arts Annual Conference, Seoul, South Korea, December 2022.<\/li>\n<li>\u201cThe Changing Nonprofit Landscape in the U.S.\u201d 8th Annual Conference of the Chinese Arts Management Professional Committee, Nanjing, China, October 2019. <\/li>\n<li>\u201cUsing Geographic Information Systems in Arts Administration Instruction.\u201d Association of Arts Administration Educators, Houston, Tex., June 2018.<\/li>\n<li>\u201cCultural Data Systems in the United States: A Brief History and Appraisal.\u201d Association of Arts Administration Educators, Edinburgh, Scotland, June 2017.<\/li>\n<li>\u201cDemystifying the Creative Economy.\u201d Americans for the Arts Annual Convention, Philadelphia, Pa., June 2008.<\/li>\n<li>Markusen, A., Wassall, G., DeNatale, D., and Cohen, R. \u201cDefining the Creative Economy: Industry and Occupational Approaches.\u201d <em>Economic Development Quarterly 22<\/em>, no. 1 (2008): 24\u201345.<\/li>\n<li>Keating, E., Pradhan, E., Wassall, G., and DeNatale, D. <em>Passion and Purpose: Raising the Fiscal Fitness Bar for Massachusetts Nonprofits<\/em> (Boston, Mass.: The Boston Foundation, 2008).<\/li>\n<li>DeNatale, D., and Wassall, G. <em>The Creative Economy: A New Definition<\/em> (Boston, Mass.: New England Foundation for the Arts, 2007).<\/li>\n<li>DeNatale, D., and Wassall, G. <em>Creative Economy Research in New England: A Reexamination<\/em> (Boston, Mass.: New England Foundation for the Arts, 2006).<\/li>\n<li><em>Documenting the Arts: A Practical Handbook for Cultural Organizations<\/em> (Boston, Mass.: New England Foundation for the Arts, 2005).<\/li>\n<li>\u201cCreative Economy Tools: The New England Cultural Database.\u201d Technology in the Arts Conference, Carnegie Mellon University, Pittsburgh, Pa., October 2005.<\/li>\n<li>\u201cThe Creative Economy: What Presenters and Artists Need to Know About Economic Development.\u201d Association of Performing Arts Presenters Annual Conference, New York, N.Y., January 2005.<\/li>\n<li>\u201cThinking About Making: Research Pre-Conference.\u201d Grantmakers in the Arts Conference, Pasadena, Calif., October 2005.<\/li>\n<li>\u201cPositioning New England in the Global Economy.\u201d New England Board of Higher Education Conference, Groton, Conn., October 2005.<\/li>\n<li>\u201cUnderstanding Maine\u2019s Creative Economy.\u201d Blaine House Conference on Maine\u2019s Creative Economy, Lewiston, Maine, June 7, 2004.<\/li>\n<li>Barringer, R., Colgan, C., DeNatale, D., Hutchins, J., Smith, D., and Wassall, G. \u201cThe Creative Economy in Maine: Measurement and Analysis.\u201d <em>The Southern Maine Review<\/em>, paper 4 (2004).<\/li>\n<li>Wassall, G., and DeNatale, D. <em>New England\u2019s Creative Economy: The Non-Profit Sector, 2002<\/em> (Boston, MA: New England Foundation for the Arts, 2004).<\/li>\n<li>Wassall, G., and DeNatale, D. <em>New England\u2019s Creative Economy: The Non-Profit Sector, 2001<\/em> (Boston, MA: New England Foundation for the Arts, 2003).<\/li>\n<li>\u201cBuilding a Regional Research Database for New England.\u201d Social Theory, Politics, and the Arts Annual Conference, Columbus, Ohio, October 2003.<\/em><\/li>\n<li>DeNatale, D., and Ito, K. <em>Internationalizing New Work in the Performing Arts: A Ford Foundation Initiative, Phase II<\/em> (New York, NY: Arts International, 2002).<\/li>\n<li>DeNatale, D., and Ito, K. <em>Internationalizing New Work in the Performing Arts: A Ford Foundation Initiative, Phase I<\/em> (New York, NY: Arts International, 1999).<\/li>\n<li>\u201cCultural Asset Evaluation\u201d (with Jackson, M. R.).  Arts Transforming the Urban Environment Conference, Rutgers University, Newark, NJ, October 9, 1998.<\/li>\n<p><!--\n\n\n<li>\u201cPublic Policy and New England Cultural Institutions.\u201d New England Board of Higher Education Conference, Portland, ME, April 1998.<\/li>\n\n\n\n\n\n<li>\u201cKeynote Address.\u201d Indiana University Conference on Applied Folklore, Bloomington, IN, January 1998.<\/li>\n\n\n\n\n\n<li><em>Arts, cultural, and humanities organizations in the New England economy, 1996.<\/em> (Gregory Wassall and Douglas DeNatale). Boston, MA: New England Foundation for the Arts, 1997.<\/li>\n\n\n\n\n\n<li>\u201cThe Social History of the Southern Mill Village.\u201d First Mill Village Conference, North Carolina Humanities Council, Cooleemee, NC, May 1996. \n\u201cNegotiated spaces: conflicts of interest in federal and local notions of place.\u201d In Hufford, M. (Ed.) <em>Conserving culture: a new discourse on heritage.<\/em> Urban, IL: University of Illinois Press, 1994.<\/li>\n\n\n\n\n\n<li><em>New ways for old jugs: the Jugtown pottery and its impact on tradition.<\/em> (Douglas DeNatale, Jane Pryszbyz, and Jill R. Severn). Columbia, SC: McKissick Museum, University of South Carolina, 1994.<\/li>\n\n\n\n\n\n<li><em>Jubilation! African American celebrations in the southeast.<\/em> (William H. Wiggins, Jr. and Douglas DeNatale). Columbia, SC: McKissick Museum, University of South Carolina, 1993.<\/li>\n\n\n\n\n\n<li>\u201cOral history.\u201d In Cayton, M. K., Gorn, E. J., and Williams, P. W. (Eds.) <em>Encyclopedia of American social history.<\/em> New York, NY: Charles Scribner\u2019s Sons, 1993.<\/li>\n\n\n\n\n\n<li>\u201cBent But Not Broken: The Folklore of Hurricane Hugo.\u201d American Association for Applied Anthropology, Charleston, SC, February 1991.<\/li>\n\n\n\n\n\n<li>\u201cThe Southeastern Crafts Revival.\u201d American Craft Museum, New York, NY, May 1991.<\/li>\n\n\n\n\n\n<li>\u201cNegotiated Spaces: Conflicts of Interest in Federal and Local Notions of Place.\u201d Cultural Conservation Conference, Library of Congress, Washington, DC, May 1990.<\/li>\n\n\n\n\n\n<li>\u201cThe dissembling line: pranks in a North Carolina mill.\u201d In Patterson, D. W. and Zug, C. (Eds.) <em>Arts in earnest.<\/em> Durham, NC: Duke University Press, 1989.<\/li>\n\n\n\n\n\n<li><em>Two stones for every dirt: the story of Delaware County, New York.<\/em> Fleischmanns, NY: Purple Mountain Press, 1987<\/li>\n\n\n\n\n\n<li><em>Between the branches: folk art of Delaware County, New York.<\/em> Delhi, NY: Delaware County Historical Association, 1985.<\/li>\n\n\n\n\n\n<li>\u201cConstructing Oral Texts.\u201d Fifth International Conference on Cultural and Communications, Philadelphia, PA, March 1983.<\/li>\n\n\n\n\n\n<li>\u201cFolk Culture and Workers\u2019 Responses to Mill Village Relations.\u201d Eighth Biennial Conference, American Studies Association, Memphis, TN, October 1981.<\/li>\n\n\n-->\n<\/ul>\n<p><\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n<div class=\"bu_collapsible_container \" aria-live=\"polite\" data-customize-animation=\"false\"><h3 class=\"bu_collapsible\" aria-expanded=\"false\"tabindex=\"0\" role=\"button\">Lauren O\u2019Neal<\/h3><div class=\"bu_collapsible_section\" style=\"display: none;\"><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>\u201cA Sidestep: Inhabiting Invisible and Speculative Artistic Research.\u201d In Transgressive Tendencies: Stepping Over to Go Beyond panel, College Art Association Annual Conference, New York, N.Y., 2023.<\/li>\n<li>\u201cInvisible Research.\u201d To Be Opaque and to Glitch, University of Applied Arts Vienna, Austria, 2022.<\/li>\n<li>\u201cChoreographic Thinking as Artistic Research: Following Desire Lines in Your Practice.\u201d Viewpoints to Artistic Research, University of the Arts Helsinki, Finland, 2022.<\/li>\n<li>\u201cWhat Moves (Us) in Exhibitions? From Representations to Relationships.\u201d UMAC\u2013Universeum Joint International Conference, 2021.<\/li>\n<li>\u201cIt Begins (Again and Again).\u201d Presented at I Experience as I Experiment\u2014I Experiment as I Experience: Experience and experimentality in artistic work and research, Academy of Fine Arts\/University of the Arts Research Days, Helsinki, Finland, 2019.<\/li>\n<li>\u201cArranging Spaces of Relation(s): What Can Objects Do?\u201d Presented at &#8220;University Museums as Cultural Commons: Interdisciplinary Research and Education in Museums,&#8221; UMAC Tokyo Seminar, Tokyo, Japan, 2019.<\/li>\n<li>\u201cOf Accidental Origin: Discussion-Based Pedagogy Meets Student-Driven Curation.\u201d University Museums and Collections as Cultural Hubs: The Future of Tradition, ICOM\/UMAC General Conference, Kyoto, Japan, September 2019.<\/li>\n<li>\u201cPerforming in the Museum: Some Questions on Labor, Identity, and Artistic Research.\u201d Practice, Participation and Politics: Nordic Forum for Dance Research Conference, Theater Academy, Helsinki, Finland, June 2019.<\/li>\n<li>\u201cGenerative Encounters: Choreographic Thinking in Curatorial and Visual Arts Research.\u201d Per\/Forming Futures Conference: Investigating Artistic Doctorates in Dance and Performance\/ADIE, Middlesex University, London, UK, April 2019.<\/li>\n<li>Lauren O\u2019Neal and Olivia Knauss.  \u201cThe mystery of a lost portrait: The Lamont Gallery and its rediscovered Diego Rivera.\u201d <em>The Art Guide<\/em>, 2018.<\/li>\n<li>\u201cCreative Chaos: Collaborations with Student Curatorial Teams.\u201d Independent School Art Instructors Association Conference, Trinity School, New York, N.Y., December 2017.<\/li>\n<li>\u201cMoving Subjectivities.\u201d Movements, Flows, Resistance: Southern Humanities Council Conference, Louisville, Ky., January 2017.<\/li>\n<li>\u201cThe Aesthetics of Refusal: Fatigue, Counter-Choreography, and Glance-Time.\u201d The Third Nomadikon and Center for the Ethics of Seeing Conference, Memphis, Tenn., November 2016.<\/li>\n<li>\u201cI Am Interested in Dragging: Fatigue Aesthetics &amp; Counter-Choreography.\u201d In <em>Conference Proceedings, Expanding Notions; Dance\/Practice\/Research\/Method<\/em>, Nordic Forum for Dance Research, Reykjav\u00edk, Iceland, 2015.<\/li>\n<li>\u201cArts Administration Faculty of the Future: Academic Pathways to the Profession.\u201d Panelist, Association of Arts Administration Educators Conference, New Orleans, La., March 2013.<\/li>\n<li>\u201cNothing to Look At? Irritated Vision, Counter-Choreography and Subjectivity.\u201d Panelist, Performative Tendencies, College Art Association Annual Conference, New York, N.Y., February 2011.<\/li>\n<li>\u201cSensorial Archives: Subjectivity Beyond Visuality\u2014Counter-Choreographic Practices in the Work of Xavier Le Roy, Nell Breyer, and Anna Schuleit.\u201d European Artistic Research Network Conference, Kuvataideakatemia, Helsinki, Finland, April 2010.<\/li>\n<li>\u201cBetter Learning through Chaos: Embedded Service Learning.\u201d Association of Arts Administration Educators Conference, Philadelphia, Pa., April 2009.<\/li>\n<li>\u201cContemporary Feminist Aesthetics: One Artist\u2019s Perspective.\u201d Panelist, 15th Annual Women &#038; Society Conference, Marist College, Poughkeepsie, N.Y., November 2006.<\/li>\n<li>\u201cReport from Helsinki.\u201d <em>Art New England<\/em> (October\/November 2006).<\/li>\n<li>\u201cAbsurd Bodies &amp; Anonymous Intimacies: Contemporary Feminist Art Practice.\u201d (As Lux Kapel.) Bodies, Arts, Intermediality Conference, Vaxjo University, Vaxjo, Sweden, October 2005.<\/li>\n<li>\u201cTranscending Traditions: Women and New Media Art.\u201d Women\u2019s Caucus for Art National Conference, Atlanta, Ga., February 2005.<\/li>\n<li>\u201cInstallation: Art in Your Garage.\u201d <em>Art New England<\/em> 25, no. 2 (February\/March 2005).<\/li>\n<li>\u201cPomus Ingenium by Michelle Lougee,\u201d Boston Sculptors Gallery\/Boston. <em>Art New England<\/em> 26, no. 1 (December\/January 2005).<\/li>\n<li>\u201cThe 4 Elements,\u201d Forest Hills Cemetery\/Boston. <em>Art New England<\/em> 25, no. 1 (December\/January 2004).<\/li>\n<li>\u201cOn the Spiritual in Photography: Artists\u2019 Panel.\u201d Photographic Resource Center at Boston University, Boston, Mass. March 2004.<\/li>\n<li>\u201cDenatured Beauty: Matthew Barney\u2019s Cremaster Cycle.\u201d <em>Art New England<\/em> 24, no. 4 (June\/July 2003).<\/li>\n<li>\u201cRecasting the Past: Niho Kozuru,\u201d Clark Gallery\/Lincoln. <em>Art New England<\/em> (April\/May 2003).<\/li>\n<li>\u201cSummer Camp: David Williams,\u201d Kidder Smith Gallery\/Boston. <em>Art New England<\/em>, (December 2002\/January 2003).<\/li>\n<li>\u201cTerrors and Wonders: Monsters in Contemporary Art,\u201d the deCordova Museum\/Lincoln. <em>Art New England<\/em> 23, no. 1 (December\/January 2002).<\/li>\n<li>\u201cOn Our Own Time: Artmaking, Teaching, and Learning in Community Centers.\u201d Panelist, Massachusetts College of Art\/UrbanArts Institute, January 2001.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n<h2 style=\"margin-top: 35px;\">Symposia<\/h2>\n<p>The Arts Administration Program periodically organizes public symposia and webinars on important topics in the field.  Recent gatherings include:<\/p>\n<h3>Broadway: Emerging from the Pandemic, November 6\u20137, 2021<\/h3>\n<p>A special weekend-long seminar on the current state of the Broadway industry as it emerged from the pandemic. Speakers included Bryan Campione, creative director, Playbill; Michael Coco, general manager of theater operations, The Shubert Organization; Bonnie Comley, producer and cofounder, BroadwayHD; Ray Collum, founder and CEO, EastHub; Don Frantz, executive producer, Nederlander Worldwide Entertainment; Stewart F. Lane, producer and cofounder, BroadwayHD; Robert Nederlander, Jr., CEO, Nederlander Worldwide Entertainment; Steven Schnepp, president, Broadway Booking Office NYC; Erica Schwartz, vice president of theatrical programming, Ambassador Theatre Group\u2013North America; and Andy Se\u00f1or Jr., theater maker, film director, and actor. As part of the symposium, a public panel discussion was moderated by Michael J. Bobbitt, executive director of the Massachusetts Cultural Council.<\/p>\n<div class=\"responsiveVideo\" style=\"margin-bottom: 60px;\">\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/Gqezb5opOXk?si=UrbhlqLeaydikJNq\" title=\"YouTube video player\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe>\n<\/div>\n<h3>The Commercial Theater Forges Ahead in a Period of Change, November 23, 2020<\/h3>\n<p>It has been said the only constant in the universe is change. Whether it\u2019s initiating change through new ideas, or reacting to the unexpected, leaders emerge from within the field of commercial theater to meet these challenges through innovation. This webinar featured arts and entertainment professionals who exemplify the ability to create new ways of working in the midst of change\u2014having spent their careers developing new concepts and opportunities that have benefitted the field. The pandemic has challenged us to generate new ways of delivering artistic products and services out of necessity to keep the industry alive. Some of these innovations may just become the new \u201cnorm\u201d of doing business after the pandemic. In an environment where few of the old rules apply, the following panelists discussed the possibilities and new opportunities that can be set in motion:<\/p>\n<p class=\"symposiaPanelists\"><small><em>Dori Berinstein, producer, <\/em>The Prom<em>; Joshua Grossman, ASTC, partner, Schuler Shook; Rachel Reiner, director of audience engagement, the Broadway League; and Steven Schnepp, president, the Broadway Booking Office<\/em><\/small><\/span><\/p>\n<h3>\u201cIn It For the Long Haul\u201d, October 28, 2020<\/h3>\n<p>The Boston University Arts Administration program hosted a presentation and discussion of the important 2020 report, \u201cIn it for the Long Haul,\u201d co-authored by Zannie Voss of SMU DataArts and Jill Robinson of TRG Arts.<\/p>\n<p class=\"symposiaPanelists\"><small><em>Panelists from SMU DataArts included Zannie Voss, director; Monica Williamson, engagement associate; and Michelle Higgins, manager of strategic engagement.<\/em><\/small><\/p>\n<h3>Challenges and Possibilities for the Commercial Arts Sector, August 27, 2020<\/h3>\n<p>The pandemic brought Broadway to a standstill, with the prediction that commercial theater will not reopen until January 2021 at the earliest. With rare exceptions, touring productions were suspended worldwide. At the same time, new forms of access to commercial theater became available through streaming platforms and commercial television. Similarly, within the commercial visual arts sector, the marketplace was forced to move online in ways that were long thought impossible. Asking \u201cHow will commercial theater emerge from the pandemic? Will new forms of performance and access forever change the nature of the commercial arts?\u201d were the following panelists:<\/p>\n<p class=\"symposiaPanelists\"><small><em>Melissa Caolo, managing director, Camp Broadway; Jason Grossman, theatrical producer, Plush Theatricals; Susan Lee, CEO, Camp Broadway; Steven Schnepp, president, Broadway Booking Office; and Robert Nederlander, Jr., CEO, Nederlander Worldwide Entertainment, and partner in BU MET\u2019s Performing Arts Enterprise Certificate.<\/em><\/small><\/p>\n<h3>Challenges and Possibilities for the Nonprofit Arts Sector, August 20, 2020<\/h3>\n<p>While both visual and performing arts organizations were shuttered starting March 2020, organizations pursued a variety of strategies to remain engaged with their audiences and make up for lost income\u2014from Zoom performances, to virtual exhibitions, to online educational outreach. Performing and visual arts organizations faced significantly different challenges to reopening. What strategies were successful during the pandemic? Did experiments with audience engagement transform the ways in which nonprofit arts organizations operate in the future?<\/p>\n<p class=\"symposiaPanelists\"><small><em>Panelists included Brooke DiGiovanni Evans, interim director of learning, Museum of Fine Arts, Boston; Blair Hollis, head of corporate partnerships, Museum of Fine Arts, Boston; Jennifer Ritvo Hughes, executive director, Boston Baroque; and Nicholas Peterson, director of marketing, Central Square Theater.<\/em><\/small><\/p>\n<h3>The Role of Arts Leadership in Navigating the Pandemic, August 13, 2020<\/h3>\n<p>As never before, effective arts leadership is essential to organizational survival and future development. In an instant, accepted norms for financial planning, outreach, programming, and organizational management were overturned. Organizations were forced to rethink their entire short- and long-term strategies almost overnight. The pandemic presented an unprecedented test of leadership. What are the characteristics of arts leaders who can rise to the challenge? <\/p>\n<p class=\"symposiaPanelists\"><small><em>Panelists included Janet Bailey, president, Janet Bailey Associates; and Anita Lauricella, project manager, Boston Downtown BID.<\/em><\/small><\/p>\n<h3>Financial and Legal Impacts and Effective Strategies, August 6, 2020<\/h3>\n<p>Arts nonprofits were financially devastated by the pandemic. In Massachusetts alone, a survey by the Massachusetts Cultural Council revealed that the sector lost $425 million in revenue, affecting 17,000 jobs, with an additional $117 million needed to implement recovery strategies. In addition, existing and future legal obligations posed a major challenge. The outcomes for individual organizations varied widely based on their management practices, fundraising programs, and financial planning. What are the questions and actions that organizations needed to consider to survive financially? When is it time to consider merging or restructuring? Are there opportunities for positive change in the midst of this storm?<\/p>\n<p class=\"symposiaPanelists\"><small><em>Panelists included Michele Beasley, principal, Cleantech Advisors; Mary Doorley-Simboski, managing director, Changing Our World; Michael Ibrahim, program manager, Massachusetts Cultural Council Cultural Investment Portfolio; and David Orlinoff, founder\/principal, Concord Financial Organization (CFO).<\/em><\/small><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Research As engaged, leading arts practitioners, the Arts Administration faculty contribute to the knowledge of the field through research and writing. 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