AAAE 2021 Virtual Conference: REIMAGINE/RECONNECT/RENEW

The global pandemic and social justice actions of the past year have not only disrupted the conventions and current practice of arts management, but also reshaped the nature of what’s next. While the most resilient approaches to arts management education have always incorporated past, current, and next practice, these now seem more decoupled and distinct than they have since arts management programs first began.

How can arts management educators bring all three worlds – convention, disruption, invention – into their coursework, especially with the disruption still in process, the invention yet to come, and the conventions being interrogated for their injustices and inequities?

This session will draw upon Howard Becker’s framing of “conventions” and “art worlds” (Becker 2008) along with Dave Snowden’s Cynefin decision-making framework (Snowden 2020), to discuss and discover our own next practice as arts management educators

To ground the session in practice, we will use the restructuring of a graduate-level Performing Arts Management class in Spring 2021 as a working example, and encourage participants to bring their own practice, pedagogy, and experience to the task.

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Nelson Mandela declared education to be “the most powerful weapon which you can use to change the world.” He realized education's potential to enhance individual opportunities to acquire knowledge, wealth, and the ability to participate fully in society. Colleges and universities have long fulfilled their role of supporting this type of personal empowerment. Yet the broader impact of personal power is the shaping of social hierarchies. In writing about the function of colleges in the colonial era, John R. Thelin, higher education historian, observed: "Clearly, a main purpose of the colleges was to identify and ratify a colonial elite. The college was a conservative institution that was essential to transmitting a relatively fixed social order."
Higher education institutions continue to impact personal power in ways that impact America’s social order. But what of Mandela’s imagining higher education as a vehicle for world change? Dare we imagine or expect higher education to deliver such an outcome, for whom, and how? If higher education once supported the elite, can it balance those social scales, and should it? Like higher education, the cultural sectors of art and entertainment also hold tremendous power to influence social systems, specifically to shape narratives about racialized groups and where they fit in society. This qualitative research explores the power of higher education to serve as change agent through challenging cultural narratives on race advanced by the cultural sector. This study is in the conceptual phase of defining the analysis.

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