Browsing Goucher College MA in Arts Administration by Title
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Adding Drama to Every School Day: Partnership to Embed Theatre in School
(2016-05)A growing field of research shows that arts in schools have positive impacts on students, teachers, the whole school environment, and even extend to families and the community. The National Endowment for the Arts has also ... -
Aging Populations: Building Audiences Through The Intersection Of Health And Art
(2016-06)The population is aging, and at the same time, arts audiences are decreasing. The aging audience is different from previous generations, in that they demand a quality of life heretofore unrealized. Research shows a correlation ... -
Anti-Racist Practices in Community Theatre
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The Art of Service: Centering Charitable Purpose to Create Belonging In The Arts
(2021-04)Major paper presenting research and recommendations concerning the nonprofit arts organization's obligation to center charitable purpose and serve as a public benefit in the United States nonprofit model. -
The Art of the Community: Municipal vs. Local Arts Agency Funding for Public Art
(2017)Public art is the legalized and intentional placement of art in spaces easily accessible by the community. This field has been a contributing factor to community development, planning, and enhancement for thousands of ... -
ARTICULATING EQUITY: DEVELOPING AN ORGANIZATIONAL DESIGN PROCESS FOR NONPROFIT ARTS ORGANIZATIONS THAT DISMANTLES PRIVILEGE AND BIAS
(2017-07-05)The fast-changing societal makeup of America urges the leaders of arts organizations with homogenous audiences to cultivate enduring relationships with diverse publics to ensure institutional resilience and relevance. ... -
Arts Advocacy at the Local Level: How Advocacy for Alternative Funding Sources from Municipalities Impacts the Creative Sector
(2019-05)This research intended to demonstrate how organizations and their stakeholders can harness advocacy strategies to effect positive change within their local governments’ arts and culture funding systems. Limitations of ... -
Arts Currency: A Long-Term Funding Tool for the US Nonprofit Arts Sector
(2016-06)In a survey of nonprofit organizations, forty-seven percent of arts and cultural respondents report "achieving long-term financial stability" as their organizations’ greatest challenge (Nonprofit Finance Fund). Capitalization ... -
Arts Nonprofits, Cultural Branding Principles and the Social Media Revolution
(2017)Social media is an integral element to our day-to-day lives and has forever changed how we communicate, socialize, and consume content. Societal trends have proven that social media is ideal for reaching masses of people ... -
Arts Participation for Reducing Stress and Promoting Organizational Wellness
(2017-07-30)The negative impact of stress and the positive impact of making art was researched for this paper to benefit nonprofit leaders and the organizations they serve. Stress is believed to be associated with poor individual ... -
Arts, Culture & Mobility: Addressing Participation Barriers through Transportation Equity
(2019)Inequities in transportation policy and infrastructure pose barriers to arts and cultural participation for individuals in communities with poor transit options. Arts organizations can address transportation barriers through ... -
As the Last Become First: How Women of Color Leadership Revolutionizes the Creative Economy
(2022-04-13)This research consists of strategies to expand and support women of color leadership in nonprofit arts organizations. It identifies several, regional case studies that examine present day WOC leaders in the field of nonprofit ... -
Beyond Compliance: Exploring Emerging Technologies to Enrich the Visual Arts Experience for Audiences of All Abilities
(2017-06)The Americans with Disabilities Act of 1990 (ADA) mandates enforceable guidelines to modify the built environment to make it accessible for individuals with disabilities. While critically important, the ADA does little to ... -
A Brave Space for Community: Bolstering K-12 Theatre Education for Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion
(2019-05)Changes in and enhanced access to K-12 theatre education can create greater long-term diversity, equity, and inclusion in American theatre. Recent data on theatre participation demonstrates audience participants to be ... -
Brick by Brick: Building Social Capital Through Artist Agreements in Community Theater
(2019-05)This paper highlights the importance of creating effective written agreements between authors, composers, lyricists, and nonprofit community theaters. Nonprofit community theaters, by assuming responsibility to produce ... -
A CHIEF CULTURE OFFICER AIDS THE SUCCESS OF DIVERSITY, EQUITY AND INCLUSION WITHIN LOCAL ARTS AGENCIES
(2020-07-23)Local arts agencies can function as community builders by addressing diversity, equity and inclusion. Research has shown that diversity, equity and inclusion policies and practices lead to greater success in local arts ... -
THE CONFLICT-POSITIVE ORGANIZATION: SUPPORTING DISSENT AND EMPLOYEE-VOICE FOR MEANINGFUL ADVANCEMENT OF EQUITY, DIVERSITY, AND INCLUSION INITIATIVES
(2018-06)Arts organizations working to more effectively identify and address the systemic and institutional barriers preventing diversity, equity, and inclusion within their own institutions should incorporate a conflict-positive ... -
Count Me In: Leveraging Generational Differences to Sustain Volunteer Engagement
(2018-06)Professional nonprofit theaters in the United States risk losing important support if they neglect to change existing approaches to volunteer recruitment, development, and recognition in light of evolving generational ...