This report provides a detailed account of an internship with the Greater New Orleans Educational Television Foundation’s development department. For the purposes of this paper, I will be referring to the non-profit as WYES-TV. The internship began in January of 2016 and continued through April of 2016. Throughout this paper, I will provide an overview of the organization’s history, mission, budget, special events and program services, as well as a description of my internship and experience. This report will also include an analysis of the strengths, weaknesses, opportunities and threats of the organization. It will discuss best practices for addressing current challenges and opportunities. Lastly, it will provide a section for recommendations and suggestions for improvements.

This report presents a reflection and analysis of my internship with the Tennessee Williams/New Orleans Literary Festival, where I completed 480 hours of work in pursuit of the M.A. in Arts Administration. I worked primarily with Tracy Ferrington Cunningham, Director of Communications & Special Events, in preparing and organizing the 2016 Festival, which represented the organization’s 30th anniversary. In this report, I will deliver an organizational overview of the Festival, describe my internship duties and responsibilities, analyze the strengths and weaknesses of the organization, and provide best practices and recommendations in festival management.

This dissertation seeks to better understand the concept of community engagement through the application of the arts to address social concerns. This case study focused on The Tallahassee Community Chorus and its performance of “Sing for the Cure: A Proclamation of Hope.” The research questions dealt with aspects related to the planning, implementation, and evaluation of the concert, in an attempt to determine if the effort could be considered community engagement based on the applied methodological framework: Borwick’s (2012) eightfold path of community engagement and Rendón’s (2009) notion of sentipensante. The research study relied on data collected through observations of board meetings, rehearsal sessions, and the concert itself. Additional data came from interviews of board members, executive staff persons, audience members, and a representative of the partnering organization, Tallahassee Memorial Hospital’s Cancer Center. Also, concert ushers distributed survey cards to audience members, who returned the cards upon exiting the concert. I analyzed the collected data through NVivo and Excel software, and determined prominent themes related to the study, which were then applied to the framework and, ultimately, to the research questions. Time constraints, low attendance, organizational role related to input and goal formulation, varied performer support for the topic of breast cancer, aspects of the performance, addressing a social issue, and applying the concert to cancer generally, were the prominent themes of this study. The Tallahassee Community Chorus presented an example of community outreach, but not engagement, as determined by failure to solicit an external partner and build a relationship with them before deciding on the piece to perform. / A Dissertation submitted to the Department of Art Education in partial fulfillment of the Doctor of Philosophy. / Summer Semester 2017. / May 2, 2017. / Administration, Arts, Community, Engagement, Management, Outreach / Includes bibliographical references. / Pat Villeneuve, Professor Directing Dissertation; Wanda Brister-Rachwal, University Representative; David Gussak, Committee Member; Anne Hodges, Committee Member; Antonio Cuyler, Committee Member.

This paper examines the relationship between auction outcomes and pre-sale estimates. Using data from Blouin Arts Sales Index this paper examines 700 realized prices for Picasso works over the last five months of 2015. After considering many estimation inadequacies, it is determined that experts are publishing accurate and unbiased pre-sale valuations. For works unsold, the revenue lost to “buy ins” is offset by the excess revenue earned from current estimate publishing strategies.

<p> Feasibility studies are invaluable resources for strategic planning and capital campaign preparation for nonprofit organizations. As nonprofits operate on stringent budgets, they must utilize resources that will expand efficiency while meeting their goals. By engaging in a feasibility study, nonprofits gain valuable information about their organization and how they are perceived. This information can help diminish external factors that may harm the nonprofit. With the passing of the recent tax bill in December 2017, charitable giving is expected to decrease across the country. This could hamstring nonprofits. By explaining the negative implications of the tax bill, I present a pressing threat that nonprofits may need to address by using as many resources as possible to avoid a financial burden. Through a series of interviews with several Southern California based arts professionals, I find supporting information promoting feasibility studies and strategic planning while exploring the fear the new tax bill represents.</p><p>

<p> Operating within the overlapping and sometimes-conflicting spheres of the tourist and the local, arts organizations in Hawai&lsquo;i face shared challenges in the form of Hawai&lsquo;i&rsquo;s brand, limited resources, and accessibility issues. To identify common successes and struggles in the face of those challenges, this thesis conducts case studies of four key Honolulu arts organizations: the Honolulu Museum of Art, the ARTS at Marks Garage, POW! WOW! Hawai&lsquo;i, and the Honolulu Biennial Foundation. Results show that these organizations can best overcome their common challenges by pooling resources in the form of knowledge, money, space, and people; advocating for cultural tourism; and investing in long-term collaborative programming and arts education initiatives.</p><p>

<p> The purpose of this research study is to uncover or synthesize strategies that professional orchestras can use to better engage with their shifting communities, and to connect this community engagement to an organizational sustainability advantage (&ldquo;the hometown advantage&rdquo;) for the orchestra. Only recently has the idea of sustainability through community engagement become a consideration for arts managers and researchers. A review of literature supports the notion that there is a sustainability advantage for organizations that connect with the unique cultural distinctions of their community, plan and program with authenticity and integrity, and involve and empower the locals within their community through collective ownership. An examination of five case studies extends this framework to create a more cohesive and credible set of actionable strategies for orchestras to incorporate. The conclusions of this study recommend a shift toward approaching community engagement as the co-creation of meaning-making experiences that carry shared cultural values. The findings of this research are beneficial for professional orchestras because they provide a possible strategy for navigating the contemporary issues that affect the sustainable relevance of these orchestras within the communities they serve.</p><p>

Three issues were discussed in this paper exploration of an Art Coordinator who directs a community-based art program within the nonprofit Sojourn House. The paper's first issue was the identification of the role and responsibilities of the Art Coordinator directing the CARE program. Then I explored the complex dynamic interactions of Sojourn House's professionals and the Art Coordinator. The final issue was the discovery and understanding of the cultural implication of the incorporation of the CARE program, and thus the role of the Art Coordinator. Stake's cyclical "clock method" guided the observations, individual and group interviews, document reviews, and distribution of questionnaires. Complexity theory and a social systems theory deconstructed the information gathered to form the emergent themes of the interrelationships amongst the organization. The exploration of an Art Coordinator's identity introduces management considerations for art professionals who are collaborating and working as an interdisciplinary organization. The paper's exploration discovers and understands the Art Coordinator's overlapping skill sets from the discrete roles of art therapy, art administration, and art education. The paper discovered that the Art Coordinator's main role is to facilitate knowledge transfer within an organization fostering a communal understanding of the use of art as an intervention to nonprofit organizations. / A Dissertation submitted to the Department of Art Education in partial fulfillment of the requirements for the degree of Doctor of Education. / Spring Semester, 2015. / April 2, 2015. / Art Administration, Art Education, Art Therapy, Complexity Theory, Multidisciplinary Team, Social Systems Theory / Includes bibliographical references. / David Gussak, Professor Directing Dissertation; Marc Gertz, University Representative; Marcia Rosal, Committee Member; Patricia Villeneuve, Committee Member.

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