What follows is a play-by-play account of my work with DramaRama 5, followed by an explanation of my precise duties at the festival, my assessment of DramaRama 5, and my thoughts on the organization's future and what lessons I will take with me as I progress in my career.

Thesis (Ph. D. in History)--Vanderbilt University, Dec. 2008. / Title from title screen. Includes bibliographical references.

Thesis (M.A.)--University of North Texas, May, 2008. / Title from title page display. Includes bibliographical references.

Thesis (Ph. D.)--University of Texas at Austin, 2004. / Vita. Includes bibliographical references (leaves 369-397). Available also in a digital version from Dissertation Abstracts.

Thesis (Ph. D.)--University of Missouri-Columbia, 2003. / Typescript. Vita. Includes bibliographical references (leaves [361]-377). Also available on the Internet.

Thesis (Ph. D.)--University of Missouri-Columbia, 2003. / Typescript. Vita. Includes bibliographical references (leaves [361]-377). Also available on the Internet.

Thesis (Ph. D.)--University of Texas at Austin, 2004. / Supervisor: Neil Foley. Vita. Includes bibliographical references. Also available from UMI.

This report documents a one semester internship with the Arts Council of New Orleans. Through a detailed description of specific projects completed, the intern shares information regarding challenges and observations. Specifically, observations deal with management structure and office efficiency. The report concludes with recommendations for improvement in these areas.

From February 23 through May 10, 2005, I am an intern at the Arts Council of New Orleans in the Department of the Fresh Art Festival. The internship was approved by my Graduate Committee and confirmed by the Arts Administration Department at UNO. It fulfills the requirements for the degree of Master of the Arts in the Arts Administration Program at UNO. My Graduate Committee is composed of one Major Professor and two committee members. The Major Professor is A. Lawrence Jenkens, Jr., who is a professor in the Fine Art Department at UNO. The other two committee members are Donald Kaye Marshall, who teaches in the Department of Arts Administration at UNO and Elizabeth Williams, who teaches in the Department of Hotel, Restaurant & Tourism at UNO as well. My internship mainly focuses on the Fresh Art Festival; therefore, the Coordinator of the Festival, Barbara Workman, is my on-site supervisor. However, I only get one hour of work to do every day due to the fact that my time there is not the busiest time for the Festival. But with Ms. Workman's consent, I could read all the files about the Festival and got a chance to review and study the Festi val. I also got a chance to assist one of the Arts Business Incubator's tenants, CubaNola Collective, with its lecture events. Under the special condition of my internship (See Chapter 4 & 5), I decided to turn it into a studying process, instead of a working experience. Therefore, the following report profiles the Arts Council of New Orleans (most of it is cited from the Arts Council's Fact Sheets, "Agency Operations Narrative," and website under its consent), and details as well as analyzes the Fresh Art Festival.

On May 6, 2002 I began my internship with the Arts Council of New Orleans. The Arts Council of New Orleans is a private, nonprofit organization that provides a variety of cultural planning, advocacy, public art economic development, arts education, and grant initiatives to the city of New Orleans and surrounding areas. Since its creation in 1975, the Arts Council has been the official arts agency for the City of New Orleans. My role at the Arts Council was to work in the Marketing and Development Department, with the major task of updating the annual Arts Directory. Besides work on the directory, my time was spent working for other divisions of the Arts Council, including the Entergy Arts Business Center, the Grant Department and Louisiana ArtWorks. The following report is the analysis of a three-month internship with the Arts Council of New Orleans. It begins with a look at the organization's history, staff and programming and then focuses on the internship's assignments. The purpose of the internship was to gain experience working in a nonprofit arts organization, tying together all ofthe concepts that are studied in the courses of the Arts Administration Program. My internship at the Arts Council of New Orleans was an overall learning experience of the many facets of a nonprofit arts organization.