I generally don’t talk a lot in this blog about my direct work in higher education — finding, fostering, teaching, and connecting cultural managers through a two-year, resident, MBA degree in Arts Administration. I figure that I serve a wider audience by talking about the industry itself, rather than that tiny, tiny subset of the industry that teaches and trains cultural managers.
But if you’ve been longing for that conversation, Barry Hessenius was kind enough to let me drone on and on about it in this in-depth interview on his weblog.
We touch on how degree programs fit into the larger world of professional development, how curriculum is changing, how the industry is responding to radical shifts in how it works, and how our current conversations on the leadership crisis in the arts may be slightly misdirected.
It was a fun and wide-ranging conversation with a respected colleague. And I thank Barry for the opportunity. I hope you join the discussion with a comment or two. Give it a read!
