{"id":1482,"date":"2011-03-09T09:19:38","date_gmt":"2011-03-09T17:19:38","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/artfulmanager\/wp\/2011\/03\/the_third_dimension_of_arts_en\/"},"modified":"2011-03-09T09:19:38","modified_gmt":"2011-03-09T17:19:38","slug":"the_third_dimension_of_arts_en","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/artfulmanager\/main\/the_third_dimension_of_arts_en.php","title":{"rendered":"The third dimension of arts entrepreneurship"},"content":{"rendered":"

James Undercofler continues his great pondering and prodding<\/a> about the best role for ‘arts entrepreneurship’ training in higher education. When he was Dean of the Eastman School of Music, he initiated some fantastic career- and community-focused initiatives for music students. In his current position in the Arts Administration program at Drexel University, he’s exploring a wider range of need and impact among future creative professionals.<\/p>\n

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Now, he’s suggesting three levels of arts entrepreneurship efforts on college campuses. The first is essentially career counseling to help students be more competitive for identified positions. The second supports ‘creative adaptations and extensions’ of artistic expertise — how to create small business opportunities out of the things you know how to do, such as reed-making, art supplies, theatrical performance, and such.<\/div>\n
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The third level — or his ‘third dimension’ — is systemic redesign, helping students rethink and restructure the many ways artists, arts, audiences, and communities find and feed each other. Undercofler suggests that this level is essential not only for student success, but also for the future success of the arts system, saying that ”unless we encourage each other and our students to think in the third dimension, the arts will continue to bang up against societal walls and stagnate.”<\/span><\/div>\n

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The three levels suggested here remind me of the top three tiers of the five levels of mastery<\/a>:<\/font><\/div>\n

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Applied Understanding<\/i><\/div>\n
The learner can choose from a variety of rules and understands which rule is appropriate to solve specific problems. [ie, students can understand the rules of identified jobs, and position themselves according to those rules.]<\/div>\n
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Real World Discovery<\/i><\/div>\n
The learner discovers that previously understood concepts can be applied to new situations. [ie, students can adapt their artistic and technical skills to areas outside their traditional discipline.]<\/div>\n
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Global Integration<\/i><\/div>\n
The learner is able to formulate and\/or rediscover concepts from observation or experiences, even if the memorized rule has been forgotten.  The learner can apply global concepts between systems and create new products or processes. [ie, students can realign and rearrange complex elements of a system, and design new products or processes to suit that system.]<\/div>\n<\/blockquote>\n
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I completely agree with Jim that the top-most level needs to be our educational goal for all students who hope to make a career (and a difference) in the arts. And, in fact, this strikes me as an essential goal for any endeavor in higher education that seeks to develop successful citizens of the world. Let’s get started!<\/div>\n
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