Category: ARAD Works
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Meet Melissa Weisberg, ARAD’s New Social Media Manager
ARAD is delighted to welcome Melissa Weisberg (ARAD ’20) as our new Social Media Manager. Learn more about Melissa, her goals for her new role, and what she’s been up to since graduation.
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The Audience and A Subtlety, a paper by Sadie Yanckello
We’ve asked ARAD students to share more about their academic work with us. Sadie Yanckello, ARAD ’20 volunteered to discuss a paper she wrote for Arts In Context, taught by Dr. Jennifer Lena in the Fall 2018 semester.
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Spreading Cheer: ARAD Holiday Service Project 2018
The Arts Administration Program (ARAD) held its annual Holiday Service Project on December 4th. The event included a joyous performance by Spark Notes, TC’s a cappella group, and included Mari Takeda (ARAD ’20), and together we created two dozen gift bags filled with art supplies for the Art Start children and another 15 for their mothers.…
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Interview with visiting scholar Léonie Hénaut
Over the past few months, ARAD has enjoyed the company of visiting scholar Léonie Hénaut. Hénaut is an Associate Professor at the National Center for Scientific Research, and a member of the Center for the Sociology of Organizations at Sciences Po in Paris. She is also a permanent faculty member of Science Po’s Department of Sociology.…
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Thesis Feature: Blaire Townshend
Minding the Gap: Targeting Millennials to Ensure the Future of Opera My thesis explores supplemental operatic programming that is catered to the interests and needs of the Millennial demographic—a population that I argue is key to the survival of opera. As opera’s current audience ages out of attendance, a replacement audience is called for—and programming…
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ARAD Works: “ART MUSEUM CAPITAL PROJECTS IN NEW YORK CITY”
Having recently completed her master’s thesis, Alexis Yuen shares some insight into her topic and her writing process. ART MUSEUM CAPITAL PROJECTS IN NEW YORK CITY: THE DUAL ROLE OF ART MUSEUMS AS ECONOMIC DRIVERS AND COMMUNITY ANCHORS By Alexis Yuen Abstract: Following the success of Guggenheim Bilbao in northern Spain, cities around the world…
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ARAD Works: “Gentrification and Art in Seoul”
Having recently completed her master’s thesis, Erica Hyeyeon Chang shares some insight into her topic and her writing process. Gentrification and Art in Seoul: the End of Neighborhood-Specific Arts Ecology By Erica Hyeyeon Chang What is your thesis about? My thesis is on gentrification and art in Seoul, South Korea and how arts administrators strategize…
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ARAD Works: “For the Love of Fashion”
Having recently completed her master’s thesis, Hannah Fagadau shares some insight into her topic and her writing process. For the Love of Fashion: The Success of Fashion inside Today’s Museum By Hannah Fagadau What is your thesis about? The growing presence and increasing demand of fashion exhibitions in encyclopedic museums.
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ARAD Works: “China’s Cultural Diplomacy as the Means of Soft Power Through the Lens of the Confucius Institute”
Having recently completed her master’s thesis, Lynn Fu shares some insight into her topic and her writing process. “China’s Cultural Diplomacy as the means of Soft Power through the lens of the Confucius Institute: A Comparative Study with the British Council and the Japan Foundation” By Lynn Fu What is your thesis about? China’s cultural diplomacy as the…
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Op-Ed Piece by Jessica Isgro
This is the first article in our series of short pieces written by current students in the Arts Administration Program. Jessica Isgro wrote this Op-Ed as a student in Principles and Practices of Arts Administration, for an assignment on a critical issue of personal interest within the arts. It appears here in abbreviated form. Jessica Isgro…
