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Case Studies in Cultural Entrepreneurship

How to Create Relevant and Sustainable Institutions

Herausgeber: Sorin, Gretchen Sullivan; Sessions, Lynne A.

Beschreibung

Case Studies in Cultural Entrepreneurship offers highly focused case studies that demonstrate the critical role entrepreneurs and entrepreneurial thinking play in reinventing cultural organizations.

Autor

Gretchen Sullivan Sorin is director and Distinguished Professor at the Cooperstown Graduate Program, a museum studies program dedicated to the museum as a public service institution that must be entrepreneurial. She has worked for more than 200 museums as an historian, exhibition curator, strategic and interpretive planner and writes about African American history, art and museums. Major exhibitions include: Through the Eyes of Others: African Americans and Identity in American Art; In the Spirit of Martin: The Living Legacy of Dr. Martin Luther King for the Smithsonian Institution Traveling Exhibition Service, Bridges and Boundaries: African Americans and American Jews for the Jewish Museum in New York City. Sorin is the author of Touring Historic Harlem: Four Walks in Northern Manhattan with Andrew Dolkart, In the Spirit of Martin: The Living Legacy of Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr., and Bridges and Boundaries: African Americans and American Jews. She holds a B.A from Rutgers University, an M.A. from the Cooperstown Graduate Program of SUNY College at Oneonta, and a Ph.D. in History from the University at Albany. Lynne Sessions holds an MBA in Marketing from the University of Pittsburgh and a B.S in Business Administration from Pennsylvania State University. Her career combines extensive experience in higher education with training and development and public relations experience in the not-for-profit sector. Throughout, she has specialized in bringing broad-based knowledge, experiences, and creativity to the strategic development of structures and processes designed to improve organizational performance. In 2005, her lifelong passion for the arts was realized when she created Voice!, an annual juried art exhibition sponsored by The Arc Otsego which features work by artists with intellectual and other developmental disabilities from across New York State.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Rowman & Littlefield Publishers
• Seitenzahl: 120
• Erscheinungstermin: 6. März 2015
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 235mm x 157mm x 11mm
• Gewicht: 336g
• ISBN-13: 9781442230071
• ISBN-10: 144223007X
• Artikelnr.: 41852534