Arts Administration & Policy

“Management Studio challenged me not only to think through the untold details of a large-scale administrative project in the arts practically, but also to realize a provocative and meaningful concept. As part of the project team for New Monuments for New Cities, my group worked with eight civic partners to execute the design, contracting, marketing concept, and all public programming for the inaugural arts initiative of the High Line Network, an organization linking infrastructure reuse sites across North America."

“Management Studio I and II created the opportunity for me to work with Chicago Cultural Alliance and their project Inherit Chicago, a city-wide festival of arts, crafts, performance, and food related to the diverse cultural heritage of the city of Chicago. This organization allowed me to get deeply involved in the local cultural ecology and its social impact, while providing a space to test and improve my managing skills and acquiring new ones. As a South American student, Inherit Chicago became a gate for me to better understand the rich cauldron of Chicago's cultural panorama and how it speaks to a larger international community."

“The Chicago Voices project was my first taste of working collaboratively with a large organization to realize a project that had to weave together history, site specificity, community, curatorial practice, and legibility. To do that in the very first semester was a challenge, of course, but also eye opening about the many facets of arts administration."