Internationally acclaimed arts professional and advocate Ben Cameron will share his compelling perspective on the shifting future of the arts in this keynote/conversation.
"The Arts at a Crossroads"
Ben Cameron, Program Director for the Arts
Doris Duke Charitable Foundation Thursday, November 10, 2011
5:00 - 6:30 pm
Plenary Room, Grainger Hall
Wisconsin School of Business
975 University Avenue, Madison, WI
FREE AND OPEN TO THE PUBLIC
The way we create, present, produce, preserve, and connect the arts is undergoing significant and enduring change. What are the dynamics of this evolving world? And how might artists, arts organizations, and cultural leaders imagine a resilient and relevant future for their work?
Join noted arts professional and dynamic speaker Ben Cameron for a compelling perspective on what's new and what's next for the arts. And bring your questions and ideas for an interactive exploration of what it all means for Madison, Dane County, and UW-Madison.
ABOUT BEN CAMERON
Ben Cameron has served as Program Director for the Arts at the Doris Duke Charitable Foundation in New York, NY, since 2006. In that capacity, he supervises a $13 million grants program focusing on organizations and artists in the theatre, contemporary dance, jazz and presenting fields.
Previously, he served for more than 8 years as the Executive Director of Theatre Communications Group (TCG), the national service organization for the American nonprofit professional theater, significantly expanding its programs, membership base and grantmaking activities. Prior roles include his work as Senior Program Officer at the Dayton Hudson Foundation, Manager of Community Relations for Target Stores (supervising its grantmaking program) and four years at the National Endowment for the Arts, including two as Director of the Theater Program.
Mr. Cameron has addressed gatherings of arts communities in Dublin, Ireland; Sydney, Australia; Vancouver, Canada; Zwolle, Netherlands; London, England; Edinburgh, Scotland and Montreal, Canada, among other international sites, as well as national gatherings of the theatre, chamber music, dance, and choral music fields in the United States.
He has served on a number of nonprofit boards, including those of the national Arts and Business Council, American Arts Alliance and Grantmakers in the Arts. He has received honorary degrees from DePaul University in Chicago and American Conservatory Theatre in San Francisco, in addition to an MFA from the Yale School of Drama. In 2007, he was one of five recipients of the Distinguished Alumus Award from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.
In addition to his not-for-profit work, he has lectured on theatre aboard both the Queen Victoria and Queen Mary 2 as an Oxford Lecturer on four separate cruises, has appeared during 13 different seasons as a panelist on the opera quiz feature on the Live from the Metropolitan radio broadcasts from New York, has twice ridden his bicycle from Minneapolis to Chicago to raise money for AIDS relief services, and served as a member of the Tony Awards Nominating Committee.
Internationally acclaimed arts professional and advocate Ben Cameron will share his compelling perspective on the shifting future of the arts in this keynote/conversation.