Bolz Center for Arts Administration

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What's a Collegium?

collegium: 'A group whose members pursue shared goals while working within a framework of mutual trust and respect.'
The Bolz Center Collegium draws alumni, students, and friends from across the country to explore essential aspects of the field, identify streams of teaching and learning, and celebrate their collective efforts to advance the arts.

Collegium 2008: All In!

In May 1969, a new kind of graduate degree was approved by the University of Wisconsin Regents, one that would define and develop management professionals for arts and cultural organizations, primarily in the rapidly emerging nonprofit and public sphere. Almost forty years later, the scope and scale of the nonprofit arts have grown dramatically, now representing a significant global industry with a million moving parts.

But nonprofit and public organizations were never the only game in town when advancing artists and connecting the arts. Commercial enterprise has been an essential part of the cultural system since before nonprofits were even defined. Entrepreneurs have reshaped and rethought the landscape for artists and audiences time and time again. Informal and community groups have fostered arts opportunities and experiences without a single board meeting or IRS letter of determination.

Today, what we call ''the arts'' (when we bother to define our terms) is developed and delivered in a thousand different ways — nonprofit and commercial, public and private, formal and informal, permanent and temporary, in person and online. As a result, the palette available for Arts Administration is both more expansive and more complex than ever before. And boundary-crossing has become a daily part of the cultural manager's job. What does this evolution mean in the life and work of cultural professionals? And how might it inform the training of tomorrow's cultural leadership?

On the eve of the 40th anniversary of the Bolz Center for Arts Administration, come explore with your friends and colleagues what brought us here, and what comes next in the sustainable advancement of arts and cultural management. We'll have extraordinary and provocative guest speakers. We'll host connected and informative conversations. We'll blend the voices and insights of longtime alumni with recent graduates and new students. And, of course, there will be food and drink...and probably cheese.

It's the Bolz Center for Arts Administration's 40th birthday. Come celebrate with us, and help us guess what the next 40 years have in store.

Are you ''All In''? If so, REGISTER NOW for Collegium 2008!