BOLZ CENTER PUBLIC LECTURE SERIES
Balancing Act:
The Public/Private Art of Arts Administration
Friday, November 2, 2001
Morgridge Auditorium, Room 1100, Grainger Hall
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Featured Speakers

J. Mark Schuster
Visiting Professor of Cultural Policy
University of Chicago
(on leave from MIT)
J. Mark Schuster is a noted author, researcher, and educator specializing in the analysis of government policies and programs with respect to the arts, culture, and environmental design. He is the author of numerous books, articles, and reports including:

• Preserving the Built Heritage: Tools for Implementation
  with John de Monchaux and Charles Riley (University Press of New England);
• Patrons Despite Themselves: Taxpayers and Arts Policy
  with Michael O·Hare and Alan Feld (New York University Press);
• Supporting the Arts: An International Comparative Study
  (National Endowment for the Arts);
• Who's to Pay for the Arts? The International Search for Models of Arts Support
  with Milton Cummings (American Council for the Arts);
• The Audience for American Art Museums, and
  The Geography of Participation in the Arts and Culture
  (Seven Locks Press).

Schuster is a founding member of the Association for Cultural Economics and is co-editor of the Journal of Cultural Economics. He also serves on the editorial board of the International Journal of Cultural Policy.

Susan Farr
Executive Director
Clarice Smith Performing Arts Center
Susan Farr is a nationally recognized leader in the performing arts field. In fall 2000, she was named executive director of the Clarice Smith Performing Arts Center at Maryland, a new multivenue, multipurpose 'arts village' soon to be dedicated on the University of Maryland College Park campus. Occupying 318,000 square feet and situated on a 17-acre site, the Center is designed to serve the music, theatre, and dance divisions of the University, as well as serving audiences and communities in the county. Facilities include 6 performances spaces, a performing arts library, a Grand Pavilion, 30 classrooms, lecture halls, and seminar rooms, 50 practice and rehearsal rooms, 100 faculty/staff offices, and a cafe. It's dedication is scheduled for September 2001.

Prior to her appointment to the Smith Center, Ms. Farr served for 13 years as executive director of the Association of Performing Arts Presenters, a national service organization for performing arts presenters, centers, festivals, managers, and other organizations engaged in presentation of the live performing arts.

CONTACT:
Bolz Center for Arts Administration
(608) 263-4161
bolz@bus.wisc.edu