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Binoculars: Management Strategies In Film, Kamryn Fall

Liberal Arts and Engineering Studies

No abstract provided.

An Internship Report On Classwish, Chi Ma

Arts Administration Master's Reports

From September through December 2013, I interned at an organization named Classwish located in New York City. Classwish was founded in 2008. It is a nonprofit organization dedicated to improving the educational environment by helping teachers to get school supplies. The organization’s Mission Statement is, “We empower parents, educators, and local communities to make a positive change in their children's lives by providing them with the supplies they need to learn, grow and excel.” This internship report includes a review of the organizational profile, the duties of my internship as a music marketing intern, an organizational SWOT analysis, best practices …

French Quarter Festivals, Inc.: A Year Of Festivals (Internship Report), Kathryn B. Simmons-Carroll

Arts Administration Master's Reports

This report accounts my time spent as an intern with French Quarter Festivals, Inc. from March 2013 through August 2014. FQFI, a nonprofit 501(c)(3) organization in New Orleans, Louisiana, began with French Quarter Festival in 1984 and now produces three festivals each year. This paper seeks to discuss how the organization has changed over time, examine the structure of FQFI in its current state, and make recommendations for FQFI as they continue to “promote the Vieux Carré and the City of New Orleans through high quality special events and activities that showcase the culture and heritage of this unique city, …

New Orleans Museum Of Art: A Master’S Report On My Internship Experiences And Observations, Victoria C. Lacayo

Arts Administration Master's Reports

This report outlines my experiences and observations the New Orleans Museum of Art (NOMA). It will focus on a brief history of expansion through size and collections, attempts to garner a younger audience through new tactics, and will analyze the Museum’s strengths, weaknesses, opportunities, and threats. I will address the ways that staff members are adapting to help secure NOMA’s relevancy as a modern and forward thinking non-profit who is actively trying to grow its youth membership. I will primarily focus on the efforts of the External Affairs department to refine its long and short-term goals that include creating better …

Contemporary Arts Center: An Internship Report, Sarah Stevens

Arts Administration Master's Reports

The following internship report is an overview of the Contemporary Arts Center (CAC). As a requirement of the Arts Administration Graduate Program at the University of New Orleans, I completed a 480-hour internship spanning three months in the center’s development and membership department. This report combines observational research with the knowledge gained from my studies and subjective research to provide an analysis of the CAC’s current position, strengths, weaknesses, opportunities, and threats, and provides recommendations on how the center can address specific issues with operations and financial management in order to grow as an organization in the future.

The New Orleans Museum Of Art: Managing The Collection, Laura Baker

Arts Administration Master's Reports

An internship experience in the Office of the Registrar and Collections Management at the New Orleans Museum of Art is reviewed alongside discussion of the Museum’s history, structure, and permanent collection, in addition to analyses of the organization’s finances and its institutional strengths, weaknesses, opportunities and threats. Discussion topics also include the intern’s experience, best practices in similar institutions, and a conclusion with recommendations made by the intern.

The Louisiana Children’S Museum: A Time Of Transition, Kathleen Rachel Ledet

Arts Administration Master's Reports

This report details an internship with the Louisiana Children’s Museum’s development office, which started in February 2014; transitioned from internship to employment in May 2014; and concluded in June 2014 after the Museum’s fundraising event, Circus Magic Night. In this paper, I will provide an overview of the Museum’s history, programs, and organizational structure, as well as describe my internship experience and contributions over a period of five months and 480 hours. Additionally, I will analyze LCM’s strengths, weaknesses, opportunities, and threats; discuss relevant best practices; and finally, offer recommendations that propose solutions to some of the challenges I observed …

The National Wwii Museum-Entertainment Department (Internship Report), Sarah Hitchcock Langley

Arts Administration Master's Reports

The purposes of this paper are to report on my internship at the National World War II Museum and to analyze the structure and practices in the Entertainment Department through a 480 hour internship. The Museum, located in New Orleans, LA, is a rapidly expanding tourist spot that captures and displays the history of World War II and the surrounding era. Beginning in October of 2013, under the direction of Director of Entertainment Victoria Reed, the position of Entertainment Assistant was filled to fulfill these hours and delve into the world of entertainment through a non-profit corporation. The hours of …

The Joan Mitchell Center: Retreat, Reflection, And Reciprocity (Internship Report), Sharbreon Plummer

Arts Administration Master's Reports

The following report serves as a culmination of my 480-hour internship with the Joan Mitchell Center Artist Residency Program ( also referred to as “The Center” or “JMC”). As the intern for Community Engagement, I was afforded the opportunity to work closely with the Director and staff across an array of areas including community outreach, public programs and event planning. This report will function as a summary of the organization’s history, programming, and tasks and functions associated with my role. In addition, it will highlight best practices for artist residencies, analyze the Center’s current state of operation, and offer recommendations …

South By Southwest, Llc: A Report On Volunteer Coordination, Sarah Spivey

Arts Administration Master's Reports

This internship report reviews the privately owned, for-profit entity South By Southwest (SXSW), and the main festival it produces each March. The report includes an analysis of the strengths and weaknesses of the organization, and offers suggestions for improvements. The history of SXSW, a description of volunteer programs, and a breakdown of the staff structure provide a basic understanding of the organization. For the purpose of this internship report, the timeframe being reviewed covers January through May 2014.

An Arts Administration Internship: Kid Smart, Katherine Drinkwater

Arts Administration Master's Reports

The purpose of this internship report is to review and provide recommendations to KID smART based primarily from my work with the organization from March through July of 2009. During this time, I worked directly with the Executive Director and the Program Director. The following report provides a detailed analysis of the organization, including organizational structure, funding, programs, and marketing as they stood at the time of my internship: summer of 2009. Due to the amount of time that has passed since the time of my internship, I will also include updates as to where the organization stands as of …

Thriving Or Surviving: The Current State Of Marcia. P. Hoffman School Of The Arts, Emily Fredrickson

Arts Administration Master's Reports

This report discusses an internship with the Marcia P. Hoffman School of the Arts at Ruth Eckerd Hall in Clearwater, Florida. Included in the report is an overview of the organization, a description of internship related tasks, an analysis of its current state, research on contemporary nonprofit practices, and recommendations for the organization. The internship took place between December of 2013 and March of 2014.

Collaboration. Community. Creativity: A Look At The National Performance Network, Carrie Knopf

Arts Administration Master's Reports

This comprehensive report was written upon the culmination of an internship with the National Performance Network (NPN) in which the author worked 40-­‐hours per week for 16 weeks. This report describes NPN, including its mission, structure, and operations. It also includes a SWOT analysis, review of best-­‐ case practices, and recommendations on how NPN can improve its current operations and programs in order to grow and prepare for the future.

Designing Museums For Participation, Collaboration And Social Interaction, Martin Mccarthy

Masters

This thesis documents the design and development of novel interactive experiences that explored concepts aimed to enhance the visitor experience to Cork Butter Museum, Cork, Ireland.

The context to the work is that in recent years, museums and cultural institutions are increasingly motivated to apply creative strategies to engage visitors who come for recreational, social and sometimes educative purposes. Novel museum exhibits designed to cater for such needs often involves the integration of new media technologies in response to rising expectations visitors have with regards to being actively engaged during their visit. This often requires a higher level of participation …

Working Class Theater Nw, Christina Hughes

MAIS Projects and Theses

This project details the development of a small, community theater, in Tacoma, WA: Working Class Theater NW. Disparity between the audience that exists in Tacoma and the theater designed to serve that audience creates space to re-conceptualize the role of theater in the region. The power of drama to engage in communal problem solving is often undermined by reliance on money and thematic disassociation from the issues of every day life. Engaging citizens through stories that reflect and expand on lived experiences, such as economic uncertainty and social diversity, removes the necessity of power and privilege to gain access to …

Utilizing The Contextual Learning Model At The Plattsburgh State Art Museum, Samantha E. Bellinger

MALS Final Projects, 1995-2019

Inspired by the work of John Falk and Lynn Dierking, this article examines the characteristics of contextual learning at the Plattsburgh State Museum. It investigates the museum visitors' experiences and process of learning through the lens of the Contextual Learning Model.

The purpose of this thesis is twofold: 1) to suggest a method for understanding the museum visitor experience, 2) and to demonstrate that visitor learning is fundamentally a meaning-making activity that involves a constant negotiation between the stories given by museums and those brought by visitors. As such, it is emphasized that museums can be effective educators if they …

The Changing Institutional Role Of The Art Museum In The United States, Evelyn Ramirez-Schultz

MALS Final Projects, 1995-2019

This final project examines the changing role of the art museum in the United States in the last half century. The goal is to show how external and internal forces have influenced a sea change in museums resulting in more engaging and accessible institutions. Through an examination of the forces that motivated these changes, the project explores and compares the two major institutions--the Los Angeles County Museum of Art and the Art Institute of Chicago--in the areas of audience development and outreach ; programming, collections and exhibits and education and outreach. Finally, the study evaluates the future of museums and …

Classwish: Now And Future, Youngshin Jeong

Arts Administration Master's Reports

These days, with K-12 education suffering from a lack of funds, nonprofit educational organizations are working to support K-12 education. The purpose of my internship report is to investigate the main issues in management and fundraising of a nonprofit educational organization, Classwish, a nationwide nonprofit organization based in New York City. Classwish supports teachers and students by making donations to provide teachers with supplies in order to improve the education environment. By investigating ways to manage an organization and to fundraise, I will analyze strengths and weaknesses of their management, as well as external opportunities and threats. I will also …

The New Orleans Museum Of Art: Fostering Change Through Acceptance, Openness, And Community Engagement, Sean Gilbert

Arts Administration Master's Reports

The internship report that follows this is the result of my time interning with the New Orleans Museum of Art. During my time at NOMA I had the unique opportunity to work with both the department of Interpretation and Audience Engagement and the department of External Affairs. Through this duel departmental internship at the Museum I began to understand the history of the Museum where it came from and what makes NOMA the institution it is today. Throughout the country museums and cultural institutions are having to adapt to today’s arts economy. Meaning institutions must become adaptable, transparent, and more …

A Consultant’S Analysis Of Bond Public Relations And Brand Strategy, Suzette Lake

Arts Administration Master's Reports

In order to demonstrate the knowledge and skills acquired during her tenure in the Arts Administration graduate program, the consultant works four hundred and eighty hours as a Social Media and PR intern at Bond Public Relations and Brand Strategy in New Orleans, Louisiana. The following body of work is a consultant’s report written from the perspective of a professional Arts Administrator, and includes the following items: host company profile; description of internship activities; consultant’s contributions and gains; summation of company and industry best practices; host company’s strengths, weaknesses, opportunities, and threats – both internal and external; and the consultant’s …

The Arts Council Of New Orleans: An Internship Report, Elise Richardson

Arts Administration Master's Reports

The Arts Council of New Orleans is the official arts agency of New Orleans, located at 935 Gravier Street. The organization supports and develops the arts community through many different programming initiatives, including administering grants, managing a monthly Arts Market, and providing business training to artists. In this internship report, I discuss my role within the organization during my internship, which began in January 2013 and lasted through June 2013. I then analyze my observations of the organization’s strengths, weaknesses, opportunities and threats, and provide recommendations for improving the Arts Council’s operations based on best practices and expert literature in …

A Report On An Internship At The National Performance Network (Npn), Eun Jung Yang

Arts Administration Master's Reports

The objective of this paper is to report on an internship with the National Performance Network (NPN), a non-profit arts organization based in New Orleans, to describe its mission and structure, and to provide positive recommendations to further enhance NPN's operation in the future. This report is based on a 480 hour internship at NPN, with some additional volunteer time, which occurred from August to December 2013, under the supervision of NPN's Operating Chief and Staff. The paper demonstrates working knowledge of the organization and offers reflections on its practices and ideas for its future.

Crowdfunding In Museums, Melanie R. Bump

Seton Hall University Dissertations and Theses (ETDs)

The successes of websites such as Kickstarter and Indiegogo have propelled the popularity of crowdfunding and have made it a viable mode of fundraising in museums. Museums have used crowdfunding to raise funds for a wide variety of purposes including purchasing property, construction, disaster recovery, exhibition production, educational programs, and artifact conservation. An increasing number of museums have launched campaigns through various crowdfunding websites, experiencing varying degrees of success. In order to use crowdfunding as an effective fundraising tool, it is important to understand all the factors that contribute to the overall achievement of a crowdfunding campaign.

This thesis describes …

What Constitutes "Success" For Professional Musicians?, Jonathan M. Brown

Chancellor’s Honors Program Projects

No abstract provided.

Transformational Directing: An Analysis On How Leadership Affects The Creative Process, James Clayton Winters

Theses and Dissertations

Leadership is often ascribed as a quality one either possess or doesn’t. We often hear phrases like “She is born leader” or “All eyes are on you”, these are thrown around without discretion in the classroom, conference rooms, social gatherings, and business meetings. This work contends that leadership and in particular leadership that grows and transforms its participants is less an inherent character trait, than an outlook and set of core principles that lead to transformation. Through the application of current and developing business leadership theory and its effect on creativity and a cross analysis of “Best in Class” theatre …

A Look Into The Industry Of Video Games Past, Present, And Yet To Come, Chad Hadzinsky

CMC Senior Theses

Since its inception, the video game industry has been both a new medium for art and innovation as well as a major driving force in the advancements of many technologies. The often overlooked video game industry has turned from a hobby to a multi-billion dollar industry in its short, forty year life. People of all ages and genders across the world are playing video games at a higher clip than ever before. With so many new gamers and emerging technologies, it is an exciting time for the industry. The landscape is constantly changing and successful business models of the past …