Faculty
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Dr.
Alan Yaffe
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| Director, Arts Administration Program, College-Conservatory of Music |
 Alan Yaffe's professional background is in management and marketing of theaters and symphony orchestras. He served as director of marketing for the Pittsburgh Symphony; managing director for Shakespeare & Company; and director of marketing and planning for the Coconut Grove Playhouse. He is a consultant to professional arts organizations in the areas of administration, strategic planning and marketing.
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Prof.
Steven Morrison
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| Assistant Professor of Arts Administration, College-Conservatory of Music |
 Before coming to CCM, Morrison was the general manager (1998-2001) and assistant managing director (1992-97) at the Alabama Shakespeare Festival, a LORT B major regional theatre. He also served as the orchestra manager for the Alabama Symphony Orchestra and business manager/director of development at Theatre Albany. Other professional activities include technical consultant for Wolf Trap Center for the Performing Arts' stART smART Network project, board retreat facilitator and consultant on strategic planning for community theaters and performing arts grants panelist for the Alabama and Ohio Arts Councils. Previously he taught at the University of Alabama and Alabama Shakespeare Festival Master of Fine Arts program. He is a member of the Association of Arts Administration Educators, Theatre Communications Group and the Association of Performing Arts Presenters.
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Prof.
Karen Faaborg
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| Vice Provost for Faculty Administrative Services, University of Cincinnati |
 Admitted to practice law in Ohio, Faaborg's professional background is in educational theater and community arts. She has served as legal adviser to local and regional artists and arts organizations. Other experience includes associate director of the Cincinnati Arts Consortium from 1977 to 1980 and associate dean of CCM from 1987 to 1992.
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Prof.
Carl H.P. Dahlgren
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| Professor Emeritus of Arts Administration, College-Conservatory of Music |
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Carl H.P. Dahlgren was founding Director of the Arts Administration Program and established both the curricular objectives that the program has sustained and the dual degree with the MBA program. Prior to joining the CCM faculty , he served as vice president of Columbia Artist Management and of Hurok Concerts, managing the careers of such major artists as Rudolf Serkin, Eileen Farrell, Richard Tucker, Jascha Heiftez, Michael Rabin, Mildred Miller, Phyllis Curtin, Anna Moffo, Jamie Laredo, Andre Watts, Yo Yo Ma, and Erich Leinsdorf, as well as such touring attractions as the New York Philharmonic, the Boston Symphony, Sarah Caldwell’s Boston Opera Company, and the French National Orchestra. His experience also includes market research and analysis with Gallup & Robinson and Benson & Benson. He continues to take an active role in the Arts Administration program’s alumni activities.
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Adjunct Faculty
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Prof.
Chester Lee
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| CEO, Creative Links |
Chester Lee has been a guest lecturer at Auburn University, the University of Cincinnati, University of Alabama Birmingham, Samford University, and many others. He has supervised marketing for several arts organizations including NJ Shakespeare Festival, O'Neill Theatre Center, National Shakespeare Company, Heritage Repertory Theatre, The Alabama Shakespeare Festival, and Birmingham Children's Theatre. He has presented lectures at Theatre Conferences across the nation, and is a featured speaker of the American Express Arts Marketing Project. He holds a BS degree in Theatre with a minor in computer systems, and an MFA in Arts Administration. Currently, he is the CEO for Creative Links, an internet marketing firm in Cincinnati, Ohio.
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Joan Cochran Rieveschl Series on Visionaries in the Arts
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Ben Cameron
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| Program Director for the Arts, Doris Duke Charitable Foundation |
From 1988-92, Cameron served as the Director of the Theatre Program at the National Endowment for the Arts, where he frequently represented the theatre community at various speaking engagements and conferences. He presented keynote speeches to the theatre communities of New York, Chicago, Los Angeles, San Francisco, Boston, Atlanta and North Carolina, and represented the NEA at a meeting of Soviet Theatre managers in Omsk, Siberia; he later returned and traveled extensively throughout the former Soviet Republic as the evaluator of the theatre managers program sponsored by Arts International and the Ford Foundation.
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Willam Cleveland
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| Director, Minneapolis Center for the Study of Art & Community |
William Cleveland is the Founder and Director of the Center for the Study of Art and Community. Believing that the arts are one of America’s most neglected natural resources, he and his colleagues at the Center work to build new relationships between the arts and the broader community. Mr. Cleveland specializes in developing and assessing art-based community partnerships, management support, and training for artists and their community and institutional partners: arts organizations, schools, human service and criminal justice agencies, local and state government, business and philanthropic organizations. Before establishing the Center for the Study of Art and Community in 1990, Bill Cleveland directed the California ArtReach Program, the state’s Arts-in-Corrections Program; prior to that he lead the California State Summer School for the Arts, and the Walker Arts Center Education Department. His book, Art in Other Places, is published by Praeger.
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Henry Fogel
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| President and CEO , American Symphony Orchestra League |
Henry Fogel has overseen the operations of the Chicago Symphony Orchestra Association since August 1985. Under his leadership, the Association's budget has more than tripled and its endowment has grown from $19 million to more than $160 million. The $120 million-dollar renovation and expansion of Orchestra Hall was also conceived and completed during his tenure. Fogel has served as executive director of the National Symphony Orchestra and orchestra manager of the New York Philharmonic. From 1963 to 1978, he was vice president and program director of Syracuse radio station WONO, where he conceived the first radio fundraising marathon for an orchestra. He has since produced more than 100 radiothons for 26 different orchestras, while also hosting radio programs for Chicago station WFMT and its national radio network.
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Doug Herbert
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| Special Assistant on Teacher Quality and Arts Education, Secretary of Education |
Prior to May 2004, Doug Herbert was the Director of Arts Education at the National Endowment for the Arts, a post he held since 1992. Under Doug's leadership, the Endowment partnered with the U.S. Department of Education to support the development of voluntary national standards in arts education, and to establish a framework for inclusion of the arts in the National Assessment of Educational Progress, the Nation's Report Card.
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Mrs.
Donna Walker-Kuhne
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| President, Walker Communications Group |
Since 1984 Ms. Walker-Kuhne has been President of Walker International Communications Group. She conducts seminars and workshops while providing marketing consultation services to arts organizations, performing and visual artists, dance companies, Broadway and off Broadway productions, and non-profit groups. Among her clients are major multicultural performing arts organizations including The Public Theater, The Martha Graham Dance Company, The Bill T. Jones/Arnie Zane Dance Company, the Broadway hit Hairspray, Sony Music, WNYC Radio, and the Arts and Business Council. She was recently an Associate Producer for the critically acclaimed production of George C. Wolfe's Harlem Song at the world-famous Apollo Theater. She was honored in 1998 as the first American invited by the National Arts Council of Singapore to teach a week-long marketing workshop. In 2003 she was the first American invited by the Australian Council on the Arts to do a three-city lecturing tour on the topic: Ethnic Diversity for Arts Organizations.
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Guest Speakers, Lecturers, and Extended Faculty
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Marin Alsop
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| Conductor, Colorado Symphony |
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Amy Banister
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| Public Relations Director , Contemporary Arts Center |
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Peter Bilotta
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| Development Director, Playhouse in the Park |
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Pat Borger
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| Planned Giving Product Manager, Trust Department, Fifth Third Bank |
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Brad Broker
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| President, Broadway Series |
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Ben Cameron
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| Executive Director, Theatre Communications Group |
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Willam Cleveland
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| Director, Minneapolis Center for the Study of Art & Community |
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Jackie Demaline
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| Arts Columnist, The Cincinnati Enquirer |
Theater critic and arts reporter Jackie Demaline has been with The Cincinnati Enquirer since 1994, following seven years as entertainment editor of the Albany Times-Union in upstate New York. In 1998 the Ohio Society of Professional Journalists named her the state's top arts reporter.
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Charles Demarais
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| Executive Director, Contemporary Arts Center |
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Henry Fogel
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| President and CEO , American Symphony Orchestra League |
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Elissa Getto
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| President and Executive Director, Cincinnati Arts Association |
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Catherine Guin
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| Director of Marketing and Communications, Cleveland Opera |
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Doug Herbert
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| Special Assistant on Teacher Quality and Arts Education, Secretary of Education |
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Kolins Howard
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| Production Manager, Radio City Christmas Show |
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Paavo Jarvi
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| Maestro, Cincinnati Symphony Orchestra |
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Eleanor Kittelson
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| Co-owner, NonProfit Strategy Partners, Inc. |
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Lynn Meyers
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| Producing Artistic Director , Ensemble Theatre of Cincinnati |
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Steven Monder
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| President, Cincinnati Symphony Orchestra |
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Nic Muni
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| Artistic Director, Cincinnati Opera |
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Lois Rosenthal
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| Co-Founder and Co-Director , Uptown Arts |
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Linda Shearer
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| Director, Contemporary Art Center |
Shearer comes from the Williams College Museum of Art in Massachusetts, where she had been director for 15 years. She has extensive background in administration, management and curatorial programming, including work at the Museum of Modern Art in New York.
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Dr.
Crew Spencer
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| Executive Director, National Underground Freedom Center |
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J. Shane Starkey
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| Nonprofit Attorney , Thompson Hine |
Shane advises clients on the tax and legal issues related to a wide range of business transactions. For example, he structures and negotiates mergers, acquisitions, dispositions, spin-offs, financings, like-kind exchanges, joint ventures and other strategic alliances for public and private companies. He also advises public charities, private foundations and other nonprofit organizations on the legal, tax and corporate governance implications of a broad variety of matters, including employment agreements, deferred compensation and other executive compensation plans, strategic alliances and financings. Shane is frequently invited by the Fine Arts Fund to lead seminars on corporate governance and other legal issues affecting arts organizations and serves as a guest lecturer for the Arts Administration Program at the University of Cincinnati College-Conservatory of Music.
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Rick Steiner
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| Broadway Producer , Rick Steiner/Osher/Staton/Bell/Mayerson Group |
Co-produced the Tony Award-winning best musicals Big River, The Producers and Hairspray, along with Into the Woods, The Secret Garden, Smokey Joe's Cafe and the Pulitzer Prize-winning play Topdog/Underdog. Credits: Six poker championships including the 1992 World Series of Poker 7-Stud Hi-Lo (Vegas) and the 1995 Legends of Poker 7-Stud event (L.A.). Rick is planted in Cincinnati and has sprouted two sons, Ace and Duke.
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Paulsen Stephen
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| CEO, Arts Information Technology Specialist of Proscenium, Inc |
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Redman-Rengstorf Susan
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| Executive Director, Cincinnati Ballet |
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Councilman
Jim Tarbell
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| Councilman and Vice Mayor, City of Cincinnati |
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Dr.
George Thorn
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| Co-Director , ARTS Action Research |
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Ginger Warner
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| Board Member, Ohio Arts Council |
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