About Us

The Association of Arts Administration Educators (AAAE) is an international organization incorporated as a nonprofit institution within the United States. Its mission is to represent college and university graduate and undergraduate programs in arts administration, encompassing training in the management of visual, performing, literary, media, cultural and arts service organizations. Founded in 1975, the AAAE was created to provide a forum for communication among its members and advocate formal training and high standards of education for arts administrators. The Association, moreover, encourages its members to pursue, publish, present and disseminate research in arts management and administration to strengthen the understanding of arts management issues in the academic and professional fields.

Recognition of arts administration as a profession is a recent development. Because formal education was not begun until the mid-1960's, the profession is still in its adolescence, even as arts institutions are demanding higher levels of sophistication from their administrators.

The Association believes that higher education remains the appropriate response to these demands and to the present and future management needs of the arts. Information is available on each member program's history, purpose, background, administration, degree(s), curriculum and application procedure through this web site.

STAFF:

• Barbara Harkins, Administrative Director
  bharkins@artsadministration.org

BOARD:

• Andrew Taylor [Board President]
  University of Wisconsin-Madison
  ataylor@bus.wisc.edu
• Jerry Coltin [Board Vice President]
  Carnegie Mellon University
• Jean Brody [Board Treasurer]
  Goucher College
• William Poole [Board Secretary]
  University of Waterloo
• Doug Borwick
  Salem College
• Stephen Boyle
• University of South Australia

• Harmon Greenblatt
  University of New Orleans
• Sherri Helwig
• University of Toronto at Scarborough

• Ad Huijsmans
  Utrecht School of the Arts
• Phyllis Johnson
  Columbia College-Chicago
• Richard Maloney
• Boston University

• Randy Pope
• University of Akron

• Ximena Varela
  Drexel University