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The University of Utah's program in Arts Administration will be a two year (eight quarters) graduate program leading to a Master of Fine Arts Degree. It will be housed as an Institute within the College of Fine Arts. The faculty of the program will include a director, who will be in charge of curriculum, recruitment of students, and assigning other faculty duties. The balance of the faculty will consist of the managers of the Utah Symphony, Ballet West, Pioneer Memorial Theatre, Repertory Dance Theatre, and the Utah Museum of Fine Arts. I n addition, faculty of the Graduate School of Business and other schools of the University of Utah will instruct in the program. Students will have time in their schedules to include several electives. The arts organizations in Salt Lake City provide many guest artists each year who would be invited to lecture students. In the past several years some of the artists who have been in Salt Lake City have included jo Mielziner, Van Cliburn, Grant Johannesen, Gina Bachauer, Roberta Peters, Jennifer Muller, Glen Tetley, Anna Sokolow, Milton Goldman, Danny Newman, Matt Mattox, Danny Lewis, Jaques D'Amboise, Eleonor d'Antuono, Vicky Simon, john Butler, Olga Maynard, Adam Pinsker, and Nancy Hanks. Three to four times a year, a guest panel of arts administration experts will be brought to Salt Lake City to conduct a four-day seminar in some aspect of arts management which other management personnel from across the nation will also be invited to attend. Local experts will be used as guest lecturers, including fields such as fund raising, computer science, design, printing and management. |
