Performing Arts Center Management
About this ebook
This co-edited reference book provides valuable information at the intersection of theory and practice in the professional field of executive leadership of performing arts centers. Drawing on the expertise of leading academics, consultants, and executives, this book focuses on institutions and practices in the United States, and is contextualized within additional fields such as cultural planning, urban revitalization, and economic development.
Performing Arts Center Management aims to provide valuable theoretical, conceptual, empirical, and practice-based information to current and future leaders in creative and cultural industries management. It serves as a unique reference for researchers, university students, civic leaders, urban planners, public venue managers, and arts administrators aspiring to improve or advance their work in successfully managing performing arts centers.
About the author
Patricia Dewey Lambert is an Associate Professor of Arts Management at the University of Oregon (UO), USA where she leads the performing arts management specialization.
Robyn Williams has worked across the United States in the public assembly facility management field for more than thirty years, and is currently Executive Director for Portland’5 Centers for the Arts in Portland, Oregon, USA.
