Transforming Arts Institutions: Community Engagement as the Path to Sustainability

Kiana Day is currently Program Manager for Houston Grand Opera’s Home and Place, a program funded by a $250,000 grant received from ArtPlace, a new private-public funding consortium for economic revitalization grants, to promote “place building through art”.

She received Bachelor and Master of Music Education degrees from Jackson State University and is currently completing a DMA in Music Education degree from University of Houston where her major area of research is advocacy for music education in multicultural and urban environments.

Kiana has been a professional music educator for over 7 years, by teaching private piano and voice lessons, serving as a high school choral director, and
teaching music education courses at University of Houston and Houston Community College. During her tenure at University of Houston, she has been a co-researcher/presenter for two conference papers that were presented at the Texas Music Educators Association Conference in San Antonio, TX 2009 and 2010, consecutively, of which one of the papers, “A Content Analysis of Introductory Courses in Music Education at NASM-Accredited Colleges and Universities”, was recently published in the Fall 2011 Bulletin for the Council of Research in Music Education.

Lyz Crane is currently serving as Communications Associate for ArtHome while pursuing a Master of Public Administration at New York University’s Robert F. Wagner School of Public Service (EGD: May 2012, focus: policy analysis). At NYU, Crane is the Co-Chair of the Student Network Exploring Arts and Culture (SNEAC) and also working to coordinate a series of events through the Office of the President and the Right Honourable Gordon Brown on the subject of the Global Civil Society and the universal moral sense. Previously, Crane served as the Director of Program Development at Partners for Livable Communities, where she provided technical assistance to cities, developed publications, and spoke at conferences nationally and internationally. While there, she also served as the Program Manager of the Shifting Sands Initiative and Douglas Redd Fellowship. Crane graduated from Barnard College, Columbia University with a BA in Urban Studies and Sociology and in 2009 was named a ‘Next American Vanguard’ by urban affairs magazine Next American City.

Stephanie Moore is a freelance arts and culture researcher based in Los Angeles, CA. Her continued research on cultural mapping and community development stems from her longstanding interest in folk and traditional arts. Her research Cultural Mapping: Building and Fostering Strong Communities earned her a Master’s degree in Arts Management and a Graduate Certificate in Nonprofit Management from the University of Oregon in 2011. Stephanie has worked as a research assistant on multiple cultural planning and collaboration initiatives with Creative Planning, the Sustainable Cities Initiative, and the California Association of Museums.

Doug Borwick is President of the Board of the Association of Arts Administration Educators, an international organization of higher education programs in the field. For over 27 years he has served as Director of the Arts Management and Not-for-Profit Management Programs at Salem College in Winston-Salem, NC. He is, in addition, author of Engaging Matters, a blog for ArtsJournal and author/editor of Building Communities, Not Audiences: The Future of the Arts in the U.S.; President and CEO of Outfitters4, Inc., providing management services for nonprofit;, and President/CEO of ArtsEngaged, offering training and consultation services to artists and arts organizations seeking to more effectively engage with their communities. Dr. Borwick holds the Ph.D. in Music Composition from the Eastman School of Music and is an award-winning member of ASCAP.