Taos

2010 Cultural Institute weekend is July 22-25.

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Art in the City: Building a Culture that Applauds the Arts

Explore how cities like Dallas, Santa Fe and Taos cultivate and foster adynamic arts culture. Beginning with a stop at the Santa Fe Opera on Thursday for an exclusive behind-the-scenes tour, the course will continue Friday and Saturday with lectures and field trips in Taos. Learn how entrepreneurial arts organizations are formed and how patrons ensure their viability. Hear about composers like Beethoven, who understood the business of music andcomposed particular pieces that were financially lucrative to fund other artistic endeavors. This course will appeal both to music lovers and entrepreneurs interested in the business model that will support arts audiences today.

About the Instructors
José Antonio Bowen has served as dean and Algur H. Meadows Chair and Professor of Music in Meadows School of the Arts at SMU since 2006. He has taught at Stanford University and served as chair of music at Georgetown University and dean of fine arts at Miami University. He received a National Endowment for the Humanities Fellowship for work on his book The Conductor and the Score: A History of the Relationship between Interpreter and Text from Beethoven to Wagner. Bowen earned a B.S. in chemistry, an M.A. in music composition, an M.A. in humanities and a Ph.D. in musicology and humanities from Stanford University.

Zannie Giraud Voss is chair and professor of arts administration in Meadows School of the Arts and Cox School of Business at SMU, and an affiliate professor at the Euromed School of Management in Marseille, France. Prior to joining the SMU faculty, she taught at Duke University, where she also served as producing director of Theater Previews, a professional theater company dedicated to the development and co-production of new works. She has published articles examining the strategic factors that influence organizational performance in nonprofit professional theatres and has co-authored the book Outrageous Fortune: The Life and Times of the New American Play. Voss earned her Ph.D. at the Institut d’Administration des Entreprises in Aix-en-Provence, France.

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For more information
Contact Allison Curran at: taosci@smu.edu or call 214-768-TAOS (8267).