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"Most of us on the faculty are part-time academics, although obviously we're devoted to our students. Teaching here offers us a special sanctuary in our professional lives and with it the joy of being able to help shape our profession."
- Martin Vinik, Arts Administration faculty member
Faculty and guest instructors are drawn from persons actively involved in the field as administrators, board members, artists, authors, attorneys, patrons, consultants, and researchers. Their teaching and advisory duties reflect a continuing awareness of the field and its needs, current issues of cultural policy, and employment opportunities. They teach and consult in a dozen countries.
Program Director
- Joan Jeffri
jeffri@exchange.tc.columbia.edu
Office Location: 413 Zankel
Office Hours: Monday & Wednesday: 9:00-11:00am or by appointment
Joan Jeffri is the Director of the Program in Arts Administration at Teachers College, and Director of the Research Center for Arts and Culture. She is the past president of the Association of Arts Administration Educators.
She is the co-author with Yu Ding of Respect for Art: Visual Arts Administration and Management in China and the United States (2007) and the author of Above Ground: Information on Artists III Special Focus New York City Aging Artists (2007); Changing the Beat: A Study of the Worklife of Jazz Musicians (NEA Research Report #43, 2003); Making Changes: The Transition of Professional Dancers to Post-Performance Careers with William Baumol and David Throsby (2004); Arts Money: Raising It, Saving It and Earning It (1983 and 1989); The Emerging Arts: Management, Survival and Growth (1980); and editor of Artistshelp: The Artist’s Guide to Work-Related Human and Social Services (1990) and The Actor Speaks (1994), The Painter Speaks (1993) and The Craftsperson Speaks (1992), as well as numerous studies on artists, including Information on Artists I, II and III.
She has been a Senior Fulbright Scholar in Australia and Israel, and in 1984 she won the Leavey Award for Excellence in Private Enterprise Education. From 1981-1990, she served as an executive director of The Journal of Arts Management and Law and in 1987 won the Washington Education Press Association Distinguished Achievement Award for Overall Excellence in Journals, for Special Editing of its issue on Labor Relations and the Arts. Her first careers were as a poet, with Louis Untermeyer as her mentor, and an actress, appearing in the national tour of The Homecoming, in the Boston Company of The Effect of Gamma Rays on Man-in-the-Moon Marigolds and with the Lincoln Center Repertory Company in New York City. She has a B.F.A., cum laude, in theatre from Boston University.
Professor Jeffri teaches Principles and Practices in Arts Administration and Principles and Practices in the Visual Arts.
Faculty
- Steven Dubin
sd2188@columbia.edu
Office Location: 421A Thompson
Office Hours: By Appointment
Steven Dubin received his Ph.D. in sociology at University of Chicago; in addition, he did postdoctoral work at both University of Chicago and Yale University. Prior to coming to Teachers College, he was a faculty member at Purchase College – State University of New York for 19 years, where he directed the Media, Society and the Arts Program. Dr. Dubin also offered a course in the Columbia Summer Session from 1985 to 2005. In addition to being Professor of Arts Administration at TC, he is a Research Scholar at the Institute of African Studies at Columbia University.
Dr. Dubin is the author of Bureaucratizing the Muse: Public Funds and the Cultural Worker (1987); Arresting Images: Impolitic Art and Uncivil Actions (1992 and paperback, 1994); cited as a Notable Book of the Year by New York Times, and by the Gustavus Myers Center for the Study of Human Rights); Displays of Power: Memory and Amnesia in the American Museum (1999 and paperback, 2000); Transforming Museums: Mounting Queen Victoria in a Democratic South Africa (2006); and the forthcoming Past Imperfect/Future Conditional: South African Culture Wars in a Globalized Perspective.
He has won many awards, including the Fulbright-Hays Faculty Abroad Research Fellowship to South Africa, the SUNY Chancellor’s Award for Excellence in Scholarship and Creative Activities, The Lady Davis Fellowship Trust Visiting Professorship at Hebrew University in Jerusalem and residencies at The Bellagio Study & Conference Center, The Ragdale Foundation and The Ucross Foundation.
Dr. Dubin has written and lectured widely on public funding to the arts, censorship, transgressive and controversial art, museums, popular culture and southern African politics and culture. His numerous articles and reviews have appeared in social science journals as well as more popular media. In recent years, he has been a regular contributor to Art in America. He is frequently sought for commentary by journalists, and Arresting Images was referenced in a 1992 court decision involving the police seizure of a painting in Chicago. In addition, Dr. Dubin has become a free speech activist, breaking the storey of corporate censorship at Mattel, Inc. in regards to “Art, Design, and Barbie: The Evolution of a Cultural Icon,” a 1995 museum exhibition which he helped curate. His article, “How I Got Screwed by Barbie” generated news coverage nationwide.
He has been traveling throughout southern Africa since 2000, including South Africa, Namibia, Mozambique, Lesotho and Swaziland.
Adjuncts
- Philip Aarons
pea1@columbia.edu
Office Location: 413 Zankel
Office Hours: By Appointment.
Philip E. Aarons, is with the firm Millennium Partners, and worked for eight years as President of the General Atlantic Corporation's real estate subsidiary, focusing on affordable housing and real estate development with not-for-profit organizations. He holds a J.D. from Columbia Law School; and a B.A. magna cum laude, from Columbia College, major, art history. He teaches Law and the Arts II.
- I. Fred Koenigsberg
ifk2101@columbia.edu
Office Location: 413 Zankel
Office Hours: By Appointment
I. Fred Koenigsberg is a partner in the law firm of White & Case, L.L.P. He is a past board member of Volunteer Lawyers for the Arts, a Past Chair of the American Bar Association Section of Intellectual Property Law, a Past President of the American Intellectual Property Law Association and a Past Trustee of the Copyright Society of the USA. He serves as Counsel to the Board of Directors of the American Society of Composers, Authors and Publishers (ASCAP), and teaches the Seminar on Law and the Music Industry at Columbia Law School. He has a J.D. from Columbia Law School, an M.A. in Communications from the University of Pennsylvania and a B.A. from Cornell University. He teaches Law and the Arts I.
Instructors
- William Becker
beckerw@theatredreams.com
Office Location: 413 Zankel
Office Hours: By Appointment
William W. Becker was an attorney for the John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts during his 33-year legal career in Washington, D.C., and from 1993 until 2001, its General Counsel. During his tenure, he oversaw performance contracting and, beginning in 1994, the transfer of building operations and a $225 million construction program from the National Park Service to the Kennedy Center. After leaving his law practice in 2001 to found TheatreDreams, he co-produced four Broadway and several road productions; acquired, restored, operated and sold The Chicago Theatre; and managed the Kodak Theatre in Los Angeles. During his career, he has negotiated thousands of theater production, television, licensing, recording, labor and other performing arts contracts and litigated numerous related issues. Becker is a graduate of the Harvard Law School (L.L.B., cum laude), the Amos Tuck School of Business Administration (M.B.A., High Distinction), and Dartmouth College (B.A., magna cum laude). Until leaving his law practice, he was admitted to the bars of the District of Columbia, Maryland, Massachusetts, and Supreme Court. He teaches Labor-Management Relations in the Arts. -
Carolyn C. Clark
cwc68@columbia.edu
Office Location: 413 Zankel
Office Hours: By Appointment
Carolyn C. Clark is a consulting partner of the international law firm Milbank, Tweed, Hadley & McCloy LLP. She focuses on planning, advising trustees and executors, and advising and establishing charitable organizations. She serves as a Trustee of the Milbank Memorial Fund and chairs the Board of the historic Woodlawn Cemetery. She is an academician of the International Academy of Estate and Trust Law, a Life Member of the American Law Institute and a member of the American College of Trust and Estate Counsel. She served as the chairman of the ACTEC Committee on Charitable Giving and Charitable Organizations, the American Bar Association’s Committee on Special Problems of Charitable Institutions and the New York City Bar Association’s Committee on Nonprofit Organizations. She writes and lectures frequently on estate planning, trust administration and on legal issues of interest to nonprofit organizations. She is a member of the Professional Advisory Council for the Museum of Modern Art and the Metropolitan Museum of Art. She graduated from Harvard Law School in 1968 and the University of Missouri in 1963. She teaches Law and the Arts II.
- Jane McIntosh
jmcintosh@lincolncenter.org
Office Location: 413 Zankel
Office Hours: By Appointment
Jane McIntosh is individual Senior Director, Giving and Membership Services at
Arts. Prior to joining Lincoln Center, she was the Director of Development at the American
Museum of the Moving Image; Director of Development at the National Academy of Design/Museum
and School of Fine Arts; and the Assistant Director of the American Folk Art Museum's capital
campaign. She earned her B.A. in English from
Program in Arts Administration at Teachers College,
adjunct faculty member since 2002. In addition to teaching, Jane has been a speaker for a variety
of seminars offered by the Association of Fundraising Professionals,
Cares; and a vocalist in a mixed jazz a cappella ensemble called SixPlay. She teaches Support
Structures: Development and Fundraising in the Arts.
- Tahra L. Millan
tahra.millan@gmail.com
Office Location: 413 Zankel
Office Hours: By Appointment
Tahra Millan is Director of Press and Marketing for Blue Man Productions, the corporate and creative hub for Blue Man Group. She oversees national programming and marketing for theatrical productions in New York City, Boston, Chicago, Orlando at Universal Orlando, and Las Vegas at the Venetian. Prior to Blue Man Group, she worked for the Broadway League (the national trade association for commercial theatre), Serino Coyne advertising, and Lower Manhattan Cultural Council. She is an avid guest speaker and presenter on arts & entertainment marketing with engagements at
- Peter Swords
pds@pipeline.com
Office Location: 413 Zankel
Office Hours: By Appointment
Peter Swords is founder and former President of the Nonprofit Coordinating Committee of New York, an umbrella group of New York Section 501(c)(3) organizations, devoted to improving and protecting the City’s nonprofit sector. Currently, NPCC membership stands at over 1,500. For 14 years, Swords was Associate Dean at Columbia Law School. He continues to teach courses at Columbia on nonprofit institutions, as well as lecturing frequently in the area of nonprofit law. He serves on boards of the Correctional Association, the La Mama Theatre and the Early Music Foundation. He is a member of NPCC’s Government Relations Committee. He teaches Law and the Arts II.
- Martin Vinik
mpv5@columbia.edu
Office Location: 413 Zankel
Office Hours: By Appointment
Martin Vinik is the Founding Principal of Martin Vinik Planning for the Arts LLC, management and design consultants specializing in capital projects and long-range planning in the arts. He is an expert in cultural district planning and has worked on many seminal arts districts and arts centers in the U.S. and around the world. His clients include theatre, dance, and opera companies, symphony orchestras, museums, universities and schools, real estate developers, and government agencies. He holds an M.F.A. from the Program in Arts Administration at Columbia University and a B.A. from Tufts University. He teaches Principles and Practice in the Performing Arts and Business Policy and Planning.
- Barbara Wolkoff
bwolkoff@comcast.net
Office Location: 413 Zankel
Office Hours: By Appointment
Barbara Wolkoff has been a business representative for the Society of Stage Directors and Choreographers (SSDC) , an independent national labor union representing directors and choreographers working in theatre in the United States, since 1997. In that capacity she served as the lead negotiator in six negotiations which have resulted in major economic gains for directors and choreographers. Prior to her tenure at SSDC, she ran her own graphic design business, whose clients included Pacific Gas and Electric and Commerce Clearing House (the premier publisher of tax law journals), and served as the Director of Customer Service for a national educational organization. Ms. Wolkoff holds an M.A. in Arts Administration from Teachers College, Columbia University, and a B.F.A from the Tisch School of the Arts, New York University. She teaches Labor-Management Relations in the Arts.
Program Director
- Joan Jeffri
Office Location: 413 Zankel
Office Hours: Monday & Wednesday: 9:00-11:00am or by appointment
Joan Jeffri is the Director of the Program in Arts Administration at Teachers College, and Director of the Research Center for Arts and Culture. She is the past president of the Association of Art Administration Educators. From 1981-1990, she served as an executive director of The Journal of Arts Management and Law. She is author of Arts Money: Raising It, Saving It, Earning It (1989); The Emerging Arts: Management, Survival and Growth (1990), and editor of Artisthelp: The Artist's Guide to Work-Related Human and Social Services (1990); and The Actor Speaks, The Painter Speaks, and The Craftsperson Speaks (Greenwood Press, 1994, 1993, 1992), as well as numerous studies on artists, including "Information on Artists I and II" and "The Artists Training and Career Project." Her first careers were as a poet, with Louis Untermeyer as her mentor, and an actress, appearing in the national tour of The Homecoming, in the Boston Company of The Effect of Gamma Rays on Man-in-the-Moon Marigolds and with the Lincoln Center Repertory Company in New York City.
Guests Lecturers
In addition to the core faculty, a series of stellar guest lecturers adds expertise to the Program on an annual basis.
- Miriam Colón, Director and Founder, Puerto Rican Traveling Theatre
- Adrian Ellis, Executive Director, Jazz at Lincoln Center
- Bridget Elias, Chief Financial Officer, The Whitney Museum of American Art
- Ronald Feldman, President, Ronald Feldman Fine Art
- Richard Kessler, Executive Director, Center for Arts Education
- Jeanette Ingberman, Founder and Director, Exit Art
- Michael Margitich, Senior Deputy Director for External Affairs, Museum of Modern Art
- Tahra Millan, Director of Press and Marketing, Blue Man Group Productions
- Rachel Moore, Executive Director, American Ballet Theatre
- Joan Rosenbaum, Director, The Jewish Museum
- Polly Rua, Senior Director, Sponsorship and Corporate Relations, Lincoln Center for the Performing Arts
- Arlene Shuler, President and CEO, New York City Center