ART 5140 - Envisioning Art Organizations

This course is a detail-oriented practicum focused on the paper trail of art organizations: mission statements, grant applications, legal filings, and more. Participants conduct in-depth field investigations of several art organizations using publicly available data to assess their strengths, weaknesses, and trajectories. Participants also imagine their own art organizations and generate a significant amount of official written material for these, including their own grant applications. Additionally, the course features several guests from grant-giving organizations who share their experiences evaluating applications.

Requisites:
Credit Hours: 3
Repeat/Retake Information: May not be retaken.
Lecture/Lab Hours: 3.0 seminar
Grades: Eligible Grades: A-F,WP,WF,WN,FN,AU,I
Learning Outcomes:

Students will be able to research and enact procedures for updating an existing arts organization or founding their own organization.
Students will be able to assess the financial filings of non-profits.
Students will be able to evaluate the overall health and trajectory of organizations using publicly available data.
Students will be able to generate enduring mission statements and by-laws.
Students will be able to prepare extended grant applications.