Campus Connection: Engaging College Students In The Arts
College students … I have been surrounded by them for 29 years at DePaul University. They are youthful, demanding, smart, talented, challenging and friendly. Understandably, they are self-involved, but they are always worthy of our time and energy. They represent the audience of tomorrow that so many arts organizations are concerned with building.
FIND: Friendly, Intelligent, Neglected and Diverse.
I am the director of an organization called Accessible Contemporary Music that exists to promote the music of contemporary composers through, among other things, live performances each year in several different venues around town. As such I am always working to expand and diversify the audience for our concerts and to introduce new people to contemporary Classical music. In my mind there is an ideal but highly elusive group of people I am especially interested in reaching that I think of as FINDs, short for Friendly, Intelligent, Neglected and Diverse.
One Fish, Two Fish…uh…Three Fish
You have been asking for them and they are finally here. The videos of Pete and Michael's Open Forum are up in Resources. Check them out. We also followed up with our "fish" to get reactions to their consultations by some of Obama's best. Read what they had to say below, and follow the links to watch the entire consultation.
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