The Program : Program Resources
Arts Administration students are afforded unique resources. Adjunct faculty, guest speakers and alumni help maintain high quality, personal and real-work contacts that make our Program so successful.
Columbia Volunteers for the Arts (CVA)
Alumni are a critical resource. There are more than 450 of them with jobs ranging from the Vice President of SONY, to senior management at major private foundations, general managers on Broadway and program directors at the
Cooper-Hewitt Museum and
Lincoln Center. The alumni group for arts administration, known as CVA, is made up of Program alumni from around the world. Their activities include serving as mentors for interns, creating vehicles for communication and professional development and acting as a resource for current students. Members of CVA help to organize several events a year for student-alumni interaction.
Projects targeted to the Columbia Community have included the Columbia Culture Map, a guide to the arts and cultural venues in the Teachers College – Columbia – Barnard area. In a special partnership with Columbia’s Department of Art History, fellowships have been given for creative work on the website. The photographs featured in this brochure and on our website were provided by the Map’s 1999 Fellows, Kendal Kennedy and Il Kim. The map is online in English, Spanish and Chinese with three-dimensional interactive performance and 3-D renderings of select exhibition spaces. Visit the Columbia Culture Map online at www.columbiaculturemap.org
Arts Administration Library
While Columbia University has 27 different libraries, the Program maintains its own resources of Arts Administration-specific books, periodicals and Master’s Theses. These publications are in active use throughout the year by the Program’s students and alumni.
Image: Springtime on the Barnard College campus