The Program

Program Faculty

"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
  
  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.

Faculty

• Steven Dubin
  
  Office Location: 421A Thmps
  Office Hours: By Appointment
  

  Steven Dubin comes to Teachers College after being a faculty member at Purchase College--State University of New York for 19 years. There he directed the Media, Society, and the Arts Program, which links the arts conservatories and the liberal arts, since 1988. He received his Ph.D. at the University of Chicago; in addition, he did postdoctoral work at both the University of Chicago and Yale University. Professor Dubin has also offered courses in the Columbia Summer Session since 1985.  

  He is the author of Bureaucratizing the Muse: Public Funds and the Cultural Worker (1987); Arresting Images: Impolitic Art and Uncivil Actions (1992, paperback edition, 1994 ; cited as a Notable Book of the Year by The 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; paperback edition, 2000), and the forthcoming Transforming Museums: Mounting Queen Victoria in a Democratic South Africa (2006).

  Professor Dubin 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 (Bellagio, Italy), The Ragdale Foundation (Lake Forest, Illinois), and The Ucross Foundation (Clearmont, Wyoming).

  He has written and lectured widely on public funding of the arts, censorship, transgressive and controversial art, obscenity, museums, and popular culture.   His articles and reviews have appeared in Contemporary Sociology, American Journal of Sociology, Urban Life, Social Problems, Social Forces, Sociological Inquiry, Symbolic Interaction, Visual Anthropology,   Journal of Aesthetic Education, Journal of Arts Management and Law, Curator Magazine, Nation, Jewish Currents, Common Quest, New Art Examiner and 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, Professor Dubin has become a free speech activist, breaking the story of corporate censorship by 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 also dissected the evolution of the controversy over the 1999 exhibition "Sensation" at the Brooklyn Museum of Art, a story featured in Art in America .

  He has been traveling throughout Southern Africa for the past five years, including the countries of Namibia, South Africa, Mozambique, Lesotho and Swaziland. Some of the research he has done is reflected in his forthcoming book on the transformation of South African museums during the post-apartheid period, since 1994.

Adjuncts

• Philip Aarons
  
  Office Location: 444E Macy
  Office Hours: By Appointment.
  

  Philip E. Aarons, now with the firm Millennium Partners, worked for eight years as President of the General Atlantic Corporationâs real estate subsidiary, focusing on affordable housing and real estate development with not-for-profit organizations. J.D., Columbia Law School; B.A. magna cum laude, Columbia College, major, art history. He teaches Law and the Arts II

• I Koenigsberg
  
  Office Location: 444E Macy
  Office Hours: By Appointment
  I. Fred Koenigsberg is a partner in the law firm of White & Case, LLP. He is a 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 general counsel of the American Society of Composers, Authors and Publishers (ASCAP). Prof. Koenigsberg 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

• Carolyn Clark
  
  Office Location: 413 Main Hall
  Office Hours: By Appointment
  

  Carolyn Clark heads the Trusts and Estates Department and the Exempt Organization Practice Group of Milbank, Tweed, Hadley & McCloy. She specializes in estate planning, advising trustees and executors and advising and establishing charitable organizations. She is a Regent of The American College of Trust and Estate Counsel and a member of the Advisory Board for the Exempt Organization Tax Review. She served as the Chairman of the ACTEC Committee on Charitable Giving and Charitable Organizations and the American Bar Associa-tion-s Committee on Special Problems of Charitable Institutions, and is the Chair of the New York City Bar Association-s Committee on Non-Profit Organizations. She writes and lectures frequently on estate planning, trust administration and on legal issues of interest to non-profit organizations and is a member of the Professional Advisory Council for Lincoln Center for the Performing Arts, the Museum of Modern Art and the Committee on Trust and Estate Gift Plans for the Rockefeller University. She graduated from Harvard Law School in 1968 and the University of Missouri in 1963. She teaches Law and the Arts II.

• Leonard Leibowitz
  
  Office Location: 449 GDodge
  Office Hours: By Appointment
  Leonard Leibowitz is an attorney whose clients include the dancers of the American Ballet Theatre, the International Conference of Symphony and Opera Musicians (IGSOM), and the Associated Musicians of Greater New York, Local 802, American Federation of Musicians. Former Chairman of Volunteer Lawyers for the Arts, he has a J.D. from Brooklyn Law School and a B.A. from Bucknell University. He teaches Labor Relations in the Arts.
• Jane McIntosh
  
  Office Location: 413 Main Hall
  Office Hours: By Appointment
  Jane McIntosh is the Associate Director, Major Gifts at Lincoln Center for the Performing 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 $34,500,000 capital campaign for a new building and endowment. She holds a B.A. from Binghamton University and an M.A. from The Program in Arts Administration at Teachers College Columbia University. She teaches Support Structures: Development and Fund Raising in the Arts and Humanities.
• Peter Swords
  
  Office Location: 413 Main Hall
  Office Hours: By Appointment
  Peter Swords is 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 900. Prior to assuming his present position, Mr. Swords was an Associate Dean at the Columbia Law School for 14 years. Mr. Swords lectures frequently in the area of nonprofit law and liability insurance. He serves on the boards of the Nonprofit Risk Management Center, the Center for the Study of Philanthropy (Graduate Center, CUNY), the Lawyers Alliance, the Correctional & Osborne Associations, the La Mama Theatre and the Human Services Council of New York City. He is chair of the Public Policy Committee of the National Council of Nonprofit Associations and is on the Advisory Committee of Charity Lobbying in the Public Interest, a project of the Independent Sector. He teaches courses at Columbia on nonprofit institutions at the School of Law and Law and the Arts II at Teachers College.
• Martin Vinik
  
  Office Location: 446 Hmann
  Office Hours: By Appointment
  Mr. Vinik received a B.A. from Tufts University and an M.F.A. from the Program in Arts Administration at Columbia University. Originally an actor and a stage director, Mr. Vinik was co-founder and General Director of We Tickle the Earth's Belly, the resident theatre company of the Boston Center for the Arts in the 1970's. He began to work as a management consultant in the performing arts in 1978.
  
  Mr. Vinik joined the theatre consulting firm Sachs Morgan Studio in 1982. He became General Manager of the firm in 1984 and Director of Planning Services the following year, a position he held until departing in 2001 to devote his efforts to his own firm, Martin Vinik Planning for the Arts llc. He is a specialist in theatre design, Management and strategic planning for performing arts projects and organizations of all kinds.
  
  Mr. Vinik's clients at MVPA have ranged from New York City's Theatre Development Fund to Jerzy Grotowski's Objective Drama Program at the University of California, Irvine, along with numerous theatre companies and arts centers. During his tenure at Sachs Morgan Studio, Mr. Vinik worked with arts centers such as the Kennedy Center in Washington, Playhouse Square in Cleveland, and the Denver Arts Center; arts districts in Philadelphia, St. Louis, Pittsburgh, Providence, and New York City; non-profit and commercial developers and public development corporations; dozens of top symphony orchestras, theatre companies, and opera companies across North America; and over 40 universities, conservatories, and public and private schools.
  
  Since 1988, Mr. Vinik has taught in the Program in Arts Administration at Teachers College, Columbia University. Mr. Vinik has long had a special interest in arts education. His theatre company, We Tickle the Earth's Belly, was the resident theatre company of the Boston Children's Museum in the 1970's. In 1977 Mr. Vinik created the experimental performing arts program for the Jackson-Mann School, the Boston School Department's school for the deaf and hearing-impaired, and he later served as a consultant on the performing arts to the Massachusetts Department of Education. His current clients at MVPA include over a dozen public performing arts magnet high schools, private secondary schools, and professional teaching programs.
  

Guests Lecturers

In addition to the core faculty, a series of stellar guest lecturers adds expertise to the Program on an annual basis.

• Ruth Abram, Director, The Tenement Museum
• Maxwell Anderson, Director, Whitney Museum of American Art
• Theodore S. Berger, Executive Director, New York Foundation for the Arts
• Deborah Borda, Executive Director, New York Philharmonic
• John Brademas, President Emeritus, New York University;  Chair, President's Committee on the Arts and Humanities
• Miriam Colon, Director and Founder, Puerto Rican Traveling Theatre
• Kinshasa Holman Conwill, Executive Director, The Studio Museum in Harlem
• Ronald Feldman, President, Ronald Feldman Fine Art
• Jeanette Ingberman, Founder and Director, Exit Art
• Judith Jedlicka, President, Business Committee for the Arts
• Mark Jones, Executive Director, The Jos Limn Foundation
• Gregory King, Streetbanker, Community Relations, Chemical Bank
• Margaret Leibowitz, Arbitrator and Attorney, Cornell University
• Joan Rosenbaum, Director, The Jewish Museum
• Suzanne Sato, Program Officer, Arts and Culture, AT&T Foundation
• Mark Schuster, Professor of Urban Studies and Planning, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
• Rick Thompson, Director of Advertising, WNET
• Joseph Volpe, General Manager, The Metropolitan Opera
• Stephen Weil, Emeritus Senior Scholar, Center for Museum Studies, Smithsonian Institution
• David White, Founder and Director, Dance Theater Workshop
• George White, President, The Eugene O'Neill Theatre Center
• Mierle Laderman Ukeles, Ruby Shang, Richard Foremen, Norris Houghton,  Joan Nelson,and Deborah Remington, artists