UWW Arts Administration Concentration Degree

Faculty Profiles:

Tom Borrup, M.A. has been a leader and innovator in non-profit community and cultural work for over twenty-five years. His work explores the intersections between culture, community building, and economic development. He consults with foundations, nonprofits and public agencies across the U.S. in strategic planning and program evaluation. Borrup has written many articles for publications in the arts, city planning, and philanthropy. As executive director of Intermedia Arts in Minneapolis from 1980 until 2002, Borrup developed a multidisciplinary, cross-cultural organization recognized nationally for its work in nurturing artists and other cultural assets in its diverse urban community. Mr. Borrup received his B.A. in liberal arts from Goddard College, and continued there to receive his M.A. in communications and public policy. He currently teaches for the Graduate Program in Arts Administration at Saint Mary’s University of Minnesota, Drexel, and for the Arts Extension Service at the University of Massachusetts. Courses taught: GENRL-ST398J Creative Economy.

Dee Boyle Clapp, M.F.A. is a sculptor, installation artist and lectures on 'green' topics. She has been teaching a variety of studio, art history and arts management courses for 20 years at UMass Amherst, museum schools, and at community colleges. Dee co-owned the Artemis Gallery and was a founding member and the first director of the Art Bank, and was part of the restoration team for this 1860's bank building in Shelburne Falls, MA. As Director she ran all programming for two galleries, studio art courses, the Children’s Blue Snow Performance Series, the Adult Performance Series, festivals and community events. Dee directed a local humane society, and established successful humane education and outreach programs, doubled the organization’s endowment and annual operating budget, and prepared the organization for a $5 million capital campaign. She was program coordinator for the Fostering the Arts and Culture Partnership creative economy project organizing business and marketing training, exhibition and web opportunities, and networking for artists. She joined the staff at the Arts Extension Service in 2008. Dee's work has long involved sustainability. She has greened two organizations, co-chairs a UMass Green Team, and lectures on sustainability issues. Dee lives in western Massachusetts with her husband and son on a solar-powered off-grid llama farm. She holds bachelor's degrees in art and art history from the University of Wisconsin at Madison, an MFA in sculpture from UMass Amherst, and is completing an online Master's in nonprofit management from Regis University in Denver, Colorado. Courses taught: Financial Management, Fundraising, Greening Your Nonprofit Arts Organization.

Maren Brown, M.B.A. has over 25 years of experience in the field of arts management, primarily in museums (art, history and science museums) and higher education. She currently serves as the Director of the Arts Extension Service, where she leads training programs in a variety of arts management topics for state arts agencies around the nation (arts programming, creative economy, marketing, program evaluation, partnership development, artist business skills and other programs), teaches marketing and financial management in AES’ arts administration degree and certificate programs, and conducts all AES research projects (creative economy, evaluation for state agencies). Brown is co-editor of the 5th edition of Fundamentals of Arts Management, which is utilized as a foundational text by 45% of the arts management degree programs in the nation, and a contributor to the Partners in Creative Economy Planning Workbook. During her career, Brown has directed an arts council, founded the educational department of a performing and visual arts center, led a multi-disciplinary museum school, initiated a family program series, developed school tours, curated an exhibition series, and founded a regional arts alliance serving three counties in Massachusetts. Courses taught: GENRL ST397D Arts Marketing and GENRL ST397F Arts Programming.

Craig Dreeszen, Ph.D. is an educator, consultant, and writer who works nationally with arts and other community organizations to do organizational development and strategic planning, collaborative planning, program evaluation, and community cultural planning. Craig earned his Ph.D. in regional planning and his M.Ed. in organizational development at the University of Massachusetts Amherst. He is author of many books and articles and courses on planning, board development, arts education collaborations, and program evaluation. Craig directed the Arts Extension Service at the University of Massachusetts for twelve years until 2002, before he founded Dreeszen & Associates, a consulting firm in Northampton, Massachusetts. Courses taught: GENRL ST397A Strategic Planning, GENRL ST397B Board Development and GENRL ST397G Program Evaluation.

Marete Wester, M.A. in Arts Management is an educator, writer and consultant in arts management and arts education living in New Jersey. She is currently serving as executive director of Dance New Jersey, leading that organization's transition into a professionally-staffed, state-wide advocacy and service organization promoting dance and dance education. While at Dance New Jersey, she has led reorganization efforts, and instituted the first statewide Dance Worker Inventory and Needs Assessment project in the state. Marete is also an adjunct professor for arts administration in Seton Hall's Graduate Department of Public and Healthcare Administration in New Jersey. Her previous positions include executive director of the Alliance for Arts Education/New Jersey (AAE/NJ), acting program specialist for presenting organizations at the National Endowment for the Arts, and associate director of program operations at the Staten Island Council on the Arts in Staten Island, New York. She holds a bachelor's of music performance degree from Wilkes University, Pennsylvania and a master's degree in arts administration from Drexel University in Philadelphia. Courses taught: GENRL ST397C Fundraising and GENRL ST397I Arts Education.