Entering Cultural Communities: Diversity and Change in the Nonprofit Arts

Acknowledgments

xi Acknowledgments This book would not have been possible without the support and involvement of the Cultural Policy Center at the University of Chicago and the ongoing support of the Center by the Irving Harris Foundation. As a joint initiative of the Irving B. Harris Graduate School of Public Policy Studies and the Division of the Humanities, the Cultural Policy Center is a nationally recognized leader in the emerging field of cultural policy research and education. Its mission is to provide research and inform policy that affects the arts, humanities, and cultural heritage. It serves as an incubator for new ways of understanding what the arts and culture are, as well as what they do and how they can be affected by a range of policies in the public and private sectors. Several people played crucial roles as allies and advisors throughout this project. The contributors to this book, D. Carroll Joynes, David Karraker, MorrisFred,andWendyLeighNorris,wereourclosecollaboratorsthroughouttheresearchprocess ,andtheycontinuedtoprovidevaluedinputthrough the final edited manuscript. Margaret J. Wyszomirski, professor of art education , public policy, and management, and director of the cultural policy and arts administration program at Ohio State University, and Steven Rathgeb Smith, professor of public affairs at the Daniel J. Evans School of Public Affairs at the University of Washington, both played crucial early rolesdraftingtheresearchdesign.Whilesheisquitepossiblythebusiestpersonontheplanet ,MargaretWyszomirskiconsistentlysetasidetimeandenergytoserveasatrustedadvisorthroughouttheproject . In addition, a number of research assistants made significant contributions in data gathering and management, as well as in writing sections of this study. A qualitative study of this size and scope would not have been possible without their contributions to this effort. Rosemary Polanco deserves particular recognition for her assistance in laying in place much of the data-gathering groundwork and in playing a crucial leading role xii conducting early interviews. Susan George also provided early assistance in conducting interviews. The following research assistants performed a variety of important roles in this research, from transcribing and coding interviews to gathering support materials to contributing to various sections of the final chapters. In alphabetical order we thank these assistants, whom we depended upon for these duties: Ligaya Beebe, Brian Bettenhausen , Michele Dubuisson, Alaina Jasinevicius, Jeffrey Kirkwood, Sarah Lawrence, Christina Le, Helen Li, Zohar Lechman, Lindsey Michelotti, Nathan Paufve, Jamie Smith, Emily Walsh, Blake Ward, and Stephanie Williams. In addition to general research assistant duties, Alaina Jasinevicius played a critical role managing and organizing the qualitative data sets so they could be shared among the research team members. Several of these researchers contributed to the preparation of specific chapters of the book, and we would like to give them additional recognition here: Ligaya Beebe (chapter 7); Jeffrey Kirkwood (chapter 4), and Lindsey Michelotti (chapter 8). Without the support of the time and the benefit of the analytic minds of each of these emerging scholars, this project would not have been possible. Robert LaLonde, and Colm O’Muircheartaigh, both professors at Harris School, shared their valued expertise as advisors throughout the project. We thank our manuscript readers: Ellen Rosewall, associate professor of arts management at the University of Wisconsin—Green Bay; David Halle, professor of sociology at the University of California, Los Angeles; Linda Myers, executive director of the Loft Literary Center; and Julia Perkins, principal at MBMD Consultants, a Chicago-based arts consulting firm. They each read earlier versions of this manuscript and provided insightful comments as we prepared our final manuscript. Susan Allan, managing editor of the American Journal of Sociology, played a critical role in challenging some of the early drafts we presented and editing text of our first drafts. Our heartfelt thanks go to each of these people for their valuable contributions that helped to shape this study. We also thank Marlie Wasserman, director of Rutgers University Press, for her early enthusiasm about the topic and her ongoing interest and support of this book. Her assistant, Christina Brianik, played a vital and valuable role overseeing the editorial process. We thank the Wallace Foundation for its funding of this research. We also valued the input of individual staff members who shared their expertise throughout the research process. As with so many of the projects accounted for in this book, our labor-intensive and costly research could not have been conducted without this support. The staff at the Cultural Policy Center played important roles throughout the two-year project. We thank Faculty Director Lawrence Rothfield. acknowledgments xiii Several former staff also played important roles, including Public Events Coordinator Katherine S. Claussen, Assistant...