The Arts Management Handbook: New Directions for Students and Practitioners (Paperback) (ISBN-13: 9780765617422)

Meg Brindle is Associate Professor at George Mason University where she was founding director of the Master of Arts Management Program (2003-2006). Meg has served on the faculty at George Mason in public adminstration where she holds tenure and has been on the faculty at Carnegie Mellon University Tepper School of Business with cumulative graduate management and policy teaching spanning twenty years. She holds PhD and Master's degrees from Carnegie Mellon and a bachelor's degree in management from Point Park University. Meg has authored numerous studies and articles and three books: Managing Power Through Lateral Networking; Facing Up To Management Faddism; and, with Ron Layton, Opportunities for Improving Income in the Caribbean. She is director of education for Light Years IP, a DC-based, Ashoka NGO that works with low-income artisans and producers across Africa and the Caribbean where she is engaged with writing curriculum and training stakeholders in Kenya, Tanzania, Uganda and Ethiopia in methods to improve income and alleviate poverty via Intellectual Property business strategies.
Constance DeVereaux is an internationally recognized expert in arts and cultural management and policy and a Fulbright Senior Specialist since 2006. She has worked with universities internationally and in the United States to develop curriculum and training in arts and cultural management. She created the master's program in arts management at Claremont Graduate University and designed the curriculum for the master's degree in cultural policy and management at Tshwane University of Technology in South Africa. She served as an executive editor for the Journal of Arts Management, Law and Society from 2008-2010. Co-editor for the series Cultural Management and the State of the Field, she has also authored numerous articles on arts management and policy issues. Dr. DeVereaux earned her PhD in philosophy and political science at Claremont Graduate University and an MFA in creative writing at Antioch University, Los Angeles. Currently she is Coordinator for Arts and Cultural Management at Northern Arizona University. Dr. DeVereaux is an award winning playwright and radio journalist.