The successful arts administrator is a creature of many disciplines: Arts, Business, Culture, Politics, Heritage, Sociology, Urban Planning, Psychology, Social Service, Education, Community Development, and on and on and on. So, how might Arts Administration educators encourage their students and their peers to "think sideways" in response -- to adapt the insights of other industries and disciplines toward the advancement of the arts?

What can evolving principles of urban planning tell us about building community through culture? How might findings from brain science inform the connection between artist and audience? How are practitioners incorporating these discoveries in the daily delivery of their mission? And how might arts administration educators take full advantage of the experts all around us on campus?

Join your peers from Arts Administration programs around the world to stretch your discipline and advance your craft. You'll be joined by leading arts practitioners and researchers, along with experts and innovative academics from related fields of study. Best of all, you'll be able to share your own insights with friends and colleagues, and refresh your network of peers and partners.

Our backdrop will be Madison, Wisconsin, a jewel of the Midwest: home to one of the world's leading public research universities, haven for artists and the arts, seat of agriculture and bioscience, and bastion of progressive politics.

Think sideways. Move forward. Mark your calendar!

Featured Speakers 
Dr. Richard Davidson
''The Science of Happiness''
Arts and cultural managers are in the business of meaning and expression. Join a world leader in psychology and brain research to look ''under the hood'' of the engine that drives our work.

Carol Coletta
''In Search of the Creative City"
Arts leaders are increasingly connected to their community's economic vitality, creative drive, and social cohesion. Are we preparing our students with the skills and insights to do that job?

Jonathan Katz
"Connecting the Dots: Arts, Culture, and the Public Trust"
The balance between cultural expression and the public good has evolved substantially in the past ten years. Do our programs and our students play a positive role in tipping the scales?