Arts Leadership in Canada

0.5 credits · Graduate

Arts leadership goes beyond day-to-day management of institutions and positions. It involves navigating the tensions between immediate realities and long-term goals to realise a leader's vision for institutional, professional, and social change. While all arts leaders internationally respond to common challenges in pursuing their visions (such as funding and institutional structures), there is a uniquely Canadian social and political context for arts leadership which informs both the difficult institutional realities that arts face and the potential for the arts within civic society. Readings and case studies in this course will explore key issues and case studies in Canadian and global arts leadership. Students who have taken CSID 5702H cannot take CAST 6702H.