UK’s Online Arts Emergency Management Course Comes to Catalog
LEXINGTON, Ky. (July 10, 2020) — If 2020 and the coronavirus pandemic have taught us anything, it is that we never know when a fundamental shift can happen. For arts organizations, COVID-19 is another reminder that outside forces can bring the curtain down on business as normal.
Arts programmers have been realizing this for years now, as they witnessed fellow professionals navigate both natural and manmade disasters. In response, many have started taking a proactive approach by planning as much as possible for the unknown. Leading this charge is University of Kentucky’s Department of Arts Administration, which has provided not only courses for its students in crisis programming but also a popular online professional development course since 2018.
This summer, as UK launched more online professional development opportunities in the wake of the pandemic, the Department of Arts Administration transitioned its workshop to a new online home on Catalog.
Developed by Instructure, which created the Canvas learning management system, and supported by Teaching, Learning, and Academic Innovation, Catalog allows participants who are not students, faculty or staff at UK to take a variety of educational and professional development programs using the university’s Canvas platform. It offers faculty a way of expanding the impact of their teaching and imagining new ways that their disciplines connect with emerging issues in the workforce and beyond. By using a platform that is already common for UK courses, Catalog simplifies the process so that faculty can attend to the intellectual and professional stakes of these workshops, courses and programs.
Arts Emergency Management, a workshop for administrators of arts and cultural organizations to help provide them with skills to develop and routinely update emergency plans for areas of public assembly, will run Aug. 3-Oct. 4. The course costs $699. To sign up for this online professional development program, visit: https://uk.catalog.instructure.com/browse/fine-arts/arts-administration/courses/arts-emergency-management-for-profit-aug-sept-2020.
Founded in 1987, the Department of Arts Administration at UK College of Fine Arts offers one of the most comprehensive curricula in the country. Dynamic and innovative, the department leads national and international initiatives in teaching, research, professional and community service to educate and inspire responsible arts leaders, artists and entrepreneurs.
As the state’s flagship, land-grant institution, the University of Kentucky exists to advance the Commonwealth. We do that by preparing the next generation of leaders — placing students at the heart of everything we do — and transforming the lives of Kentuckians through education, research and creative work, service and health care. We pride ourselves on being a catalyst for breakthroughs and a force for healing, a place where ingenuity unfolds. It's all made possible by our people — visionaries, disruptors and pioneers — who make up 200 academic programs, a $476.5 million research and development enterprise and a world-class medical center, all on one campus.
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