About

The Society for Arts Entrepreneurship Education is an organization committed to advancing formal training and high educational standards for arts entrepreneurship education. 

Founded in 2014, the Society for Arts Entrepreneurship Education provides a forum for communication among its members and advocates for formal training and high standards by - and for - arts entrepreneurship educators. It is a further goal of the Society to create standard learning outcomes for the field for accreditation purposes.

The Society holds an annual conference for the purposes of presenting scholarly papers, presenting and discussing the arts and entrepreneurship, addressing other issues pertinent to the Society such as pedagogy, outreach and conducting the business of the Society.

Board of Directors

President: Julie Shields - Milliken University
Treasurer: Jeremy Peters - Wayne State University
Secretary: Steven Sparling - Trinity Laban Conservatoire
Past President: James Hart - Southern Methodist University
Board Member: Blaire Koerner - Eastman School of Music, University of Rochester
Board Member: Rand Harmon - University of Northern Colorado
Board Member: Angela Meleca - Meleca Creative Advisors
Board Member: Jonathan Gangi - The Pennsylvania State University
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Past Board Members:

Gary Beckman - North Carolina State University
Adrian Fung - Music in the Morning/Creative Edge
Kathryn Brown - North Carolina State University
Lloyd Caldwell - Oklahoma State University (formerly of)
Donna M. Conaty - San Diego State University (formerly of)
Drew X Coles - Columbia University
Aaron Dworkin - University of Michigan
Kate Flemming - Millikin University (formerly of)
Jonathan Gangi - Penn State University
Hannah Grannemann - The University of North Carolina at Greensboro
Josef Hanson - University of Memphis
Andy Heise - University of Missouri - Kansas City
Jessica Jones - CPA
Sonia BasSheva Mañjon - Executive Director of LeaderSpring (now: Pennsylvania Academy of the Performing Arts)
Karen Munnelly - Florida State University (now: ArtsVision)
Sally Packard - Texas Christian University (now: Kirkland Art Center)
Kasna Maat Ra - Arts Empowered, Inc. (now: KMR Educational Consulting)
Stephen Rueff - Minneapolis College of Art and Design (now: Maryland Institute College of Art)
Marie Segares - St. Francis College
Johanna Smith - California State University, San Bernadino
Stacy Stube - Maryland Institute College of Art
Sara Theis - Millikin University (formerly of)
Ken Weiss - University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
Jason White - College of Charleston (now: Xavier University)
Todd Stuart - Miami University
Jennifer Reis - University of North Carolina - Greensboro

Questions? Send inquiries to societyaee@gmail.com.