2018 Alpi Award
For Immediate Release: January 18, 2019
Society for Arts Entrepreneurship Education Announces Mark Rabideau as the 2018 Recipient of the Sharon T. Alpi Award for Innovative Arts Entrepreneurship Pedagogy
The Society for Arts Entrepreneurship Education is pleased to announce Dr. Mark Rabideau, Director of the 21st-Century Musician Initiative at DePauw University, as the 2018 recipient of the Sharon T. Alpi Award for Innovative Arts Entrepreneurship Pedagogy.
Rabideau’s pedagogical innovation, the online textbook, The 21CM Introduction to Music Entrepreneurship (Rowman & Littlefield, 2017) prepares the next generation of arts leaders to build a more promising future, driven by the belief that education is a lifelong process of learning how to make the world a better place.
“The goal of this project was to provide all of the resources needed to simultaneously prepare two generations of arts entrepreneurs – the students enrolled in our courses and the faculty brave enough to embrace this challenge, even and especially for those who have not received formal training in entrepreneurial pedagogy,” said Rabideau. “This was a collaborative effort of more than twenty scholars, artists and professionals. A shared success.”
In addition, The 21CM Introduction to Music Entrepreneurship recognizes the value of experiential learning, especially when student opportunities to succeed are prized and when student opportunities to fail are present. It equips students with the skills and mindsets to build relationships with their communities and provides them with the tools necessary to invent and execute successful projects that will engage new audiences and ultimately create successful and meaningful careers.
“Mark’s numerous contributions to the field, including the multifaceted, game-changing 21st Century Musician Initiative at DePauw University, have touched countless performers, scholars, and audience members in profoundly positive ways,” says Dr. Josef Hanson, Society for Arts Entrepreneurship Education President. “That his remarkable online textbook, The 21CM Introduction to Music Entrepreneurship, comprises the contributions of over 20 of his colleagues is a testament to Mark's collaborative, unifying spirit - a beacon for all of us working to promote arts entrepreneurship. We couldn't be prouder to celebrate Mark in this way.”
About the Award
From 1998-2016, Sharon T. Alpi was the founding Director of the Center for Entrepreneurship at Millikin University. She played a key role in developing innovative experiential pedagogy and programs utilizing entrepreneurial frameworks. Alpi was the driver at Millikin for the initiative to develop a concentration in entrepreneurship in the late 1990’s, which led to the creation of a major and minor in entrepreneurship. In 2003, she collaborated with arts faculty in the creation of an award-winning Arts Entrepreneurship multidisciplinary program which is based on a unique pedagogy of "learning through practice" in student–run ventures. The Sharon T. Alpi Award for Innovative Arts Entrepreneurship Pedagogy was established in 2016. Through a donation of an anonymous donor, it is to be awarded for three years, with $500 to be given to an educator (or group of educators) to continue their work in their innovative pedagogy. The Millikin University Center for Entrepreneurship is pleased to see the impacts of pedagogical innovation in the arts entrepreneurship education community.
About Mark Rabideau
Dr. Mark Rabideau is a cultural entrepreneur, busy re-imagining how we must prepare musicians to thrive within the shifting marketplace and cultural landscape of the contemporary moment. Mark’s entrepreneurial spirit has led to serving as producer/host of Live from Smoke from New York City; founder and executive/artistic director for Artists Now; producer of Worlds End, an original work with the American Repertory Ballet; and founder of Art in Unlikely Places, a project fueled by the belief that art’s transformative powers must be made accessible to the underserved. Mark has an ongoing project making music with the incarcerated men within the Putnamville Correctional Facilities.
A compelling arts advocate, Mark’s voice has been tapped as a member of the Quincy Jones Musiq Consortium, Core Planning Committee for the CMS Summit 2.0 and CoChair of the College Music Society’s Entrepreneurship Education Committee.
Mark engages people and ideas within artistic and academic communities through invited lectures, including talks at Curtis Institute of Music, and Yale, Cambridge and Brandeis universities, his appointment as 2017 Distinguished Visiting Researcher at American University in Cairo (Egypt), membership on the editorial board of Artivate, general editor of the CMS/Routledge series Emerging Fields in Music, and as editor and publisher of 21CM.org – an online journal about the future of music.
Mark works alongside a prestigious advisory board, chaired by cellist Yo-Yo Ma, as the Director of the 21st Century Musician Initiative at DePauw University. He adores his wife, Laura and this three beautifully talented children, Mary Pauline, Luke and Aidan.
2017 Alpi Award
For Immediate Release: 02-20-18
Society for Arts Entrepreneurship Education Announces Jim Hart as 2017 Recipient of the Sharon T. Alpi Award for Innovative Arts Entrepreneurship Pedagogy
The Society for Arts Entrepreneurship Education is happy to announce Jim Hart, Interim Chair of Arts Management and Arts Entrepreneurship at Southern Methodist University, as the 2017 recipient of the Sharon T. Alpi Award for Innovative Arts Entrepreneurship Pedagogy.
Hart’s pedagogical innovation involves the use of carefully designed games to develop a deeper understanding of entrepreneurial thinking, skills and problem-solving. His blog Arts Entrepreneurship Games (https://artsentrepreneurshipgames.com) offers games, simulations, demonstrations and exercises for the arts entrepreneurship classroom, which can be used by teachers as a supplement to lectures. These games have been compiled into a book Classroom Exercises for Entrepreneurship: A Cross-Disciplinary Approach, which includes 65 original exercises to teach entrepreneurship.
Hart notes on his blog that the practice of entrepreneurship is, at its heart, an experiential one; consequently, games are an “ideal modality” for students to engage in an experiential process that mirrors entrepreneurial thinking and action. He further notes that games capitalize on artists’ love of play and their innate collaborative sensibilities.
“Unlike many who seek to translate standard business-entrepreneurship practices into terms artists can understand, Jim has truly created something fundamentally new and unique to the practice of arts entrepreneurship,” says Dr. Josef Hanson, Society for Arts Entrepreneurship Education President. “Aside from the business model canvas, which is used by virtually all of us in the arts entrepreneurship field, I cannot think of a single pedagogical resource that is as easily accessible and widely applied as Jim’s games.”
In addition, Jim has consistently been generous in sharing his work within the arts entrepreneurship field, demonstrating games at conferences, sharing them online, and now featuring them in his book. The U.S. Association of Small Business & Entrepreneurship recognized Jim’s work several times, and he co-chairs the Special Interest Group on Creative & Arts Entrepreneurship. He is also an editor of The Experiential Entrepreneurship Exercises Journal and other journals of arts entrepreneurship research and arts entrepreneurship pedagogy.
“This award is a great honor. To be associated with Sharon T. Alpi, in any way, is both exciting and humbling. She is a pioneer and visionary in the field of arts entrepreneurship,” said Hart. “I see this award as a kind recognition, but also a challenge - a challenge to continue to create teaching resources that not only serve my students, but also our colleagues and the field.”
About the Award
From 1998-2016, Sharon T. Alpi was the founding Director of the Center for Entrepreneurship at Millikin University. She played a key role in developing innovative experiential pedagogy and programs utilizing entrepreneurial frameworks. Alpi was the driver at Millikin for the initiative to develop a concentration in entrepreneurship in the late 1990’s, which led to the creation of a major and minor in entrepreneurship. In 2003, she collaborated with arts faculty in the creation of an award-winning Arts Entrepreneurship multidisciplinary program which is based on a unique pedagogy of "learning through practice" in student–run ventures.
The Sharon T. Alpi Award for Innovative Arts Entrepreneurship Pedagogy was established in 2016. Through a donation of an anonymous donor, it is to be awarded for three years, with $500 to be given to an educator (or group of educators) to continue their work in their innovative pedagogy. Award recipients demonstrate groundbreaking work in arts entrepreneurship and their pedagogical innovation impacts both their institution and the broader arts entrepreneurship education community.
“Jim is an ideal first recipient of the Sharon T. Alpi Award,” said Julienne Shields, Director of the Center for Entrepreneurship at Millikin University. “His passion for both the discipline and experiential learning is exactly the kind of teaching demonstrated by Sharon.”
About Jim Hart
Jim Hart holds a BFA from Southern Methodist University and MFA from Yale School of Drama. He has served as an actor, director, writer, and producer and performed in major theatres throughout the U.S., including Yale Repertory Theatre, Williamstown Theatre Festival, Utah Shakespearean Festival and others. His artistic work has been seen in America, Russia, Norway, Taiwan, Denmark, Iran, and Turkey. A serial entrepreneur, Hart founded the first professional theatre conservatory dedicated to Arts Entrepreneurship (The International Theatre Academy Norway), co-founded the Worldwide Art Collective International Performance Festival (Taiwan), Austin Conservatory of Professional Arts (Austin) and is a co-founder of the Society for Arts Entrepreneurship Education.
Hart now directs the Arts Entrepreneurship program at Southern Methodist University. Some of Hart’s service includes serving on the Texas Accountants and Lawyers for the Arts board, the organizing committee for Dallas Festival of Ideas, as a partner with Social Venture Partners and is a founding member SMU’s Entrepreneurship and Innovation Advisory Board (EIAB). He advises university programs forming arts entrepreneurship initiatives and has published several book chapters for Theatre Communications Group, Edward Elgar Publishing, and USASBE, as well as multiple peer-reviewed articles. Hart has won six major awards in the past four years, including the Special Recognition in Entrepreneurship Education Innovation (USASBE), the Provost’s Teaching Award (SMU) and now the Sharon T. Alpi Award for Innovative Arts Entrepreneurship Pedagogy, to name a few. For more on Hart’s work, see bitly.com/JamesHartBio.