CCM and the Fine Arts Fund Welcome Audience Development Expert Donna Walker-Kuhne

The University of Cincinnati College-Conservatory of Music (CCM) Graduate Program in Arts Administration and the Fine Arts Fund are pleased to welcome guest speaker Donna Walker-Kuhne, nationally recognized author and audience development expert, to CCM's Werner Recital Hall on Monday, April 10, 2006 at 5 p.m. Walker-Kuhne's appearance is the seventh event in the Joan Cochran Rieveschl Lecture Series: Visionaries in the Arts, an annual series spotlighting arts management experts, opinion leaders and trendsetters. The event is free and open to the public.

Walker-Kuhne discusses her recently published book An Invitation to the Party: Building Bridges to the Arts, Culture and Community (Theater Communications Group, 2005), which outlines strategies and methods to help market arts and culture to diverse communities.

"Donna is one of the foremost experts in building arts audiences, and we are delighted that she will share her experiences and insights with Cincinnati's creative community," said Alan Yaffe, Ph.D., director of CCM's Arts Administration program. "We look forward to her challenging conventional marketing wisdom and inspiring us to think in new ways about communicating with the arts-going public."

Added Vanessa White, Fine Arts Fund Director of Community Engagement and Diversity, "The Fine Arts Fund is elated to co-host Ms. Walker-Kuhne's visit and to elevate the awareness that diversity is no longer a consideration, but a necessity for the integration of the arts throughout the very fabric of the community."

Donna Walker-Kuhne
Since 1984 Donna Walker-Kuhne has been President of Walker International Communications Group. She conducts seminars and workshops while providing marketing consultation services to arts organizations, performing and visual artists, dance companies, Broadway and off-Broadway productions, and non-profit groups. Among her clients are major multicultural performing arts organizations including The Public Theater, The Martha Graham Dance Company, The Bill T. Jones/Arnie Zane Dance Company, the Broadway hit Hairspray, Sony Music, WNYC Radio, and the Arts and Business Council. She served as Associate Producer for the critically acclaimed production of George C. Wolfe's Harlem Song at the world-famous Apollo Theater. She was honored in 1998 as the first American invited by the National Arts Council of Singapore to teach a weeklong marketing workshop. In 2003 she was the first American invited by the Australian Council on the Arts to do a three-city lecturing tour on the topic Ethnic Diversity for Arts Organizations.

Joan Cochran Rieveschl Lecture Series: Visionaries in the Arts
The Joan Cochran Rieveschl Lecture Series: Visionaries in the Arts is an annual event jointly presented by CCM's Graduate Program in Arts Administration and the Fine Arts Fund Arts Services Office. Made possible through generous funding from Joan Cochran Rieveschl (who was also instrumental in the formation of CCM's Arts Administration program), the series features arts management industry leaders and opinion makers discussing a diverse array of timely arts-related issues. Past speakers have included: Henry Fogel, President of the American Symphony Orchestra League; Ben Cameron, Executive Director of the Theater Communications Group; William Cleveland, Director of the Minneapolis Center for the Study of Art & Community; and Doug Herbert, Special Assistant to the U.S. Secretary of Education on Teacher Quality and Arts Education.
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University of Cincinnati College-Conservatory of Music
Graduate Program in Arts Administration
and
Fine Arts Fund
present

2006 Joan Cochran Rieveschl Lecture Series: Visionaries in the Arts
DONNA WALKER-KUHNE
"An Invitation to the Party"

Date & Time:  Monday, April 10, 2006; 5 p.m.

Location:  Robert J. Werner Recital Hall, University of Cincinnati College-Conservatory of Music

Admission:  FREE

Parking: Parking is available in the CCM Garage (at the base of Corry Boulevard off Jefferson Avenue) or in additional garages throughout the UC campus. Please visit the CCM website at http://www.ccm.uc.edu for directions or additional parking information.