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Culture & Transition

An Evaluation Of International Professional Development Programs For Arts Managers In Russia

During the past ten years a wide range of international organizations have offered programs to assist Russian cultural organizations in adjusting to post-Soviet economic and political reality. There is no doubt that such assistance has been useful as Russian organizations struggle to create new strategies for survival in a market economy and to adopt new management practices. Until now, however, no substantive assessment of their impact has been available.

With support from the Trust for Mutual Understanding in 2003, CEC commissioned the St. Petersburg Center for Independent Social Research to evaluate the effectiveness of international professional development programs for arts managers in Russia.

The research and evaluation were completed in 2005. The newly published final report is being distributed to U.S. and Russian organizations working in the field of professional development for arts managers.

FLIPSIDE

The catalog of an exhibition of work by artists who have been supported by ArtsLink Awards, which ran from November 2004 to January 2005 at Artists Space, 38 Greene Street, in New York City.

FLIPSIDE investigated post-utopian artistic practice between the era of communism and the integration of many Central European countries into the European Union. Could one utopia be simply a flipside of the other?

Critical to investigating this question and its implications for the future is the examination of art practice resulting from the generative force of the cultural exchange program ArtsLink, created in 1992, which itself can be viewed as a utopian construct.

This was a rare opportunity to see work by 34 artists from across Central Europe and the United States side by side. It provided information with which to investigate critical questions about international influence, cooperation and exchange in burgeoning cultural environments that are undergoing significant political and economic change.

How to Get a Copy

FLIPSIDE (2004) and Culture & Transition (2006) are available free of charge as long as supplies last.

If you would like to receive a copy of either one, send an email to info@cecartslink.org. Please include your name, mailing address and email address.