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Professional Development
Management Workshop Series
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national arts marketing project
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Presenter Bios
Martin Vinik
Founder,
Planning for the Arts LLC ,
Saugerties, New York
Martin Vinik began his career as an actor and director before founding nonprofit theatre companies in Chicago and Boston in the 1970s. He began working soon afterwards as a consultant specializing in long-range and capital projects planning in the arts. His early clients included New York City’s Theatre Development Fund, the Massachusetts Department of Education, and Jerzy Grotowski’s Objective Drama Program. He joined the consulting firm Roger Morgan Studio in 1982 as Director of Planning Services. Since 2001, he has devoted his efforts to his own firm, Martin Vinik Planning for the Arts LLC. He is the author of architectural programming, financial and market feasibility, economic impact, and strategic and long-range planning studies for hundreds of major projects for clients such as the Pittsburgh Cultural Trust, the Philadelphia Orchestra, the Ontario Ministry of Culture, the New York City Economic Development Corporation, and the John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts. He is an authority on arts and cultural district planning and has been involved in the development of many of the most successful arts district projects in the US.
Since 1988, Mr. Vinik has served as a core faculty member of the Program in Arts Administration at Columbia University, where he teaches Principles and Practice of Performing Arts Administration and Business Policy and Planning for Arts Managers. He has also served as faculty for the Arts & Business Council of New York’s Arts Leadership Institute in New York City. He has given seminars and workshops around the world and has advised governments from the US and Canada to Hong Kong, Singapore, and Kurdistan on arts planning. His past students run arts centers, museums, theaters, ballet companies, symphony orchestras, galleries, auction houses, arts councils, ministries of culture, and consulting firms across the US and in more than 35 other countries.
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