50Y E A R S

LOOKING TO THE FUTURE

THE 50TH ANNUAL CONFERENCE

THE INTERNATIONAL COUNCIL OF F INE ARTS DEANS

HOTEL MONTELEONE . NEW ORLEANS, LA

* TEXAS TECH UNIVERSITY

Deanie's Seafood is loved by locals as New Orleans' favor i te place to f ind

t h e f r e s h e s t , t a s t i e s t L o u i s i a n a s e a f o o d , r a t e d " B e s t S e a f o o d

Restaurant" (T imes Picayune) in Travel + Leisure Magazine's "Best City to Vis i t "

in the United States. For 50 years we’ve been serving huge port ions of the

best boi led, broi led and fr ied seafood in New Orleans, receiving countless

accolades including features on the Food Network and a 2009 Zagat food

and service rat ing of “very good to excel lent.”

TUESDAY, OCTOBER 22 2013

Deanie’s Seafood

841 Ibervi l le Street

New Orleans, LA 70112

(504) 581-1316

6:00 - 8 :30 P .M.

BOARD OF DIRECTORS MEET ING

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WEDNESDAY, OCTOBER 23 2013

9:00 - 4 :30 P .M.

MENTORING INIT IAT IVES FOR NEW DEANS (MIND) WORKSHOP

Facil i tator: Dan Guyette,

Dean, Col lege of Fine Arts at

Western Michigan Univers i ty

Any member who is in their f irst three years as a new dean is invited to register for

the MIND program. Sessions wil l be specifically targeted to address issues faced by

new deans. Experts in the field and senior deans from the ICFAD leadership wil l

facil itate this special day-long program.

MIND goals:

• Provide a toolbox for those who have transitioned into administrative leadership

roles as a dean of higher education visual and per forming art schools and colleges

• Prepare new deans to take full advantage of the ICFAD conference as a support

structure for their administrative leadership.

• Demonstrate a concrete benefit for ICFAD members to support on-going

connections with their home institutions.

• Bui ld on the ICFAD tradit ion of “Deans Helping Deans”: Last year, part icipants

rated th i s ses s ion h igh ly . Top ics inc luded exte r na l suppor t and resource

development; budget eff iciencies and f iscal management; confl ict management;

engaging the community; management versus leadership; effective persuasion.

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Join us for this pre-Conference motor-coach trip to Louisiana State University -

Baton Rouge (approximately one hour travel time) where we wil l visit the Student

Union Theater and the Music & Dramatic Arts Buildings, designed by our sponsored

of this tour, HMS architects, apc. Busses wil l pick us up at the corner of Royal and

Canal at 10:30 a.m. so let’s meet in the lobby at 10:15 and walk down the street

together. When we arrive on campus, we’ll enjoy a private catered lunch, followed

by tours of both facil it ies. We’ll return to Hotel Monteleone by 4:15 p.m., to allow

you time to refresh and relax prior to our Welcome Reception.

10:15 - 4 :15 P .M.

A TR IP TO LOUIS IANA STATE UNIVERSITY

Baton Rouge to Tour the Student Union Theater

and the Music & Dramatic Arts Bui lding

Hosted by: the profess ionals at HMS Architects

Spending for Higher education in Louis iana has been cut by $700 mil l ion in the

last f ive years. Doing more with less is imperative during this economic hardship.

To that end, renovat ion of ex i s t ing fac i l i t ies max imizes the use of t ight

construction budgets and reduces waste while ult imately lowering the carbon

footprint of our universit ies. In 1999, Louis iana State University in Baton Rouge

endeavored to renovate its exist ing faci l i t ies housing the Music and Dramatic Arts

departments. Original ly bui lt in 1932, this 100,000 gsf I tal ianate bui lding is

recognized in the State Register of Historic Places, but lacked the modern

amenit ies necessary to proper ly support the col lege’s mus ic and theater

programs. Piecemeal and ad hoc addit ions were cobbled together over the

years to st itch together functional solutions for the various departments within the

bui lding’s confines. In addit ion, the basic common areas were substandard in

function and safety. Crit ical to providing a successful solution was understanding

the department goals, changing curr iculum and class schedul ing. Through

extensive programming exercises, the academic needs of the department were

recognized to include 8 new classrooms, an administrative wing, 19 faculty

studios, rehearsal spaces for percussion, dance/opera & movement, 42 music

practice rooms, 2,500 sf Black Box theater, Scene-Prop-Costume-Lighting shops

and storage. The design called for the demolit ion of the prior addit ions, a swath

cut out cleanly ready for new inf i l l and the entire bui lding str ipped down to its

structural core. The solution brought new clarity to the circulation and visual

balance to a discordant series of prior addit ions and related bui ldings.

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New circulation was created into the Theater with multiple entry points into the space

to eliminate congestion. Inside the Theater, room acoustics are improved through a

combination of enlarged volume, reflective and absorptive surfaces. The design

implements a playful curving swoosh of overlapping custom millwork that helps throw

the sound deeper within the music chamber. The curved sidewalls and ceiling panels

are all subdivided with intermediate ribs and spines that create a play of curved

shadows that contrast with the soft, warm wood tones. Additionally an electronic sound

enhancement system has been added to the theater to further supplement the

acoustics of the room. New back-of-house spaces including multiple Private and

Chorus Dressing Rooms were created. A pre-function Reception Room and new Box

Office are located off of the enhanced Lobby.

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Care was taken to restore and enhance the distinctive art deco elements of the

original 424-seat proscenium theatre and main lobby. It introduces new, state-of-

the-art classrooms and practice facil it ies located in the new infi l l wing of the

building. And finally, the deficient egress and l ife safety issues were addressed and

upgraded to current standards in an unobtrusive fashion to maintain the original

character of the historic spaces. The new design overhauls an obsolete building

infrastructure while working within the boundaries of a restricted site and budget.

 

The LSU Student Union Theater was constructed in 1965 as part of the Louisiana

State University Union building and remains the largest theater venue on campus.

In 2004 the decision was made to renovate the entire Union, including the theater.

Funded by Student Activity Fees, this state of the art, 1,300-seat per formance

facil ity is the $18 mil l ion crown jewel of the 5-year, $67 mil l ion renovation project to

rejuvenate the heart of student l ife on campus. The building renovation focused on

four major themes: improved room acoustics, venue visibil ity, improved access to

the seating, and refreshed look that ties into the main building. A clear entry to the

Theater portion of the building is provided by expanding the original Lobby

footprint, introducing ample amounts of natural l ight and activating the night

scene. The design introduces a series of freestanding tree columns at the front

facade, based on the existing columns of the original building, to unite the faces

of both buildings with a common architectural vocabulary.

* LOUISIANA STATE UNIVERSITY . BATON ROUGE

4:00 - 5 :00 P .M. WELCOME REGISTRATION At the e levators , outs ide the Or leans Room

6:00 OUTSIDE THE OPENING RECEPT IONICFAD proudly introduces international col leagues. Meet and greet Dean of the

Arts at Chengdu University, Yuqing Hu with her host George Sparks and Marilou

Johnson of James Madison University, as they greet you at our Opening Reception.

6:00 - 7 :30 P .M. OPENING RECEPT ION RIVERVIEW ROOM

Since 1853, Steinway Pianos have set

an uncompromising standard for sound,

touch, beauty, and investment value.

SPONSORED BY STE INWAY & SONS

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* UNIVERSITY OF SOUTH FLORIDA

Introduct ion: ICFAD President Lucinda Lavel l i , Dean, Col lege of Fine Arts at the Univers i ty of Florida

The Delphi Report:

Updating the Forecast for the Future of the Arts in Higher Education

Margaret Merrion, Dean Emerita, College of Fine Arts at Western Michigan University

“If you are a tradit ional educator, you should be scared.”

Five years ago, a panel of experts prepared a forecast for the future of the arts in

higher education using the Delphi technique. It offered bold and dramatic

predictions for the next decade. Halfway into that forecast, 2013 ICFAD members

reviewed the predictions and modif ied the forecast for the remaining f ive years.

This session outl ines the survey f indings that paint a sober future — replete with

challenges as well as leadership advice to match a daunting future.

THURSDAY, OCTOBER 24 2013

7:00 - 8 :00 A.M. BREAKFASTQueen Anne Ballroom

All registered attendees are invited to network over a ful l , hot breakfast.

8:00 - 8 :30 A.M. WELCOME

Introduct ion: ICFAD President Lucinda Lavel l i , Dean, Col lege of Fine Arts at the Univers i ty of Florida

C. Scott Hutcheson, Advisor to the Mayor for Cultural Economy.

Off ice of Mayor Mitchell J. Landrieu

Welcoming remarks f rom a cu l tu ra l representat ive of a c i ty known for i t s

a r t i s t ic cu l tu re and color fu l personal i t ies .

8:30 - 9 :15 A.M.

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Most Canadian post-secondary arts schools and programs use a form of program

appraisal that is also used by many other discipl ines, but that does not take the

form of U.S. style accreditation. In her presentation, Dean Wild wil l provide a view

of the Canadian landscape and indicate how program appraisals are perceived

and practiced.

Catherine Wild, Dean of the Faculty of Fine Arts at Concordia University

in Montreal and President of the Canadian Association of Fine Arts

Jory Hancock, Dean, College of the Faculty of Fine Arts

at University of Arizona | Dance

Ron Jones, President, Memphis College of Art | Art and Design

Barbara O. Korner, Dean, College of Arts and Architecture,

Pennsylvania State University | Theatre

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Th is panel wi l l focus on i ssues such as arts program goals development;

product ive re lat ionships among goals , outcomes, and assessment; assessment

approaches and implementat ion; rubr ics and thei r l imi ts ; facul ty engagement

and ownersh ip; budget ing; t ime; change and res i s tance to change; and myths

and real i t ies about accreditat ion in the Uni ted States. Panel i s t s wi l l share

perspect ives on engaging accreditat ion and assessment in terms of the arts

d i s c i p l i n e s , t h e i r c o m b i n a t i o n s , s o l u t i o n s t o l o c a l p ro b l e m s , a n d f u t u re

prospects . The Amer ican deans and pres ident wi l l each speak f rom thei r

d isc ip l inary and adminis t rat ive perspect ive. Each represents an inst i tut ion with

a program in thei r home disc ip l ine that holds special i zed accreditat ion. Join us

as we acknowledge and celebrate with Sam Hope as he ret i res f rom his

pos i t ion after over three decades as Execut ive Di rector of NASAD, NASD, NASM,

and NAST.

Don Bowyer, Dean, College of Fine Arts at Arkansas State University | Music

9:30 - 11 :00 A.M.

Introduct ion: Micheal D. Wilder, Dean, Conservatory of Music, Arts, and Communicat ion at Wheaton Col lege

Accreditation and Assessment:

Current and Evolving Issues, Challenges, Concerns, and Realit ies

A comprehensive exploration of issues and possibi l i t ies in higher education

accreditation and assessment.

There are many challenges ahead for the arts and humanities in higher education.

Many of these challenges are linked to policy issues in assessment and accreditation.

Executive Director Hope will address some of the most salient challenges and link them

to basic natures, purposes, values, and ways of thinking and working held by the arts.

He will conclude with a list of critical futures issues.

Samuel Hope, Retiring Executive Director of NASAD, NASD, NASM, and NAST

On Being an Associate/Assistant Dean: Strategies and Dialogues

Facilitated by Kevin Paul Hofeditz, Professor and Associate Dean for

Academic Affairs, Meadows School of the Arts at Southern Methodist University Current Sessions:

DEANS AND ASSOCIATE DEANS AND FUTURE LEADERS

Leading “In the Now” while Anticipating the Future

Facilitated by Margaret Merrion, Dean Emerita, College of Fine Arts at Western Michigan University

Having a gl impse into the future helps deans plan for tomorrow, but what about

the day-to-day pressures that factor into leadership decisions today? During this

session, the membership wil l identify the most acute pressures in their immediate

envi ronment and brainstor m ways these factors can be t ransfor med into

leadership opportunit ies.

11:10 - 12 :10 P .M. INTRODUCTION

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and Cyrus Parker-Jeannette, Associate Dean, College of the Arts at California State University Long Beach

This session, designed for Associate and Assistant Deans, will focus on the challenges

and unique responsibilities of this position.

The presenters will include topics such as working with various stakeholders, best

practices for student success and increas ing 4-year graduat ion rates, arts

advocacy in your inst i tut ion, enrol lment management, research grants and

external funding, and a discussion on how to remain vital and healthy in an

administrative position. The format of this session wil l allow for shared ideas and

additional topics through dialogue and discussion.

Future Leaders

NEW THIS YEAR! Deans are encouraged to bring a member of the col lege whose

leadership is being mentored. It might be a faculty member or department chair-

someone who represents the next generation of administrative leadership at your

school.

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. . . in the 21st Century

Libby Larsen is a Grammy Award winning and frequently programmed American

composer. Along with composer Stephen Paulus , she is a co-founder of the

Minnesota Composers Forum, now the American Composers Forum.

A former holder of the Papamarkou Chair at John W. Kluge Center of the L ibrary

of Congress, Larsen has also held res idencies with the Minnesota Orchestra, the

Charlotte Symphony Orchestra and the Colorado Symphony Orchestra. She

chose this t i t le as a way of speaking about themes such as the nature of art

today — how we interact, respond, and l i s ten dif ferent ly to music in part icular

now, and our own abi l i t ies to f ind and def ine art dai ly. Her thesis centers on the

idea that human beings are hardwired with an intense love and need for self -

express ion. In the academy, the arts are considered to be a ref ined ecology of

techniques which give us our highest sense of self-express ion. The quest ion is :

what is h ighest self?

Introduction:

ICFAD President Lucinda Lavelli , Dean, College of Fine Arts at the University of Florida

12:30 - 1 :30 P .M.

* MEMPHIS COLLEGE OF ART* PENNSYLVANIA STATE UNIVERSITY

* TEXAS TECH UNIVERSITY

Different Strokes for Different Folks: Education in All Shapes, Sizes and Colors.

Presenting by Skype will be Daphne Koller, co-CEO of Coursera

Joining us in person will be Jose Bowen, Dean, School of the Arts at Southern Methodist University

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The Online Revolution: Learning Without Limits.

Daphne Koller, co-CEO of Coursera

We are at the cusp of a major transformation in higher education. In the past year, we

have seen the advent of MOOCs — massively open online classes (MOOCs) — top-

quality courses from the best universities offered for free. These courses exploit

technology to provide a real course experience to students, including video content,

interactive exercises with meaningful feedback, using both auto-grading and peer-

grading, and rich peer-to-peer interaction around the course materials. We now see

MOOCs from dozens of top universities, offering courses to millions of students from

every country in the world. The courses start from bridge/gateway courses all the way

through graduate courses, and span a range of topics including computer science,

business, medicine, science, humanities, social sciences, and more.

I'll discuss this far-reaching experiment in education, including some examples and

preliminary analytics. I'll also discuss why we believe this model can support an

improved learning experience for on-campus students, via blended learning, and

provide unprecedented access to education to millions of students around the world.

Teach Naked: Jose Bowen, Dean, School of the Arts at Southern Methodist University

Technology is changing higher education, but the greatest value of a physical university will

remain its face-to-face (naked) interaction between faculty and students. The most important

benefits to using technology occur outside of the classroom. You can’t ignore MOOCs, but

most schools should be using their potential to provide content and not creating new MOOCs.

The value of art school has always been in the interactions among people, and MOOCs and

other new technology can increase student preparation and engagement between classes

and create more time for the in-class interaction and dialogue that makes the campus

experience and art school worth the extra money it will always cost. Observation, analysis,

writing, creativity, and communication just became more important, and these are traditional

strengths of art school. But is that really what your school delivers? Are your curriculum, your

pedagogy, and your faculty the drivers for more creativity and more divergent thinking?

Course design just became more important. I will provide examples of how deans can get

faculty to spend more time designing better courses and programs that use online content, but

do more than just deliver content or artistic skills and create graduates who are inspired,

analytical, creative, resilient, entrepreneurial and able to change their minds.

Introduction:

Gerd Hauck, Dean, Faculty of Communication & Design, Ryerson University

1:45 - 3 :15 P .M.

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For many years we have experienced a great emphasis on STEM education —

science, technology, engineering, and mathematics - driven by the nation’s desire

for competitiveness in a global economy. More recently, educators, plus leaders in

business, industry, and government, have looked toward transforming that to

STEAM, adding in the Arts to the mix. With this integration of the arts, students are

encouraged to develop crit ical thinking and problem-solving ski l ls, enhancing

innovative student engagement. STEAM programs are being developed across the

country, particularly in the K-12 setting; a few are beginning to appear on

campuses of higher learning. As the arts become integrated more into the STEM

curriculum transforming it to STEAM, just what are the real long-term goals and

objectives of this movement and how are the arts being treated through this

integration?

3:30 - 5 :15 P .M.

Round Table Sessions:

TIMELY TOPICS IN THE ARTS

You wil l have the opportunity to attend three, 20-minute sessions

(with f ive-minute breaks for transit ion, between) on one of these topics:

STEM-TO-STEAM | Is there a Place for i t in Higher Education?

Robert E. Henry, Associate Dean, College of Visual & Performing Arts at Texas Tech University

Several quest ions ar ise before even gett ing to the sub-t it le of this sess ion

regarding the place of STEAM in Higher Education:

• Are the arts being used str ict ly in a uti l i tar ian fashion for the advancement (or

enhancement) of the other primary foci on reading, math, science, etc.?

• Wil l the integration of the arts into these other subject areas serve as students’

“arts experiences” to the eventual loss of the arts as discrete and valued for their

own sake?

• If the above is the case, what does that mean for students coming up through

K-12, whether public or private, by the t ime we get them in higher education? Wil l

we st i l l have major arts programs that can be sustained by the preparation

students have previously had only through STEAM?

Now, onto the question at the top of the page:

• Is there a place for STEM-to-STEAM in higher education?

• If so, what might that look l ike with the increased emphasis on special ized and

focused study for degree programs at this level coupled with the demand that

curr icular requirements f it within a bare-bones, minimal credit hour l imitation for

those degrees?

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• Do any of the members of ICFAD have experiences and examples (posit ive

and/or negative) of STEM-to-STEAM in higher education to share with the rest of

the membership?

Interdisciplinarity, Interuniversity, International

Allyson Vanstone, Dean, VCUQatar

15 years ago, VCUarts was invited by the Qatar Foundation (QF) to be the

inaugural university in a vision that became Education City, which over time

welcomed six American, one Brit ish and one French university. Today, VCUQatar is

no longer an individual participant in the first phase of QF development, but rather

has joined these universit ies and QF in a second phase to help create Hamad bin

Khalifa University (HBKU) “an emerging research university building upon unique

collaborations with local and international partners…to provide unparalleled

opportunities for scholarship, teaching, discovery, and learning for all of its students

by an array of interdisciplinary programs”. I imagine that all of us, as deans, have

attempted the complex negotiation to engage academic programs to open their

curricula to interdisciplinary opportunities. Imagine the dynamic when you combine

the deans from 2 public and 4 private U.S. universit ies, with a public U.K. university

and a public/private French university, along with four newly created HBKU

interdisciplinary graduate school deans with the goal of creative collaboration.

Does this sound l ike a complex organizational and educational challenge? It is.

Start a Movement: A Comprehensive Program In Arts Entrepreneurship at SMU

José Antonio Bowen, Dean & Kevin HofeditzAssociate Dean, Meadows School of the Arts at Southern Methodist University

In 2009, the Meadows School of the Arts launched a comprehensive program

called “Start a Movement.” It was designed to improve the employment of our

graduates and give students better ski l ls to manage their careers. There are four

key elements:

1. All students are required to have a working website before they start their f irst

year. SMU provides a free WordPress site and hosting, but students are encouraged

to f ind a working name for themselves and to purchase a domain name

immediately.

2. All first-year students are required to pass a one-credit First-year Arts Community

Experience (FACE) course taught by the Dean, that requires an elevator pitch, a

video, self-reflective blogging, a product list and a strategic plan, all posted to the

student’s website. This course also requires students to negotiate pricing, exchange

contracts (in a sales game), do their taxes, and features alumni and an introduction

to the various options for further coursework.

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3. We then offer a broad array of skil ls courses, taught within the arts school, on Arts

Budgeting; Attracting Capital; Developing an Arts Venture Plan; and Interactive

Media with further minors in Graphic Design, PR, Arts Management and Arts

Entrepreneurship, all of which provides an overview of how to develop and launch a

new arts venture, either for-profit or nonprofit.

4. Students may apply for Exploration Awards to “Start a Movement” and seniors are

given the additional opportunity to pitch ideas to Angel Fund investors. When we

started in 2009, only 48% of our graduates who wanted to be employed were

working in their major field of art. Now 68% of seekers are employed in their major

field. Most of them are freelancers, running a small for-profit sole proprietorship

business.

ArtsForce: Preparing Students for the World of Work

Liz Leckie, Ph.D., Assistant Dean for Undergraduate Affairs,

College of Fine Arts at the University of Utah

As reported in the the 2011 SNAAP (Strategic National Arts Alumni Project) findings

more than half (51%) of undergraduate arts alumni are dissatisfied with the career

advising their school offered, as are 43% of graduate arts alumni. Similarly, in 2012,

the College of Fine Arts at the University of Utah conducted a student survey and

one of the common responses in students’ comments was their uncertainty in how to

navigate their options after graduation.

Students indicated that career information, such as internships (32%) and future

posit ions (53%) were among the top resources/information that they would l ike to

discuss with advisors.

Listening to these concerns from both arts alumni and our current students, the

College developed an Emerging Leaders Program. This program offers “high-

stakes internships,” mini-grants, and peer-mentoring opportunit ies designed to

prepare students for their transit ion into the world of work. In this roundtable

session, we wil l discuss a general definit ion of “high-stakes internships” and the

importance of these opportunit ies in preparing students for the current world of

work. We wil l look at one specif ic example of how the College of Fine Arts’

Emerging Leaders Program is providing these opportunit ies for students at Utah.

Enriching Educational Experiences in Partnership with Communities

Valerie Eickmeier, Dean, Herron School of Art and Design, IUPUI

Art and design schools committed to civic engagement help prepare students for

professional careers in the visual arts and impact the cultural and economic

development of businesses and communit ies. Civic engagement provides students

with excellent "real world" opportunit ies for professional practice and career

development. Working col laboratively offers

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unique learning opportunit ies for students while community partners gain better

insight and understanding to the creative processes by working with students and

faculty.

This panel discussion wil l highl ight a variety of student projects that were created

in col laboration with city centers, parks departments, corporations, hospitals,

museums, publ ic transportat ion, not-for-prof it organizat ions and government

agencies. A guided discussion wil l address al l aspects of civic engagement in the

visual arts including the educational benefits for students, faculty concerns,

budgets , contracts , project management, adminis t rat ive i ssues and publ ic

relations.

Engaging the Community in Giving

Julia Carr, Executive Director of Development for the School of the Arts

at Virginia Commonwealth University

As reported in the the 2011 SNAAP (Strategic National Arts Alumni Project)

M e m b e r s o f t h e S c h o o l o f t h e A r t s P o l l a k S o c i e t y s u p p o r t t h e V i r g i n i a

Commonwealth University, School of the Arts in a number of ways — not only

through their phi lanthropy but by serving as advocates of VCUarts and of

Richmond as a dynamic international center for the arts. This community support

group are insiders at one of the country’s best art schools.

Our members know what’s happening on campus. They have preferred seating at

VCUart’s events — from theater, music and dance per formances to previews of

art exhibit ions. Plus, they enjoy private tours led by VCUarts’ top professors and

students, as well as receptions in the homes of other donor-members with art

col lections. Many of the members of this group have become major donors to the

School of the Arts. Learn what it takes to create your own successful community

group. This inf luential group is named for Theresa Pollak , the founder of VCU

School of the Arts.

Creative Disruption in the VCU School of the Arts

Matt Woolman, Director of Entrepreneurship, School of theArts

at Virginia Commonwealth University

An entrepreneur is more than someone who is able to establish and operate a

business venture. The entrepreneur operates at the heart of the process of

disrupting the status quo and creating new markets. The entrepreneur possesses

the abil i ty to turn ideas into action. This requires passion, intuit ion, creativity, and

r isk-taking, as well as the ski l ls to plan and manage projects, and work with

col laborators and teams in order to achieve objectives. An entrepreneurial

mindset provides individuals the confidence to navigate day-to-day l i fe in

innovative ways, and makes employees more aware of the context of their work

and better able to seize opportunit ies.

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This is not unlike the processes that designers, visual and performing artists engage in

every day. In the VCU School of the Arts, we like to refer to the entrepreneur as a

business artist who leads their own portfolio career. To foster this spirit, the VCU School

of the Arts has established the Creative Disruption Lab, a platform of three

interconnected programs:

EDUCATION: four new innovative courses in Creative Entrepreneurship.

INCUBATION: a seed accelerator for students to develop their own business ventures.

COLLABORATION: a transdisciplinary internship program for students to work on team-

based, real-world projects that focus on emerging technologies.

Using the VCUarts Creative Disruption Lab as a model, this roundtable will focus on

developing entrepreneurship programming in arts and design higher education.

Arts and Emerging Technologies: Opportunit ies for Creative Collaboration

Sue Ott Rowlands, Dean, College of Liberal Arts and Human Sciences

at Virginia Tech

Virginia Tech's Arts Init iat ive and its new Inst itute for Creativity, Arts, and

Technology (ICAT) wi l l provide a case study in visual and per forming arts

academic programs can be enhanced through col laborations with HCI in

Computer Engineering, learning technologies in Education, and new media

research efforts.

Discussion will center around ways in which faculty and students can benefit through a

robust partnership with science and technology researchers, thereby extending the

opportunities and impact of arts programs.

Creative Placemaking: The Grace Street Project

David H. Ehrenpreis, Director, Institute for Visual Studies and

Professor of Art History at James Madison University

The Grace Street Project is an applied research collaborative made up of faculty and

students in art history, design, engineering, geography, and public administration at James

Madison Univeristy. The project’s goals are to re-envision and re-design public spaces on and

near JMU’s campus, and to investigate the role of the built environment in community-

building and engagement. Grace Street traverses the university’s arts district and is rapidly

becoming a main route across campus. The transformation of this area, which connects with

downtown Harrisonburg, will also affect town and gown relations. Thinking through the

consequences of these shifts for JMU and for the Harrisonburg community is the responsibility

of the engaged university. It will require the full university to think carefully about the question

“What is our place?” This occasion also provides a unique opportunity for multidisciplinary

engagement, involving everything from community engagement to landscape architecture,

and from industrial design to transportation planning. It gives students and faculty from the

arts and sciences the chance to make their university a better place.

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Research in the Arts

Margaret S. Mertz, Associate Dean for Research, Technology and

Administrative Affairs, University of Florida

Academic research? Scholarly research? Creative research? Per formance?

Production? Exhibit ion? Demonstration? The varieties and complexit ies of art ist ic

practice result in many meaningful pieces of work. Some of these results

resemble research in other f ields and discipl ines characterist ic of the research

university; some do not. This roundtable discussion wil l stem from a description of

the University of Flor ida College of Fine Arts efforts in its current strategic plan to

art iculate its research phi losophy, and continue with its ongoing process of

creating a research agenda and prior it ies, along with coordinating definit ions of

research among the tenure and promotion criter ia for the various areas within the

col lege.

Using Alumni Data for Positive Change: Stories from the Strategic National Arts

Alumni Project (SNAAP)

Sally Gaskill, Director, Strategic NationalArts Alumni Project (SNAAP)

at Indiana University Center for Postsecondary Research

In its f irst f ive years, the Strategic National Arts Alumni Project at Indiana University

has surveyed nearly 90,000 graduates of degree-granting arts schools across the US

and Canada, becoming the largest alumni database in any field. * HARTFORD UNIVERSITY

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SNAAP collects both qualitative and quantitative data to provide a comprehensive,

well-rounded picture of the impact of an arts education on college students. The

SNAAP team publishes findings on the aggregate data and provides customized,

confidential reports to participating institutions on the outcomes of their own arts

graduates.

How are schools using their SNAAP data? Join in this roundtable discussion to gather

information about how schools and the field are using SNAAP data for assessment

of curriculum, programs, and services — resulting in positive change.

Cumulus, the International Association of Universities

and Colleges of Art, Design and Media

Presenter TBA

Cumulus, the International Association of Universities and Colleges of Art, Design and

Media was founded in 1990. Currently, it has 198 members from 48 countries. Cumulus

is the only global association to serve art and design education and research, and a

forum for partnership and transfer of knowledge and best practices.

The University of Art and Design in Helsinki (currently Aalto University School of Arts,

Design and Architecture) and the Royal College of Art in London, in co-operation

with Danmarks Designskole, Gerrit Rietvelt Academy, Universität Gesamthochschule

Essen and Hochschule für Angewandte Kunst in Wien initiated Cumulus as a network.

They al l had a common desire to enhance the quality of education through co-

operation, student and teacher exchange within the European Union Erasmus

programme.

Cumulus has been a pioneer in developing jointly organized MA-programmes,

intensive workshops, projects and biannual conferences. Cumulus publ ishes

working papers documenting discussions and sessions of each conference.

I t a l s o d e v e l o p s t o o l s a n d g u i d e s f o r h e l p i n g s t u d e n t s , p r o f e s s o r s a n d

administrative staff in internationalization, and enables identif ication of good

partners for academic and corporate project col laboration.

Cumulus aims at bui lding and maintaining a dynamic and f lexible academic

forum which would bring together top level educational inst itut ions from al l parts

of the world. Cumulus col laborates not only with inst itutions and organizations

from the f ield of art, design and media; the encouragement of co-operation with

industry and business is important as well .

HGA is an integrated architecture, engineering and planning firm

that helps prepare its clients for the future. By understanding

their cultural and business needs, we help clients realize their

organization's vision and potential through responsive, innovative

and sustainable design. We achieve this through multidisciplinary

collaboration, knowledge sharing and design investigation.

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6:00 - 7 :00 P .M. CELEBRATE THE ARTS COCKTAIL RECEPT ION

SPONSORED BY HGA ARCHITECTS AND ENGINEERS

DINNER ON YOUR OWN

FRIDAY, OCTOBER 25 2013

7:15 - 8 :00 A.M. BREAKFASTQUEEN ANNE BALLROOM

ALL REGISTERED ATTENDEES ARE INVITED TO NETWORK OVER A FULL , HOT BREAKFAST.

8:00 - 9 :15 A.M.

Introduct ion: George Sparks, Dean, Col lege of Visual and Performing Arts at James Madison Univers i ty

The Future of Arts in the Academy, Campus and Community: Partnering with

Other Disciplines in Creative Initiatives and Research

Jon Alger, President, James Madison University

In 2012, Jonathan R. Alger became president of James Madison University, the sixth

president since the university’s founding in 1908. Under his leadership, James

Madison University is engaged in a comprehensive and inclusive strategic planning

process , and has a l so undergone i t s decennia l un ivers i ty -wide rev iew for

reaccreditation. Prior to becoming president of JMU, Alger was senior vice

president and general counsel at Rutgers, the State University of New Jersey. As a

member of the president’s leadership team at Rutgers, Alger managed all legal

affairs, provided strategic leadership, oversaw compliance, and played a crit ical

role on many major strategic and policy initiatives. Alger served previously as

assistant general counsel at the University of Michigan, counsel for the American

Association of University Professors, attorney-advisor in the U.S. Department of

Education’s Office for Civil Rights, and as an associate at the international law firm

of Morgan, Lewis & Bockius. At the University of Michigan, Alger played a key

leadership role in the university’s efforts in two landmark Supreme Court cases on

diversity and admissions and coordinated one of the largest amicus brief coalit ions

in Supreme Court history. He has since advised universit ies nationwide on how to

build and sustain diversity init iatives and programs.

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He taught graduate courses for several programs at the University of Michigan, and

undergraduate courses at Rutgers. He has also published articles on many aspects

of higher education policy and law and has given hundreds of presentations around

the country and abroad on these topics.

Alger has had a lifelong passion for the arts as a participant and patron, as has his

immediate family. He played trombone through high school, has per formed in

several stage productions, and has sung with many choral groups throughout his

l ifetime. He sang with the Choral Arts Society of Washington for eleven years —

during which time he participated in several international tours, professional

recordings, and national television appearances. One of his favorite moments was a

1993 Choral Arts trip with the National Symphony and its conductor, Mstislav

Rostropovich, to Russia at a critical time in that nation’s history. When you visit his

office at James Madison University one of the first pieces of memorabilia you will

encounter are photographs from that tour of a historic concert in Red Square. In his

speech to accept the presidency at James Madison University, Jonathan Alger said

this about the arts: “The visual and per forming arts constitute another critical

element of this holistic learning environment, providing insights into the human

condition and the world around us. As a lifelong choral singer standing on this

magnificent stage” (he gave his acceptance address in the Forbes Center Concert

Hall), “it is hard for me to

resist the temptation to break out into song (but I ' l l leave that for another t ime, or

my wife and daughter wi l l never forgive me!). Our entire family shares a deep

devotion to the arts, and we are incredibly excited to be joining a community in

which the arts play a vital role.”

This inspirational university president wil l share his observations and thoughts

about the value of arts in the academy; the important role the arts play in

enhancing the culture of a campus; and the appreciation the surrounding

community has for a vibrant on-campus arts program. President Alger wi l l also

discuss the value of art ist ic thinking and mult i-perspectivism in inter-and cross-

discipl inary init iatives and research.

9:15 - 9 :30 A.M. BREAK

* WEBSTER UNIVERSITY

* VIRGINIA TECH

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Diversity and its Role in Higher Education

Jon Alger, President, James Madison University

& Gail Baker , Dean, College of Communication, Fine Arts and Media at the

University of Nebraska at Omaha

President Alger is also a national leader in the move toward greater diversity in

higher education. He headed the team from the University of Michigan that

defended the right of universit ies to consider race in admissions procedures in

order to achieve a diverse student body.

10:45 - 11 :15 A.M. BREAK

Annual Meeting for the International Council of Fine Arts Deans

ICFAD President Lucinda Lavelli , Dean, College of Fine Arts at the University of Florida

& Sue Ott Rowlands, Dean, College of Liberal Arts and Sciences at Virginia Tech

11:15 - NOON

THE ANNUAL MEET ING WILL INCLUDE THE ELECT ION OF OFF ICERS AND DIRECTORS,

AND A PRESENTAT ION ABOUT THE PROPOSED INTERNAT IONAL SYMPOSIUM IN

ISTANBUL, TURKEY IN JUNE 2014.

LUNCH WITH NEW ORLEANS MAYOR MITCHELL JOSEPH LANDRIEU

NOON - 1 :00 P .M. LUNCH

Introduction:

Gail Baker, Dean, Col lege of Communicat ion, Fine Arts and Media at the Univers i ty

of Nebraska at Omaha

9:30 - 10 :45 A.M.

HMS Architects is a recognized leader in

providing sound, creative and enduring

design through a collaborative process.

We work with colleges, universit ies and

architecture f irms throughout the country

to accompl i sh innovat ive performance

solutions for our higher education clients.

SPONSORED BY HMS ARCHITECTS

The current economic, pol it ical, and cultural cl imate is as hosti le to public funding

for arts education as any t ime in l iv ing memory and any internet search of “least

valuable col lege degrees” inevitably begins with offerings from the arts. Professors

from VCU Arts wi l l share strategies they have successful ly used over the past 10

years of working in f ields at the other end of the internet search spectrum —

medicine, nursing and healthcare — to garner over 200 stories in the international

press, generate over 300k annually in grants and other funding, create jobs for 65

students and alumni, and open innovative career and publication opportunit ies

for arts faculty.

The potential for growth of arts in these f ields is enormous. Arts faculty and

students make ideal medical educators: actors can be trained to repl icate

“standardized patient” response; sculptors can create interactive mannequins;

the ski l ls of architects, interior designers, fashion designers, and visual art ists are

always in demand at medical schools and hospitals around the country. The

col laboration between VCU School of the Arts and VCU School of Medicine’s

Standardized Patient Program wil l be used as a model.

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1:00 - 2 :15 P .M.

Calling Dr. Arts: Leveraging the Interdisciplinary Potential of Arts in Healthcare

David Leong, Chairman at the VCU Arts Department of Theatre

Aaron Anderson, Associate Chairman, Department of Theatre, Director of

the VCU Standardized Patient Program and Affiliate Faculty in the Dept of

Internal Medicine

Mayor Landrieu majored in Theatre at the Catholic University of America in

Washington D.C. and has a deep appreciation for the arts.

The French Quarter, Garden Distr ict, and Faubourg Marigny have always been

great destinations for vis itors to New Orleans, but the city's revital ized Arts Distr ict

is giving travelers yet another reason to come to the Crescent City.

This historic neighborhood — fi l led with amazing art gal ler ies, f ine restaurants, and

world-class museums, has gone from bust l ing, to abandoned, and back to

becoming the center of attention once again.

Mayor Landrieu wil l share with us the history of how this was able to happen, as

well as many other stories about what is happening in this vibrant city.

becoming the center of attention once again. Mayor Landrieu wil l share with us

the history of how this was able to happen, as well as many other stories about

what is happening in this vibrant city.

2:15 - 2 :30 P .M. BREAK

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2:30 - 3 :30 P .M.

Introduction Raymond Tymas-Jones, Associate Vice President

for the Arts and Dean, The University of Utah College of Fine Arts

Inequality in Secondary Artistic Training

Kyle Wedberg, President and CEO, New Orleans

Center for Creative Arts

Every day a student receives messages about whether or not they have a path to

a career in the arts; i f a career in the arts is valued; i f a career in the arts is viable.

We have al l experienced those students that amaze us because of the path they

have taken and the barr iers they have overcome to f ind their way into our schools

and beyond. Leaders in arts t rain ing inst i tut ions have the responsibi l i ty to

understand the sacrif ices that students and their famil ies are taking to f ind a seat

in our schools. What are the barr iers? What are the challenges? We wil l look at

real-world examples of students seeking to engage a career in the arts, think

about the context in which they are making those decis ions and discuss how these

cases speak to the issues faced by potential and actual students in our inst itut ions.

5:30 - 6 :30 P .M. OUR 50TH ANNIVERSARY GALA

COCKTAIL RECEPT ION . BLACK-T IE OPT IONAL

* PENNSYLVANIA STATE UNIVERSITY

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ICFAD 50TH ANNIVERSARY GALA CELEBRATION

OCTOBER 25TH, 2013 RECEPTION, DINNER, JAZZ & DESSERT

K E Y N O T E S P E A K E R : N A T I O N A L L Y R E N O W N E D A C T O R ,

D I R E C T O R AND E D U C AT O R : AND R E D E S H I E L D S

ANNUAL ICFAD CONFERENCE : OCTOBER 23-26 , 2013

HOTEL MONTELEONE (1.800.535.9595) NEW ORLEANS, LA

R E G I S T R A T I O N I N F O R M A T I O N T O F O L L O W

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6:45 - 9 :00 P .M.

BLACK-T IE OPT IONAL

featuring Andre De Shields

* ANDRE DE SHIELDS

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SATURDAY, OCTOBER 26 2013

9:00 - 10 :00 A.M.

Focus on the Recovery and Renaissance:

HOW THE ARTS PLAYED A ROLE IN THE REVITALIZATION

OF NEW ORLEANS, AFTER HURRICANE KATRINA

Mary Len Costa, Major Gifts and Foundation Officer,

Arts Council of New Orleans

Morgana King, Director of Public Art,

Arts Council of New Orleans

Carol McMichael Reese, Christovich Associate Professor,

School of Architecture at Tulane University

Scott Ruff, Associate Professor,

School of Architecture at Tulane University

I t happened creatively and collaboratively. These panelists -- each of whom

played a key role — wil l tel l us, and then show us as we tour the city on motor

coaches, how.

BREAKFAST ON YOUR OWN.

EvacuSpots are an innovative intersection of art and emergency preparedness

and provide a vital community service. There are 17 community gathering points

city-wide throughout al l counci l distr icts to get people out of New Orleans during

a storm.

When Hurr icane Katr ina struck in 2005, over a quarter of New Orleans households

did not have access to a vehicle. Therefore nearly 100,000 people did not

evacuate the ci ty, creat ing hel l i sh scenes in the Convent ion Center and

Superdome with people stuck for days without adequate food, water, sanitation

or medical care, not to mention the tragic loss of over a thousand l ives in the

f lood itself.

Ten years and a couple of evacuations later, the city has f inal ly introduced a

solution: "City-Assisted Evacuation," providing the elderly and others in need free

pickups and r ides from 17 access points in case of a large storm headed their

way. But according to Evacuteer, a nonprofit that trains volunteers to help with

the CAE effort, there was just one problem. The city was marking the access points

with a t iny metal s ign covered in f ine print that looked l ike any old parking sign.

No one was l ikely to notice the sites or remember them when they needed them.

So Evacuteer not only raised money from hundreds of donors nationwide, but

joined in partnership with the Arts Council of New Orleans, administrators of the

City’s Percent for Art program to f ind a solution.

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The Tulane City Center houses the Tulane School of Architecture’s applied urban

research and outreach programs. Initiatives of the City Center vary over time, but

share a focus on improving cities — particularly its home city of New Orleans —

through fostering global urban research, the development of flexible and innovative

urban strategies, and the provision of environmentally and culturally informed

principles to guide the design and revitalization of the contemporary metropolis.

After lengthy charrettes, workshops and a national cal l to art ists, Douglas

Kornfeld , an art ist from Massachusetts was commissioned to create a series of 14-

foot sculptures to mark each access point. They look l ike giant steel st ick f igures

reaching up to hai l a cab, or maybe grab some Mardi Gras beads. Al l 17

locations have been marked to date in t ime for the 2013 hurr icane season.

Funding for the project was shared 50/50 between the City’s Percent for Art

program and Evacuteer.

"People may think the waving guys are beautiful, and others may think they’re

ugly," the director of the project, Robert Fogarty , told the New Orleans T imes-

Picayune. " In either scenario, they at least remember where it was — and that’s

what matters."

The Tulane City Center:

Guiding the Design and Revital izat ion of the Contemporary Metropolis

URBANBuild is a design/build program in which teams of students take on the

design and construction of prototypical homes for New Orleans neighborhoods.

Work has exposed the School to the needs of the city’s underprivi leged families as

well as to what is required for the revitalization of New Orleans’ urban fabric and

neighborhood.

Guides on the busses wil l be Mary Len Costa, Major Gifts and Foundation Officer,

Arts Council of New Orleans; Linda Santi, who l ives in one of the Make it Right

houses and works for New Orleans Neighborhood Housing Services; and Scott Ruff,

Associate Professor, School of Architecture at Tulane University.

Our tour wil l begin with a drive along Saint Charles Avenue, through the city’s

Garden Distr ict. We’ll see Audubon Park, laid out by Frederick Law Olmsted, who

designed New York’s Central Park. The University Distr ict is en route, as we pass

Tulane University and Loyola University New Orleans.

Our first stop wil l be the Arts Market of New Orleans, at Palmer Park in the Carrollton

Section of Uptown New Orleans. The monthly Arts Market features handmade,

affordable fine arts and crafts from local and regional artists and artisans, as well

as entertainment and local food vendors.

10:30 A.M. BOARD BUSSES AT THE CORNER OF ROYAL & CANAL

Lunch wil l be on our own, here at the Arts Market. We wil l plan to arr ive at about

11:00 a.m. and busses wi l l board again at 12:20 p.m. Look for one of the

Evacuteer sculptures, whi le you are here. Isn’t it awesome how a single art ist

to ta l l y out sh ined an ar my of gover nment p lanner s? ! These magn i f icent

sculptures make up part of one of the most innovative emergency management

programs in the country — seriously, the CDC and FEMA even said so — by

providing memorable locations where New Orleans residents know they can

show up and f ind free r ides in the event of an evacuation.

At 12:30 p.m., we’l l depart. Our drive wil l take us along Claiborne Avenue, a

major thoroughfare through a diverse range of neighborhoods — our destination

wil l be some of the communit ies most devastated in 2005 where we wil l learn of

their resi l ience and rebirth.

Next up is the El l is Marsal is Center for Music. The El l is Marsal is Center for Music,

the centerpiece of the Musicians’ Vi l lage, is a 17,000-square-foot faci l i ty that

serves as a per formance, education and community venue. The Center includes

a 170-seat per formance hal l , recording studio and teaching faci l i t ies for

individual and group instruction, and a gathering place for the community. From

music to dance, theatre to f i lm, the goal of the Center is to harness the

exceptional talents of the residents and students in surrounding

Musicians’ Vi l lage in a col lective effort that wil l provide an invaluable resource to

New Orleans. After the shocking devastation of Hurr icane Katr ina, native sons

Branford Marsalis and Harry Connick, Jr . along with the New Orleans Habitat for

Humanity, conceived the New Orleans Habitat Musicians Vi l lage. The core idea

behind the Vi l lage is the establishment of a community for the city’s several

generat ions of musicians and other famil ies, many of whom had l ived in

inadequate housing prior to the catastrophe. More than 70,000 volunteers helped

construct the 72 s ingle family homes, 10 elder-fr iendly apartments and toddler

park.

Returning to the bus, we wil l now cross the Industr ial Canal and enter the Lower

9th Ward. This is the area that was so overtaken with r is ing waters when a barge

destroyed the levee protection wall . In December 2006, Brad Pitt , a sometime

resident of New Orleans, created the “Make It Right” project with the intent to

bui ld 150 safe, energy eff icient and affordable homes for famil ies from this

community who lost everything to Hurr icane Katr ina. As of Apri l 2013, Make it

Right has complete 90 homes and is working to f inish the remaining 60 houses.

The homes were designed by world renowned architects such as Frank Gehry ,

David Adjay , and Shigeru Ban . Not the typical indigenous house design, yet are

reflective of the many angles and colors of New Orleans shotguns.

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We will now turn toward the Mississippi River and pass by one of the public art works

completed with the support of the Joan Mitchell Foundation — “Mandala” by artist

Rashida Ferdinand; the Martin Luther King Jr. School and Library; Fats Domino’s

house, and the Sanfoka Marketplace, a community gathering place not only for

the sale of food and crafts, but also for arts programs for area youth.

Our last stop of the day will be The L9 Center for the Arts. Its mission is to promote

art, culture, and community through an ongoing program of art exhibitions and

educational initiatives. Founded in 2007 after Hurricane Katrina by documentary

photographers/filmmakers and visual anthropologists Keith Calhoun and Chandra

McCormick, the L9 Center for the Arts serves the Lower Ninth Ward community of

New Orleans and the larger Gulf Coast area with a gallery space for art exhibitions,

per formances, and other events, as well as a studio for artists-in-residence.

As we head back to the hotel, we continue on St. Claude Avenue edging the

ByWater and Marigny neighborhoods to your left. As we cross Esplanade Avenue,

the French Quarter is on your left with the Treme community on your right. We will

pass an EvacuSpot sculpture at Armstrong Park as well as the Mortuary Chapel of

1826, built solely for the burial of victims of the multiple epidemics of the era.

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