UK Arts Administration Practicums

Students must complete at least a one-credit practicum before they graduate, which constitutes a minimum of 40 hours of service work in the field of arts administration. Most students complete their practicums within units of the University of Kentucky, such as the Arts Administration Program, Art Department, Art Museum, School of Music, Singletary Center for the Arts, Student Activities Board and Theatre Department. Practicum hours may also be completed off-campus. Besides helping students gain arts administration experience, practicums encourage them to acquire the habit of serving their community, a primary goal of nonprofit arts organizations.

Students, with assistance from the Arts Administration Program's Director, are required to identify where they will be completing their practicum hours and the activities they will be carrying out. Once this information has been identified, students then complete Learning Contracts describing their practicums. The Program's Director also monitors the students during their practicums, evaluates the students' experiences and assigns them a final grade of Pass or Fail.

Practicums From Recent Years:

Arts Administration Program

Updated the Arts Administration Program's web site.
Assisted with the Social Theory, Politics and the Arts Conference.
Created the arts administration program brochure.
Researched arts administration program websites.

Art Department

Assisted in the Photo lab: helping students, mixing chemicals, cleaning up, and hanging exhibits.
Assisted in the Fiber Studio preparing and taking down demonstrations and helping students.
Helped organize and execute the annual Open Studio Event.
Helped organize, promote and hang the Department's BFA group show.
Worked in the Slide Library: pulling, replacing, organizing and labeling slides for presentations by Art History faculty.
Helped organize and carry out a national Art History conference held at UK.

School of Music

Worked in the School of Music Offices, providing administrative support.
Assisted music professor marketing and managing his touring activities.
Using MIDI Technology, created digital performances of un-recorded works by music professor.
Helped market an opera production.
Helped organize and run the School of Music audition process.
Helped organize, promote and worked at the annual Trumpet Day Event.
Worked in the Band Office, providing general administrative support.
Helped organize the Mid-South Regional Auditions for the National Association of Teachers of Singing.

Theatre Department

Served as House Manager for shows in the Guignol and Briggs Theatres.
Helped organize a benefit performance for a professor retiring from the Theatre Department.
Assisted the Office Manager, marketing the Department's shows.
Put together a season brochure and other marketing materials for the Department's shows.
Put together an exhibit of materials in the lobby for a play in the Guignol Theatre.

Other UK Units

Helped organize and stage the Beaux Arts Ball.
Served as the director of the Spotlight Jazz Series.
Worked with the Singletary Center for the staff, promoting and staging Turning the Corner Series concerts.
Chose, hung and advertised exhibits in the Singletary Center for the Arts President's Room.
Worked in the Singletary Center for the Arts Ticket Office.
Helped the UK Dance Ensemble organize and carry out their annual performance/fundraiser.
Helped market events at the UK Art Museum.
Ran the Film Series for the Student Activities Board.

Off Campus

Worked at Poet Man Records, marketing and distributing the UK Pep Band CD and marketing the Walden Project, a play and other activities carried out in schools during Earth Day.
Helped the Bluegrass Area Jazz Association produce a holiday music album.
Helped the Lexington Art League organize and stage their annual Woodland Art Fair.
Worked at events, such as 4th Fridays, staged by the Lexington Art League.
Worked in Lexington's Downtown Art Center Ticket Office.
Helped organize and stage the Lexington Ballet's benefit performance.
Worked at the Virginia Arts Festival in their marketing department.
Worked with the Warwick Foundation, setting up and staging their inaugural event at the Warwick Estate.