5th floor
Seventh Room
Over the past two decades, the arts in America have experienced an unprecedented building boom, with more than sixteen billion dollars directed to the building, expansion, and renovation of museums, theaters, symphony halls, opera houses, and centers for the visual and performing arts.
Join us as we Skype with Peter Frumkin who will deepen our understanding of the recent history of investment in cultural facilities in the United States and discuss implications for the field. Frumkin is Professor of Social Policy at the University of Pennsylvania. There he directs the Masters in Nonprofit Leadership Program and serves as faculty director of the Center for High Impact Philanthropy.
Building for the Arts draws on the University of Chicago's Cultural Policy Center's research study Set in Stone: Building America's New Generation of Arts Facilities, 1994-2008 (2012). For more information, visit the project's website.