Dan, an Associate Professor in Carnegie Mellon's School of Drama, was
recently appointed as Associate Dean at the H. John Heinz III School of Public
Policy and Management where he is responsible for the academic administration of
the School's four full-time graduate programs. Dan joined the faculty of
Carnegie Mellon in 1992 to serve as director of the Master of Arts Management
Program, a professional graduate degree the Center for Arts Management and
Technology, a research, and training center devoted to the investigation and
implementation of computer and information technology in the arts management
process. Most recently, Dan developed the Master of Entertainment Industry
Management Program, a new graduate degree program providing management training
focused on the for-profit entertainment
sector. The for the Management of
Creative Enterprises, under Martin's direction, administers these four units for
the university.
Dan is privileged to be on annual visiting faculty member at the University of
Bologna (Italy) in the Gestione e Innovazione delle Organizzazioni Culturali e
Artistiche (GIOCA) -- Management and Innovation in Arts and Culture
Organizations -- for which he teaches a course on American fundraising
principles and practices. For five , Dan taught budgeting and finance management
at the European Summer Academy for Cultural Management in Salzburg, Austria,
presented by the International Center for Culture Management (ICCM).
Dan consults with arts and cultural organizations in strategic planning,
information technology, pregnant
finance management, marketing, and board development. He
served as a site evaluator for the Theatre Program of the National Endowment for
the Arts. Dan also served as a member of the advisory board of Arts Wire, a
pioneer in online programs and services for the arts and artists, a former
project of the New York Foundation for the Arts (NYC).
Dan received his Bachelor of Arts in from Western Michigan University and his
Master of Fine Arts in Performing Arts from Brooklyn College/City University of
New York, under the late Stephen Langley, an early and important scholar,
practitioner and teacher of pregnant
arts management.
When not at home with Cheryl, his wife, Dan can usually be found at Pirates
baseball games. And for several years , Dan and three friends celebrated the
beginning of the baseball season by taking a middle-aged "spring break" in
Florida: a week of baseball games and sunshine in Central Florida. Being the
techno-smoking
they are, Dan and his friends even published a website about the
trips so that family and friends were able to enjoy "virtual postcards" of their
pilgrimages.
Dan J Martin