Developing the Artist Citizen: CMS 2013 Summit at SMU

This was a very important conference with presenters from Juilliard (President Joseph Polisi), Yale (Dean Robert Blocker), SMU (Dean José Antonio Bowen), Imagining America (Kevin Bott), and others.

Two LSU students attended the conference and will report back on what they heard--and what they think we should do.

President Joseph Polisi (Juilliard), Ashley Dixon (LSU), Natalie Logan (LSU),
and Dean José Antonio Bowen (SMU).

Dean José Anontio Bowen presenting.

A SMU student string quartet, LSU students and Eric Booth.

Dean Robert Blocker (Yale).

Ashley Dixon (LSU), President of CMS, Patricia Sheehan Campbell (Univ. of Washington)
and Natalie Logan (LSU)

Exploring four interrelated threads:The CMS 2013 Summit, "Developing the Artist Citizen," 

1. What does it mean to be an artist-citizen?
2. How can music be used to engage those who might feel marginalized within a particular community, and how might marginalized groups use music to give themselves a voice?
3. What can we do as artists to improve the world?
4. How can we position ourselves to be the most useful and how can we give our students the skills they need to be effective artist-citizens?

The 2013 CMS Summit focussed on Developing the Artist Citizen and took place at Southern Methodist University in Dallas, Texas, January 19-20, 2013.

http://www.music.org/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=649:2013-summit-developing-the-artist-citizen&catid=103&Itemid=1045