MIT's Leila Kinney visits LSU CMDA

Dean Laurence Kaptain and 

MIT's Executive Director of Arts Initiatives Leila W. Kinney

MIT's Executive Director of Arts Initiatives Leila W. Kinney visited the office of the COllege of Music and Dramatic Arts on December 7, 2012. MIT and LSU are partnering on Alliance for the Arts in Research Universities.

She works with Associate Provost Philip Khoury, the School of Architecture and Planning (SA+P), the School of Humanities, Arts, and Social Sciences (SHASS), the Creative Arts Council, the Council for the Arts at MIT, the MIT List Visual Arts Center, and the MIT Museum to advance the arts at MIT in the areas of strategic planning, cross-school collaborations, communications and resource development. She is an art historian with experience in both SA+P, where she was on the faculty in the History, Theory and Criticism section of the Department of Architecture (HTC) and SHASS, where she taught in the Program in Women's Studies and in Comparative Media Studies. She specializes in modern art, with an emphasis on media in transition, arts institutions and artists' engagement with mass culture. She is a member of the Board of Mass Humanities and of the Advisory Committees of the Catalyst Collaborative at MIT, the MIT List Visual Arts Center and the MIT Museum.

Leila Kinney, LSU School of Music Director Stephen David Beck
and CMDA friend / supporter Louise Kinney.