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State Grant Empowers Arts and Culture Nonprofits to Ignite Clean Energy and Climate Action
A groundbreaking collaboration between Western Mass arts and culture nonprofits and UMass Amherst Extension units has been awarded a substantial grant from the Massachusetts Clean Energy Center (MassCEC) to spearhead a transformative climate action project, entitled Clean Energy in the Cultural Sector.

Building a Foundation with Arts Management for Nils Neubert
Wednesday, October 2, 2019
By Kate Beckley, Arts Extension Service Department Assistant
AES student Nils Neubert was born and raised in Hamburg, Germany and moved to the United States at the end of high school. He attended college in New York City and ended up studying voice, music education, and music performance. He has taught in higher education for almost ten years now and has worked with several music festivals. Currently, he teaches at a few New York conservatories, specifically focusing teaching German diction for singers.

Using Psychology to Grow Your Audience: One “Audience Exchange” at a Time
Tuesday, October 1, 2019
By Kate Beckley, Arts Extension Service Department Assistant
The audience plays a significant role in the art world. They determine success, in part based on whether they choose to participate in the arts at all. However, the power of audiences extends far beyond the direct interactions with arts events. Thus, studying and researching arts audiences can be as crucial to an arts event as the art itself. By understanding how audiences are impacted by arts events, and how they, in turn, choose to create (or not create) their impact through the arts, this research can be used to create developmental tools to enrich audience experiences at arts events.

Money Matters from AES
Tuesday, July 30, 2019

Vicki Meek: 3 Decades of Social Commentary
Monday, July 15, 2019

Arts & Culture: What’s Our Role in Greening the Future?
Monday, July 1, 2019

Kate Beckley Joins AES as a Summer Department Assistant
Monday, July 1, 2019