Director Dee Boyle-Clapp Reflects on Fifty Years of Arts Extension Service in Essay

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The 50th anniversary has been a time of reflection and an opportunity to imagine forward. The Arts Extension Service’s (AES) past is filled with remarkable accomplishments and many “firsts” for the arts and arts management fields. Some of these accomplishments have been articulated in 50th anniversary articles written by colleagues, instructors, and Arts Extension Institute Advisory Board members. Several of our students have also shared their experiences via video. As director of AES, I believe AES’s key strengths has been our unwavering commitment to artists and creatives as core to the arts ecosystem and our trajectory of training and publishing to support the learning and development of professional artists, arts managers, and students on the campus and online.