Arts Management at College of Charleston

This portrait by William Halsey has been hanging in the Simons Center for years, but who is it of? Can you guess? Answer to come later this summer… We’re hoping to have a label put up so everyone knows this piece of CofC history!

Arts Management students in the “Media and the Arts at Spoleto” Maymester class have been hard at work this week converting Simons room 101 into a production office and recording studio for ETV Radio’s Spoleto Today show!

This semester, we will assist professor Jeanette Guinn in every aspect of producing and creating Spoleto Today– creating a workspace, scheduling interviews, marketing the show through social media, handling technical aspects of the recording process, and much more.

Room 101 before we got started- with Arts Management student Alex Pioggia

First, we had to deal with the aftermath of the end-of-semester table setup… We cleared all the tables and chairs and stacked them in a corner. We set up workspaces for everyone on the team.

Stacked tables in our way...

Our setup

Where the tables went

Our desk area- with student Alizey Khan hard at work writing this blog post...

Next, we brought in soundproofing foam and recording equipment and set up our recording booth for radio interviews.

The closet we converted, full of stuff

Our studio, after we set up the recording equipment!

View from the booth

After we added a rug to dampen the sound on the floor

Our pretty little interview space

We noticed  that the notorious squeaky door leading out of Simons that is right next to room 101 was really affecting our recording process… so we put some WD40 on it and it doesn’t squeak any more, 3 squeaking years later. You’re welcome!!

Then we put up a big banner! (Thanks to the Theater Department, particularly Robert Ashley in the Scene Shop, for lending us rugs and ladders)

Arts Management student Dan Heredia, and a ladder that is way too big for this room

Our banner required a slightly smaller ladder to put up

We're all set!

We’re ready to start recording the show on Monday- come visit us in Simons room 101 to see what we’re up to!

Thanks to Kathryn Norton and Donna Dupree for helping us in the setup process.

(written by Arts Management student Alizey Khan)

The Arts Management Program’s student run record label, Seventeen70 Records, will launch its new release Chucktown Sounds at thesecond Pre-Exam Jam at the Music Farm onMonday, April 16.

Tickets are $5 at the door, and Tyler Boone, Will Hastings, Old You, Wadata and some very special guests will all take the stage.

Doors open at 7 – get there early for a chance to win some Seventeen70 swag!

SUMMER COURSE OFFERINGS

Arts Management is offering three courses during Maymester and Summer sessions.  If you are considering doing an internshiop over the summer or taking a class, visit our summer course listing as well as the College’s Maymester and Summer Sessions website for more information about registration.

SENIOR RECEPTION

Congratulations to our seniors! The Arts Management Senior Reception is scheduled for Tuesday, April 24th from 5:00 PM – 6:30 PM in the Halsey Gallery. If you are graduating this spring and have not yet RSVP’d to the reception, please email Anja at urbanskia@cofc.edu and let us know if you are attending.