The Lawrence and Isabel Barnett Center for Integrated Arts and Enterprise prepares students for careers in the arts and entrepreneurial fields.
The Lawrence and Isabel Barnett Center for Integrated Arts and Enterprise educates and prepares students for successful careers in the arts and related entrepreneurial fields. The Center advances and increases students’ understandings of the business side of the arts and the worlds of arts management, policy, and culture by focusing on the entrepreneurial aspects of the arts.
It collaborates with the Fisher College of Business, Moritz College of Law, and multiple departments within the College of Arts and Sciences. Guests from local, regional, and national arts organizations provide leadership to students through the annual Barnett Symposium and Barnett Speaker and Seminar series. The Center contributes to the curricular offerings focused on arts entrepreneurship and arts management by offering programs, working with graduate students across disciplines, and housing the Barnett Fellows.
Sonia BasSheva Mañjon, PhD is the inaugural director of the Lawrence and Isabel Barnett Center for Integrated Arts and Enterprise and Associate Professor of Arts Administration, Education and Policy at OSU. Dr. Mañjon works with both undergraduate and graduate students who are interested in arts management, entrepreneurship, community collaborations, institutional partnerships, community arts, and civic engagement activities. She is also committed to initiatives and programs that attract, retain, and inspire students, faculty and staff from underrepresented groups on campus. She has developed and taught classes that focus on the integration of art in society, community development through arts practices, and arts administration as well as organic inquiry, a participatory and reflective qualitative research application and synergic inquiry, a participatory action methodology. Dr. Mañjon earned a PhD in Humanities, Transformative Learning and Change in Human Systems and an MA in Cultural Anthropology and Social Transformation from the California Institute of Integral Studies, San Francisco. She received a Bachelor of Arts in World Arts and Cultures with an emphasis in Dance from the University of California, Los Angeles.
The Lawrence and Isabel Barnett Center for Integrated Arts and Enterprise prepares students for careers in the arts and entrepreneurial fields.
