Kate Collins is a doctoral candidate in the Arts Administration, Education and Policy program at The Ohio State University. She has an MFA in Theatre for Youth from Arizona State University and was a full time faculty member in theatre at Bowling Green State University for four years prior to beginning her doctorate. Scheduled to graduate in Summer 2014, Ms. Collins’s current dissertation research is an arts-based action research study focused on dialogic artmaking in the cultivation of citizen artists. Her work is largely informed by critical dialogue scholars Paulo Freire and Mikhail Bakhtin. Kate’s most recent article on the civic imagination can be found in Diversity & Democracy, a publication of the AAC&U. Numerous other articles Kate has written, can be found on the Community Arts Network website, now archived through Indiana University.
Sonia BasSheva Mañjon
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 The Ohio State University. She works with both undergraduate and graduate students who are interested in arts management, entrepreneurship, community collaborations, institutional partnerships, community arts, and civic engagement activities.
Dr. Mañjon has completed numerous projects, including 100 Families Oakland: Art and Social Change, a community-wide collaborative, A Snap Shot: Landmarking Community Cultural Arts Organizations Nationally, a call to action to support diverse community based organizations, Pieces of Cloth, Pieces of Culture: Tapa from Tonga and the Pacific Islands, a DVD on Tongan Tapa making, and Invisible Identity: Mujeres Dominicana en California, a video/ photographic installation.