Bank of America/Merrill Lynch Breakfast Forum - The Arts and New Hampshire's Creative Economy 9-29-16

Description

The Breakfast Series presented by Bank of America features Kent Devereaux, President & Chief Academic Officer of the New Hampshire Institute of Art  with a presentation on the impact of the arts in New Hampshire.  Deveraux will look at our traditional assumptions about the arts, how the arts have been a driver of economic revitalization, how the arts have improved our educational system and how the arts are an engine of a new creative class.

About the Speaker:
Kent Devereaux is the President and Chief Academic Officer of the New Hampshire Institute of Art (NHIA), a private, nonprofit, accredited college of the arts located in Manchester, New Hampshire.  

Before assuming the presidency of NHIA in January 2015, Kent served as Professor and Chair of the Music Department at Cornish College of the Arts, where he also served as Artistic Director for the college’s presenting series, Cornish Presents. Prior academic affiliations include multiple appointments as a Visiting Artist at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago (SAIC), as the Andrew W. Mellon Visiting Professor in Criticism at the California Institute of the Arts (CalArts), and as a Fulbright Fellow at the national arts academy in Surakarta, Java, Indonesia.  

In addition to his experience in traditional academia, Kent spent over a decade working in the technology and online education sectors including stints as Senior Vice President of Editorial and Product Development at Encyclopedia Britannica, where he was instrumental in transforming that storied educational publisher from a print to online business model in the 1990s, and as Senior Vice President and Dean of Curriculum at Kaplan University, where during his tenure enrollment at the online university expanded from 350 to over 45,000 students.  

As a composer and director, Kent’s own work includes collaborations with artists from around the world and performances at the Brooklyn Academy of Music (BAM), the London International Festival of Theatre (LIFT), Chicago’s Steppenwolf Theatre, Minneapolis’ Walker Arts Center, and elsewhere. Kent has received significant recognition for his work including grants and awards from the National Endowment for the Arts, National Endowment for the Humanities, the Rockefeller Foundation, the Illinois Arts Council, and Meet the Composer, among others. He’s also been a recipient of the annual Downbeat Jazz Education Achievement Award and the Cornish College of the Arts Distinguished Alumni Award.  

Kent holds a BFA in Music from Cornish College of the Arts (‘82), and an MFA in Art from the School of the Art Institute of Chicago (’85). 

About New Hampshire Institute of Art 
The New Hampshire Institute of Art (NHIA) is the oldest and largest non-profit arts institution in New Hampshire, founded in 1898, and today the third largest art and design college in all of New England. Regionally accredited by the New England Association of Schools and Colleges (NEASC) Commission on Higher Education and nationally accredited by the National Association of Schools of Arts and Design 
(NASAD), NHIA offers undergraduate (BFA), graduate (MFA, MAT, and MAAE), and community education programs serving over 2,000 students annually. NHIA’s academic and administrative programs and residence halls are housed in 10 buildings spread throughout downtown Manchester with additional studio and exhibition facilities located in Sharon and Peterborough, New Hampshire. NHIA is also a member of the Association of Independent Colleges of Art and Design (AICAD). For more information visit www.nhia.edu.