Arts Administration Program, Teachers College, Columbia University

Celebrating ARAD's 2026 grads! 💫🍾🎓💙 Throwback to their successful IP Defense Showcase, and extra felicitations to our IP Honors Award recipients Maggie, Alicia, Tiffany and Grace. 🏆

Our ARAD Program Director, Dr. Gregory-Kameka, shares her curated ARAD playlist 🤗✨🫶

You may have heard some of her favorites in office hours or during IP Defense Prep - now she shares the playlist with our ARAD community to remind us of our time at TC!

🗣️In their words: “I made this playlist to play at the recent IP Proposal defenses. Most of these are just for positive vibes, to see you through your independent study over the summer, fall and spring. However, some of them are for specific moods:

✨For international students, when you get homesick, this is what I play when I’m missing my family and friends at home: LULU | Home.

✨Prepping for the IP defense, to hype you up and make you laugh: WWE | Glorious domination.

✨For when things get particularly tough: Jimmy Cliff | Many Rivers to Cross; MEGA | Future Me.

✨To momentarily beat perfectionism: PJ Morton + Tobe Nwigwe | Practicing.

✨When you’re on a writing roll: Akil Henry & Between Worlds | In the Free

✨For when you wonder what the faculty think of you 🤪: Kaleiha | Proud of You; Tobe Nwigwe | Shine (DMW Edition).

✨For when you’re worried about what comes next: MEGA | Future Me; Tori Kelly | Confetti.

✨For when your writing gets political: Bob Marley & The Wailers | Small Axe; Koffee | The Harder They Fall.

✨For Chill Moments: Adi Goldstein | The Unspeakable World; Pachakuti & Young Vishnu | Liu; Tems | Free Mind.”

🔗 Find the full playlist at the Link in Bio!

Our wonderful Program Director, Dr. Gregory-Kameka, will be leading a conversation for the Arts and Humanities Department’s first A&H at Lincoln Center Event! ✨

The event is FREE but space is limited! Check out the QR code or look for the email from ARAD to register!

Join us for our final microcourse for the academic year, Creating a Living Legacy with Solana Chehtman, Director of Artist Programs at the Joan Mitchell Foundation. This microcourse will take place on Friday, May 1st, at 1:00pm in GDH 361!

✨Solana Chehtman is a cultural producer based in New York, originally from Argentina. Her work expands across performing and visual arts, and is driven by values of cultural self-determination, civic agency, and intersectional justice. As the Joan Mitchell Foundation’s Director of Artist Programs, Chehtman spearheads a programmatic vision centering artists as creative leaders focusing on supporting their career sustainability and long-term legacies, through unrestricted funding, capacity building and the development of a community of practice. Before joining the Foundation, Solana was the inaugural Director of Creative Practice and Social Impact at The Shed (2019 - 2022) and Vice President of Public Engagement at Friends of the High Line, where she held multiple roles (2014 - 2019). She received a BA in international studies at Universidad Torcuato Di Tella (Buenos Aires, Argentina), and holds an EdM in education policy from Teachers College, Columbia University (2014).

The celebrations begin! 🎉 ✅ IP submitted
After two years of writing, reading, researching, and writing some more, it’s officially in!
Next up: IP Defense, finals, and graduation! 🎓
I can’t wait to share what I’ve learned on defense day! Cheers to my fellow ARAD ‘26 cohort! 💙
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Students of the Issues: Art Markets class, taught by Dr. Lauren Van Haaften-Schick, had the special opportunity to gallery hop around Chelsea this week! ✨🎨

- Starting their visits at Hauser & Wirth, they viewed “Untitled” (Go-Go Dancing Platform) by Felix Gonzalez-Torres - and were lucky enough to catch the daily performance on the platform!
- Next, they headed to Galerie Lelong, where they met with the Director, Jeff Bergman, and learned more about the current exhibition, Ficre Ghebreyesus: Color is Supreme.
- As their last stop, the class headed to the historic West Chelsea Arts Building, and spotted some more artist exhibitions!

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Introducing ARAD adjunct professor, Eric Oberstein, and his course, Creative Producing in the Performing Arts 🙌

In their words 🗣️ “The course is fully intended to equip students with the understanding of how to navigate the many complexities of producing artistic work in today’s landscape. We talk in great detail about the many layers and constantly shifting considerations of doing this work, how producers need to be both present in the moment to support artistic creation, but also 100 steps ahead of everyone else, having the vision, but also the ethical grounding, to do this work and to understand the complex contexts in which we do the work.”

🔗 Check out the full interview posted to our blog via the link in bio!

📸 Eric Oberstein

Explore a week in ARAD student, Brooklyn Ullrich’s (ARAD ‘27), life! 🌞📚🚲🎭💌

• Monday & Tuesday - Classes and studying at Teachers College!
• Wednesday - Biking across the Brooklyn Bridge and visiting a Swedish candy store!
• Thursday - Work at Jazz at Lincoln Center @7:15am!
• Friday - Walking the High Line to Washington Square Park (and a much needed matcha break 🍵😉)!
• Saturday - Attend Encores! The Wild Party at

Teachers College and the ARAD program situated in NYC opens the doors to so many fun opportunities! What are your favorite activities around the city? 🌆

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Meet ARAD alum, Helena Wang, as she shares her career journey since graduating from the ARAD masters program! She recently started her fashion brand and debuted at NYFW in collaboration with another ARAD alum, Lucy Liu.

In their words 🗣️ “Success in arts administration is deeply tied to the genuine relationships you build. While coursework is rigorous, I encourage students to place equal importance on cultivating true friendships with professors, classmates, and the Columbia community both inside and outside of your program. These
relationships will carry you far beyond graduation.”

🔗 Check out the full interview posted to our blog via the link in bio!

📸 Helena Wang