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Lifelong Entrepreneur Gives Advice to MSLCE Students

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By Ben Levine

The entrepreneurship course taught by Gregg Latterman gives students the opportunity to build their own company from the ground up.

One of the highlights of the course is the myriad of wonderful guest speakers and mentors that Professor Latterman brings in to help give the students a sense of how entrepreneurship works as well as to get feedback from experts on their new ventures. On April 22, the class was fortunate to have Dan Novaes come and share his story and advice for what it takes to make a great, relevant company in the modern landscape. (more…)

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Students Get Career Advice from WCAS Alumni in the Arts Panel

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By Cameron Kong

“What are you going to do with your classic music major?” Classical guitarist Bryan Albert got this question often during his time as an undergraduate at Northwestern. Yet, as a freelance artist and touring musician, Bryan’s passion for music remains unabated almost a decade after graduation.

“I wake up in the morning and the first thing I do is play the piano,” he told MSLCE students during a recent WCAS Alumni in the Arts panel. “That’s just what I naturally do.” (more…)

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Frederick Wiseman’s In Jackson Heights: Cinéma vérité from the heart of Queens

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By Laura Hess

“I’m left wondering what the reality of this country is. There are many liberties, but no one is listening to you.” Standing in front of a community support group, a man recounts his recent, and possibly wrongful, termination by his employer.

Frederick Wiseman, however, is indeed listening. The release of In Jackson Heights marks the 40th documentary by the acclaimed and prolific filmmaker. Recently screened at Northwestern University, in the Block Museum’s Pick-Laudati Auditorium, In Jackson Heights immerses the audience within the culturally variegated New York neighborhood. Consistent with Wiseman’s long-established style, there is no voice-over, no soundtrack, no to-camera interviews; private moments retain a compellingly intimate quality. The film’s sinuous path knits together many such moments from this diverse district of Queens, which reportedly includes 167 different languages. (more…)

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Art Institute of Chicago CMO Speaks to MSLCE students about Van Gogh’s Bedrooms and Marketing for Nonprofits

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By Zach Hyman

You may have seen the buzz all over the Chicago social sphere – Vincent van Gogh is at the Art Institute of Chicago.

“Van Gogh’s Bedrooms,” an exhibit featuring the tortured artist’s three interpretations of his chambre in Arles, has run through most of spring and will continue until May 10.

In a special presentation to our Marketing Strategy class, Art Institute Chief Marketing Officer Gordon Montgomery brought an insider perspective on Van Gogh and nonprofit marketing. His main challenge? Bringing “for-profit experience” to a Chicago cultural mainstay. (more…)

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Paper Mill Playhouse Producing Artistic Director to Speak at Northwestern

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By Jacob Nelson

Mark Hoebee has been a  gymnast, a dancer, a choreographer, a director, and, most recently, a theater administrator, working as Paper Mill Playhouse’s Producing Artistic Director. He is the first to admit that a career in show business follows no standard trajectory.

“Anybody who tells you this is what you have to do to be successful is full of it because there is no one way to do it,” he said with a laugh. “You can sort of fashion your own career.” (more…)

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Taking MSLCE on the Road

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By Pablo J. Boczkowski, MSLCE Director 

During spring break, students in the Master of Science in Leadership for Creative Enterprises (MSLCE) program participated in our annual trek to a media capital in the United States. Due to the growth of the program, students chose between two different destinations this year: Los Angeles and New York… No site would have been able to host thirty-six students plus staff at once! (more…)

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MSLCE Trek Offers Inside Look into the Entertainment Industry

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By Zach Hyman

Over spring break, the MSLCE program split in half and sent a cohort to both New York and Los Angeles to see the creative industries up-close and personal. Being interested in the film and television industry, I travelled to Los Angeles, and came away with a much deeper understanding of what it’s like to work in Hollywood. (more…)

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MSLCE Professor Researches Globalization by Looking at Opera and Fashion

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By Jacob Nelson

Today, we continue our feature where we ask an MSLCE professor three questions about the creative field they work in. Below is a conversation with Claudio Benzecry about globalization, sociology, and high-end fashion.

How did your study of the Colón Opera House lead you to your current project looking at the world of high-end fashion shoes?

My first book, The Opera Fanatic, was an exploration of what it means to love something and started my journey of exploring the subjective as a particular kind of category. Instead of opposing it to what is “objective” I became interested in how it is a particular knowledge form that needs to be studied systematically. So as a follow up to a book that explored in depth the collaborative work of producing the opera fanatic as a peculiar embodiment of taste, instead of the more obvious ethnography of fandom or musical practices, I thought of another subject that is usually conceived as either over-determined with “social” character or as irrational and frivolous: fashion. (more…)

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An MMA Curator and a Nonprofit Consultant Talk Museums, Technology, and their Careers

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By Jacob Nelson

A curator from the Metropolitan Museum of Modern Art (MMA) spoke with a principal of the consulting firm Danzig & Associates last week during an MSLCE Speaker Series event about the surprising paths their creative careers have taken them on.

Femke Speelberg, the MMA’s Associate Curator of Prints and Drawings, described getting offered her job in the midst of what she thought would be a lifetime of temporary gigs.

“It was something I completely did not plan for,” she said, “I was planning for a future of four months there, six months there, but the capital I accumulated paid off.” (more…)

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MSLCE Students Take ‘Informative, Encouraging, and Inspiring’ Trip to NYC

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By Hayley Bullock

The MSCLE Trek to the “Big Apple” was informative, encouraging, and inspiring.

Coming from a nonprofit and performance background, I was surprised and appreciative of the vast insight and knowledge I was able to gain from the experience. As we visited branding agencies, including Mother and Ogilvy & Mather, and heard from various alumni speakers including Alex White of Pandora, and Chris Meadows of Facebook, these experiences provided my classmates and me with valuable insight (more…)

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