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September 19th, 2018

A professor of Arts Entrepreneurship at the University of Arkansas, Callander is cross-appointed in the School of Art and the College of Business, At the University of Alabama, Professor Callander coordinated an on-campus arts incubator, served as a team coach for Alabama Innovation and Mentoring of Entrepreneurs. At Mississippi State University, she served as interim coordinator for Sculpture and developed a co-curricular channel between the Entrepreneurship Center and the Department of Art for the support of partnerships between students in art, engineering, and business. She also served as an Entrepreneurship Center Advisory Board member and a team mentor for the MaroonX Accelerator pilot program, jointly launched by Mississippi State University and Texas A&M to foster entrepreneurship in rural areas. Callander also curates, writes, and exhibits. She received an MFA in Visual Art from the Mason Gross School of Art at Rutgers University, a Post-Baccalaureate in Visual Art from the Maryland Institute College of Art, and a BA in History from Reed College.

Adrienne Callander  came to MCAD and spoke on Art, Entrepreneurship, and the innovative learning environment. She addressed the dual paths in Arts Entrepreneurship and the relevance of Arts Entrepreneurship in the development of future leaders and practitioners in the cultural sector and beyond. 

After Adrienne gave her lecture, the Arts Entrepreneurship Department Chair, Stephen Rueff, joined her on stage for a panel. Students and faculty members were able to have an open discussion about Arts Entrepreneurship as a community at MCAD, as well as the path for creative entrepreneurs. The Arts Entrepreneurship Department at MCAD is constantly working on how to express their value to the rest of the MCAD community, and having an open discussion about it with others proves to be effective. 

Discussion Session With AE Students:

Adrienne also took the time to have a more interpersonal conversation with the students in the Arts Entrepreneurship Program. She asked each student  to introduce themselves, talk about who they are as a creative, and think about how their creation will live in the world? The casual conversation turned out to be an insightful session for many of the students as well has herself. Adrienne is currently working on building the Arts Entrepreneurship Department at the University of Arkansas, and being able to have a closer look at how other school structure their program, like MCAD, was an area of interest for her.