The chair of Art Management

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The main tasks of the newly established chair are: preparing of professionals of management of social and cultural
activity, forming of modern Ukrainian culture development conception and raising its quality level, effective usage
of historical, national and cultural achievement of our state, activation of commercial practice in the sphere of
Ukrainian culture.

The Chair of Art Management was established in the Department of History and Theory of Art of the Lviv National
Academy of Arts in 2004. Doctor of Art Criticism, professor
O. Bodnar was elected head of the chair. Professional
training of Bachelors and Masters in the speciality of «Culture science», specializing in «Management of social
and cultural activity» was started as early as 1997.

To this aim a quite new conception was worked up by
the chair and it was approved by the Ministry of Education and Science. Subjects of both cultural studies and
management, marketing, economics and business are being energetically worked up and introduced into the
educational process.

The Lviv National Academy of Arts is one of the oldest
and the best higher schools of Ukraine in the sphere of
decorative, applied and pictorial arts. Accordingly, training
of professionals in the sphere of management of
social and cultural activity is highly adapted to the contemporary needs in culture and art sphere. The specific character of the Chair of Art Management work consists in preparing managers of social and cultural activity
not only for work in culture establishments but also for
presenting interests of both separate arts and cultural
sphere establishments and for work in subdivisions of
executive power which form cultural policy and thus will be able to influence the process of cultural development of the region or the state.
Despite its short-term existence the Chair of Art Management has significant achievements. It developed
a complex of practical and professional preparing, i.e. supplying the teaching process of art managers with
programs, textbooks, manuals, instructions and introducing
them into teaching.

3 professors, Doctors of Art, 10 associate professors
and 16 Candidates of science are teaching major subjects.
Special attention is given to the development of
the chair by the head of the chair, Doctor in Art Criticism,
professor, head of the specialized academic Council of the Lviv National Academy of Arts, winner of numerous
prizes and awards O. Bodnar and the dean of the Department of History and Theory of Art, Doctor of Art
Criticism, professor, member of specialized councils R. Shmahalo. Young member of the chair also take an active
part in its development. Majority of the chair staff
hold scientific degrees and titles or are in their final year of post-graduate studies. This will provide their potential
professional improvement and improvement of the chair
as a whole.

The teachers and students take an active part in research. It is confirmed by a great number of conferences
and publications. Thus, during its lifetime the chair has
edited 2 monographic investigations (the course «Organizing
of Art Education in Ukraine and abroad» is taught on
the basis of this investigation), 7 manuals, about 50 scientific
papers and 30 methodical instructions (including
syllabuses), edited according to the present requirements of the Ministry of Education and Science.
The students of the Chair of Management of Social and Cultural Activity have been more than once prize winners, got distinctions of various institutions for their merits and won grants in different programs. The chair focuses on
practical implementation of obtained knowledge in art
management during educational and industrial practice and tries to organize a close collaboration with artists,
museums, art galleries, educational establishments not only in western region of Ukraine but in the whole country
and abroad. For 3 years running the chair is a co-organizer
of the international schools and seminars «Economics in culture, Culture in economics». Both teachers and
students of the chair participate in them actively. For more than 8 years representatives of the chair are co-organizers
and active participants of international plein airs in textiles in the village of Yavoriv ( Kosiv district of Ivano-
Frankivsk region) and in organizing exhibitions in Lviv,
Kyiv, Surgut (Russia).

International links of the chair are developing effectively. They set up collaboration with the Higher Economic School in the town of Staliova Volia and the Krakow Academy of Arts (Poland), Department of Culture, Youth
Policy and Sports, College of Russian Culture in Surgut
(Khanty-Mansi district, Tiumen region), artists of Moldova
Artists’ Union and Moldovian Department of Culture, realizing
with them common projects and arrangements. Professors
of the chair take part in international artistic and scientific projects and symposia in the Chech Pepublic, Austria and the USA.

The chair long-term task is engaging of students in realization of social and cultural projects on the level of the
city, region and state. The main aim of the chair activity is training specialists of the high quality who could effectively
form culture policy as a key element of Ukraine’s development
strategy and who could form conditions for better use of personal resources and financial means in order to
develop culture, to favour preservation of the material as
well as immaterial social culture, to adapt market of cultural
and artistic production for contemporary conditions, to favour expanding and stabilization of non-commercial sector of cultural sphere, to represent native cultural achievements at an appropriate level in the world.