After spending his early career as a teacher, Robert was appointed the first Executive Director of the Colorado Council on the Arts and Humanities. His biggest mission was to travel the state and find ways to connect local artists with their community.
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>> Well, I think there are a number of avenues. One is that people who get into these fields have to have, I think if they're going to be good at it and be happy in it, and make it a career, is they have to have some desire to connect with public policy. What makes public policy work? Somebody who has a degree in foreign relations, in the international school at the Corgel School here at DU. They would be perfect in the field of Arts Management because they are dealing with a world view and that's what art programs are, it's the world view and you enter the fields, you enter the training, where your interest are wedded to and inspired by all forms of activity and the arts, politics, religion. You have to have an understanding of how religion influences the creative arts down through history and even today. To be in this field you have to understand the dynamics of all of those highly charged issues that would come into your being and I would probably say then if you really want to...off course I'm a big advocate for this college of education. I'm on the board of the Morgridge College of Education and my desire to seek people to come into that field of education is that it's a field not only that you can grow in the teaching of people, young people, graduate students, adults, so forth. But it gives you a leg up on the field of going into government support of the arts.
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