arts management faculty

  • William Reeder's accomplishments include being the former dean of the College of Visual and Performing Arts; vice president and general manager of the Washington Performing Arts Society; establishing the Sallie Mae Trust for Education at Sallie Mae; executive director of the Levine School of Music in Washington, D.C.; president of the Saint Louis Conservatory of Music; executive director of Opera Music Theatre International; and the Newark Community School of the Arts.

  • A native Washingtonian, Setarra is a graduate of Duke Ellington School of the Arts and holds a BFA in Dance and MA in Arts Management from George Mason University.

  • Eileen Kennedy is the Director of Development for the Hylton Performing Arts Center.

  • Claire Huschle is the founder and director of Scaffold, LLC, a project support firm for artists and arts organizations.

  • Dr. Karalee Dawn MacKay is the Director of the Arts Management Program. She has her PhD in Theater and Performance from the University of Maryland.

  • As Dean of the College of Visual and Performing Arts, Rick Davis oversees the college’s seven academic programs, its creative, research, and community arts education arms, and its performance and exhibition venues.