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=Nick Rabkin=

Location (traveling from): Chicago, IL Contact Information: nrabkin@colum.edu Availability: **Unavailable** Cost: NA Conference Topic Emphasis: Education Background Information: Keynote speaker Nick Rabkin has edited “Putting Arts in the Picture: Reframing Education in the 21st Century” an attempt to look at current art practice, and education reform through a public policy lens. Nick encourages us to keep moving forward to “democratize” the arts and give access to all in pluralistic America. We also need to keep looking over our shoulder at the specter of those who consider this a cultural equivalent of a zero-sum game where for poor children to gain someone else has to lose. Nick Rabkin is executive director of the Chicago Center for Arts Policy at Columbia College Chicago, where he directs the Learning and the Arts Project, an initiative to mobilize private philanthropic investment for arts education in schools and beyond. He was the senior program officer for the arts and culture at the John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation from 1991 to 2001, and the deputy commissioner of cultural affairs for the City of Chicago for seven years. He was a founder and trustee for six years of the Chicago Arts Partnerships in Education (CAPE).