Professionalization in the Creative Sector

This book seeks to better understand the processes and influences that have driven professionalization in the arts. It develops an analytical framework that examines how processes of professionalization that typically influence and shape work conditions and occupational status are, in the creative sector, augmented by atypical worker efforts and choices to self-structure their protean careers. The book brings together a collection of works that explore the specific trajectories of professionalization in a variety of creative occupations as well as the formative processes that work across many creative occupations. In particular, the scholarship presented focuses on the interaction of three key variables: field growth and institutionalization, mutual benefit organization within fields and occupations, and the intervention of cultural policy to validate and foster professional support structures. In the broader context of expanding globalization, growing awareness of diversity, and tectonic shifts in technology, this volume unveils research-based implications for cultural policy, cultural workers, and cultural organizations. This book will be of interest to researchers, creative professionals, as well as undergraduate and graduate-level students in the fields of arts administration and culture.

Margaret J. Wyszomirski is Professor Emerita of Arts Administration, Education and Policy at The Ohio State University, USA. WoongJo Chang is Associate Professor of Arts and Cultural Management at Hongik University, Seoul, Korea.

1. Professionalization in the Creative Sector: Processes and Trends Margaret J. Wyszomirski & WoongJo Chang Part One 2. Sustaining Atypical Professions: Professional Structuration in the Creative Sector WoongJo Chang & Margaret J. Wyszomirski 3. Cultural Policy Tools and Rising Professionalism in American Arts, 1963-1996 Margaret J. Wyszomirski 4. Passion and Profession: Individual Artists, Professional Development, and the Role of Foundations Claudia J. Bach 5. The Dual Professional: The Artist/Manager in Small Arts Organizations WoongJo Chang 6. Strategic Planning for the Creative Professional: A Curriculum Proposal for Career Development Design Javier J. Hernández Acosta Part Two 7. Actors' Equity Association and the Professionalization of the Acting Vocation Rachel Shane 8. The Fractured Professionalization in Arts Education Young-ah Koh & Ann Galligan 9. Cultural Value and Professionalization of Emerging Contemporary Artists Ian Fillis, Boram Lee, & Ian Fraser 10. Strategic or Struggling? Professionalizing Philanthropy in Nonprofit Arts Organizations Chiara Carolina Donelli & Ruth Rentschler 11. Performing Arts Center Managers: A Crucial Profession in Community Performing Arts Sectors Patricia Dewey Lambert 12. 'I am a Professional dancer': The Case of Professionalization in Disability Arts Ruth Rentschler, Boram Lee, Jung Yoon, & Ayse Collins 13. Making a Buck Through Blockchain: Artist Entrepreneurship in the Artworld Minha Lee 14. Epilogue: Challenges for Creative Professionalism Margaret J. Wyszomirski & WoongJo Chang