Sherri Helwig
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- School: University of Toronto
- Campus: St. George Campus
- Department: Humanities
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Toronto, ON - Dates at University of Toronto: November 2004 - January 2018
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Biography
University of Toronto St. George Campus - Humanities
Arts Management faculty, University of Toronto Scarborough and Queen's University;
President, S.L. Helwig & Associates
Higher Education
Sherri
Helwig
Toronto, Canada Area
Sherri Helwig is the President of the Canadian Association of Arts Administration Educators (CAAAE) and the Program Director of the longest-running undergraduate Arts Management program in Canada (at the University of Toronto Scarborough–UTSC). She also serves as a Governance and Policy Development Advisor for the Centre for Teaching and Learning at UTSC, and teaches leadership and governance within the graduate Arts Management and Arts Leadership programs at Queen’s University in Kingston (Canada). Sherri has previously worked as Scholar-in-Residence for the graduate Arts Management program at American University in Washington D.C. (United States) and Senior Research Fellow with the Canadian Conference for the Arts in Ottawa (Canada), taught arts management-related courses for York University, Humber College, and the Harris Institute in Toronto, and lectured extensively across Canada and within the United States, Italy, Finland, Spain and The Netherlands.
Sherri also continues to work as an independent arts consultant with a client list that includes local, provincial, national and international cultural organizations, government departments, and arts funders. She is a Founding Member of Arts Consultants Canada / Consultants canadiens en arts (ACCA).
Her teaching and consulting work is informed by many years of progressively responsible cultural management experience, including eight years serving as Executive Director of national arts service organizations.
Sherri volunteers with artsVest™ through Business for the Arts (as a governance mentor to arts, culture, and heritage organizations across Canada), and has served as a member of several boards of directors, committees, advisory groups, grant review panels, and art juries (including, for example, for the Musical, Opera, and Touring sections of Toronto’s Dora awards, which recognize outstanding achievements in the performing arts).
Experience
University of Toronto Scarborough
Associate Chair - Department of Arts, Culture and Media
Responsible for the coordination of curriculum and experiential education initiatives across the department.
University of Toronto Scarborough
Associate Professor, Teaching Stream
Responsible for teaching practice-, governance-, and policy-related Arts Management courses. At various times (2003-2010, 2011-2016, and 2019 to present), I have also served as Program Director, which involves leading curriculum development, counselling students, and mentoring and evaluating contract faculty.
University of Toronto Scarborough
Associate Chair - Department of Humanities
Responsible for the coordination of curriculum and experiential education initiatives across the department; member of the Transitition Team during departmentalization.
Queen's University
Lecturer
Responsible for teaching the Strategic Leadership and Governance course for the Arts Management graduate diploma program and Arts Leadership Master of Arts graduate program.
S.L. Helwig & Associates
President and Principal Consultant
Responsible for all aspects of this leading arts consultancy which offers advice, management services, research and training to the Canadian not-for-profit arts, culture and heritage communities.
American University
Scholar-in-Residence
Conducted pedagogical and comparative cultural policy research, taught "Arts, Community and Diversity" graduate course, and supervised a Master's Thesis in the Arts Management graduate program (during my first sabbatical from the University of Toronto Scarborough).
Visual Arts Centre of Clarington
Interim Executive Director/Curator
Spent the second half of my second sabbatical from the University of Toronto Scarborough in focused arts management practice at the VAC, a public gallery dedicated to arts education and the exhibition of contemporary art.
Association of Arts Administration Educators
Responsible for contributing to the collaborative governance of this international organization which represents higher education programs in arts administration, provides a forum for communication and learning among its members, and advocates for formal training and high standards of education for arts administrators.
Canadian Asssociation of Arts Administration Educators (CAAAE)
The Canadian Association of Arts Administration Educators (CAAAE) exists to support arts management-related teaching and learning in Canada. (Previously served as President 2009–2013, and as Co-President 2007–2009.)
Education
University of Toronto
Master of Arts (M.A.)
History of Art
University of Guelph
Bachelor of Arts (B.A.)
Fine Art and English (double major)
