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A Brief History of CAMT
1994: A group of Carnegie Mellon’s Master of Arts Management (MAM) students proposes an investigation of the feasibility and usefulness of the emerging World Wide Web as a resource for arts managers.
1995: Artsnet.org, the national service Web site for arts organizations, is created as a result of the MAM project. Soon after presenting the project's final report, members of the team are approached by Philip Horn, executive director of the Pennsylvania Council on the Arts (PCA), about the possibility of a team of students, alumni and/or faculty assisting the PCA in reorganizing and restructuring its data collection, management and distribution systems, and developing an "electronic" grant application form.
1996: The MAM Program purchases its first dedicated Web server and discusses potential technology projects with the New York Foundation for the Arts.
Also in 1996: The Center for Arts Management and Technology (CAMT) is established to provide an organizational foundation on which to build current and future research and service projects.
1998: Jerry Coltin is hired by Dan Martin as CAMT’s first full-time executive director. Under Coltin’s leadership, CAMT is able to grow to become one of the leading nonprofit technology service providers. The organization grows from a one-man shop to a fully-functioning research center with five full-time staff members and a $350,000 annual budget serving approximately two dozen client organizations.
2004: CAMT and MAM, along with the Master of Entertainment Industry Management and the Arts and Culture Observatory, become part of the Institute for the Management of Creative Enterprises under Dan Martin’s directorship. Artsnet.org is rebranded to reflect these structural changes and bring a unified look to the four “sister” entities.
2005: Coltin is named director of the MAM program, and CAMT gets its second executive director, Cary McQueen Morrow.
2006: CAMT launches CueRate in collaboration with the New York Foundation for the Arts and Online Grants Management System (OGMS) in collaboration with the PA Council on the Arts.
Also in 2006: CAMT hosts the first Technology in the Arts conference, which draws over 150 participants from 27 states to discuss the role of technology in the arts sector, and launches the Technology in the Arts Bi-Weekly Podcast, hosted by Brad Stephenson, the Center’s director of projects and marketing.
2007: Josh Futrell becomes CAMT’s first support specialist, dedicated exclusively to managing the needs of the Center’s ever-expanding client base.
Also in 2007: David Dombrosky becomes CAMT’s third executive director, and CAMT establishes a technology consulting service line, filling a void in the non-profit space for technology experts to assist arts organizations select and manage technology tools within their organizations.
Present: With six full-time staff and a budget of approximately $600,000, CAMT currently serves approximately 50 clients through technology services, 120 organizations through its in-kind services such as Web hosting and support, and thousands of arts managers around the country through its Technology in the Arts service line.
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