Joanna Woronkowicz

Assistant Professor

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Phone:: (812) 855-0401
Email:: jworonko@indiana.edu
Room Number:: SPEA 415

Education

Ph.D., University of Chicago, 2011
M.A., American University, 2007
B.F.A., University of Windsor, 2004

Courses

Audience Development and Marketing for the Arts
Cultural Districts and Local Arts Policy
Arts Organizations in the Private and Public Sectors

Biography

Dr. Joanna Woronkowicz specializes in cultural and urban policy, and nonprofit management. Before Indiana University, Woronkowicz served as the Senior Research Officer at the National Endowment for the Arts. She joined SPEA in 2013 and is also an affiliate faculty member at the Lilly Family School of Philanthropy.

Woronkowicz applies quantitative measurement techniques to study cultural policy issues such as cultural facility development and artist employment. Her research explores the intersection between the economic and demographic conditions of urban areas and arts and culture nonprofit organizations. In addition, she looks at the effects of capital projects on nonprofit management. Furthermore, she studies artist employment behavior particularly in times of economic recession.

In 2014, Woronkowicz released a co-authored book, Building Better Arts Facilities: Lessons from a U.S. National Study (Routledge). The book examines the ways in which cultural organizations planned and managed building projects during the most recent cultural building boom, and investigates organizational operations after projects were completed.

Highlights

Trustee's Teaching Award (2016)
Senior Research Officer, National Endowment for the Arts, Washington, D.C.
Research Analyst, NORC at the University of Chicago
Research Associate, Cultural Policy Center, University of Chicago
Research Assistant, Center on Nonprofits and Philanthropy, Urban Institute, Washington, D.C.

In the News

"London is a world leader in historic preservation" - CCTV America, May 18, 2016
"IU SPEA professor of cultural policy found her platform for research after years on the stage" - Inside IU Bloomington, April 20, 2016
"Why Every Art Museum Should Launch a Pop-Up Satellite" - The Atlantic, CityLab, July 21, 2015
"Heavily in debt, Newseum considered risky strategy to improve finances" - Washington Post, July 1, 2015
"Indiana University researchers awarded grant to study employment behavior of artists" - IU Newsroom, May 11, 2015
"Musical Instrument Museum" - Arizona Republic, April 21, 2015
"Vancouver Art Gallery faces near-impossible task of raising money for a new facility" - The Vancouver Sun, April 17, 2015
"Why Cities Should Be More Skeptical of New Cultural Centers and Expansions" - Citylab, June 24, 2014
Art for Community's Sake: Creative Placemaking - In Transition Magazine, Fall 2014
"Risk and Creative Class" - WBEZ, October 18, 2013
"Chicago's Famed Field Museum Struggles to Dig Out of a Hole" - NPR Morning Edition, May 6, 2013

Selected Works

“Is Bigger Better? The Effect of Nonprofit Facilities Projects on Financial Vulnerability.” Nonprofit Management and Leadership. (Forthcoming).
"Building New Performing Arts Centers” in Performing Arts Center Management," (Eds. Patricia Dewey Lambert and Robyn Williams). New York/London: Routledge. (Forthcoming).
Building Better Arts Facilities: Lessons from a U.S. National Study (with N. Bradburn and D. C. Joynes). New York: Routledge (2014)
“Art-making or Place-making? The Relationship between Open-air Performance Venues and Neighborhood Change,” Journal of Planning Education and Research, doi:10.1177/0739456X15597759.
“Artists, Employment, and the Great Recession: A Cross-Sectional Analysis Using U.S. Current Population Survey Data,” Cultural Trends 24 (2): 154-64. (2015)
“The determinants of cultural building: Identifying the demographic and economic factors associated with cultural facility investment in U.S. metropolitan statistical areas between 1994 and 2008,”Cultural Trends 22(3/4): 192-202 (2013)

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