As an actor, Eric Booth performed in many plays on Broadway, Off-Broadway, and around the U.S. As a businessman, he started a small company, Alert Publishing, that in seven years became the largest of its kind in the U.S. analyzing research on trends in American lifestyles. As an author, he has had seven books published—The Everyday Work of Art was a Book of the Month Club bestseller, and The Music Teaching Artist’s Bible, was published by Oxford University Press, and is used as a textbook around the world. He has published 45 articles, and was the Founding Editor of the quarterly Teaching Artist Journal.
He has been on the faculty of Juilliard (13 years), Tanglewood (5 years) and Lincoln Center Institute (for 41 years); and he has given workshops at over 30 universities, and 60 cultural institutions. He has designed and led over twenty research projects, and seven online courses and workshops, including the new course Teaching Artistry for Social Impact, offered free on Kadenze. He serves as a consultant for many organizations, cities, school districts, states and businesses around the U.S., and in 11 other countries. Clients have included seven of the ten largest U.S. orchestras, six national service organizations, Carnegie Hall and The Kennedy Center. Formerly the Founding Director of the Teacher Center of the Leonard Bernstein Center (now on the Board of Directors), he is a frequent keynote speaker on the arts to groups of all kinds. He gave the closing keynote address to UNESCO’s first ever worldwide arts education conference (Lisbon 2006), the opening keynote to UNESCO’s 2014 World Conference. A decade ago he founded ITAC—the International Teaching Artist Collaborative—the world’s first network of artists who work in communities and schools. He is the first person to be given an honorary doctorate for teaching artistry (New England Conservatory 2012). In 2015 he was given the nation’s highest award in arts education and was named one of the “25 Most Powerful and Influential People in the American Arts.”
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Resources: https://ericbooth.net/
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