Arts Center Director Non-Profit: Arts Fifth Avenue, Fort Worth, TX   Book This Career Mentorship   Watch the Video

Do you want to become and Arts Center Director?

As you sit behind your desk, is the dancer, the artist or the musician in you screaming to come out? Do you love the Arts and wish you could turn this passion into a career…one that helps the Arts flourish in your community? Sounds like you’re ready to test-drive your dream job as an Arts Center Director with VocationVacations® Mentor Gracey Tune, co-founder and executive director of Arts Fifth Avenue.

Arts Fifth Avenue is an eclectic neighborhood arts center located in the Fairmount Southside Historic District of Fort Worth, Texas. This unique non-profit arts center seeks to encourage creativity, teamwork and education through hands-on exposure to the Arts and is open to the public for exhibits, inspiring performances, rehearsals, events, meetings and parties. It’s also home to the celebrated Mondo Drummers.

Gracey Tune, co-founder and executive director of the center, received the Outstanding Woman in the Arts Award from the City of Fort Worth for her artistic contributions to the Performing and Visual Arts and is one of the few internationally recognized women in the field of Tap. She is a performer, choreographer, producer and tapologist dedicated to the past, present and future of the art of tap dance. As a pioneer in its resurgence in the southwest, Gracey is a frequent guest artist at major events in the world of tap. She has performed with and produced shows for tap legends Cholly Atkins, Savion Glover, Sarah Petronio, Ron Young and nine-time Tony Award Winner Tommy Tune (Gracey’s brother).

While on your Arts Center Director VocationVacations® career mentorship, Gracey will mentor you as you do some or all of the following:

• Participate and learn about various phases of production for a music, dance or visual arts performanceObserve and/or participate in dance classes, art classes and/or music classes at the Center
• Attend any scheduled meetings with artists & arts groups
• Help plan and/or prepare for various special performances, including  Jazz Fest, a Fifth of Christmas with Scene Shop, Two Day Dia De Los Muertos Festival, National Tap Dance Day Celebration, Django Reinhardt Festival,  Reindeer Monologues with Crime Scene Theater,  Mondo Drummers Concert, Jazz Performances, La Feet Tap Ensemble Performances,  and other music and dance events
• Learn about day-to-day office operations for a Non-Profit Arts Center (which can sometimes include scrubbing the center’s toilets, filling in for volunteers who don’t show and making coffee!)
• Participate in fundraising activities – annual fundraiser held in April; ongoing fundraising during the year
• Discuss Non-Profit Arts Center startup, growth, financials, marketing, community relations, etc

The Arts Center Director VocationVacations® career mentorship includes:

• Two days of one-on-one mentorship in your dream job as an Arts CenterDirector
• The opportunity to participate in a total of one hour of pre- and post-VocationVacation career coaching from an accredited, affiliated VocationVacations career coach
• Light lunches with your mentor

Available: Based on mentor's availability

Price: $849 Per Person

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Suggested Accommodations

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(Not included in the price of your VocationVacations® holiday) Other activities and tourist destinations while on your VocationVacations® adventure: Historic Fort Worth Stockyards Sundance Square Bass Hall - Ranked “one of the top 10 opera houses in the world” by Travel and Leisure Kimbell Art Museum – In the heart of the Fort Worth Cultural District Modern Art Museum of Fort Worth - In the Fort Worth Cultural District; the building alone is a work of art! Reservation, Cancellation and Rescheduling Rules and Conditions: Full payment of the VocationVacations dream job holiday is required to make a reservation. A $100 non-refundable fee is assessed if a VocationVacations experience is cancelled or rescheduled prior to 14-days of the scheduled VocationVacations holiday, based on the approved availability of the mentor to reschedule. A VocationVacations adventure cannot be rescheduled and is non-refundable if cancelled within 14 days of the scheduled VocationVacations holiday. Written notification of cancellation or rescheduling is required in all cases. In the US, Grounded Nomads, LLC and VocationVacations holidays encourage all customers to acquire travel insurance to cover any unforeseen expenses due to cancellation or rescheduling. In the UK, Grounded Nomads, Ltd and VocationVacations holidays must require all customers to acquire travel insurance to cover any unforeseen expenses due to cancellation or rescheduling and provide verification of such travel insurance to Grounded Nomads, Ltd.