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Mitchell Korn is a Bard College Senior Fellow for arts policy and planning and the former Harvard University Graduate School of Education lecturer on arts education planning and policy. The Wall Street Journal has called him a "one man arts education industry."

Mr. Korn, founder and president of Artsvision, is credited with returning arts education to numerous urban centers across America including New York (The Annenberg Initiative), Chicago (The McArthur Foundation CAPE Initiative), San Francisco (The San Francisco School of the Arts) among others. Mitchell Korn and Artsvision have also created the award-winning education programs of the San Francisco Symphony, Houston Grand Opera, Cleveland Orchestra, Indianapolis Symphony, San Francisico Ballet, American Ballet Theatre, San Francisco Ballet, The Bushnell and many others.

Over the last year, Mr. Korn has developed the audience development and education strategic plans for SFJAZZ and the SF Jazz Collective, Nashville Symphony and their new Schermerhorn Symphony Center; the Orange County Performing Arts Center (CA) and their new Segerstrom Concert Hall; the University of Hartford Hartt School Performing Arts Center; and The Bushnell Center for the Performing Arts "Great Works" audience development initiatives.

He is the recipient of numerous awards and tributes including Parents Magazine "As They Grow" Award in the Arts, honoring his efforts in "making the world a safer, healthier and happier place for children."

Mr. Korn's success at arts education and audience development planning is evident through his more than seventy ongoing initiatives and their sustaining abilities to provide meaningful service and programs to all audiences including adults, children, schools and communities. He recently joined the Nashville Symphony in July 2007 after announcing the new Education initiative Music Education City.