Affiliate Corporate

Corporations enjoying the benefits of Affiliate Membership welcome inquiries and look forward to sharing information about their products and services with ICfAD members and arts executives in higher education. We appreciate their involvement in and support of the International Council for Arts Deans. 

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Sound is central to the arts. Spaces for the fine and performing arts must support and enhance aesthetic experience and social connection. The acoustical design of a theatre or concert hall builds a connection between performers and audience, and shapes the overall experience. Similarly, the acoustics in rehearsal and teaching spaces must allow performers to hear one another clearly and without excessive loudness. In museums and galleries, appropriate acoustics help to direct attention to the artwork and to foster the social connections that are so important to students, patrons, and creators of art. Acentech’s Studio A partners with higher education clients to develop and realize new or renovated performance and fine arts spaces. 

Ioana Pieleanu
(617) 499-8000

Arts Consulting Group (ACG) is the leading provider of hands-on interim management, executive search, revenue enhancement, strategic planning & community engagement, and facilities & program planning and research services for the arts and culture industry. ACG team members have decades of combined senior leadership experience in every artistic and cultural discipline and area of functional management expertise in universities, nonprofit organizations, and government agencies. ACG consultants are located in communities throughout the United States and Canada to best serve the needs of our clients. As specialists in the arts and culture sector, who are passionately committed to the creative industries and are recognized internationally for our personalized approach, rigorous methodologies, and extraordinary results.

Bruce D. Thibodeau
(888) 234.4236 Ext. 201

Founded in 1981, Beck Design is an award-winning architectural firm with a national reputation for creating unique design solutions that meet the special demands of their clients. At the core of their work is the passion for imaginative solution-minded design that adds value to land, buildings, and people’s lives. The team is known for their collaboration with clients and consultants, specializing in the design and planning of higher educational facilities and performance spaces. Consisting of 20 individuals with offices located in Oklahoma City, Tulsa, and New York City, they provide “Big Bold Ideas” on a local and national level.

Paula Beck
(918) 583-5300

DLR Group is a global integrated design firm with a practice specialty in design for cultural and performing arts. Spanning nearly five decades, our work in this sector encompasses more than 240 cultural facilities around the U.S. and internationally. These include theatres and performance venues of all types, museums, galleries, media-related projects, and instructional and studio spaces for the performing and visual arts. Our award-winning portfolio includes projects in new construction and renovation, as well as master planning for the arts. DLR Group offers in-house architectural, engineering and technology design capabilities with experts in acoustics, audiovisual, theatrical systems and lighting, and project funding mechanics. We are passionate about designing spaces that elevate teaching and learning in the arts and empower creative expression.

Kathleen Fitzpatrick
(602) 507-6804

For more than five decades, HGA has specialized in planning, programming and designing cultural architecture for colleges and universities. From visual and performing arts centers to museums, theaters and studio arts, HGA works with clients to design arts and educational facilities that foster engagement and build community.

Amy Braford-Whittey
(612) 758-4333   

Our expertise realizes the full acoustic design potential of performing arts, educational and cultural spaces. Owners and architects rely on us to inspire memorable sensory experiences in performing arts, education and cultural spaces.

Mark Holden
(203) 838-4167

Perkins Eastman Architects / Pfeiffer is an award-winning design firm of 50 professionals – architects, planners and interior designers – who have been drawn together by our shared philosophy regarding the built environment. We provide architectural and interior design services, specializing in the fine and performing arts, for cultural and academic clients from our offices, located in Los Angeles and New York.

Sharon Murphy
(213) 624-2775




Valued internationally as creative and insightful design partners, Schuler Shook provides theatre planning and architectural lighting design services for numerous campus building types including performing arts facilities, libraries, galleries, student centers, lecture rooms, residence halls, chapels, building exteriors, and sites.  We provide consulting and design services from conception through construction and opening, always keeping the ultimate use of the building for students and the larger community. We collaborate with campus and facility planners and architects to ensure successful, energy conscious designs now and for the future.  With over 30 years of experience, we are trusted allies working with university facilities departments as these designs are realized.

Mollie Brackeen
(312) 944-8230
 

TCC is a team of industry veterans and creative thinkers that joined forces in 2003 to assist our clients through the complex process of theatre programming, planning and design, as well as the design and integration of specialized performance systems. Our goal as The Collaborative is to connect with users, architects and engineers to craft exciting and unique venues where performance comes to life.

Jillian Brown
(919) 929-7443