James Fusco is an accomplished creative artist and arts administrator with over twenty years experience in the fields of orchestral music, theater and music theater, opera, ballet, publishing, screenwriting, visual art, and education. He has managed arts companies in Canada and provided arts consultation to several arts organizations in the United States. As well, his artwork has been performed or presented throughout North America and Europe.

An alumnus of University of Toronto, Faculty of Music [MusBac, 1976], James began his career as a Music Director for a small Off-Broadway theater company in New York City before returning to Canada to work in the music department of the Royal Alexandra Theater in Toronto. He became Assistant Music Director and Arts Administrator for the Niagara Symphony in St. Catharines, Ontario, where he assisted in developing one of the first endowment fund pilot programs with the participation of the provincial Ministry of Culture and Communications. He also created, and later sold to a number of arts organizations [before selling the base code to developers], one of the first portable box office systems for desktop computers.

As a creative artist, James specializes in blending art forms, usually some combination of painting, original symphonic music, and narrative, which he calls Illuminal, or Illuminist, art. His stage works in this vein have had nearly five hundred performances on this continent. He currently operates a production company to adapt his Illuminist pieces into animations for broadcast purposes. As well, he is a published writer and in 1998 was nominated for a Pushcart Prize in Literature for his short story ‘Here There and Everywhere’, and a professional artist/illustrator with a specialty in digital art, particularly photorealistic art and vector graphics with object-oriented programming. In 2005 and again in 2007, he was invited to show his canvases at the Biennale Internazionale dell’Arte Contemporanea in Florence, Italy. He has also shown work at the Los Angeles Digital Art Center in Los Angeles, California.

James has taught advanced music theory and performance all his professional life, and was the Department Chair of Digital Media Design and Advanced Design at the International Academy of Design & Technology in Toronto before joining UTSC.

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Inga Untiks is a Sessional Instructor in the University of Toronto at Scarborough Arts Management Program, and brings to her role a wealth of knowledge and experience from the arts and cultural sector. Currently she sits as the Executive Director of the Scarborough Arts Council, a community-based arts organization providing arts and cultural services to the East End of the City of Toronto. She serves on the Advisory Council of the Arts Management Co-op Program at UTSC, and in this capacity aims to facilitate the development of cross-disciplinary and cross-sectoral partnerships.

Inga is a PhD candidate at the London Consortium (a collaboration between the University of London, Tate Gallery, Institute of Contemporary Art, Architectural Association, and most recently the Science Museum) where she earned her Master of Research and Master of Philosophy Degrees within the Department of Humanities. Her academic research explores post-Soviet contemporary art developments that respond to a changed arts infrastructure and its relation to the development of public identity. She has been published extensively in both Europe and North America on issues of public space and socio-politically informed contemporary art, and continues to guest lecture on these topics in Canada and abroad including Tate Liverpool (UK), the Design Exchange (Toronto), and Kiasma (Finland).

She has consulted on curriculum development in arts management programs at universities in both Europe and Canada, and is a member of the International Association of Arts and Cultural Management and the Association for the Advancement of Baltic Studies. She has sat on public art juries for the City of Toronto, and has led numerous seminars on issues of public arts education. She has worked at both Tate Modern and Tate Britain in a programming capacity, and was a Lecturer in the Department of Humanities at the Open University in London.

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Heather Clara Young has worked in the field of arts management for over twenty years. Her experience includes leadership roles with a variety of arts and heritage service organizations, theatre and dance producing companies, galleries and museums, facilities, festivals and community organizations, in both professional and volunteer capacities.

Her company, Young Associates, founded in 1993, provides a full range of bookkeeping, business management, training and consulting services including bookkeeping, financial systems design, software conversions, one-on-one training and support, seminars and workshops, spreadsheet design, budgeting and cashflow planning, grant writing, and research and consulting projects. Young Associates' clientele is centred on the arts and cultural sectors, with interests in the broader charitable sector.

A new focus for the company is database management, particularly developing strong systems that effectively integrate data with accounting records, and ensuring that companies benefit to the fullest from the software they have purchased.

For 15 years, Heather taught accounting and financial management to diploma and continuing education students in Humber College's Arts Administration programs (cancelled by the College in 2009). She continues to teach in Humber's Fundraising and Volunteer Management Program. She was a 2004 recipient of Humber College's Continuing Education Award of Excellence for Outstanding Academic Contribution.

Finance for the Arts in Canada, published by Heather in 2005, is a unique self-study guide, reference source and textbook for the accounting and finance functions in cultural organizations. It has been praised for its clear and straightforward approach to building excellence in financial skills.

Heather holds an honours BA in English and French from the University of Western Ontario, and a certificate in Finance and Accounting from Ryerson University.

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