Dee Boyle-Clapp Email and Phone Number

Dee directs and markets the Arts Extension Service, a multi-faceted national arts service organization located at the University of Massachusetts Amherst, serving local, national, and international arts and arts management audiences through online and campus courses, certificates and degree programs, professional development and entrepreneurship trainings, small business and nonprofit consulting, internship program, and publications. Dee oversees the National Arts Policy Archive and Library (NAPAAL), the Art Entrepreneurship Initiative and co-coordinates the ArtsHub of Western Massachusetts as part of her service work with the Creative Economy Network.Dee teaches and creates courses in AES’s online and on-campus arts management degree and certificate programs, leads training programs in artist-business, public art, and arts management topics, conducts AES research projects, and is currently at work on the Culture for Climate Action, a project that has grown from a course she created and has taught for over a decade teaching arts organizations how to become an environmentally sustainable and resilient while using their programing to inspire, educate and engage their audiences to address the climate crisis.

www.starlightllama.com Off the grid since 1999, my husband, builder and designer, John Clapp and I offer guests the opportunity to experience life in an off-grid, solar powered home. We share our conservation techniques and show how one can live well and simply and be an active part of addressing climate change. Our rooms have their own entrance and private baths and are decorated with antiques, original art from Western Massachusetts artists, and Shaker reproduction furniture built by John. Our vegetarian breakfasts feature fresh, local and organic foods, many from our own garden and eggs from our free-range hens. (Our guests say we need to rave more about the food, which include pumpkin pancakes, apple cider french toast, and can easily accomodate vegan or gluten-free diets.) During your visit, explore our property which has been placed in a conservation restriction to help create a wildlife corridor in Western Massachusetts. Our llamas, peacocks, donkey, goats, emus, and other creatures are a blend of rescue animals in need of a home, are integral to our pest management systems, or simply add to the farm's beauty and charm.

Dee Boyle-Clapp is a sculptor, installation artist and lecturer and has over 25 years of experience in the arts, teaching a variety of studio, art history and arts management courses at UMass Amherst, museum schools, and community colleges. She co-owned the Artemis Gallery and was a founding member and the first director of the Art Bank, and was part of the restoration team for their 1860's bank building in Shelburne Falls, MA. Dee was program coordinator for the Fostering the Arts and Culture Partnership creative economy project organizing business and marketing training, exhibition and web opportunities, and networking for artists. Dee's work has long involved sustainability. She has worked to make two organizations sustainable, decreasing their carbon footprint 50%, co-founded and co-chaired a UMass Green Team, co-wrote a chapter on Greening with Sarah (Brophy) Sutton for the Fundamentals of Arts Management 6th Edition, and created and teaches Greening Your Arts Nonprofit Organization, and lectures on sustainability issues. She holds bachelor's degrees in art and art history from the University of Wisconsin at Madison, an MFA in sculpture from UMass Amherst, and a Master's in Nonprofit Management from Regis University in Denver, Colorado. Dee teaches Introduction to Arts Management, Arts Entrepreneurship, Arts Fundraising, and Greening Your Arts Nonprofit Organization. Dee is a member of the Pioneer Valley Creative Economy Network and the MASS Creative Leadership Council.