Arts Administration
Department of Arts Administration
Dr. Winter Phong is an Assistant Professor of Arts Administration at the University of Kentucky. Her expertise includes strategic planning, fundraising, financial management, and community arts practice and engagement. Dr. Phong has taught courses in Arts Management, Financial Management, Fundraising, and Arts Leadership.
Dr. Phong’s research examines the intersections of arts participation, accessibility, and financial sustainability in cultural organizations. She explores how structural and financial barriers impact engagement in the arts and develops strategies to strengthen organizational capacity through fundraising, financial management, and community-driven initiatives. Her work emphasizes practical solutions that support long-term sustainability in arts organizations, ensuring broader participation and financial resilience in an evolving cultural landscape.
Dr. Phong earned her Ph.D. in Interdisciplinary in the Arts, which combines Visual Art, Music, Theatre, and Philosophy to gain insight into interdisciplinary practice. She focused her study on History/Theory/Criticism and Acting and Directing, using her knowledge as an Arts Administrator to help develop BurkTech Players' organizational structure. BurkTech Players is a theatre company on the Texas Tech University campus that brings together students from the School of Theatre and Dance and the Burkhart Center for Autism Education and Research. Phong has an MBA and MFA in Theatre Management from California State University, Long Beach. There, she supported study-abroad programs, expanded connections with the Business School, helped transform patron management systems, and supported the integration of arts into city planning through an examination of local arts funding models. She has a BA in Drama from the University of Washington.