UA’s Creative Campus Launches Crimson Arts Tickets
During the Fall 2007 semester, Creative Campus launched Crimson Arts Tickets, a cross-departmental venture that allows anyone the ability to reserve tickets to cultural arts events. The system allows patrons to reserve tickets online or through a unified box office for any ticketed event on campus, including productions by the Department of Theatre & Dance and School of Music as well as events offered by the Ferguson Center, Creative Campus, University Programs, and other departments and organizations. Alexis Clark, Creative Campus coordinator, said that in the past, there was no such thing as internet sales or a central area where students could reserve tickets for cultural events. “Students had to physically go to each department for tickets,” Clark said. “Now, all cultural arts events are unified.” Not only does Crimson Arts Tickets benefit the patrons, but the system also offers ease for the box office employees. Kristi Wiley, a Theatre Management graduate student, works in the department’s box office and is pleased with the new system. “It’s wonderful,” Wiley said. “It’s very easy to use and it allows, for the first time, for patrons to buy tickets online.” The creation of a unified arts ticketing office for the University has been a goal of the Creative Campus Initiative since a class of undergraduate honors students recommended the idea in 2005. Scott Bridges, director of Creative Campus, said he was thrilled that vision of that class, which he instructed, has come to fruition. “The opening of a unified box office was their number one objective to bring cohesion to UA arts and cultural offerings," Bridges said. Tickets may be purchased on weekdays from 10 a.m. to 6 p.m. by visiting the box office (Ferguson Center room 217, just outside the theatre), or by calling 205-348-4CAT (4228). Real time reservations for e-tickets can be made 24 hours a day by logging on to www.crimsonartstickets.com. Portions of this article first appeared in a story by Daphne Pruitt in Creative Campus's e-zine, Missing Ink. |
