{"id":11881,"date":"2021-02-11T10:41:03","date_gmt":"2021-02-11T15:41:03","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/web.uri.edu\/artsci\/?p=11881"},"modified":"2021-02-22T13:38:44","modified_gmt":"2021-02-22T18:38:44","slug":"ponticelli-09","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/web.uri.edu\/artsci\/fineartsalumni\/ponticelli-09\/","title":{"rendered":"Max Ponticelli &#8217;09 &#8217;20"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em>After graduating with a Theatre BFA (with a concentration in Stage Management), Max Ponticelli &#8217;09 went on to get an MBA in 2020. He is now a lecturer for URI&#8217;s Theatre Department and General Manager of <a href=\"https:\/\/thewilburygroup.org\/index.html?gclid=Cj0KCQiAyJOBBhDCARIsAJG2h5dPh-EnW5bgaeUcpBLoEXaldKbu3k7dmvJbALX3K2GeO0FKzn8w4dQaAj8tEALw_wcB\">The Wilbury Theatre Group<\/a> in Providence, RI.<\/em><\/p>\n<p><strong>Q. How did your URI degree best prepare you for your career path?<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>A. My degree prepared me to be a well-rounded and hard worker, regardless of the path I took going forward. It was full of rigorous expectations, interdisciplinary learning, and made me excited to start a career in the non-profit arts sector!<\/p>\n<p><strong>In your opinion, what is the value of the arts both academically and in the community?<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>The arts improves all of our lives; from what we do to escape in our free time, to telling the important history and lessons of our communities. Living around arts organizations actually improves quality of life &#8211; seriously, there&#8217;s quantitative evidence of it! The arts teaches us how to be better humans and what in life is worth living for.<\/p>\n<p><strong>What advice would you give to current students or to young people thinking of pursuing a Fine Arts degree?<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Be kind. Work hard. Don&#8217;t be a jerk. It&#8217;s worth it, so follow your heart.<\/p>\n<p>In addition to my BFA, I also received my MBA from URI last year. So, just because you&#8217;re in the arts doesn&#8217;t mean you can&#8217;t study anything you want! Life is what you make of it, so paint the picture you want to see.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Theatre <\/p>\n<p> &#8220;My degree prepared me to be a well-rounded and hard worker, regardless of the path I took going forward.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1089,"featured_media":11896,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[338],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-11881","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-fineartsalumni"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/web.uri.edu\/artsci\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11881","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/web.uri.edu\/artsci\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/web.uri.edu\/artsci\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/web.uri.edu\/artsci\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1089"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/web.uri.edu\/artsci\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=11881"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/web.uri.edu\/artsci\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11881\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":12200,"href":"https:\/\/web.uri.edu\/artsci\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11881\/revisions\/12200"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/web.uri.edu\/artsci\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/11896"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/web.uri.edu\/artsci\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=11881"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/web.uri.edu\/artsci\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=11881"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/web.uri.edu\/artsci\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=11881"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}