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Research Report: National Arts & Culture

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Life beats down and crushes the soul and art reminds you that you have one. -Stella Adler

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144 National Arts & Culture experts
25.49 average years of experience

National arts and culture experts were asked to recommend nonprofits that serve a national or multi-state audience or that influence the arts at the national level. These arts organizations could be developing or producing new work, be focused on performing arts, work to preserve and promote a traditional or indigenous culture, advocacy, have an educational component, provide arts grants, serve any age or type of audience, have any budget size, and/or represent any genre or discipline of art. We were interested in arts centers or nonprofits that have had real impact and do outstanding work, NOT nonprofits that have simply been around for many years or most need additional funding. This research was focused on organizations, not individual artists.

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N	Abel Lopez Associate Producing Director GALA Hispanic Theatre See Bio Abel López has served as GALA's associate producing director for over 25 years, during which time he has produced more than 65 shows and directed another 25, including the company’s first hit production of Kiss of the Spider Woman (1993) that won numerous awards. Lopez’s recent directing credits include El Canuto del Rock (2009), La edad de la ciruela (2008), Agustín Lara: Boleros & Blues (2008), Tu ternura Molotov (2008), Elliot, A Soldier’s Fugue (2007), Los pecados de Sor Juana (2006), Real Women Have Curves (2005) and Mexico: Noches Bohemias (2004). López has also directed productions for Arizona Theatre Company and In Series, among other performing arts and cultural groups. Currently, he sits on the board of directors of National Association of Latino Arts & Culture (President), Americans for the Arts (Vice Chair), Association of Performing Arts Presenters (Treasurer), Helen Hayes Awards, Black Women Playwrights Group, and Performing Arts Alliance. He has served as Chair of the D.C. Commission on the Arts and Humanities, Mid Atlantic Arts Foundation, Theater Communications Group, Leadership Washington, League of Washington Theaters, Alliance for Inclusion in the Arts, and the Performing Arts Alliance. His contributions to the arts have been recognized with the Richard Bauer Leadership Award from the Washington Performing Arts Video Archive (2002), Selena Roberts Ottum Award from Americans for the Arts and the National Endowment of the Arts (2001), and The Washington Post Award for Distinguished Community Service at the 1990 Helen Hayes Awards. He is a graduate of Harvard Law School, is an adjunct professor at George Mason University, and on the faculty of the NALAC Leadership Institute.

R	Adrian Tio Dean, College of Visual & Performing Arts University of Massachusetts--Dartmouth See Bio Mr. Tió is the Dean of the College of Visual & Performing Arts at University of Massachusetts--Dartmouth. He is also Professor and Director of the School of Art at Northern Illinois University. Mr. Tio arrives as CVPA has positioned itself as a catalyst of the creative economy of the South Coast, especially in New Bedford where the college has built a thriving satellite arts campus. He has a BA, and a MFA.

R	Adriene Jenik Director, Faculty Arizona State University, Herberger Institute for Design and the Arts See Bio Adriene Jenik began at the ASU Herberger Institute School of Art on July 1, 2009 as its director. She is a telecommunications media artist who has been working for over 20 years as a teacher, curator, administrator, and engineer. Her works combine "high" technology and human desire to propose new forms of literature, cinema, and performance. She received her BA in English from Douglass College, Rutgers University and her MFA in Electronic Arts from Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute. She has taught a broad range of electronic media classes at California Institute of the Arts (CalArts), UC Irvine, University of Southern California (USC), and UCLA's New Media Lab and finally at UC San Diego where she was a full-time research faculty member in the Visual Arts Department for 11 years. Prior to joining the UCSD faculty, Jenik was employed as an engineer in the Blast Jr. development team for Disney Online's Daily Blast.

R	Allen Henderson Professor of Music Georgia Southern University See Bio Baritone Allen Henderson is Professor of Music at Georgia Southern University where he teaches voice and diction. He holds degrees from Carson Newman College (BM), The University of Tennessee (MM), and the College-Conservatory of Music at the University of Cincinnati (DMA) where his minor was in Arts Administration and he was winner of the prestigious Corbett-Treigle Opera Competition. As baritone soloist, Dr. Henderson has appeared in concert, opera, and oratorio with the Knoxville Opera, Fort Worth Opera, Cincinnati Chamber Orchestra, Tennessee Opera Theatre, Knoxville Symphony, Nashville Symphony, Oak Ridge Symphony, Southern Georgia Symphony, the Bach Aria Festival in Stony Brook, NY, the Chautauqua Institution, and the Beloit-Janesville (WI) Symphony. He appeared at Lincoln Center as Allazim in the CCM production of Zaïde for the Mozart bicentennial. He has also appeared at the Ravinia Festival as a part of the Steans Institute Concert Series. Henderson has performed premieres of works by John Rutter, Nancy Hill Cobb, Mark Schwiezer, Richard Shepherd, and Jeffrey Wood.A district winner and regional finalist in the Metropolitan Opera auditions, Dr. Henderson was winner of the 1995 National Federation of Music Clubs Artist Awards and since has appeared throughout the US in recitals under the auspices of the NFMC. Among his other awards are: Second Prize in the McCammon Opera Competition of the Fort Worth Opera, Second Prize in the Miami Opera Young Patronesses of the Opera Competition, Second Prize in the Opera Guild of San Antonio Opera Talent Search, winner of the vocal division of the Hemphill-Wells Sorantin Awards for Young Artists in San Angelo, Texas. and winner of numerous NATS auditions. He has also presented recitals and master classes at universities throughout the country.As director of opera at Austin Peay State University where he taught from 1994-2005, Dr Henderson produced full productions of Le Nozze di Figaro, Die Fledermaus, Candide, Trouble in Tahiti, Trial By Jury, and Game of Chance. In 2004 he directed the premier of A Perfect Plan by composer Seymour Barab with the composer in attendance. He has also created roles and directed premieres of the chamber operas St. Nicholas and Good King Wenceslas by Richard Shepherd and Mark Schweizer and directed the premier of Diaries by Jeffrey Wood. Dr. Henderson can be heard on the recordings of both of the chamber operas by Schweizer and Shepherd issued by St. James Press. He also can be heard on Aeolian Records release entitled Dimensions and on his world premier recording with guitarist Stanley Yates entitled Shadows featuring works by John Rutter, Michael Fink, and Castelnuovo-Tedesco.

N	Amanda Winger Executive Director Conductors Guild, Inc. See Bio Amanda Burton Winger received her Bachelor of Music Education degree from James Madison University. Her horn playing took her around the world to Monaco, France, Germany, Italy and Switzerland. She won the Masterworks Festival Concerto Competition and performed Gordon Jacob's Horn Concerto with the Masterworks Festival Orchestra. She also performed with the Christian Performing Arts Fellowship at the Kennedy Center and was a member of Kappa Kappa Psi, a national honorary band fraternity.After graduating from college, Amanda was the band director at Colonial Heights High School, her alma mater. She led the award winning Colonials to success, but decided to further her education. She attended Virginia Commonwealth University and received her Master of Music in Horn Performance. At VCU she was the Pep Band Director and was inducted into Pi Kappa Lambda, the music honor society. It was at this time that she began working part time in the Conductors Guild office. She then moved to Williamsburg, Virginia to perform in the “Holiday in Roma” show at Busch Gardens. After two seasons of this, Amanda returned to Richmond where she is now an active freelance musician and the executive director of the Conductors Guild. She serves as personnel manager for the Richmond Brass Consort and recently performed as soloist for the premiere of Emory Waters' Horn Concerto with the Richmond Symphonic Winds.

R	Angela Han Director of Research National Assembly of State Arts Agencies See Bio Angela Han joined the NASAA team in 2007. She directs NASAA's research services, managing the surveys and other information gathering strategies NASAA uses to maintain data about state arts agencies and their work. Han oversees NASAA's data analysis and reporting, and serves as the point-person for information requests from members and the public. She helps state arts agencies and NASAA partners use research to assist their planning, evaluation and advocacy activities. Han also monitors current arts and public policy research, keeping members abreast of trends that affect public funding for the arts.As a former state arts agency grantee, Han has first-hand experience with the application procedures and reporting requirements employed by the states. Prior to joining NASAA, Han served as the Executive Director of River Arts, Inc. in Prairie du Sac, Wisconsin. There she managed all aspects of programming, community outreach, marketing, and fundraising for an arts presenter in the rural Midwest. Han also has extensive experience as a musician and orchestra manager. She received a Bachelor of Musical Arts with Distinction from the University of Windsor, and was the Executive Director of the Plymouth Symphony Society in Plymouth, Michigan from 2003 to 2005.As a former state arts agency grantee, Han has first-hand experience with the application procedures and reporting requirements employed by the states. Prior to joining NASAA, Han served as the Executive Director of River Arts, Inc. in Prairie du Sac, Wisconsin. There she managed all aspects of programming, community outreach, marketing, and fundraising for an arts presenter in the rural Midwest. Han also has extensive experience as a musician and orchestra manager. She received a Bachelor of Musical Arts with Distinction from the University of Windsor, and was the Executive Director of the Plymouth Symphony Society in Plymouth, Michigan from 2003 to 2005.

F	Ann McQueen Senior Program Officer The Boston Foundation See Bio Ann McQueen, Director of Programs at the Boston Foundation, advances the Foundation’s strategic interests in Greater Boston’s cultural vibrancy and the health and vitality of the Massachusetts nonprofit sector through grant making, research and policy development. She also played a lead role in the recent realignment of the Foundation’s strategic framework and its new emphasis on general operating support grants. Prior to joining the Foundation in 1997, Ann worked in development at the Worcester Art Museum and as an arts administration fellow at the National Endowment for the Arts. She continues to pursue her life-long interest in photography and public art.

N	Ann Marie Lonsdale Program Manager Creative Capital See Bio Ann Marie Lonsdale has worked as a performer, director, stage manager and administrator in the theater in her native San Francisco and in Chicago's storefront theater scene, where she worked with The Hypocrites, the Vittum Theater, Roadworks Productions and the side project, as well as University Theater at the The University of Chicago. For three years, she served as an Acquisition Editor with Arcadia Publishing, working with authors in the Plains States to create pictorially based local history books. Since moving to New York, she has worked as Associate Producer of Lower Manhattan Cultural Council's Sitelines dance and performance festival, with the Artistic Programs department at Theatre Communications Group, in an advisory capacity with Backyart, a multidisciplinary arts event held in Williamsburg, and as research assistant to Dr. Steven Dubin, a noted scholar of South African art and culture, as well as completing a master's in Arts Administration at Teachers College, Columbia University. Ann Marie is also a proud graduate of the University of Chicago.

N	Ann-Laura Parks Director of Development & Communications South Arts See Bio Ann-Laura Parks is the Director of Development & Communications at South Arts. South Arts collaborates with nine state arts agencies across the Southeast as well as the National Endowment for the Arts and other organizations to promote and support arts in the South.

R	Antonio Cuyler Director of Arts Management American University See Bio Dr. Antonio C. Cuyler currently serves as Director & Assistant Professor of Arts Management at American University. As an arts manager, he has worked in higher education, as well as with a variety of culturally-specific arts organizations. He currently serves as a Fundraising consultant for the Ralph Mark Gilbert Civil Rights Museum in Savannah, GA and the Ritz Chamber Players in Jacksonville, Florida. He has presented research both nationally and internationally, and has published in the Art Calendar, the Journal of Arts Management, Law, and Society, and the Music Entertainment and Industry Educators Association Journal. Before joining the faculty at AU, Dr. Cuyler served as Professor of Arts Administration at the Savannah College of Art and Design (SCAD). In his spare time, Dr. Cuyler is an avid teacher and practitioner of Hatha yoga. His degrees are: PhD, Art Education/Arts Administration, Florida State University; MA, Arts Administration, Florida State University; and BM/ES, Voice and Foreign Languages, Stetson University.

R	Barbara Cox Arts Education Partnership Coordinator Perpich Center for the Arts See Bio Barbara Hackett Cox is Arts Education Partnership Coordinator at the Perpich Center for Arts Education working statewide to develop collaborative partnerships and professional development opportunities with educators, administrators, artists, arts organizations, and students. Her work in art and education has spanned the past 30 years—as a K-6 classroom teacher, arts coordinator, education specialist, arts education consultant and jazz radio broadcaster in Minnesota, New York, and California. Through the auspices of Minnesota Arts and Schools as Partners (ASAP), Barbara helped launch Artist to Artist and continues to serves as its lead representative.

N	Barbara Bacon Co-Director, Animating Democracy Americans for the Arts See Bio Barbara currently co-directs Animating Democracy, a program of Americans for the Arts, Institute for Community Development and the Arts, funded by the Ford Foundation. Launched in fall 1999, Animating Democracy’s purpose is to foster artistic activity that encourages civic dialogue on important contemporary issues. Barbara has worked as a consultant since 1990, and prior to that she served as executive director of the Arts Extension Service at the University of Massachusetts where she was on staff for 13 years. Her work with partner Pam Korza includes program design and evaluation for state and local arts agencies and private foundations nationally. Projects include strategic plans for the Heinz Endowment’s Arts and Culture programs and the New York State Council on the Arts, a 20-year review of the North Carolina Arts Council’s Grassroots Arts Program, and cultural plans for Northampton, MA, and Rapid City, SD. Barbara has written, edited, and contributed to several publications, including the revised edition of Fundamentals of Local Arts Management and The Cultural Planning Work Kit, published by the Arts Extension Service. She is an arts management educator, serving as a primary instructor for the “Fundamentals and Advanced Management” seminars, guest lecturer for the New York University Graduate Program in Arts Management, and a senior faculty member for the Empire State Partnerships’ Summer Institute in arts education. A graduate of the University of Massachusetts, Barbara has served as a panelist and adviser for many state and national arts agencies. She is president of the Arts Extension Institute, Inc., a board member of the Fund for Women Artists, and chair of her local school committee.

F	Barry Bergey Director, Folk & Traditional Arts National Endowment for the Arts See Bio Barry Bergey became Director of Folk and Traditional Arts at the National Endowment for the Arts in January 2001. In addition to managing NEA grants on folk and traditional arts, Bergey directs the NEA National Heritage Fellowships, the premiere American lifetime honors for individual accomplishments in folk and traditional arts. Bergey provides guidance and support for folk arts infrastructure and statewide apprenticeship programs, as well as technical assistance in the field. Bergey also provides ongoing counsel to the U.S. Department of State on international cultural policy issues.Bergey came to the NEA as Senior Arts Specialist in 1985 after having served as the State Folk Arts Coordinator in Missouri. Bergey has been active in the field of cultural heritage for the past 30 years as a fieldworker, festival organizer, radio producer, curator, and arts administrator. He co-produced I’m Old But I’m Awfully Tough: Traditional Music of the Ozark Region, a recording documenting traditional musicians of the Ozarks and he served as a curator of a touring exhibition The German Housebarn in America: Object and Image.His writing has included a chapter on music and public policy for the Garland Encyclopedia of World Music and, with others, "Institutions and Processes Affecting Music in the United States" in Music Cultures in the United States (Routledge, 2005). From 1995-2000 he served as a consultant to the Center for U.S.-China Arts Exchange for their Joint Plan on Yunnan National Cultures Project. This work involved five trips to Yunnan and he delivered a paper on "Cultural Conservancy and Development" at the Leadership Conference on Conservancy and Development in Lijiang in 1999.His involvement in international arts policy issues has included serving on the U.S. delegation for the UNESCO Intergovernmental Meetings of Experts to Draft a Convention for the Safeguarding of Intangible Cultural Heritage and acting as head of the U.S. delegation to the first meeting of the Inter-American Committee on Culture of the Organization of American States in 2003.In 2005, Bergey was a member of the U.S. delegation to UNESCO involved in drafting a proposed Convention on the Diversity of Cultural Expressions.

R	Beverly Seley Professor, Art and Design Grand Valley State University See Bio Beverly Seley is Professor in Art and Design at the Grand Valley State University. She received her B.S., B.F.A., and M.F.A. from Michigan State University, and received the Outstanding Educator Award recipient.

R	Bill Nichols Professor, College of Creative Arts San Francisco State University See Bio Bill Nichols is a Professor at the Department of Cinema at the College of Creative Arts. His areas of expertise are Documentary and Ethnographic film, Film Theory, Cinematic Space, Narrative Theory, Various Film Movements, Film Noir and Postwar American Cinema. He received his Ph.D. and M.A. in Theater Arts (Film) from UCLA.

R	Bob Bingham Professor of Art Carnegie Mellon University See Bio Bob Bingham makes art that incorporates systems of growth, live plants and natural materials with mechanical and electronic devices. Through this combination of systems he addresses issues pertaining to a sustainable future where technology and nature exist in a symbiotic relationship.Bingham¹s work has been widely exhibited in the United States, Italy and Japan including The Institute of Contemporary Art, Philadelphia; The Brooklyn Museum; The Andy Warhol Museum; Mattress Factory; Ecovention, Contemporary Arts Center, Cincinnati; Kanagawa Hall Gallery, Yokohama, Japan; Art+Nature, Rico Gallery, Santa Monica; and Urban Paradise/Gardens in the City, Paine Weber Art Gallery, New York. He has had many public installations including Creative Time¹s Brooklyn Bridge Anchorage; in Piazza del¹ St. Stepheno Rome, Italy and the first Pittsburgh Center for the Arts Biennial. He co-directed an interdisciplinary team effort, The Nine Mile Run Greenway Project that culminated in exhibits at the Wood Street Galleries and the Regina Miller Gallery, CMU, Pittsburgh. This greenway project led to the formation of the Nine Mile Run Watershed Association and the largest ecological urban stream restoration in the USA.Bingham received a BA in art from Montana State University, Bozeman and a MFA from University of California, Davis. He is currently Professor of Art and a Distinguished Fellow in the STUDIO For Creative Inquiry at Carnegie Mellon University. His work has been acknowledged with awards and grants including the National Endowments for the Arts, Pennsylvania Council on the Arts, Pollock-Krasner Foundation, Art Matters, Inc., Three Rivers Environmental Award, The Heinz Endowments and several Berkman Faculty Development Fund Grants.His art practice evolved from “green” mixed media installations into the public realm to address issues of interconnectedness between the natural and built environment. This evolution directly affected his approach as a teacher. Bingham created a new course, Environmental Sculpture, in 1996 as part of the Environment Across the Curriculum Initiative at Carnegie Mellon. Later as a member of the University’s Green Practices committee, he advised a student project and taught a course to conceptually design and assist the implementation of a “living roof” on campus. Another collaborative project, Greenscape, was created in conjunction with the School of Architecture’s Design and Build Studio to literally grow the 2007 Solar Decathlon House. As part of the Greening of Early Undergraduate Education Initiative, he began teaching a university-wide course, EcoArt, involving a collaboration with the Pittsburgh Parks Conservancy to address removal of invasive species, soil retention issues and raingardens in Phipps Run, Schenley Park. This course now continues at a variety of other locations and with other organizations.

R	Brett Colley Associate Professor, Printmaking Grand Valley State University See Bio Brett Colley is the Associate Professor for Printmaking at the Grand Valley State University.

F	Bruce Davis Executive Director Arts Council/Silicon Valley See Bio Bruce W. Davis has served as the executive director of Arts Council Silicon Valley, the largest nonprofit arts council in the State of California, since September 1993. Under Davis’ leadership, the Arts Council has more than quadrupled its budget and established numerous successful partnerships and initiatives to support the local Silicon Valley arts community. This includes distributing nearly $20 million in grants and services to local arts and cultural organizations, individual artists, schools and community groups. Davis was also instrumental in the creation of the Artsopolis Marketing Partnership and Artsopolis.com, the nation’s leading arts and culture calendaring software program. To date, the Artsopolis Network has 23 licensees nationwide with almost 25 million visitors combined each year. Before coming to the Arts Council, Davis served as the Northern California coordinator of People for the American Way and was the executive director of City Celebration in San Francisco, producers of the San Francisco Ethnic Dance Festival. He was the co-executive producer of the documentary film, And Still We Dance--a Portrait of the Ethnic Dance Festival, which was broadcast nationally. Davis is an active member of Americans for the Arts, a Senior Fellow of the American Leadership Forum Silicon Valley, and was a founding Board member of the Silicon Valley Council of Nonprofits. He is also a co-founder of 1stACT Silicon Valley, a cross-sector collaborative focused on art and technology. A two-time recipient of the Isadora Duncan Dance Award, Davis has been recognized numerous times for his arts leadership by San Jose Magazine and was the recipient of the 2009 Michael Newton Award by Americans for the Arts. This award recognizes exemplary leadership skills and extraordinary dedication to supporting the arts through a united arts fund. In addition, Davis has been a professional lyricist, award-winning songwriter and performer for over 20 years. Currently, he serves as a member of the West Coast Songwriters advisory board. His songs have been published by 20th Century Fox/Fanfare Music, included in film and television soundtracks, as well as in commercials and public service announcements.

F	Bruce Payne Executive Director The Shelley & Donald Rubin Foundation See Bio Bruce Payne joined the Shelley & Donald Rubin Foundation in New York City in April, 2006. Bruce is responsible for a broad program of grants for art and culture and for health and education in the Himalayan region, and he is equally involved in US grant programs in the arts, education, civil liberties, and leadership. From 1996 to 2005, Bruce was Director of “Leadership and the Arts: A Duke Semester in New York City”, which offered students planning careers in law, business, government, and teaching an opportunity to study the place of the arts in American life. In just one of its four courses, “Leadership, Ethics, and Drama,” his students each spring saw and analyzed more than fifty plays and operas. A Lecturer in the Terry Sanford Institute of Public Policy at Duke University from 1971 to 2006, Bruce originated Duke’s courses in ethics and policymaking, leadership, policy and the arts, and philanthropy and the arts. He also taught courses in rural poverty and ethnic politics and initiated Duke’s Migrant Labor project. In 1983 he received Duke's Distinguished Undergraduate Teaching Award. Bruce is the Founding Director of Duke University’s Hart Leadership Program, and served as Director from 1985 to 1989. His course, “Leadership, Policy, and Change,” added a humanities dimension (drama, fiction, literature, dance, and film) to the field of leadership studies for more than twenty years. In the spring of 2006, Bruce offered a course at the Museum of Modern art entitled “Uneasy Consciousness: Explorations in Literature and Art,” and in May and June of 2006 he taught a six-week seminar at the Venice International University on “Policy and the Imagination: Music and Drama, Eros and Liberty.” Bruce studied as an undergraduate at the University of California, Berkeley, and received his M.A. in political science at Yale University. He was awarded the honorary degree of Doctor of Laws by Marietta College in Ohio in 1986 in recognition of his work in developing leadership studies and ethics. A political theorist, Bruce has written about Hobbes, Shakespeare, and several modern writers. He is at currently at work on a study of the myths of Plato’s Republic.

N	Caitlin Strokosch Executive Director Alliance of Artists Communities See Bio Caitlin has served the Alliance since 2002, first as event coordinator, and later in development, communications, and programming roles. She was appointed Executive Director in 2008. Prior to joining the Alliance, Caitlin managed several nonprofit professional music ensembles in Chicago, and she worked for a PR firm specializing in nonprofit arts organizations, including the National Youth Orchestra Festival and the Stradivarius Society. She has received training in nonprofit management from the Chicago Nonprofit Financial Center and as a selected participant in the Arts & Business Council’s National Arts Marketing Project. Caitlin has been a guest speaker and lecturer at conferences and colleges around the country, including Columbia College Chicago, Roosevelt University, Brown University, Roger Williams University, and the Rhode Island School of Design on a range of topics – from grant writing to contemporary music to intersections of art and architecture. She holds a Bachelor’s Degree in music performance from Columbia College Chicago and a Master’s in musicology from Roosevelt University, where her research focused on music as a tool for building communities of resistance and social dissent; and she was a PhD candidate in Ethnomusicology at Brown University.

N	Camille Zamora Co-Founding Director Sing for Hope See Bio "A singer blessed with intense communicative ability who blazes with passion" (Opera Magazine), Soprano Camille Zamora balances a vibrant career of opera, recital and concert performances. She has appeared with ensembles including the Orchestra of St.Luke's the Rochester Philharmonic, the Guadalajara Symphony, and more. Ms. Zamora is the Founding Director of the Sing For Hope charitable organization, which mobilizes artists in volunteer service to benefit communities in need. In recognition of her contribution to the field of arts activism, Ms. Zamora has been honored to perform at the United Nations and the Fortune Most Powerful Women Summit.

N	Carlton Turner Executive Director Alternate ROOTS See Bio Carlton Turner is currently the Director for Alternate ROOTS. Carlton has been a member of Alternate ROOTS since 2001 and served as the Louisiana/Mississippi representative for one year. Carlton worked as the project director for UPROOTED: The Katrina Project. This project seeks to raise the voices of Katrina's survivors and connect them with all of America's marginalized citizenry. It is designed to be a catalyst for self determined change in the Gulf Coast region and throughout the country. Carlton Turner is also artistic director and co-founder of the performing group M.U.G.A.B.E.E. (Men Under Guidance Acting Before Early Extinction) a group composed of two brothers performing a blend of jazz, hip-hop, spoken word poetry and soul music on a totally conscience tip. M.U.G.A.B.E.E. has released two albums, "Earth Tones" (2002) and "World Domination" (2006). They are currently touring a new play "Batteries in the Killing Machine" across the country. Carlton studied English and history at the University of Mississippi from 1992-1996.

N	Carmen Boston Arts Education Manager National Assembly of State Arts Agencies See Bio Carmen Boston is arts education manager at the National Assembly of State Arts Agencies. Through NASAA, Carmen works with state arts education managers across the country on professional development and state arts education programming initiatives. Boston previously worked for Washington Performing Arts Society, Liz Lerman Dance Exchange, Wolf Trap Institute for Early Learning through the Arts, Jacob's Pillow Dance Festival and Very Special Arts, where she had the opportunity to develop and manage an array of arts projects for adults and youth from diverse populations. As a board member of the DC Arts and Humanities Education Collaborative, Boston co-chairs the Arts for Every Student program committee.

O	Caron Atlas Consultant Self Employed See Bio Caron Atlas is a Brooklyn-based consultant and cultural organizer working to support and stimulate arts and culture as an integral part of social change. She is the project director of Place + Displaced, Fractured Atlas's community mapping project, and also of the Arts & Community Change program of the Pratt Center for Community Development. Additionally she directs the Arts & Democracy Project of State Voices and is a faculty member in New York University's Art and Public Policy program. Caron worked many years at Appalshop, the Appalachian media center; was the founding director of the American Festival Project, a national coalition of activist artists; is a consultant to foundations, including Ford and Nathan Cummings; and also worked with, amongst others, National Voice, Animating Democracy, and the Cultural Blueprint for New York City.

N	Charlie Humphrey Executive Director Pittsburgh Filmmakers/Pittsburgh Center for the Arts See Bio Charlie Humphrey is the Executive Director of Pittsburgh Filmmakers/Pittsburgh Center for the Arts. Pittsburgh Filmmakers is one of the largest and oldest independent media arts centers in the country. Founded in 1971 to provide media-making tools to artists, Pittsburgh Filmmakers serves everyone from emerging artists to established artists to fellow non-profit organizations and students. Our Three Rivers Film Festival is the region's largest annual film event.

R	Christopher Hunt Clinical Professor, School of Public and Environmental Affairs Indiana University See Bio Christopher Hunt is the Clinical Professor at Indiana University. He previously was an Artistic Consultant at the Orchestre National de Lyon, a Programming Consultant at Saint Louis Symphony Orchestra, Project Advisor for Wynton M. Blount Cultural Park (Alabama), Artistic Director for Adelaide Festival 1994, Program Consultant "Year 2000 Project" for New York Philharmonic Orchestra, and many other artistic roles. He received his M.A. from Cambridge University.

F	Claire Peeps Executive Director Durfee Foundation See Bio Claire Peeps is the Executive Director of the Durfee Foundation, which has awarded more than $20 million in grants in the areas of arts and culture, education and community development, primarily in the Los Angeles region. She was previously Chair, board member at Grantmakers in the Arts, Chair at Southern California Grantmakers, and Associate Director at Los Angeles Festival. She received her M.A. in Fine Arts from The University of New Mexico, Certificate for Executive Program for Philanthropy Leaders from Stanford University, and Certificate of Women and Power: Leadership in a New World from Harvard University Kennedy School of Government.

N	Colleen Ross Manager of Partnership Strategies EmcArts Inc. See Bio Colleen J. Ross joins EmcArts with a strong background in research, cultural marketing and project management. As Manager of Strategic Partnerships, Colleen works to make our programs and services accessible to clients nationwide and to help bring EmcArts learning tools to the arts and humanities sectors.Colleen came to New York from Chicago where she was Director of Marketing for Chicago Public Radio (WBEZ -FM), the city's NPR affiliate and third-largest public radio station in the country. During her tenure, she oversaw marketing and promotional strategies to grow audience for the radio station's original programs and initiatives, including Sound Opinions, Wait Wait... Don't Tell Me! and This American Life. As part of Chicago Public Radio's outreach, she devised strategic partnerships with regional cultural institutions and worked with a team to design the blueprints for Vocalo.org, an innovative web-to-radio initiative that encourages audience participation through user-generated content. She was also responsible for coordinating strategic audience research for Chicago Public Radio.Prior to her career in Chicago, Colleen worked at Madison Repertory Theatre in Madison, Wisconsin, as part of the theater’s marketing team. There, she managed marketing projects, published a subscriber newsletter and oversaw subscription efforts. In Madison, she also worked at University of Wisconsin Press and Madison Magazine.Colleen has an MA in Arts Administration from Columbia University. While completing her studies, Colleen served as a Coordinator to the Program in Arts Administration, assisting students with career development and serving as project assistant to the Research Center for Arts and Culture. She wrote her Masters Thesis on the subject of responsible closure of nonprofit cultural organizations. She also holds a BA in Journalism and Political Science from University of Wisconsin, where she was the Managing Editor of The Daily Cardinal.

R	Daniel Ranalli Associate Professor; Director, Arts Administration Graduate Program; Director, Master of Liberal Arts Graduate Program Boston University See Bio Professor Daniel Ranalli is the founding director of the Boston University graduate program in arts administration. Professor Ranalli came to Boston University full-time in 1992. He had previously been the Director of an arts administration graduate program at another university for 7 years. With a graduate degree in Economics (public policy) and a career as a successful arts administrator, visual artist and arts writer, Daniel Ranalli brings a unique perspective to his teaching and advising. Professor Ranalli's extensive background in the arts includes over a decade as an arts administrator, over 25 years as a working professional visual artist and nearly 20 years in higher education as an administrator and teacher. Professor Ranalli has worked closely with the National Endowment for the Arts and several state arts councils in developing programs to support individual artists. He served as the Director of the Massachusetts Artists-in-Residence program for five years in the 1970s and has served on several NEA and state advisory groups and peer panels. Ranalli has also worked as the director of a university art gallery, the executive director of an arts workshop center, currently serves on the board of trustees and the exhibition committee of the Provincetown Art Museum, and as the President of a city arts council. Professor Ranalli has also written extensively on the visual arts and the art world for a number of publications including Art New England where he contributed the "FORUM" column for over 13 years. This column was one of the first to integrate art criticism with an analysis of the art world's political and economic infrastructure. As an artist, Ranalli's work is in the public collections of over 25 museums here and abroad including the Museum of Modern Art (NY), Boston Museum of Fine Arts, San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, Smithsonian National Gallery of Art, Baltimore Museum of Fine Arts and DeCordova Museum. Since 1974 he has had over 100 solo and group shows of his work and has received artist fellowships and grants from the National Endowment for the Arts, the Massachusetts Cultural Council, EarthWatch, the Sea Grant program and others. He received his M.A. from Boston University, and his B.A. from Clark University.

O	David Bury Consultant David Bury & Associates See Bio David works in the areas of management, planning and fundraising. Since founding DB&A in 1981, he has helped arts organizations raise tens of millions of dollars. Prior to forming DB&A, he served as Assistant Director of the Vermont Council on the Arts and Executive Director of the New England Bach Festival. David has taught history and economics on the secondary and post-secondary levels, founded an alternative school, and served as Development Director for a private college. He was a Peace Corps volunteer and trained VISTA volunteers. He received a B.A. from Bethany College, WV in 1964 and a M.A. from Antioch New England in 1968.Among the clients David has worked with are the Orchestra of St. Luke’s (capital campaign, annual fundraising, development counsel), the American Composers Orchestra (development counsel, capital campaign), Chamber Music America (capital campaign, annual fundraising, development counsel, program development), and many others.

O	David Sheingold Consultant Self Employed See Bio David Sheingold is an independent consultant providing project development, strategic planning, meeting facilitation and fundraising services for artists and arts organizations. Client list includes: 651 ARTS, A.R.T./New York, Brooklyn College, Maggie Allesee National Center for Choreography, Miami Light Project, NYC Performing Arts Spaces, ODC Theater, Pat Graney Company, Pew Charitable Trust,The Andrew W. Mellon Foundation and The MAP Fund, among others. Sheingold has served as guest lecturer, moderator and panelist for the Ailey/Fordham BFA Program, Cornell University, Dance NYC, European Dream Festival, National Foundation for Advancement in the Arts, New York University and The New School University, among others. Sheingold was the Senior Producer at Dance Theater Workshop (2004-2007).

R	Deborah Berman Director of Development & Alumni Affairs; Lecturer in Theater Management Yale School of Drama See Bio Deborah Berman has been leading the YSD/YRT Development Office since February 2005. Prior to coming to Yale, Deborah ran the firm dsb consulting, where she worked with numerous non-profit organizations in programming, fundraising and board development. Clients included a public/private partnership with NASA to build a new science museum in Mississippi and the Shakespeare Theatre Company in Washington, DC, where Deborah was also Acting Director of Development. Deborah has also held senior positions at museums, including the Smithsonian's National Portrait Gallery, the Corcoran Gallery and College of Art and the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum. She worked at many museums, including the Guggenheim, the Smithsonian's National Portrait Gallery, the Corcoran Gallery and College of Art and the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum.

N	Deirdre Towers Artistic Director Dance Films Association See Bio Deirdre Towers has been associated with Dance Films Association since 1983, first as the editor of Dance On Camera News, then as the writer of Dance Film/Video Guide published in 1991 by Princeton Book Company, as a member of the DFA's Board of Directors since 1991, and as the director of the Dance On Camera Festival from 1994-present. She initiated the collaboration with Lincoln Center's Film Society, began the touring of the festival and designed the June 2003 outdoor event PORTALS, THE FLOATING CINEMA in Prospect Park. In the spring of 2000, she took a portion of the Dance On Camera Festival to Cuba as part of Los Dias de la Danza, in 2005 to Lotz, Poland, 2006 to Reykjavik Iceland, 2007 to Universidad Politecnica in Valencia, Spain, in the summer of 2008 for the Certamen Coreografico International Burgos-NY. As a result of the lectures given at DeSales University in 2006, Muhlenberg College and DeSales University offered dance on camera courses and SouthSide Film Festival in Bethlehem, Pennsylvania made dance their genre for 2007 and invited Deirdre to be their Artist in Residence.American Ballet Theatre invited her to create three video documentaries with tenth grade students on their "Make A Ballet" program at the Frederic Douglass Academy in Harlem, New York and teach four summer intensive video courses. In the winters of 2003-2008, she taught flamenco in the public schools for the City Center education department during their annual flamenco festival. In the summer of 2003, she co-taught a "choreography for the camera" course at Jacobs Pillow with Victoria Marks, and in the winter of 2002, she co-taught a similar workshop with Alla Kovgan in St. Petersburg at the Kannon Dance School.From 1985-1989, Deirdre was a staff writer and photo editor for Dance Magazine for which she wrote a monthly column on dance video. Because of her video column, Deirdre was invited repeatedly to attend the Grand Prix de Video Danse and Dance Screen as a panel moderator, participant, and jury member. In the spring of 1999, she served as a jury member for both the American Dance Festival's video program and Dance Screen held in Cologne, Germany. In 1991, Deirdre founded Dance Media, Inc whose wholly owned subsidiary Alegrias Productions distributes videos and books specializing in flamenco. She worked with Organization of American States, as a fundraiser/researcher for youth symphony orchestra and arts school in Panama, 1981-83.For six summers, she lectured on flamenco history at Maria Benitez' Institute for Spanish Arts (New Mexico). For Gulbenkian Foundation (Lisbon, Portugal) at the invitation of Jose Sasportes, she organized a workshop on American dance video directed by James Byrne.. She edited the book And They Danced On, researched the videos produced by Peter Rosen entitled The Golden Age of the Piano (Volume I & II), Jan Peerce, and Christmas at the Vatican.She has a Masters in Arts Administration from New York University, a BA from Hamilton College, with one semester with Experiment in International Living (Semester Abroad) studying music and dance in Ghana. As a dancer/choreographer, her eclectic credits include projects with Syracuse Stage, Syracuse Symphony, World Music Institute, New York Lyric Opera, and the Plaza Hotel.

O	Dianne Green Consultant Self Employed See Bio Dianne Green is a consultant. She was Program Coordinator for "Giving Voice...." Center for Folklife and Cultural Heritage at Smithsonian Institution. She was also Conference Program Content Management at the African Diaspora Heritage Trail, and Owner/CEO at Culture Transforms Community Enterprises. She was also formerly President at Dignowity Hill Neighborhood Association, Interim Executive Director at Network of Cultural Centers of Color, and conference consultant at Association for Performing Arts Presenters.

R	Doug Blandy Program Director, Arts & Administration Program University of Oregon See Bio Doug Blandy is currently the Associate Dean of Academic Affairs for the School of Architecture and Allied Arts, a Professor and Program Director in the Arts and Administration Program, and the Director of the Institute for Community Arts Studies at the University of Oregon. As director of the Institute, he inaugurated the on-line advisory CultureWork. In addition, he teaches and advises students at both the graduate and undergraduate level who have an interest in arts administration and community arts. His research attends to community arts, civil society, program accessibility, and art education. He provides service to professional organizations internationally, nationally, regionally, and locally. He received his Ph.D., M.A., and B.S. for Art Education from Ohio University.

R	Duane Slick Professor, Painting & Printmaking Rhode Island School of Design See Bio Formerly a full-time faculty member at IAIA in Santa Fe, Slick is currently a professor of painting and printmaking at the prestigious Rhode Island School of Design. His solo exhibitions include “The Paths of My Fathers” at the Nielsen Gallery in Boston and “Instructions on the Care and Use of White Space” at the Gregory Lind Gallery in San Francisco. His most recent award was the National Native Master Artist Initiative Grant from Evergreen State College in 2010.Slick is a multi-media artist working in painting, printmaking, sculpture, books, lectures, and story-telling performances. His current body of work features black-and-white photo-realistic paintings on linen or glass made from photographs of collected objects such as the American Flag, coyote masks, and toys. His works have been described as “dream paintings whose aim is the exploration of matters spiritual, not physical.” While at SAR Slick will work on his project—titled The Untraceable Present—to produce four to five black-and-white paintings inspired by the world-class collections held at SAR’s Indian Arts Research Center.

N	Duffie Adelson President Merit School of Music See Bio Duffie Adelson is the President of Merit School of Music, a nonprofit organization that provides high-quality music education to students in metropolitan Chicago. Its primary goals are to help young people achieve their full musical potential, to remove economic barriers to participation, and to stimulate personal and educational growth through music.

R	Elisabeth Subrin Assistant Professor of Film and Media Arts Temple University See Bio Assistant Professor Elisabeth Subrin teaches advanced screenwriting, film/video production, video art, and film/video studies courses. She received an MFA in Video from the School of the Art Institute of Chicago and a BFA in Filmmaking from Massachusetts College of Art. Over the past dozen years she has taught at Amherst, Bennington, Cooper Union, Harvard University, and Yale University School of Art's Graduate Program. Her films and videos have received major awards at international festivals and have been exhibited extensively in museums, galleries and film festivals throughout the world including the Museum of Modern Art, The Whitney Biennial, The Guggenheim Museum, The Vienna Viennale, The Walker Art Museum, and in national broadcasts on the Sundance Channel and public television. Subrin is both a Guggenheim Fellow and Rockefeller Fellow in Media Arts, and a Sundance Fellow in their Feature Film and Screenwriting Labs. Her 2006 film The Caretakers, was a commission for The MacDowell Colony's Centennial in 2007, and premiered at The 44th New York Film Festival. Her feature narrative, Up, is in development with Forensic Films. She just completed an HD video installation, Sweet Ruin, a commission from The Danish Arts Council and PARTICIPANT, Inc. in New York. Assistant Professor ELISABETH SUBRIN teaches advanced screenwriting, film/video production, video art, and film/video studies courses. She received an MFA in Video from the School of the Art Institute of Chicago and a BFA in Filmmaking from Massachusetts College of Art. Over the past dozen years she has taught at Amherst, Bennington, Cooper Union, Harvard University, and Yale University School of Art's Graduate Program. Her films and videos have received major awards at international festivals and have been exhibited extensively in museums, galleries and film festivals throughout the world including the Museum of Modern Art, The Whitney Biennial, The Guggenheim Museum, The Vienna Viennale, The Walker Art Museum, and in national broadcasts on the Sundance Channel and public television. Subrin is both a Guggenheim Fellow and Rockefeller Fellow in Media Arts, and a Sundance Fellow in their Feature Film and Screenwriting Labs. Her 2006 film The Caretakers, was a commission for The MacDowell Colony's Centennial in 2007, and premiered at The 44th New York Film Festival. Her feature narrative, Up, is in development with Forensic Films. She just completed an HD video installation, Sweet Ruin, a commission from The Danish Arts Council and PARTICIPANT, Inc. in New York. teaches advanced screenwriting, film/video production, video art, and film/video studies courses. She received an MFA in Video from the School of the Art Institute of Chicago and a BFA in Filmmaking from Massachusetts College of Art. Over the past dozen years she has taught at Amherst, Bennington, Cooper Union, Harvard University, and Yale University School of Art's Graduate Program. Her films and videos have received major awards at international festivals and have been exhibited extensively in museums, galleries and film festivals throughout the world including the Museum of Modern Art, The Whitney Biennial, The Guggenheim Museum, The Vienna Viennale, The Walker Art Museum, and in national broadcasts on the Sundance Channel and public television. Subrin is both a Guggenheim Fellow and Rockefeller Fellow in Media Arts, and a Sundance Fellow in their Feature Film and Screenwriting Labs. Her 2006 film The Caretakers, was a commission for The MacDowell Colony's Centennial in 2007, and premiered at The 44th New York Film Festival. Her feature narrative, Up, is in development with Forensic Films. She just completed an HD video installation, Sweet Ruin, a commission from The Danish Arts Council and PARTICIPANT, Inc. in New York.

N	Elizabeth Doud Programming Consultant/Grants Writer Miami Dade College Cultural Affairs See Bio Elizabeth Doud is the Programming Consultant and Grants Writer for Miami Dade College Cultural Affairs, a performance nonprofit. Its mission is to produce and present the newest, most challenging contemporary and culturally specific work created in the U.S. and abroad. We focus primarily on work from the Americas that reflects our multi-ethnic community.

F	Felicia Filer Public Art Director Cultural Affairs Dept. See Bio Felicia Filer is the Director of the Public Art Division of the City of Los Angeles, Department of Cultural Affairs. She has overseen the commission of more than 150 permanent public art projects throughout the city, including the City’s Airport, Animal Services, Bureau of Engineering, Fire, Library, Police, Recreation and Parks, Transportation and Zoo departments. The Public Art Division includes the Public Percent for Art, Private Percent for Art, City Art Collection, Murals, and Music L.A. programs.

N	Gail Crider Vice President and Chief Operating Officer National Art Strategies See Bio Gail Crider, Vice President and Chief Operating Officer, directs our program design area and facilitates our internal operations. In addition, she consults on strategic leadership, planning and governance.Ms. Crider has worked with a variety of nonprofit organizations. Before joining National Arts Strategies, Ms. Crider spent 10 years in the funding community. In her most recent position as a program officer for a private foundation, she worked on inner-city redevelopment and community building in Washington, D.C. She co-chaired the Community Development Support Collaborative in Washington, D.C., and has served on grants panels for the Corporation for National Service (AmeriCorp), the National Endowment for the Arts, and the Department of Treasury, CDFI Fund. Ms. Crider has also worked for the Arizona Commission on the Arts, Arena Stage, Shakespeare Theatre at the Folger, and the National Endowment for the Arts. She holds a B.S. in theater from Lewis and Clark College.

F	Gary Gibbs Executive Director Texas Commission on the Arts See Bio Gary Gibbs is the Executive Director of Texas Commission on the Arts, which provides grants, information, and services in support of the arts and culture. He was previously Director of Education and Outreach at Houston Grand Opera, and studied at Baylor University.

N	Gayle Isa Executive Director Asian Arts Initiative See Bio Gayle Isa is the founder and Executive Director of the Asian Arts Initiative. Gayle has been an active participant in Philadelphia's arts and culture community for the past 16 years, beginning as an intern and evolving as a staff member at the Painted Bride Art Center. She also spent three years working with the Southeast Asian Mutual Assistance Associations Coalition, learning about human services and advocacy within the Asian American community in Philadelphia. She has been a National Finalist in the Ford Foundation's Leadership for a Changing World program. She has served on the boards of the Philadelphia Cultural Fund and the Greater Philadelphia Cultural Alliance, and is currently on the Executive Committee of the National Performance Network and the Steering Committee of the nascent National Asian American Theater Project. Gayle was once an aspiring taiko (drum) player and is now learning to be a theater dramaturge.

R	Gregory Sale Visiting Professor of Intermedia Arizona State University See Bio Gregory Sale is a multidisciplinary artist working conceptually in visual art, performance art, and community-based projects. The form and content of his work reflects a hybrid approach which incorporates the wry sensibility of Pop art, along with the optimism of Yoko Ono, the provocation of the Happenings, and the raw intensity of art in the age of AIDS. His work has been supported by a project grant from the Arizona Commission on the Arts and a Material Funds Grant from the Phoenix Art Museum. Awards include artist residencies at Yaddo, Saratoga Springs, NY, 2007 and at Ucross Foundation, Claremont, WY, 2006; and an Award for Innovation, Hometown Video Festival, Monterey, CA, 2005. He has a MFA in Art from University of Arizona, Tucson, AZ, and a BFA in Sculpture and a BA in French Literature from Virginia Commonwealth University, Richmond, VA.

R	Harold Linton Chairman of the Department of Art and Visual Technology George Mason University See Bio Harold Linton, Professor, is Chairman of the Department of Art and Visual Technology. The Department of Art & Visual Technology at GMU is currently involved in the design and construction of a new 100,000 sq. ft. art facility that will serve 600 art students in undergraduate and graduate programs and open in early 2007. Previously, Harold served as Chairman of the Department of Art at Bradley University, 1998 – 2005 developing scholarships, art endowment, professional lecture and exhibition programs, internet technology initiatives, international study programs, and new undergraduate and graduate art and design studio concentrations. In 2001, he received highest endowed award for professional excellence at Bradley University, Caterpillar Professor of Art, and simultaneously for the Department of Art, the William Rainey Harper Award for Department Excellence. Most recently (2004), he was the recipient of a Fulbright-Hays Grant to study cultural life and contemporary social issues in South Africa and he has recently authored an exhibition with catalog in 2005 entitled, “The Children of South Africa”, a fundraising and awareness program that is presently traveling throughout the United States.Having also been associated with the College of Architecture and Design at Lawrence Technological University, Southfield, Michigan, 1974 - 1998, he served as Assistant Dean of the College of Architecture from 1991 - 1998 and as Chairperson of the Department of Art and Design. He is the founder of the first Bachelor of Fine Arts degree program in Architectural Illustration in North America at Lawrence Technological University, Southfield, Michigan, where he has served as a member of the advisory council. He is the co-founder and Professor of the first Master of Arts degree program in Color and Design in Europe at the University of Art and Design - UIAH, Helsinki, Finland where he served as a member of the program advisory council.Linton is the author of fourteen books on architecture, design, drawing, and color. Several of his published works have become adopted texts at universities and programs in higher education throughout the country and in Europe. His most recent book, Portfolio Design Third Edition, first published in 1996 by W.W. Norton and Company, New York, was released in September 2000 in its second edition, and again in January 2004 in it’s third edition. The current edition gives special focus to digital directions in portfolio design while advancing the understanding of layout design strategies and execution of portfolio design for architecture and allied disciplines. Harold Linton has served as visiting lecturer in design at over 100 schools of art and architecture.His art work can be found in numerous public, private and museum collections. He is the recent recipient of the national competition first prize award and commission for a large relief construction work of art entitled “Fortunes of Nature” for the Richard M. DeVos Center and Graduate School of Business Administration, Grand Rapids, Michigan. He has completed ten public art commissions during the previous eight years. Linton received a Masters of Fine Arts degree in Painting - Yale University, with studies in Architecture and Planning with Howard Brown and in painting with Al Held and Lester Johnson at Yale; and a Bachelor of Fine Arts in Painting - Syracuse University with studies in design with Lee Ducell, sculptural designer for Minoru Yamasaki.

N	Helanius Wilkins Founder/Artistic Director/Choreographer EDGEWORKS Dance Theater See Bio Helanius J. Wilkins, a native of Lafayette LA, is an award-winning choreographer, performance artist, and instructor based in Washington DC. He is the founding artistic director of EDGEWORKS Dance Theater, DC’s premiere all-male, contemporary dance company of predominately Black men. He is the 2008 Pola Nirenska Award recipient for Contemporary Achievement in Dance for artistic excellence and service to dance. He is the first and only choreographer to be awarded the John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts Local Dance Commissioning Project two times (in 2002 & 2006). In addition to performing the works of nationally recognized choreographers, he has enjoyed creating, presenting, and receiving commissions for choreography throughout the United States and abroad. Foundations and organizations including the New England Foundation for the Arts, DC Commission on the Arts and Humanities, and the NEA have supported Wilkins’ work. Wilkins is also a much sought-after instructor.

R	Hilary Robinson Dean of the College of Fine Arts; Professor of Art Carnegie Mellon University See Bio Hilary Robinson, formerly head of the School of Art and Design at the University of Ulster, was appointed Dean of the College of Fine Arts at Carnegie Mellon University, in 2005. Robinson has been a member of the University of Ulster faculty since 1992, when she took a post teaching the History and Theory of Art to studio fine art students. Appointed to direct the school’s research in 1998, she then became head of the school in 2002. Robinson led it to achieve the joint highest rating out of the 75 art and design institutions in the United Kingdom.Trained as a painter in the 1970s, Robinson spent many years working as an artist and as afreelance arts administrator, critic and lecturer. Her past employment includes gallery work at the Whitechapel Art Gallery in London and at the Third Eye Centre in Glasgow, Scotland; research and development work for an Art in Public Places agency; and co-authoring “The Rough Guide to Venice.”In the 1980s she received her M.A. at the Royal College of Art, London, gaining the Allan Lane award for the Outstanding Contribution to Cultural Theory; and in the 1990s she earned her Ph.D. at the University of Leeds on the implications for art practices of the work of French philosopher Luce Irigaray.Robinson’s own research is in the field of contemporary art theory. Her first anthology was “Visibly Female” in 1987 (Camden Press); she published “Feminism-Art-Theory 1968-2000” (Blackwells) in 2001 and this year will see publication of the monograph, “Reading Art, Reading Irigaray: the Politics of Art by Women” (IB Tauris). She has published 16 refereed essays in edited collections and journals and delivered refereed conference papers and convened panels at more than 18 conferences, including the College Art Association (CAA), the American Society for Aesthetics and the Association of Art Historians. She has published widely in catalogues and in professional magazines.In the United Kindom, Robinson is a member of the Executive Committee for the Council for Higher Education in Art and Design, and of its research subcommittee; is on the Management Advisory Board for the Art Design Media-Higher Education Academy; is a member of the Visual Arts and Media panel for the Arts and Humanities Research Council; and is a member of the Advisory Group for the Cultural Industries Unit of the British Council. In the United States she has just finished her term of office on the Committee on Women in the Arts, College Art Association (CAA). Other committee work includes being a trustee of the Head Trust (a charity supporting art and design education) and chair of the Board of the Ormeau Baths Gallery (the leading contemporary art gallery in Northern Ireland).Through her research, her work with CAA and development-related activity for the University of Ulster, Robinson has built a strong network of colleagues in the states. Robinson is married to artist Alastair MacLennan and currently lives with him in Belfast. The College of Fine Arts is a community of nationally and internationally recognized artists and professionals organized into five schools, Architecture, Art, Design, Drama and Music, and their associated centers and programs.

O	Holly Sidford President Helicon Consulting See Bio Holly is a strategic planner, program developer and fundraiser with more than 25 years’ experience leading and developing nonprofit cultural and philanthropic organizations. Prior to founding Helicon, she was a Principal at AEA Consulting, an international arts consulting firm, where she guided strategic organizational, program and policy planning with a wide range of clients including the Doris Duke Charitable Trust, James Irvine Foundation, Missouri Botanical Garden and Jacob’s Pillow Dance Festival. Prior to her work at AEA, Holly was the founding president of Leveraging Investments in Creativity (LINC), a ten-year initiative to expand support for creative artists; Program Director for arts, urban parks and adult literacy at the Lila Wallace-Reader’s Digest Fund; and interim director of arts and culture at the Ford Foundation and The Howard Gilman Foundation, among other leadership positions. She holds a BA from Mount Holyoke College and a Management Certificate from Columbia University. She lives in Brooklyn, NY with her husband and teenage daughter.

R	Howard Potter Associate Dean for Community and Continuing Education; Director of the Eastman Community Music School; Collegiate and ECMS Instructor in Jazz Mallets; Director and Founder, Eastman Youth Jazz Orchestra Eastman School of Music See Bio Dr. Howard Potter has served as associate dean for community and continuing education since 2002. As a veteran teacher and administrator, he has taught and led at the elementary, middle, high school, collegiate and community levels. Before coming to Eastman, Potter served as chair of performing arts at the Manlius Pebble Hill School in Syracuse, NY. He holds degrees from: SUNY Fredonia, the Eastman School of Music, the Juilliard School, and the Manhattan School of Music. His teachers have included: David Samuels, Alan Dawson, Fred Hinger, Buster Bailey, John Beck, Ted Frazier, and Alfredo Roel.Besides leading the Eastman Community Music School and serving on the ESM senior staff, Potter conducts several jazz ensembles, teaches jazz theory, and is an instructor of jazz mallets at Eastman. Potter has conducted numerous All County jazz ensembles including Monroe County, as well as numerous orchestras, wind ensembles and chamber ensembles at the high school, college and professional levels. While a professional musician in the West Point Band, Potter founded the West Point Youth Orchestra.With over 25 years' professional performing experience, Howard Potter has played with numerous orchestras, pit orchestras and wind ensembles including the Rochester Philharmonic (extra), the Erie Philharmonic, the National Orchestral Association at Carnegie Hall, several Off Broadway theater companies and over eight years with the United States Military Academy Band at West Point. Before attending college, he spent 5 years playing full time on the road with a number of contemporary rock/jazz ensembles. He currently is a member of the RPO Marimba Band and plays jazz vibes in various Rochester ensembles.Dr. Potter is director of three nationally recognized programs: Eastman Pathways – a scholarship program for students from the inner city school district of Rochester, the ECMS summer program, and the Rochester New Horizons program. He has served on the executive board of the Onondaga County Music Educators Association (1998-2002), the Rochester Philharmonic Youth Orchestra board of advisors (2003-08) and on the board of advisors for the Society for New Music in Syracuse, NY (1997 – 01). He is currently a member of the National Guild of Community Schools of the Arts and Chair of the Eastern Great Lakes Chapter of the National Guild.Howard Potter is married and the father of three children. The son of a career US diplomat, Potter grew up in Tunisia, Ghana, Argentina, Brazil, and Washington, DC, and is fluent in Spanish and Portuguese. Next to being a husband and father, his greatest source of pride is being a teacher and sharing his love of music with his students.

R	Ian Moss Research Director Fractured Atlas See Bio As Research Director, Ian David Moss is primarily responsible for the development of the Bay Area Cultural Asset Map (BACAM), a new tool enabling better understanding of the arts ecosystem through the integration of multiple data streams. Ian graduated with an MBA in nonprofit management and strategy from the Yale School of Management. While there, he founded Createquity, a highly acclaimed arts policy blog, and completed an internship with the William and Flora Hewlett Foundation for which he developed the original blueprint for BACAM and co-created the Foundation's first logic model for the performing arts. A composer since the age of 12, he was previously Development Manager for the American Music Center and founded two first-of-their-kind performing ensembles: a hybrid electric chamber group/experimental rock band and a choral collective devoted to the music of the past 25 years.

N	Isaac Roberts Hurwitz Executive Director National Music Theater Network, Inc. See Bio Isaac Robert Hurwitz is the Executive Director of the New York Musical Theatre Festival. Dedicated to securing the future of America's greatest art form, musical theater, the National Music Theater Network has provided assistance to musical theater creators, practitioners, and audiences for more than 25 years.

O	Jack Thomas Producer Bulldog Theatrical See Bio Jack Thomas is the Producer and Interior Design for Bulldog Theatrical, which is a theatrical production of shows on Broadway and Off Broadway in New York, and in the West End of London. He was previously vice president of strategic development at Broadway.com, managing director at Andy Kings Events, director of strategic development at The Shubert Organization, and interim managing director/director of marketing at the Boston Shakespeare Company. He received his M.A. in Arts Administration from American University, and his Bachelors from Yale University.

F	James Bewley Program Officer Andy Warhol Foundation See Bio Performer, writer, and cultural producer James Bewley is currently displaying his superhuman calm as a Program Officer at the Andy Warhol Foundation for the Visual Arts in New York City. Previously he served as Director, Public Programs & Education at the Hammer Museum in Los Angeles. Prior to joining the Hammer, Bewley was the Program Director and visual arts curator for the San Francisco alternative space, New Langton Arts from 1999 – 2004. He has performed with the sketch comedy group Killing My Lobster, the Tony Award-winning Theatre de la Jeune Lune, and acclaimed theater designer, Robert Wilson. He received an honorary BA in Theatre from Brown University and his BFA in sculpture from the Rhode Island School of Design in 1997.

N	Jane Bonbright Executive Director National Dance Education Organization See Bio Jane Bonbright, Ed.D. danced professionally with the Bolshoi Ballet, Metropolitan Opera Ballet, and the American Festival Ballet based in Augsburg, Germany. She trained primarily at American Ballet Theatre, Ballet Russe de Monte Carlo, and the Metropolitan Opera Ballet with Frederick Franklin, Anotole Vilzak, Maria Swobota, Leon Danielian, Valentine Pereyaslavec, Edward Caton, Igor Shwetzoff, Yuri Lazowski, Anthony Tudor, Margaret Craske, and Vencenzi Celli.After a performance career, Jane owned and operated her own ballet academy and taught for Indiana University while obtaining her undergraduate degree (B.A.) from Indiana University. Upon moving to Maryland, Jane taught for ten years at the Maryland School of Ballet and, upon its disbandment, established the Maryland Youth Ballet with Tensia Fonseca in Bethesda, MD – the home of American Ballet Theatre principle dancers Julie Kent, Susan Jaffe, Cheryl Yaeger, Peter Fonseca and others. For years, Jane has also taught after-school programs K-12 and in higher education dance departments. Later, she received her Masters degree (M.A.) from George Washington University and her doctorate (Ed.D.) from Temple University.Jane currently serves as Executive Director of the National Dance Education Organization (NDEO), a non-profit association that promotes quality dance education in America – private schools of dance, performing arts organizations, PreK-12, and in colleges and universities. She serves on many Boards of Directors, writes extensively for dance education, writes and implements grants, and works with over 150 national arts/education organizations and state/federal agencies partnering to promote quality dance arts education throughout the United States.

N	Jane Forde Manager, National Dance Project New England Foundation for the Arts See Bio Jane Forde is Program Manager for the National Dance Project (NDP) at the New England Foundation for the Arts (NEFA), a position she has held since 2005. NDP was launched in 1996 to encourage the creation of new work in dance that would be shared with audiences in communities throughout the United States. As of 2010, the program has distributed more than $17.3 million in grants and has become one of the few sources for dance funding in the country. Through grantmaking and other activity, the program supports dance in ways that enhance partnerships between artists and presenters with the equally important goals of engaging and expanding audiences for dance. Jane brings to NDP twenty years of experience as an artist, choreographer, teacher and administrator in dance and the performing arts. Previously she was Executive Director of Arts Rochester in Gonic, NH, and Artistic Director and Director of Outreach of The Music Hall in Portsmouth, NH, where she developed projects to build dance audiences in New England and worked closely with many dance companies. Jane holds a Bachelors degree in Performance Arts from Middlesex University, England and a Masters in Dance from SUNY College at Brockport, NY.

F	Janet Sarbaugh Senior Program Director Heinz Foundation See Bio Janet Sarbaugh is senior director of the Arts & Culture Program for The Heinz Endowments. Under Janet’s leadership, this program has focused on three major goals: expanding opportunities for arts learning and participation, building regional creative capital and advancing Pittsburgh as a cultural center. Highlights of her work in these three areas include continuing development of the Pittsburgh Cultural District; operating support programs for major institutions; establishing initiatives to advance small arts organizations and multicultural arts groups; and encouraging new efforts in civic design, arts education, artist training and arts in community settings. The program distributes approximately $8 million annually.From 1982 to l992, Janet was a program officer for the then-jointly operated Heinz Endowments and Pittsburgh Foundation. She worked on arts, human services and education projects, as well as served as a liaison for the satellite funds. Prior to entering the foundation field, Janet was an intern with the Council on Foundations and an assistant to the president of Chatham College in Pittsburgh. She holds a Bachelor of Arts from Agnes Scott College in Decatur, Ga.; a master’s in history from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill; and a master’s in public management from Carnegie Mellon University.Janet serves on the board of Chorus America and is a member of the Arts Education Partnership Steering Committee and the Mendelssohn Choir of Pittsburgh. She was a member of Gov. Ed Rendell’s Transition Team on Arts and Culture and has previously served on the boards of Grantmakers in the Arts, the Mid Atlantic Arts Foundation, the Americans for the Arts and Leadership Pittsburgh. She has received awards from City Theatre and Pittsburgh Dance Alloy for leadership in the Pittsburgh arts community. In 2003, she was named Pittsburgh’s number one cultural force by the Pittsburgh Post-Gazette.

R	Jean Brody Director, Online Graduate Program in Arts Administration; Associate Professor Drexel University See Bio Jean Brody is the Director of the Online Graduate Program in Arts Administration at Drexel University. Prior to her current position, she was the Director of the Graduate Program in Arts Administration at Goucher College for six years, where she built a national faculty and led the program through curricular review and strategic planning. She is on the Board of Directors and serves as Treasurer for the Association of Arts Administration Educators.Brody has more than 25 years’ experience in education and the arts, and has worked in a variety of roles with Philadelphia arts organizations including the Philadelphia Theatre Caravan, Hedgerow Theatre, Point Breeze Performing Arts Center, the Theatre Alliance of Greater Philadelphia, Relâche, Inc., and more. She continues to consult with area nonprofit arts organizations.Brody resides with her family in Narberth, PA, and is active in fundraising with her synagogue, Congregation Mishkan Shalom.She holds D.F.A. (1991) and M.F.A. (1983) degrees in Dramaturgy and Dramatic Criticism from the Yale School of Drama, and a B.A. (1979) in Literature from Yale College.

N	Jennifer Calienes Director: Maggie Allesee National Center for Choreography The Florida State University See Bio As the Director of the Maggie Allesee National Center for Choreography (MANCC), Jennifer’s position provides the leadership and vision for the first choreographic center in the United States. From 1999-2004, Jennifer managed the National Dance Project (NDP), a program of the New England Foundation for the Arts which supports the production and distribution of dance in the United States. While at NEFA, Jennifer assisted in raising over $12 million for the program, and facilitated international partnerships with France, Netherlands, Australia and Japan. She has served on grant panels for the Colorado Council on the Arts, New Hampshire State Council on the Arts, the State of Florida and Dance Advance, a program of the Pew Charitable Trusts and the University of the Arts. She holds a B.S. in Arts Administration with a Dance Concentration from Butler University.

O	Jessica Cusick Cultural Affairs Manager City of Santa Monica See Bio Jessica Cusick is the Cultural Affairs Manager for the City of Santa Monica. In 1998, she established Cusick Consulting to build upon her more than twenty years of experience working in the arts for governmental agencies, the private sector, and non-profit organizations. The firm specializes in cultural policy, civic art and community development through the arts.Ms. Cusick’s initiatives have received awards from by the American Planning Association and the American Institute of Architects. She has also been recognized by the Women’s Caucus for Art for her work in the field of public art and on behalf of women artists and artists of color.Ms. Cusick has a degree in art history from the Sorbonne in Paris, and a Masters from New York University. She is author of numerous articles on the topic of civic art and has contributed to a variety of publications. Most recently she wrote the section on planning in Public Art: By the Book, published in 2005 by the University of Washington Press.Her teaching experience includes 12 years as an adjunct professor for the Public Art Studies graduate program at the University of Southern California as well as guest lecturer semesters with the University of Houston and Otis College of Art and Design.

N	Jim Rosenberg Vice President National Art Strategies See Bio Jim Rosenberg, Vice President, leads our business development and partnership efforts, directs two of our seminar programs, consults for NAS on marketing and business development issues, and helps research the cultural sector and develop new programs. Mr. Rosenberg has extensive experience in both commercial and nonprofit organizations, including startup ventures, mission-driven nonprofits, and Fortune 500 corporations. Before joining National Arts Strategies, Mr. Rosenberg founded Workbench Consulting, a business development consultancy focused on mission-driven organizations; led the marketing and product strategy functions for two early stage technology startups; worked in the consulting division of PriceWaterhouseCoopers; and worked on business process design for DFS Group, one of the world's largest international retailers. He has been a speaker and teacher at events for Theatre Communications Group, the League of American Orchestras, Arts Reach, and others, and published a guide on financial management practices in the arts for NAS. Mr. Rosenberg holds an M.B.A. from Stanford University Graduate School of Business, and a B.A. in Psychology from the University of Pennsylvania.

R	Joan Jeffri Director, Research Center for Arts and Culture; Program Coordinator and Director of Arts Administration Columbia University, Teachers College See Bio Joan Jeffri is the Director of the Program in Arts Administration at Teachers College, and Director of the Research Center for Arts and Culture. She is the past president of the Association of Art Administration Educators. From 1981-1990, she served as an executive director of The Journal of Arts Management and Law. She is author of Arts Money: Raising It, Saving It, Earning It (1989); The Emerging Arts: Management, Survival and Growth (1990), and editor of Artisthelp: The Artist's Guide to Work-Related Human and Social Services (1990); and The Actor Speaks, The Painter Speaks, and The Craftsperson Speaks (Greenwood Press, 1994, 1993, 1992), as well as numerous studies on artists, including "Information on Artists I and II" and "The Artists Training and Career Project." Her first careers were as a poet, with Louis Untermeyer as her mentor, and an actress, appearing in the national tour of The Homecoming, in the Boston Company of The Effect of Gamma Rays on Man-in-the-Moon Marigolds and with the Lincoln Center Repertory Company in New York City.

N	Joanne Cossa President & CEO American Music Center See Bio Joanne Cossa is the President and CEO of American Music Center, an information and support center for contemporary classical music and jazz. The American Music Center is dedicated to building a national community of artists, organizations, and audiences creating, performing, and enjoying new American music. Since its founding in 1939 by composers Marion Bauer, Aaron Copland, Howard Hanson, Harrison Kerr, Otto Luening, and Quincy Porter, AMC has been a leader in providing field-wide advocacy, support, and connection.

N	Joanne Heyler Director Broad Art Foundation See Bio Joanne Heyler has been the director and chief curator at the Broad Art Foundation since 1995. In that capacity, she manages two collections of contemporary art and oversees the lending library for museums and university galleries. Under her direction, the Foundation collection has grown by 60 percent and the Foundation’s lending program has doubled in size to reach more than 450 museums around the world. Heyler has been instrumental in guiding the direction of Eli Broad’s philanthropic projects in visual arts including the Broad Contemporary Art Museum at LACMA and the Zaha Hadid-designed Eli and Edythe Broad Art Museum at Michigan State University expected to open in 2010.Heyler received her bachelor’s degree from Scripps College in Claremont, Calif. in 1986, and earned her master’s degree in the history of art from the Courtauld Institute of Art, University of London in 1988.

O	Joanne Bernstein Consultant Self Employed See Bio Joanne Scheff Bernstein is an educator, consultant, speaker and author in the field of arts and culture management and marketing. She is an adjunct associate professor of Arts Management at Northwestern University, taught at the Kellogg Graduate School of Management for eight years, and was a guest lecturer in the graduate arts management program at Bocconi University in Milan. As a marketing and strategic planning consultant, Joanne works with diverse non-profit arts organizations including theaters, dance companies, operas, symphonies, chamber music groups, presenting organizations, and museums. She is currently interim executive director of Lake Forest Symphony. Her most recent book, Arts Marketing Insights: The Dynamics of Building and Retaining Performing Arts Audiences, was published in November, 2006. She also co-authored a comprehensive text with Professor Philip Kotler entitled Standing Room Only: Strategies for Marketing the Performing Arts, published in January, 1997. Joanne Scheff Bernstein is a graduate with distinction from the Kellogg Graduate School of Management at Northwestern University.

F	Joe Smoke Cultural Grant Program Director Department of Cultural Affairs, Los Angeles See Bio Joe Smoke is the Cultural Grant Program Director, which awards grants for services related to the production, creation, presentation, exhibition and managerial support of artistic cultural services within the City of Los Angeles. The Grant Programs support projects in design, dance, media, music, literary arts, photography, services to artists, theatre, traditional/folk art, visual arts, and projects that are interdisciplinary or multidisciplinary among these categories.

F	John McGuirk Program Director, Performing Arts Program Hewlett Foundation See Bio John E. McGuirk is director of The William and Flora Hewlett Foundation's Performing Arts Program. He also assists the foundation president with local grantmaking projects and serves as Hewlett’s liaison to the Community Leadership Project. Prior to Hewlett, John was director of the Arts Program of the James Irvine Foundation, a program officer at the Hewlett Foundation and director of grant programs for Arts Council Silicon Valley. Before that, he worked at the Community School of Music and Arts in Mountain View, California, and held positions at both the Pittsburgh Symphony Orchestra and the Pittsburgh Opera. John earned his master's degree in public management at Carnegie Mellon University, with a concentration in arts management.

O	Jon Kimbell Consultant Self Employed See Bio Mr. Kimbell is currently Executive Producer for the Off Broadway production of LANGSTON IN HARLEM, a new musical exploring the life of legendary poet and writer Langston Hughes. He is a Producer and advisory board member of SenovvA, Inc. headquartered in Los Angeles. In addition, he is consulting with Seacoast Repertory Theatre in Portsmouth, NH, helping the Company reorganize under new artistic leadership. He is also Artistic Director Emeritus of North Shore Music Theatre (NSMT) in Beverly, MA. During his 25 years as Executive Producer and Artistic Director of North Shore Music Theatre, NSMT grew to become Massachusetts’ second largest performing arts organization – second only to the Boston Symphony Orchestra and Tanglewood combined. He retired from NSMT in 2007. Mr. Kimbell is a graduate of the London Academy of Music and Dramatic Art, the University of South Dakota [BFA] and Sacramento State College [MFA]. He has directed or produced most major musicals, much of the Shakespeare canon and – as a passionate believer in the development of new theater works – the premieres of over 60 plays and musicals. Prior to his career in professional theater, Mr. Kimbell was an illustrator for CBS, a line producer for a weekly arts program on PBS and an auditor for Boeing Airplane Company.

N	Jonas Cartano Director of Programs Chorus America See Bio Jonas Cartano is the Director of Programs at Chorus America. Previously he was Box Office Manager at Ars Nova, Editorial Consultant, Archives for New York Philharmonic, and Volunteer Section Leader, Venue Search Coordinator, Board Member, Board Nominating Committee Member for the The Dessoff Choirs. He also served as Database Editorial Consultant at OPERA America, Education Associate at Jazz at Lincoln Center, Volunteer Membership Chair, Competition Coordinator at Young New Yorkers' Chorus, and Administrative Assistant, Lindemann Young Artist Development Program at the Metropolitan Opera. He received his Ed.M. in Arts in Education from Harvard University Graduate School of Education, and his B.A. in Music from Carleton College.

F	Julie Fry Program Officer, Performing Arts Hewlett Foundation See Bio Julie joins the Hewlett Foundation with over 20 years of arts and business experience. Most recently, she was Associate Vice President, Fund Services at The San Diego Foundation, and the first director of The San Diego Foundation's Arts & Culture Program, where she developed strategies to engage more donors and community members to support the arts in San Diego through research, community outreach events, and funding partnerships. With a Working Group of committed community leaders, Julie oversaw a planning process and outreach strategy to meet the most critical needs of San Diego's arts nonprofits and develop effective grantmaking priorities. This included major research into regional cultural participation as well as arts education provision in San Diego County's 42 school districts.Previously, Julie was Director of Arts & Business Programs at the San Diego Performing Arts League. There she expanded its Business Volunteers for the Arts and Technology for the Arts programs and established the Lawyers for the Arts, National Arts Marketing Project and OnBoard: Arts Board Development programs. Prior to moving to San Diego, she worked for the Business Arts Council in San Francisco and Business in the Arts: North West in Liverpool England, building arts and business partnerships and providing management consulting services to arts and culture nonprofits.She received her BBA in Economics and French from the University of Wisconsin, Eau Claire and her MBA from the University of St. Thomas in Houston, Texas. Julie has served on arts boards in the US and UK, and most recently was on the board of San Diego Grantmakers.

F	Justin Laing Program Officer of Arts & Culture The Heinz Endowments See Bio After spending more than a decade beginning and managing a small arts organization, Justin Laing joined The Heinz Endowments in 2006 as an Arts & Culture program officer. Justin’s core responsibilities involve managing the Endowments’ relationships with small and mid-sized arts organizations, with an additional focus on arts education. Justin also serves on cross-programmatic teams within the foundation, including the African-American Males Task Force, Evaluation Working Group and Pathways to Educational Excellence. Before coming to the Endowments, Justin worked as the manager/assistant artistic director of Nego Gato Inc., an African-Brazilian arts organization based in Pittsburgh’s Hill District. In this capacity, Justin played a leading role as an administrator, teaching artist and performer. He also helped Nego Gato grow from seedling inception to an organization that annually reached 20,000 people. Justin serves on the boards of The Hill House Association and The Kelly Strayhorn Theater. He received his Bachelor of Arts in black studies and political science at the University of Pittsburgh and is currently enrolled in Carnegie Mellon University’s Masters of Arts Management Program.

N	Karen Hopkins President Brooklyn Academy of Music See Bio Karen Brooks Hopkins is the president of BAM, where she has worked since 1979. As President, Hopkins oversees the Academy's 300 full- and part-time employees and facilities, including the 2100-seat Howard Gilman Opera House and 874-seat BAM Harvey Theater, the four-theater BAM Rose Cinemas and the BAMcafé. In May 2004, Hopkins concluded a two-year term as the Chair of The Cultural Institutions Group (CIG), which consists of 33 prominent New York City cultural institutions. In this capacity, she also served as a member of the Mayor's Cultural Affairs Advisory Commission and is currently a member of the Board of NYC & Company, New York's Convention and Visitor's Bureau. Hopkins is an active member of the Performing Arts Center Consortium, a national association of performing arts centers, and served as its chair from 1994 to 1996. She was also a participant on the Advisory Committee of the Salzburg Seminar Project of Critical Issues for the Classical Performing Arts from 2000—2002 and a fellow of The Cap Gemini Ernst & Young Center for Business Innovation from 2001—2002. In 2005, Hopkins received the Encore Award in Arts Management Excellence from the Arts & Business Council of New York, and chaired the Hospitality and Tourism cluster of the Initiative for a Competitive Brooklyn. In 2006, she was elected by the New York State Legislature to the Board of Regents for a term expiring in 2010.In the spring of 1995, Hopkins served as the executive producer of the Bergman Festival, which celebrated the life and work of Swedish director Ingmar Bergman. The success of the Bergman Festival earned her a medal from the Royal Dramatic Theater of Sweden—the first time the honor was awarded to anyone outside of Sweden. Additionally, in recognition of her work on behalf of the Norwegian National Ballet, Norway awarded her its King Olav Medal. In November 2006, Hopkins was awarded the honor of Chevalier de L'Ordre des arts et des Lettres by the Republic of France, for her work supporting the French arts in the United States. In 2007, she was named one of the "100 Most Influential Women in New York City Business" by Crain's. That same year, she was appointed Commander of the Royal Order of the Polar Star, in recognition of her role in solidifying ties between the performing arts communities of Sweden and the United States. Hopkins was an adjunct professor for the Brooklyn College Program for Arts Administration for four years. Her widely read book, Successful Fundraising for Arts & Cultural Organizations, currently is available in a revised second edition through Greenwood Publishing. A graduate of the University of Maryland, she received her MFA from George Washington University in Washington, DC. Hopkins resides in Park Slope, Brooklyn.

O	Kate Amend Adjunct Professor University of Southern California See Bio Kate Amend is the editor of the Academy Award-winning documentary features The Long Way Home (1998) and Into The Arms of Strangers: Stories of the Kindertransport (2001) for which she received the American Cinema Editors' Eddie award. She teaches fiction and documentary production courses for USC. Amend edited the 2001 Oscar-nominated documentary short On Tiptoe: Gentle Steps to Freedom and the Peabody Award winner Beah: A Black Woman Speaks. She is a frequent advisor at the Sundance Institute’s Documentary Storytelling Lab and the National Association of Latino Independent Producers' Academy. Amend is on the Board of Directors of the American Cinema Editors and is a member of the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences. In 2005, she received the inaugural award for Outstanding Documentary Editing Award from the International Documentary Association.

N	Katherine DeShaw Executive Director United States Artists See Bio Katharine DeShaw is the Executive Director for United States Artists and in that capacity serves on its Board of Directors. On September 1, 2005, she was named the founding executive director of United States Artists. Ms. DeShaw has enjoyed a long career in the nonprofit sector working as a consultant, philanthropic advisor, senior development officer, and teacher. Consulting from 2002-05, she provided strategic management to national nonprofits and philanthropists. Ms. DeShaw created and launched the Nimoy Foundation and designed their national program Visual Artist Residences. She spent 12 years in art museum management, leading development efforts at the Los Angeles County Museum of Art and the Walker Art Center in Minneapolis, MN. Ms. DeShaw also served as the senior development officer for Gay Men's Health Crisis raising the first major corporate, foundation, and individual contributions in the fight against AIDS worldwide. Early in her career, she led record-breaking fundraising campaigns for the Multiple Sclerosis Society and Twyla Tharp Dance based in New York City. Born and raised in Duluth, MN, Ms. DeShaw now lives in Los Angeles with her husband Mark and son Sam.

N	Kathy Evans Executive Director National Alliance for Musical Theatre See Bio Kathy Evans (Executive Director) joined the National Alliance for Musical Theatre (NAMT) in 2002 and oversees all NAMT programs including membership, new works, conferences and the annual Festival of New Musicals. During her tenure, NAMT’s membership has grown to 150 organizations, representing some of the leading producers of musical theatre around the world; and contributions and sponsorship have grown by 75%. SInce 2002, the Festival of New Musicals has launched dozens of musicals that have gone on to full productions including Broadway's The Drowsy Chaperone and The Story of My Life; off-Broadway's I Love You Because, Ordinary Days, Striking 12, and Vanities, A New Musical; and regional productions of Ace, Emma, Harold and Maude, Kingdom, and Tinyard Hill. In 2008, NAMT raised $100,000 to launch the National Fund for New Musicals, which provides grants to member theatres to work with writers in the creation, development, and production of new musicals, and 8 grants were awarded in the first year. Kathy brings 15 years of management experience to NAMT. She was Executive Director at Scholastic Entertainment, responsible for worldwide video distribution and web sites, and won a Webby Award for best kids’ web site. She also worked at Sony Pictures as Director of Programming and Promotion for International Video, when revenues quadrupled in five years to $350 million. Kathy currently serves on NAMT’s Board of Directors as well as the board of the Performing Arts Alliance, a national advocacy organization. Kathy received an MBA at Columbia University and a BA at Harvard College.

N	Keryl McCord Resource Development Director Alternate ROOTS See Bio A veteran arts management professional, stage manager, and director, her career now spans decades, and thousands of miles as she has lived and worked on both coasts, spending ten years in the Bay Area, working as Managing Director of Oakland Ensemble Theater, and serving as a board member for Theater Bay Area, the theater service organization for non-profit theater companies. A brief stint as Executive Director of the League of Chicago Theaters, led her to Washington, DC as Director of Theater Programs for the National Endowment for the Arts. Finally the call came to serve as Managing Director of Crossroads Theater Company in New Brunswick, New Jersey. It was in NJ that she spent six years working with the African Grove Institute for the Arts, (AGIA) founded by the late August Wilson, Dr. Victor Walker, and Professor William Cook. A think tank and service organization, AGIA was born out of the historic National Black Theater Summit on Golden Pond, convened by Mr. Wilson. Keryl was Director of Institutional Development for the New Jersey Symphony Orchestra when her life again took an unexpected turn as her husband came to GA to head up a health care firm.

R	Kevin Mulcahy Professor, Political Science Louisiana State University See Bio Dr. Mulcahy’s research focuses on public policy with specific emphases on governments and the arts and comparative cultural policymaking. His areas of expertise also include American foreign policymaking and cultural diplomacy. Professor Mulcahy was named Fulbright Distinguished Fellow as the Laszlo Orszagh Chair in American Studies in Budapest for 2002-2003. Dr. Mulcahy is also the Executive Editor of the Journal of Arts Management, Law and Society. He has received multiple awards, including 2002-2003, Fulbright Distinguished Chair, Laszlo Orszagh Chair in American Studies, Budapest; 2002, Keynote Speaker, Roundtable on Cultural Diplomacy, Vienna; 2001, Summer Faculty, Chaire de Gestion des Arts, Ecole des Hautes Etudes Commerciales; 2001, Scholar-in-Residence, Center for Arts Administration, Florida State University; and 2000, Panelist, Roundtable “In Search of the Modern Patron,” sponsored by the Public Affair Section, US Embassy, Vienna.

N	Laura Faure Director, Bates Dance Festival Bates College See Bio Laura Faure is the director of the Bates Dance Festival held at Bates College in Lewiston, Maine. Since taking this position in 1988 she has developed the Festival into an internationally acclaimed contemporary dance program known for its artistic excellence, curatorial vision, and commitment to building community through dance. A former dancer, choreographer and teacher with thirty + years of experience in the field of dance, Ms. Faure also works as a freelance arts manager and consultant specializing in the performing arts. She has been a project coordinator and consultant for the National Endowment for the Arts Advancement Program, the New England Foundation for the Arts and the Maine Performing Arts Network, as well as for individual artists and arts groups. She has served as an evaluator for the many state and regional arts agencies, the NEA, Creative Capital, Rockefeller Foundation, US Artists, and the Alpert Foundation. She served two terms on the Maine Arts Commission, where she chaired the Dance Panel. Ms. Faure is a founding member of The African Contemporary Arts Consortium and has been developing a cross-cultural exchange program with artists from Japan, Indonesia, Africa, Cuba, Portugal and Mexico since 1994.

N	Laura Greer Vice President of Programming Apollo Theater Foundation See Bio Laura Greer is the Vice President of Programming at the Apollo Theater Foundation. The Apollo Theater Foundation, Inc., a not-for-profit organization established in 1991, is dedicated to the preservation and development of the legendary Apollo Theater through the Apollo Experience of world-class live performances and education programs that: honor the influence and advance the contributions of African-American artists; and advance emerging creative voices across cultural and artistic media.

N	Laura Smith Chief Advancement Officer National Association of State Arts Agencies See Bio Laura Smith is the Chief Advancement Officer at National Assembly of State Arts Agencies. She was previously Director of Resource Development at National Assembly of State Arts Agencies, Director of Foundations at National Mentoring Partnership, and Development Manager at American Architectural Foundation. She received her MALS for Humanities in Georgetown University, and her BA in English from University of Minnesota-Twin Cities.

O	Laura Colby Director Elsie Management See Bio Colby began her arts administrative career in 1985 as Administrative Director of Mark Haim & Dancers. In the 80’s she also worked for choreographer Patricia Hoffbauer and Nancy Duncan’s CoDanceCo. She served as Company Manager for Neo Labos Dancetheater (Michele Elliman, Artistic Director) from 1993-2000 and was the Founding Company Manager (1997-2003) of Seán Curran Company. Colby formed Elsie Management in 1995 specifically to provide representation to several friends at the annual APAP (Association of Performing Arts Presenters) conference.Since forming Elsie Management, Colby has represented over twenty-five performing arts touring companies from four continents, coordinating tours to over two hundred global venues. She has served as Project Manager, forming presenter and funding consortiums to support the development, creation, and touring of new works for nicholasleichterdance’s Sweetwash (2006), Shawn McConneloug and her orchestra’s SHE Captains (2006), Lingo dancetheater’s Relatively Real (2005), Shapiro & Smith Dance’s ANYTOWN: Stories of America (2005), and Movin’ Spirits Dance Theater’s Brown Butterfly (2003). She has served as Tour Coordinator for nine National Dance Project supported projects including DanceBrazil, Seán Curran Company, and Korzo producties/André Gingras. Colby has raised commissioning funds from over fifteen performing arts venues and twenty private and public foundations and organizations in support of new works for her clients. She has secured, organized, and produced over twenty showcases in New York City, throughout the United States, and globally for her clients. Colby has secured and produced over twenty New York City seasons at such theaters as The Joyce Theater, Dance Theater Workshop, Aaron Davis Hall, Central Park Summerstage, and PS122 for her client roster.Committed to the development of policy for the not-for-profit performing arts field, Colby served on Arts Presenters’ Ethics Task Force (2005), Dance/USA’s Definitions Committee (2004-2005), and directed the updating of NAPAMA’s Ethical Guidelines (2005). Presently, she is convening a Task Force to review AGMA’s newly drafted Ethics Code with NAPAMA’s Legal Affairs Advisor, Brian Goldstein. She is currently serving on the Trustees, Contract Clause, and 25th Anniversary Committees for Dance/USA and the Task Force on Ethics for the Western Arts Alliance. She was the initiating facilitator between Dr. Edward Fishkin, Medical Director at Woodhull Hospital and Medical Center and the performing arts community in the creation of ArtistAccess, the groundbreaking healthcare program for artists and arts workers begun in May, 2005 that has now been launched at other New York City hospitals.Colby graduated with a BFA in Dance from The Juilliard School in 1984, under the direction of Martha Hill. She was a member of Mark Haim & Dancers, the Limón Dance Company, CoDanceCo, and Seán Curran Company. Colby has also performed with Sara Rudner, Ann Carlson, Patricia Hoffbauer, and Mark Taylor, and has assisted choreographers Ann Carlson and Mark Haim in restagings. She trained extensively with Elizabeth Streb's Ringside Inc, performing as an extra in their 1994 Joyce Theater season, and assisted the company in their Kid Action program. Prior to moving to New York City, Colby attended the University of California at Irvine as a dance major, then under the direction of Eugene Loring. It was at Irvine that Colby created the student organization, START (Support The Arts), as an early fundraising effort. She graduated from Berkeley High School in 1979, where she was first introduced to modern dance as a member of Dance Production, under the direction of Marcia Sigman. She began her early ballet training with Patricia Schuster in Ridgefield, CT, before moving to the Bay Area where she trained as a scholarship student at the San Francisco Ballet from 1975-1978. For three years, she performed with the company in the annual stagings of Lew Christensen’s The Nutcracker, performing the roles of Clara, numerous children’s roles, and as a member of the corps de ballet. Instrumental teachers in her dance training included Alfredo Corvino, Risa Steinberg, and Hector Zaraspe.Now an avid cyclist, Colby has ridden her road bike over 3,000 miles for AIDS charities and served as bike support for the 2003 Breast Cancer Walk and the 2005 New York City Marathon. A member of the New York Cycle Club, Colby is a volunteer leader for the club’s spring A19 SIG training program. She lives in the Brooklyn neighborhood of Park Slope with her yorkie, Woodstock where she is actively supporting alternative projects for the Atlantic Yards. Her son, Colby Marple, attends Syracuse University.

F	Laura Zucker Executive Director Los Angeles County Arts Commission See Bio Laura Zucker teaches a core course for the Arts Management program, the Theory and Practice of Arts Management, in downtown Los Angeles. Laura Zucker has been Executive Director of the Los Angeles County Arts Commission since 1992. The Arts Commission provides leadership in cultural services of all disciplines for the largest county in the United States, encompassing 88 municipalities. In addition to funding the largest arts internship program for undergraduates in the country in conjunction with the Getty Foundation, the Arts Commission administers a $4.5 million grants program that funds more than 300 nonprofit arts organizations annually; provides leadership and staffing to support the regional blueprint to restore arts education to all 80 school districts in Los Angeles County, Arts for All; programs the John Anson Ford Theatres; and implements the county’s civic art program. The Arts Commission also produces free community programs, including the L.A. Holiday Celebration, which emanates from the Dorothy Chandler Pavilion of the Music Center and is broadcast nationally on PBS, and a year-round music program that funds more than 40 free concerts each year in public sites.During 2005 Ms. Zucker was on special assignment with Eli Broad to develop Arts + Culture LA to market LA as a cultural destination. Previously, she headed the California Cultural Tourism Initiative, which marketed the arts of California’s three urban regions domestically and internationally. She is the author of a regional study of individual artists as part of the California Arts Council’s economic impact study on the arts.Ms. Zucker is an officer of the Ford Theatre Foundation board, a founding member of the board of Arts for LA, on the Advisory Board for the Angell Foundation and a member of the United States Urban Arts Federation.Ms. Zucker was previously the Executive Director of the Ventura Arts Council and was producing director of the Back Alley Theatre for ten years. She received a B.A. in English from Barnard College and attended the Yale School of Drama.

N	Libby Smigel Executive Director Dance Heritage Coalition See Bio Libby Smigel MFA PhD, Executive Director of the Dance Heritage Coalition, has most recently led the DHC’s ground-breaking project on copyright and fair use to ensure that dance libraries, archives, and museums can preserve their collections and create innovative ways to access them. As Area Chair for Dance and a member of the Executive Board for the Popular Culture Association and American Culture Association, she ensures that dance is well represented among the programs and publications of this multidisciplinary scholarly association. For Greenwood Press, she is co-authoring and co-editing a two-volume set on “Icons of American Dance.” In addition, she has taught dance at colleges and universities and choreographed in Toronto and Upstate New York, served on the board of directors of Dakshina dance company, and has worked for the National Endowment of the Humanities.

O	Lisa Mount Director Artistic Logistics See Bio Lisa Mount refuses to specialize. As the Director of Artistic Logistics she works as a consultant with non profit arts organizations . Recent and current clients include New Orleans Jazz and Heritage Festival Foundation, Liz Lerman Dance Exchange, Cornerstone Theater Company, the Neo Futurists, the Network of Ensemble Theaters, the Southern Arts Federation, and the Springer Opera House. As an independent artist she produces, directs, and appears in contemporary performance work, including the acclaimed community story play, Headwaters :: Stories From A Goodly Portion Of Beautiful Northeast Georgia at the Sautee Nacoochee Center. She also tours with the DeLuxe Vaudeville Orchestra as rhythm banjo player. Before embarking on her consulting career in 1997, Lisa served as the Managing Director of 7 Stages theater in Atlanta. She has served as the Board Chair for Alternate ROOTS, the Atlanta Theatre Coalition, and Georgia Shares, a workplace giving campaign. Lisa received the 1996 "Abby" Award from the Atlanta Arts and Business Council for Outstanding Arts Professional, and was named one of the 100 Most Influential Georgians by Georgia Trend Magazine in 2008.

R	Liz Cohen Artist-in-Residence/Head of Photography Cranbrook Academy of Art See Bio Liz Cohen was appointed Artist-in-Residence and Head of the Photography Department in July of 2008. She received her MFA degree in Photography from the California College of the Arts. She holds a BFA in Studio Art from the School of the Museum of Fine Arts and a BA in Philosophy from Tufts University, both in Boston, Massachusetts. Cohen is a photographer and performance artist, whose multi-media work is exhibited both nationally and internationally. She is best known for her recent subversive project, "Bodywork," in which she transformed an East German 1987 Trabant automobile into a 1973 Chevrolet El Camino. She has won numerous awards and grants including: a Studio Residency from The MacDowell Colony in 2001; a Studio Fellowship in 2002 from the Akademie Schloss Solitude, Stuttgart, Germany; a Creative Capital Foundation Project Grant in 2005; an Artist’s Project Grant from the Arizona Commission for the Arts in 2007; and a 2008 Traveling Scholars’ Award from the School of the Museum of Fine Arts in Boston.

R	Lois Hetland Associate Professor, Art Education Massachusetts College of Art and Design See Bio Lois Hetland, Ed.D, is associate professor of art education at the Massachusetts College of Art and Design and research associate at Project Zero, Harvard Graduate School of Education. She is currently principal investigator for an ongoing project on arts teaching and learning in Alameda County, California, which uses studio.She was trained in music and visual arts, Lois was an elementary and middle school classroom teacher for 17 years. A co-author of Studio Thinking: The Real Benefits of Visual Arts Education, Lois recently contributed to a collaborative research project—The Qualities of Quality: Excellence in Arts Education and How to Achieve It, funded by the Wallace Foundation—to clarify what constitutes high-quality teaching and learning in arts education across all art forms.

F	MK Wegmann President & CEO National Performance Network See Bio MK Wegmann President & CEO, National Performance Network, has 25 years experience in organizational development, artists' services, presenting and producing for non-profit visual and performing arts organizations. NPN supports the creation and touring of contemporary performing and visual arts, providing an important organizing link among communities, artists and presenters in the US. As an independent consultant, she works with organizations and individual artists in long-range planning, organizational development and systems management. Clients have included Alabama Dance Council, JumpStart Performance Co., Southern Danceworks, Dallas Black Dance Theatre and Young Aspirations/Young Artists (Ya/Ya). From 1978-1991 she was Associate Director for the Contemporary Arts Center in New Orleans, a $1.2 million, multi-disciplinary artists' organization, and from 1993-1999 served as Managing Director of the theatre company Junebug Productions. She has served on and chaired panels for the National Endowment for the Arts, the Rockefeller Foundation, the Louisiana Division for the Arts, The Kentucky Arts Commission and the Cultural Arts Council of Houston. Wegmann serves on Boards of Directors for National Performance Network and Junebug Productions. Current committee work includes the Dance Working Group and the National Performing Arts Convention. She holds a Bachelor of Arts degree from Spring Hill College and a Master of Arts degree from Louisiana State University of New Orleans (LSUNO). As a life long resident of New Orleans, Wegmann is active in its recovery efforts.

N	Marc Scorca President & CEO Opera America See Bio Marc A. Scorca joined OPERA America in 1990 as president and CEO, and is responsible for the strategic leadership and management of the entire organization. Since that time, the OPERA America membership has grown from 120 opera companies to nearly 2,500 organizations and individuals. An additional 16,000 subscribers now receive a variety of free and fee-based services.A strong advocate of collaboration, Scorca has led several cross-disciplinary projects, including the Performing Arts Research Coalition, National Music Coalition, and The First National Performing Arts Convention. Under his leadership, OPERA America has administered two landmark funding initiatives in support of the development of North American operas and opera audiences and launched a $20 million endowment effort in 2000 to create a permanent fund dedicated to supporting new works and audience development activities. The establishment of the Information and Research Service, Artistic Service, and Trustee/Volunteer programs has expanded service to the entire field.

F	Marc Vogl Program Officer of Performing Arts Hewlett Foundation See Bio Marc has worked for over a decade with artists and performing arts groups in the Bay Area. He co-founded the sketch comedy group Killing My Lobster and the Hi/Lo Film Festival and served as executive director of Lobster Theater Project, a multi-disciplinary San Francisco non-profit arts organization. Marc's experiences in the arts have included acting, writing, directing and producing award winning comedy shows and new plays, making short films, programming film festivals, and representing small arts organizations on the San Francisco Arts Task Force.Outside of the arts, Marc has volunteered on local, state and national political campaigns, reported on AIDS and refugee crises from Africa, worked for several hi-tech start-ups in the Bay Area, taught American History to French kids and delivered flowers in his hometown of Washington, D.C.Marc studied at Tougaloo College in Mississippi, and holds B.A. degrees in American History and English Literature from Brown University and a Masters in Public Administration degree from the John F. Kennedy School of Government at Harvard where he was a Lucius N. Littauer Fellow.

N	Margaret Lioi Chief Executive Officer Chamber Music America See Bio Margaret M. Lioi joined Chamber Music America as CEO in June 2000. She began her arts career as a professional pianist and holds a master's degree in piano performance from the New England Conservatory. An M.B.A. in arts administration from Binghamton University followed, and she has since held several administrative posts in the arts, including director of development for the Spoleto Festival U.S.A. and senior director of external affairs at The Public Theater/New York Shakespeare Festival. A member of NEC's Board of Visitors and Alumni Council, Lioi also serves on the international advisory board of the Center for Black Music Research at Columbia College.

N	Margaret Mertz Executive Director Kenan Institute for the Arts/UNCSA See Bio Margaret Stover Mertz, Ph.D. has served as Executive Director of the Thomas S. Kenan Institute for the Arts since July 2003. Dr. Mertz was Dean of the Division of General Studies at the University of North Carolina School of the Arts from 1999 until 2003. She currently serves on the board of directors for the Southern Arts Federation (Atlanta, GA).From 1995-2007, she served in various roles as a consultant for the International Baccalaureate Organization. She holds her bachelor's degree in the liberal arts from St. John's College, Santa Fe; and her master's and doctoral degrees in music from Harvard University. She has held teaching and administrative posts at St. John's College, Santa Fe; Harvard University; the Armand Hammer United World College of the American West; and New Mexico Highlands University. Her professional interests include contemporary issues in teaching and learning; the integration of the fine and performing arts into the standard course of study at the secondary and tertiary levels; the development of academic technology and e-learning environments; and international curriculum and assessment in music, in addition to various studies of western and world music traditions.

N	Margie Reese Vice President for Programs Big Thought See Bio Margie Reese is the Vice President for Programs at Big Thought, which is one of the nation’s leading nonprofits focused on building partnerships that allow all children access to quality learning opportunities. She founded MJR Partners, a consulting firm based in Dallas, Texas. Dedicated to strengthening leadership, operations and programs for cultural institutions, her clients include local, national and international cultural organizations. She completed a three year appointment with the Foundation Office for West Africa as the Program Officer for Media, Arts and Culture where she led the ongoing efforts of the Foundation to support the cultural resources of the diverse West African region. Her most notable work during her post in West Africa focused on heritage preservation, museum education and planning. Prior to this position, Margie served as General Manager for the City of Los Angeles Department of Cultural Affairs, and as Director of the Office of Cultural Affairs for the City of Dallas. During her 30 year career as an arts management professional, she has contributed to public policy development throughout the United States in areas of community development, arts education, and cultural planning. Margie is a long time member of the Board of Directors of Americans for the Arts and continues her work mentoring emerging arts management professionals throughout the world.

F	Marian Godfrey Senior Director, Culture Initiatives The Pew Charitable Trusts See Bio Marian A. Godfrey is senior director of Culture Initiatives at Pew. These programs support the arts and heritage in our home community of Philadelphia, and take a leadership role in special civic projects that benefit the region and the nation at large. Prior to arriving at Pew in 1989, Ms. Godfrey had an extensive background in nonprofit arts management, handling production, administration, fund raising, and strategic planning for such organizations as Mabou Mines, Dance Theater Workshop, and La Jolla Playhouse. She produced film and video projects, including a feature-length film for Mabou Mines which aired on public television nationwide. Additionally, she worked as a consultant both for performing arts organizations and for foundation and corporate programs including AT&T: OnStage. She was a contributing writer to Theatre Times from 1982 to 1989, and contributed numerous articles to Grantmakers in the Arts' Reader and other publications. Since joining Pew, Ms. Godfrey has served on advisory panels for the National Endowment for the Arts, on the Presidential Transition Committee in 1992, and on the boards of Theatre Communications Group, Grantmakers in the Arts and the Maine College of Art. Currently, she chairs the Arts Policy Roundtable of Americans for the Arts and is a member of the board of directors of the Mid Atlantic Arts Foundation. Ms. Godfrey is a graduate of Radcliffe College and Yale University School of Drama. In 2003, she received the John Cotton Dana Award for Leadership for contributions to museum education from the American Association of Museums.

R	Maribel Alvarez Associate Research Professor University of Arizona See Bio Maribel Alvarez, Ph.D. was the co-founder and former executive director of MACLA, an alternative contemporary Latino arts space in San Jose, CA. Under her leadership, MACLA achieved national recognition by The Andy Warhol Foundation as one of the most effective alternative art spaces in the nation. She is also an anthropologist, writer, and curator and is adjunct assistant professor in the English Department at the University of Arizona. She was born in Cuba, grew up in Puerto Rico, has done fieldwork in Northern Mexico, and has been involved in the Chicano arts movement for more than 20 years.

N	Mark Valdez National Coordinator Network of Ensemble Theaters See Bio Mark Valdez is the National Coordinator for the Network of Ensemble Theaters. Prior to joining NET, he worked as a director and educator based in Los Angeles. For five years, he served as the Associate Artistic Director for Cornerstone Theater Company, an ensemble based company located in Los Angeles. For Cornerstone, Mark produced many of the company's productions and festivals, as well as directed the first ever approved adaptation of the Kaufman and Hart classic, You Can't Take It With You, adapted to LA's Muslim community. Mark has directed at such theaters as Mixed Blood in Minneapolis, Teatro Vision in San Jose and in Los Angeles for The Rogue Artist's, East West Players' David Henry Hwang Institute and the Ricardo Montalban Theater. He has led workshops and participated in panels for TCG, Lincoln Center, Southwest Arts Conference, Leadership for a Changing World, REDCAT, NYU, The New School, ATHE, NEA and the Ford Foundation. He is the recipient of Princess Grace Foundation Awards for Directing and a Special Project Grant. Mark received an MFA in Directing from UC Irvine. At UCR, he directed Roosters, Our Town, The Shape of Things, One Size Fits All, and The Winter's Tale. He received his MFA for Theater at University of California, Irvine, and his Bachelors from The University of Dallas.

O	Mary Trudel Principal Trudel MacPherson See Bio Mary R. Trudel is a creative, award winning marketing professional who brings more than 20 years of experience in strategic counsel, branding, reputation management, media relations and program management to her consulting practice to help clients achieve measurable, sustainable social change. Before launching her practice in 2010, Mary was a Senior Officer at The Wallace Foundation heading communications for the Foundation's legendary arts unit. Mary is adept at coalition building and designing stakeholder engagement strategies for profit and nonprofit organizations. Her experience as a consumer products branding expert gives her insight into decision-making patterns, marketing fundamentals and creation of motivating messages and strategies. She now applies this expertise to helping create social change through social marketing and public will building. While at Wallace, Mary managed innovative citywide audience development programs and launched national arts learning collaborative initiatives in major cities by forging ongoing partnerships in each city with the department of education, the mayor's office, the arts and culture sector, and the public. She also handled communication of groundbreaking arts research products and developed events and outreach to share effective practices and ideas. She played a key role in the launch of the landmark RAND report "Gifts of the Muse: Reframing the Debate About the Benefits of the Arts" and other high profile research studies. Before joining Wallace, Mary served as group director, consumer marketing and technology, at Hill & Knowlton; executive vice president, consumer/consumer healthcare, at Ruder Finn Public Relations Worldwide; and president of The Rowland Company Worldwide. She developed the Go Red For Women national awareness campaign for the American Heart Association, and managed multi-office programs for Fortune 100 companies, including DuPont, Procter & Gamble, Johnson & Johnson and Volkswagen. Nationally recognized as an audience engagement specialist, Mary is active in the arts community through thought leader blogging on artsjournal.com and Americans for the Arts ARTSblog. In 2007, she co-founded ArtsCom, an organization dedicated to the exchange of ideas and the advancement of the arts. In partnership with the Alliance for the Arts, AFTA's National Arts Marketing Project and the Arts & Business Council of New York, Mary is producing a cultural sponsorship seminar as part of the Arts Forum at The New York Times. The seminar will highlight the brand enhancing effects of strategic arts sponsorships and feature the initiatives of Target Corporation and Disney Theatrical Group. Currently, she consults with groups such as the American Psychoanalytic Association, the Rainforest Alliance, the YWCA and The Creative Center (Arts for People with Cancer) on rebranding, marketing and development efforts. Mary currently serves as a board member of Theater 1010, a ministry of the Park Avenue Christian Church. She is a patron of Manhattan Theatre Company, one of the city's leading repertory companies. Mary holds a Bachelor of Arts in English Literature and Journalism from the City College of New York (CCNY), where she was elected to Phi Beta Kappa. She is a winner of numerous public relations industry awards for her work in consumer products and community relations and she was named a "PR All-Star" by Inside PR magazine. Mary began her career as a singer and attended the Manhattan School of Music.

R	Mary Cochran Professor of Professional Practice in Dance; Chair and Artistic Director of the Department of Dance Barnard University See Bio Mary Cochran, professor of professional practice in dance, and chair and artistic director of the department of dance, joined the Barnard faculty in 2003. Professor Cochran has also taught at Mills College, the Juilliard School, the University of Michigan, Harvard University, and the North Carolina School of the Arts. Professor Cochran has performed and taught on every continent except Antarctica. A soloist with the Paul Taylor Dance Company from 1984-96, she has been critically praised as "an interpreter of Paul Taylor's work who absorbs technique into her bones," a "blithe spirit, weaver of magic, quintessential muse," and "a star, indeed." She continues her association with Paul Taylor to this day, having completed 20 restaging of his masterworks. Her own dance/monologue Pitiful Vignette received its New York premiere on the LIT series in SoHo in 2003. In July 2004 her work Concrete Jungle's Hawaiian Shirt premiered in Texas. Critic Wayne Lee Gay described the solo as "a constant juxtaposition of anguish and grace." Professor Cochran regularly appears as a special guest artist with Sara Hook Dances in New York City venues such as Dance Theater Workshop and Joe's Pub. Her collaborations with Hook have received critical praise most recently Beau Geste (2008) and The Valeska Trilogy (2008.) Critic Marcia B. Siegel selected the full evening Salad Days as one of the best dance events of the 2008 Boston season praising Cochran as “gifted.”

R	Mary Anne Staniszewski Associate Professor, Department of Art Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute See Bio Mary Anne Staniszewski investigates art, media, and culture in relation to political and social perspectives. Her work takes the form of writing, editing, collaborative curatorial practices, and, more frequently in the past, collaborative artists projects. Her major research and writing projects form a "trilogy" of interdisciplinary investigations of modern art and culture as articulations of the modern self. Staniszewski is currently working on the third area of investigation, a multi-volume work, which is an analysis of the historical and contemporary sense of self in the United States, featuring three key themes: race; sex (gender); and life and death.The first book, Believing Is Seeing: Creating the Culture of Art (Penguin USA, 1995; Korean editions, Hyunsil Cultural Studies, Hyun Sil Moon Hwayonju, 2000 and 2007) frames art as we know it--that is art for art's sake--as an "invention" of the modern era and a manifestation of the age of the individual and the liberal, democratic, capitalist state. In the second book, The Power of Display: A History of Exhibition Installations at the Museum of Modern Art (The MIT Press, 1998; paperback 2001; Korean translation, designLocus, 2007), installations are not only analyzed as contexts for works of art--but for those who view them. Museums are portrayed as sites for collective rituals that enhance particular notions of subjecthood--in MoMA's case, a U.S. liberal, democratic, capitalist one. The book is also a critique of the discipline of art history and the emphasis on the autonomy of the individual artwork. The Power of Display is intended to frame exhibition design as a discipline and integrate the installations of the international avant-gardes within the discourse of modern art. These installations are key to understanding what develops later in the century as multimedia and installation-base art.Staniszewski is also the Director of a "Curatorial Incubator" at Exit Art, New York, which gives young and emerging curators, artists, and scholars opportunities to produce exhibitions dealing with critical issues not being adequately addressed by the mainstream art world. The first exhibition, Signs of Change: Social Movement Cultures 1960s to Now, curated by Dara Greenwald and Josh MacPhee, was presented at Exit Art from September 20 to December 6, 2008, http://www.exitart.org/site/pub/exhibition_programs/signs_of_change/index.html and The Arts Center of the Capital Region, co-sponsored by iEAR Presents! and Humanites@Rensselaer (April 5 to June 5, 2009). http://www.arts.rpi.edu/pl/iear-events/signs-change-social-movement-cultures-1960s. A catalogue is forthcoming co-published by Exit Art and AK Press. The second exhibition, Corpus Extremus (LIFE+), was curated by Boryana Rossa. This exhibition deals with issues of biotechnology and questions of life and death and was presented at Exit Art from February to April 18, 2009. http://www.exitart.org/site/pub/exhibition_programs/corpus_extremus/index.html. In addition to the Curatorial Incubator projects, Staniszewski is currently collaborating with Exit Art's directors and staff on an exhibition and symposium dealing with contemporary slavery that will be held in 2011.Staniszewski has written for a diverse range of academic, art world, and general interest publications for more than twenty-five years. For relatively recent articles that are available on-line, see: "Denial, Delusion and Curating in the U.S.: Interview with Mary Anne Staniszewski, Oslo, May 2009," Gerd Elise Morland and Heidi Bale Amundsen, OnCURATING: The Political Potential of Curatorial Practice, ISSUE 04, Office for Contemporary Art and University of Zurich, Spring 2010, http://www.on-curating.org/issue_04.html and "Intimacy, Barbarism and Delusion," for the inaugural issue, of Where We Are Now (WWAN), issue 1, Summer 2009, is available at wherewearenow.org/06/intimacy/intimacy-barbarism-and-delusion

N	Melissa Dibble Managing Director EmcArts Inc. See Bio Managing Director Melissa Dibble cultivates partnerships that serve as a catalyst for continued growth in EmcArts’ support for leading practitioners and funding agencies in the cultural field. Additionally, she directs most aspects of the organization's internal team and operations.Melissa's EmcArts project delivery work includes engagements with Carnegie Hall’s Academy Program, Streb/SLAM, and the Children’s Theatre Company as part of the Innovation Lab for the Performing Arts. She also serves as a lead consultant for the Irvine Foundation’s Arts Innovation Fund (AIF). Other clients have included the Aspen Music Festival and School, the New England Conservatory, The Wallace Foundation, the Louisiana Philharmonic Orchestra as part of the New Strategies Lab for Orchestras, Act II Playhouse (Ambler, PA), the Borough of Lansdale (PA), Indian Hill Music Center (Littleton, MA), and the Boston Symphony Orchestra.Melissa joined the EmcArts team after a decade of experience in the orchestra field, where she fostered tremendous growth in the community programs and departments of major symphony orchestras. Prior to working at Emc, Melissa worked for the Saint Louis Symphony Orchestra (SLSO), where she established the Community Partnerships Department, now a model in the American orchestra industry. As Director of Community Partnerships, she worked collaboratively with musicians, staff members, and community leaders to design programs that were both relevant to the audiences they were created to serve and artistically fulfilling to the musicians who performed them. She focused on integrating community programs and initiatives into the organization as a whole, with particular emphasis on marketing, public relations and educational opportunities. In addition, she implemented complex grants from the John S. and James L. Knight Foundation, Wallace-Reader's Digest Fund, Monsanto Fund and National Endowment for the Arts. During her four-season tenure, nearly 1,500 community events were planned and performed.Melissa came to SLSO from the Pittsburgh Symphony Orchestra, where she served as the first Community Outreach Manager. Her work focused on partnering the Symphony with wide-ranging community talents and resources, from schools to churches to civic organizations, in ten geographically diverse communities. While in Pittsburgh, she also gained a strong background in development through her work as the Symphony's Capital Campaign Coordinator.Melissa was a Fellow of the American Symphony Orchestra League's Orchestra Management Fellowship Program. She holds a Bachelor of Music in Flute Performance from Boston University's School for the Arts, where she studied with Leone Buyse.

N	Mia Katigbak Artistic Producing Director National Asian American Theatre Company (NAATCO) See Bio Mia Katigbak is the Artistic Producing Director for the National Asian American Theatre Company. She founded it in 1989 with Richard Eng to promote and support Asian American actors, directors, designers, and technicians through the performance of European and American classical and contemporary works.

N	Michael Peitz Executive director Educational Theater Association See Bio Michael Peitz is the Executive Director of Educational Theater Association, which is a professional association for theatre educators, with more than 4,600 members in the United States, Canada, and overseas.

R	Michael Sikes Senior Associate for Research and Policy Arts Education Partnership See Bio As the former assistant director for arts education at the National Endowment for the Arts, Michael was literally present at the creation of the Arts Education Partnership in 1994 and drafted the key document used to build consensus for its founding. Since then, Michael has taught at the university level and worked with school districts, state education agencies and the U.S. Department of Education. Michael has extensive experience in the design, implementation and synthesis of research and its application to policy, not only in the arts but in education more generally. He is the author of numerous publications and is especially proficient at conveying research findings and methods for lay audiences. Michael earned his Ph.D. in education from Florida State University. At AEP, Michael is responsible for developing and managing all of our research and policy initiatives, as well as analyzing and reporting on major trends and changes in arts education policy and research in the field. Major projects include the development of an arts education research and policy agenda, the state policy database, and the Ford Foundation Arts Education Initiative.

F	Michelle Boone Culture Program Officer Joyce Foundation See Bio Michelle T. Boone is the Culture Program Officer for the Joyce Foundation in Chicago, Illinois. In addition to her duties at the Joyce Foundation, Michelle is an adjunct professor at DePaul University, serves on the boards of numerous arts and cultural organizations, and has been a reviewer for the National Endowment for the Arts, the Illinois Arts Council, and the Cuyahoga Arts and Culture program (Ohio), among others. She was previously the director of Chicago’s Gallery 37, and began her career working in television, film, and the recording industry. She served as a Peace Corps Volunteer in Chad, Africa. Michelle holds a bachelor’s degree in telecommunications and a master’s degree in Public Affairs from Indiana University, Bloomington.

R	Mike Ross Director of the Krannert Center for the Performing Arts University of Illinois See Bio Mike Ross became the sixth director of the Krannert Center for the Performing Arts at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign in 1997. As director of the Krannert Center, the country's most comprehensive university-based performing arts center, he is responsible for programming, financial and operations management and fundraising activity. Deeply committed to embracing the art of the past as well as the art of our time across disciplines, aesthetic sensibilities and cultural legacies, Mike views the center simultaneously as a potent blending of classroom, laboratory and public square. At the university, Mike also chairs the Chancellor's Seedbed Initiative for Transdomain Creativity and is on the Advisory Council for the Center on Democracy in a Multiracial Society. He is an active board member of numerous local, state and national arts organizations, including the Association of Performing Arts Presenters, the American Arts Alliance and the Illinois Arts Alliance. His experience as a professional classical, jazz and rock musician, and his interest in the literary and visual arts and broader cultural history have been major influences on the creative and collaborative nature of his work in arts administration. Mike came to the center from the Miller Theatre at Columbia University in New York City, where he received his doctorate in music composition with distinction. His professional activities include serving on the boards of the American Arts Alliance, Illinois Arts Alliance, Association of Performing Arts Presenters and the Composers Conference at Wellesley College. He also serves on the advisory boards and committees of Lincoln Center's Avery Fisher and Elise L. Stoeger Awards, Classical Connections (an initiative of the Association of Performing Arts Presenters) and the New York Guitar Festival. He has served as an artist and repertoire advisor for Arabesque Recordings; as a member of the New England Foundation for the Arts National Dance Project Advisory Committee, MIT's Artist-in-Residence Program, and Van Cliburn Composers Nominating Committee; and as a panelist and evaluator for the National Endowment for the Arts, Arts International, Meet the Composer, ASCAP, Illinois Arts Council and numerous other organizations. He is a member of the International Society for the Performing Arts, Chamber Music America, Major University Presenters, Imagining America, and is an honorary member of the National Society of Arts and Letters. Mike is also currently serving on the Arts Review Committee of the Illinois Capital Development Board and is past co-chair of the Illinois Arts Alliance Statewide Conference Planning Committee. He is very active in the community, serving on a number of community and University advisory committees. He is a founding board member of 40 North/88 West, the Champaign County Arts, Culture, and Entertainment Council. Ross holds a Bachelor of Music degree from the University of the Pacific and master's and doctoral degrees in music composition from the University of Hartford and Columbia University, respectively. He remains active as a composer, and attributes his experience as a professional classical, jazz and rock musician, and his interest in the literary and visual arts and broader cultural history as major influences on the creative and collaborative nature of his work in arts administration. Mike, his wife Taya, and their son Miles have made their home in Champaign, Illinois.

N	Mollie Lakin-Hayes Deputy Director South Arts See Bio Mollie Lakin-Hayes As Deputy Director since 2006, Mollie works with all South Arts programs, the board, member state arts agencies and other partners to make a positive difference in the arts throughout the South. Strategic planning and evaluation, ArtsReady, Presenting 101 and strategic partnerships are current focus areas. She worked for the Arizona Commission on the Arts for 14 years, most recently as Assistant Director and Accessibility Coordinator. She was a founding board member of Alliance for Audience/ShowUp.com, and of ARTability/Accessing Arizona's Arts. Mollie is a facilitator/consultant in strategic planning and participation-building, has been a professional audio describer, and is trained in Critical Response. In Atlanta she now creates glass sculpture and jewelry as Southern Flameworks. She is a member of Alternate ROOTS and has a daughter, Chandra.

R	Muriel Magenta Professor, Art Arizona State University, Herberger Institute for Design and the Arts See Bio Muriel Magenta is a "new genre" artist working in video, computer art, web technology, installation, multimedia performance, and sculpture. She explores the interface between various electronic media, while continuing her involvement with gallery installation. Her larger objective is to create a visual experience in an actual space, and then transmit it over electronic networks into virtual environments. In The World's Women On-Line!; Times Square; Token City, and 28 WOMEN: a chance for independence she pursues this approach to creative research. As a Professor of Art at ASU, she teaches graduate and undergraduate studio courses involving new media concepts. Solo exhibitions of her installations have been presented at: LACE, Los Angeles; University of Southern California; Kansas City Art Institute; Gallery 10, Washington, DC; Marian Locks Gallery, Philadelphia; City Bank (57th and Park Avenue), New York; Scottsdale Center for the Arts, Scottsdale, AZ; and Arizona State University Art Museum, Tempe, Arizona. Magenta's video works have been screened internationally and throughout the U.S. including: "Internationaler Videokunstpreis ," ZKM, Karlsruhe, Germany; "14th International Hamburg Short Film Festival" (Digital Video), Germany; "2nd Microwave Festival", Hong Kong; "Brussels International Film Festival"; "New Cinema: 33rd Pesaro Film Festival", Rome; "Medien Operative Berlin"; "European Media Art Festival", Osnabrück, Germany; SIGGRAPH '98, Orlando, FL; "Downtown Arts Festival", Chelsea Sculpture Garden, New York; and "Director's Series", Tisch School of the Arts, NYU; "Reel NY," WNET, PBS, Channel 13; Scottsdale Center for the Arts, Scottsdale, AZ; Paul V. Galvin Playhouse, Arizona State University, Tempe, Azoth women's art movement remains a constant in her professional life. Magenta was National President of the Women's Caucus for Art. She has been active in the College Art Association's Committee on Women in the Arts. She attended the United Nations World Conference on Women in Copenhagen, co-coordinating the "Video from US" screenings. At the United Nations World Conference on Women in Nairobi, she participated as a press photographer for the New York-based publication, "Women Artist's News". At the Beijing conference, she presented "The World's Women On-Line!" showcasing the art of women in global electronic networks. In her most recent project, "Shelter Against Violence: A Case for Empowerment," she taught expressive and computer skills to shelter residents in tandem with producing the documentary, "28 WOMEN: A Chance for Independence," videotaped at the YWCA Haven House, Phoenix AZ. Magenta received her art training at Queens College, New York City; Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, MD; and Arizona State University, Tempe, AZ. She is a native of New York City.

O	Nello McDaniel Principal Director Arts Action Research See Bio Nello McDaniel, Principal Director, supervises all ARTS Action Research project activity and publication development from AAR’s office in Brooklyn, NY. Prior to ARTS Action Research, Nello was Executive Director of the Foundation for the Extension and Development of the American Professional Theatre, an arts consulting company based in New York. From 1978 to 1982, he managed the Presentation and Touring Programs for the National Endowment for the Arts Dance Program. Prior to that, he was Chief Operating Officer and Performing Arts Director for the Western States Arts Foundation. In 1993, he was named Fulbright International Fellow to consult with the New Zealand Arts Council and numerous New Zealand arts organizations.

R	Nick Rabkin Research Affiliate National Opinion Research Center See Bio Nick Rabkin is leading a research project that examines the work of teaching artists in twelve communities across the country. He is the co-author of Putting the Arts in the Picture: Reframing Education in the 21st Century. Before coming to the CPC/NORC, he directed the Center for Arts Policy at Columbia College Chicago, and was a senior program officer for arts and culture at the MacArthur Foundation, as well as serving as Deputy Commissioner of Cultural Affairs for the city of Chicago.

F	Olive Mosier Director The William Penn Foundation See Bio Olive Mosier is director of Arts and Culture at the William Penn Foundation, where she manages grant making and other activities intended to foster an environment in which arts and culture flourish, and in which artists are valued and enabled to undertake a wide range of creative pursuits and investigations. Prior to joining the Foundation in February 2000, Mosier served in a White House appointment as director of the Office of Policy, Research, and Analysis at the National Endowment for the Arts. At the NEA, her responsibilities included advising the chairman, reviewing and recommending policies to achieve agency goals, preparing position papers, and managing agency-wide issues of major significance. She also directed analysis of the agency's application and grant award patterns and prepared statistical reports to evaluate the agency's grant making policies and procedures. Immediately prior to joining the NEA, Mosier briefly worked with Keens Co. consulting on several projects for national funders such as the Ford Foundation and The Pew Charitable Trusts. She served four years as executive vice president and chief operating officer of the National Assembly of Local Arts Agencies (now Americans for the Arts), and five years as executive director of the National Artists Equity Association, both in Washington, D.C. Mosier holds a master's degree in arts management from The American University and a bachelor of fine arts degree in art history with a minor in studio art from Howard University.

N	Ova Saopeng Associate Producer TeAda Productions See Bio Ova Saopeng is an actor and writer from Los Angeles, he was born in Savannakhet, Laos and raised in Honolulu, Hawaii. He is a TeAda Productions Company Artist and co-creator of "Refugee Nation" a play about the Lao-American experience, based on the stories Lao communities across the U.S. (www.refugeenation.com). He received his B.A. in Theater from the University of Southern California and since then has performed nationally with theater companies including the Children's Theater Company in Minneapolis, Mark Taper Forum/P.L.A.Y., East West Players, and hereandnow. He is a member of We Tell Stories and Water's Edge Theater children's theater companies.

R	Patrick Mcdonough Professor Emeritus of Theater California State University, Long Beach See Bio Patrick McDonough is professor emeritus of theater at the California State University, Long Beach. He is also a retired foundation executive and college president.

R	Paul Wittenbraker Associate Professor, Department of Art and Design Grand Valley State University See Bio Paul Wittenbraker is an artist and faculty member in the Department of Art and Design at Grand Valley State University (GVSU). In 1999, Wittenbraker started the Civic Studio Project at GVSU as a course in public art. Civic Studio establishes a temporary studio each semester, allowing students to interact with, make art about and volunteer in the Grand Rapids community.

R	Paula Justich Program Director Saint Mary's University of Minnesota See Bio Paula Justich is the Program Director of the Master of Arts in Arts and Cultural Management program at St. Mary's University. The program is a 36 credit degree program providing students with the necessary skills and experiences to lead cultural programs and institutions. She received her M.A. in Arts Administration from Columbia College Chicago.

N	Rebecca Blunk Executive Director New England Foundation for the Arts See Bio Rebecca Blunk is Executive Director of the New England Foundation for the Arts (NEFA), a position she has held since 2004. Joining the NEFA staff in 1985 as director of performing arts and later serving as deputy director, she currently works with a Boston-based staff of 20 and an annual budget averaging $6 million. Through a series of public and private partnerships, some national and international in scope, NEFA supports artists with grants and professional resources, and establishes vital connections between artists, arts programmers, and the public. NEFA also strengthens New England’s creative economy through tools and research that inform policy development. Currently, NEFA’s programming includes: New England presenting and touring, public art, Native American arts, the National Theater Pilot, and the National Dance Project. Rebecca grew up in Kansas and has a B.F.A. in Art and an M.A. in Arts Administration. Before coming to NEFA, Rebecca spent eight years at the Nebraska Arts Council as community arts coordinator and later as director of programs. Rebecca chairs the U.S. Regional Arts Organizations Working Group which, in 2009, published and presented <i>Global Positioning Strategy (GPS) for the Arts: Recommitting America to International Cultural Exchange</i> to the Obama administration.

N	Richard Evans President EmcArts Inc. See Bio Richard Evans directs EmcArts’s programs, client engagements, and strategic partnerships. Richard’s recent research, program design, and facilitation places particular emphasis on innovation, organizational change, and effective ways that the arts and culture field can respond to the economic crisis. His studies on innovation and capacity building led to his design for the Innovation Lab for the Performing Arts. An expansion of EmcArts’ successful pilot Lab for American orchestras, the Lab launched in Fall 2008 with the generous support of the Doris Duke Charitable Foundation.Currently, Richard is also directing a comprehensive planning process for Carnegie Hall’s Weill Music Institute (WMI), a project that includes facilitated convenings of leading practitioners in fields crucial to WMI’s future. He is also leading strategic organizational-learning work with the James Irvine Foundation´s Arts Innovation Fund (AIF), which supports California´s major arts organizations in implementing significant innovation projects over multiple years.Related speaking engagements have included "Building Our Future Together: Innovative Responses to Turbulent Times," the keynote address at the 2009 Midwest Arts Conference; “Innovation and Program Strategy,” a talk at the Fall 2008 Grantmakers in the Arts (GIA) Conference; and "The Impact of the Economy on the Field of Presenting," a national conference-call panel presented by the Association of Performing Arts Presenters (APAP).Richard has led in the design and evaluation of numerous support programs in the arts, including The Magic of Music, the Knight Foundation’s national orchestra support program. For The Pew Charitable Trusts, he led the design of the Philadelphia Cultural Leadership Program. Other client projects have included program design and delivery for The Andrew W. Mellon Foundation´s Orchestra Forum and The Wallace Foundation´s Arts for Young People initiative; program evaluations for the Doris Duke Charitable Foundation, Ford Foundation, and Surdna and James Irvine Foundations; and planning processes for the City of Chicago Office of Cultural Affairs, New York Public Library for the Performing Arts, and New England Conservatory of Music.His past research and analytical expertise has been published in numerous field studies in the arts, including Too Intrinsic for Renown (1992), the first national study of community schools of the arts for the Wallace Foundation; playing Diaghilev (1994) the evaluation for the MacArthur Fellows Program of fellowships and support structures for individual artists; and Knowing the Score (2000), the first national study of British orchestras.Richard received his M.A. from Trinity College, Cambridge, England. Prior to founding EmcArts, he held numerous senior positions in performing arts management and philanthropy, including Field Consultant to the National Endowment for the Arts´ Advancement Program and to the Presenter Expansion Program of Chamber Music America, first Coordinator of the National Alliance of Artists´ Communities, Chief Executive of the Bath International Festival of Music & the Arts, England, and Vice President of the National Arts Stabilization Fund.

R	Richard Kamenitzer Director, Arts Management Program; Executive Director, International Center for Educational, Cultural and Arts Management; Associate Professor of Arts Management George Mason University See Bio Richard Kamenitzer has 40 years experience in non-profit management and accounting; initiated and heads a consulting firm, Succession (www.successionusa.com), specializing in non-profit management and accounting; taught at two community colleges, Farleigh Dickinson and Penn State Universities; served as CFO and president for two not-for-profit educational institutions in New Jersey and New York, and served as CEO of an arts organization. Currently, Mr. Kamenitzer is serving on the Boad of the Association of Arts Administration Educators; as Chairman of the Board of the Washington Stage Guild; on the boards of the Arts Council of Fairfax County, Hamiltonian Artists (a visual arts organization in Washington, DC), illume productions, inc. (a documentary film company in New York City); is a panelist for the Association of Arts Administration Educators and for the Montgomery County Arts & Humanities Council.His educational degrees are: B.S. in Accounting, M.B.A. in Quantitative Analysis, Seton Hall; LL.B., La Salle Extension University; Post-Graduate work, New York University-Higher Education Administration.

O	Robert Johnson Dance Critic The Star-Ledger See Bio Robert Johnson is staff dance critic for The Star-Ledger in Newark, NJ; and reviews editor for Pointe magazine in New York City. As a freelancer, he has written about dance for many publications, including daily papers, trade magazines and scholarly journals. He has taught and lectured on dance history and criticism. A member of the Dance Critics Association since the mid-1980s, Robert served two terms on the board.

R	Robert Milnes Dean, College of Visual Arts and Design University of North Texas See Bio Milnes joined UNT as dean in January 2006, after serving as professor of art and director of the School of Art and Design at San Jose State University. An acclaimed sculptor and ceramist, Milnes' works have been included in more than 165 national exhibitions and are represented in public collections -- including the Renwick Gallery at the Smithsonian Institute, Arizona State University, the Erie Museum, the Seattle Arts Commission and the San Jose Museum of Art -- and numerous private collections. Milnes also served as director of the School of Art at Louisiana State University and chair of the art department and professor of ceramics at Edinboro University of Pennsylvania. He has served as vice president of NASAD and has been a member of the executive committee of the organization's board of directors. He is also past-president of the National Council of Art Administrators.

F	Robert Booker Executive Director Arizona Commission on the Arts See Bio Robert Booker is executive director of the Arizona Commission on the Arts. He is Co-Chair of the Arts and Culture Committee of the Arizona Mexico Commission appointed by Governor Napolitano. He serves on the boards of of the Leadership Council of the Alliance of Arizona Nonprofits, Western States Arts Federation, and the B and L Charitable Foundation. Previously, Bob was Executive Director of the Minnesota State Arts Board and President of the board of the National Assembly of State Arts Agencies. He has served as a panelist for numerous state arts agencies and the National Endowment for the Arts. “Booker “is an art collector and a painter.

F	Ruby Lerner President and CEO Creative Capital See Bio Ruby Lerner is the founding executive director and president of Creative Capital, an innovative arts foundation modeled after venture capital concepts. Creative Capital was established in 1999 to provide support to individual artists in all disciplines and has funded hundreds of artists' projects to date.Prior to Creative Capital, Lerner served as the executive director of the Association of Independent Film and Videomakers and as publisher of the highly regarded Independent Film and Video Monthly. Having worked regionally in both the performing arts and independent media fields, she served as the executive director of Alternate ROOTS, a coalition of Southeastern performing artists, and IMAGE Film/Video Center, both based in Atlanta. In the late 1970s, she was the audience development director at the Manhattan Theatre Club, one of New York's foremost nonprofit theaters.During nearly thirty years in the arts, she has written and lectured extensively on arts issues, served on many boards, steering committees, and grantmaking panels, and has consulted with hundreds of arts organizations on audience development and related areas of arts management.

R	Ruth Cahn Summer Session Director, Faculty Member University of Rochester, Eastman Community Music School See Bio Ruth Cahn earned a BM in applied music and music education and Performer’s Certificate in percussion from the Eastman School of Music. Her performance credentials include : 35 years as a full time member of the Percussion Section of the Rochester Philharmonic Orchestra; 12 years as a member of the Chautauqua Symphony Orchestra and Opera and visiting performer with the Grand Teton Festival Orchestra. Chamber Music performances have included: Society for Chamber Music in Rochester; Live from Hochstein at Noon; Chautauqua Chamber Music; Eastman’s Women in Music Festival and tours with the Canadian Brass. She has appeared in TV and recordings with the above ensembles in addition to recording Raga # 1 for solo timpanist on the CD “Music of William L. Cahn”. Ruth has a strong interest in world percussion and studied Tabla and Hindustani Music with Khumud Ranjan Banarjee. For 27 years, Ruth was an artist in residence for the Rochester City School District where she developed and presented sequential programs for students that linked music with school curriculum. She has also presented teacher training workshops for music teachers and for classroom teachers. Leadership activities have included: serving as a member of the Rochester Philharmonic Board of Directors; serving as Development Director for the RPO (1993-94); chairing the RPOMusician’s Negotiation Committee; serving as a Director on the RPO’s Philharmonic League and service as a director and mentor to the Rochester Philharmonic Youth Orchestra. Ruth also participated as a mentor and coach for the American Symphony Orchestra League’s Youth Orchestra Festival in Sarasota, Florida. Students from Ruth’s percussion studios have gone on to major colleges and conservatories of music to include: Eastman School of Music, Curtis Institute of Music, Juilliard, Cleveland Institute of Music, University of Michigan, Hartt College Conservatory, Oberlin College, Ithaca College, Indiana University, Carnegie Mellon and Duquesne University. Her former students perform with major orchestras, teach in colleges and are music teachers in the schools. Many former students, while not pursuing a career in music, continue to participate in community musical organizations as active percussionists and define music as an enriching component of their life. Currently Ruth serves as a Director of the Percussive Arts Society and as a Board Member of Project UNIQUE. Ruth is a senior instructor in the ECMS and has a percussion studio of around 30 students varying in age from 8 to 74 years. She also directs three ECMS percussion ensembles ; Drum Joy, Marimba Journey and Rhythm Adventure. In the summer Ruth directors the ECMS’s internationally acclaimed Music Horizon residential program for gifted high school students who are considering a career in music. Eastman collegiate responsibilities include teaching “The Joys and Opportunities of Studio Teaching Course” in the Arts Leadership Program and serving as the Summer Session Director for the Eastman School of Music.

R	Sally McRorie Dean of the College of Visual Arts, Theatre and Dance Florida State University See Bio Sally McRorie is the Dean of the College of Visual Arts, Theatre and Dance at Florida State University. Previously she was Chair of Art and Design at Purdue University. She received her PhD in Art Education, and Aesthetics from University of Kansas.

R	Sam Kauffmann Professor of Film Boston University See Bio Sam Kauffmann is a professor of film; he teaches film and video production and digital editing classes. He was recently named a Guggenheim Fellow in Creative Arts. In 2006, he was a Senior Fulbright Specialist in Rwanda, teaching video production at the National University of Rwanda. In 2004, he was a Fulbright Scholar, teaching at Makerere University in Kampala, Uganda. He is the author of one of the most popular editing guidebooks in the world, Avid Editing: A Guide for Beginning and Intermediate Users, from Focal Press. Chinese and Russian editions were published in 2009. He has directed scores of documentary and narrative films, and television commercials. He has many credits as a cinematographer as well. His work has been screened at the Museum of Modern Art in New York, and aired on network television, PBS, and local stations throughout America. He received his BA from University of Pennsylvania, and MS from Boston University.

R	Sam Gilmore Professor, Department of Sociology UC-Irvine See Bio Sam Gilmore is a Professor in Sociology at University of California, Irvine. He conducted research on the lack of cultural diversity in the arts, showing that minorities aren't getting their fair share of federal arts funding.

O	Sam Miller President Leveraging Investments in Creativity See Bio Sam Miller is the president of Leveraging Investments in Creativity (LINC). Building on an Urban Institute report that examined existing support structures for artists, LINC's efforts are centered on effecting broad-based change to increase direct support for artists, enhance artist/public interaction and improve the policy environment for creative work. Previously, Mr. Miller served as Executive Director of the New England Foundation for the Arts for ten years. Under his leadership NEFA launched important new projects in New England like the Creative Economy Initiative and Expeditions (a program which supports regional touring of interdisciplinary arts projects). Mr. Miller also pioneered a number of nationally significant programs at NEFA, including the National Dance Project and the Cambodian Artists Project, in partnership with Asia Society and the Royal University of Fine Arts in Phnom Penh. Prior to NEFA, Mr. Miller was at Jacobâ€™s Pillow where he served as Executive Director and President. He has also worked with Pilobolus Dance Theater, Pennsylvania Ballet, and managed various theater renovation projects in New England.

N	Sandra Gibson President and CEO Association of Performing Arts Presenters See Bio In June of 2000, Sandra L. Gibson was appointed President & CEO of the Association of Performing Arts Presenters (Arts Presenters). Since that time, Gibson has been instrumental in positioning the association to take on a leadership role in the field of performing arts presenting. Guiding the organization through the approval of a new vision, values and mission statement, Gibson recognized the need for an assessment of the field of performing arts presenting. In 2001, Arts Presenters joined with the Doris Duke Charitable Foundation to sponsor the first nationwide survey of the performing arts field. The results of that assessment culminated in a position paper titled "Toward Cultural Interdependence" and a Call to Action to Arts Presenters members in January 2002. The call to action rallied the management of performing arts organizations and institutions to take up the leadership roles in their communities and to recognize the role of arts in American life. Gibson's experience in arts presenting and cultural programming began with her tenure with the American Film Institute (AFI) where she held a number of senior level programming and operational positions. At AFI, Gibson's accomplishments, such as managing a seven-acre, four building campus with a $10.9 million budget and successfully running the Independent Filmmaker and Distribution Program, an NEA re-granting program, proved her abilities as an innovative manager and leader. Immediately prior to joining Arts Presenters, Gibson was recruited by Lynch for the position of Executive Vice President and COO at the newly formed Americans for the Arts. Gibson formal education began at Wittenberg University where her passion for music motivated her to pursue a B.M.E. in Music Education/Instrumental Music Performance. From there, Gibson received a M.A. in Historical Musicology from Northwestern University and completed doctoral work at UCLA.

N	Sandra Ruppert Director Arts Education Partnership See Bio Sandra is an established leader with more than 20 years experience working with non-profit organizations, principally in the areas of education and public policy. Prior to her appointment as Director in June 2008, Sandra was the Senior Associate for Research and Policy at AEP. She is the author of numerous publications, including the widely acclaimed, Critical Evidence: How the Arts Benefit Student Achievement as well as From Anecdote to Evidence: Assessing the Status and Condition of Arts Education at the State Level. Before joining the staff of AEP, Sandra was a Senior Policy Analyst and Program Director with the Education Commission of the States, a Denver-based national non-profit organization that advises state policymakers in all 50 states and the District of Columbia on the development and implementation of effective policies to improve education. While at ECS, she was responsible for the design and direction of ECS Chairman, Arkansas Governor Mike Huckabee’s, Arts in Education Initiative. Sandra holds a master of arts degree in Anthropology from the University of Arizona.

N	Shana Berger Co-Director Coleman Center for the Arts See Bio Shana Berger is an artist, writer, and curator who lives and works in York, Alabama. Driven by the idea that art can play an integral role in realizing positive social change, her work blends modes of art, activism, organizing, and advertising. Berger holds a BFA in photography from Indiana University. She is a founder of the Indiana artist group and organization Your Art Here, and currently works as Co-Director of the Coleman Center for the Arts. She is a recipient of an Alabama State Council on the Arts Fellowship, and a Curatorial Fellowship from the Andy Warhol Foundation for the Visual Arts.

N	Sharon Combs Vice President, Knowledge & Advocacy Nonprofit Finance Fund See Bio Sharon Combs is Vice President, Direct Services, of Nonprofit Finance Fund (NFF), a national leader in helping nonprofits strengthen their financial health and improve their capacity to serve their communities. Sharon joined NFF in 1997 and has been responsible for providing development assistance and managing NFF’s aggregate $41 million portfolio that has included national initiatives and projects with the Doris Duke Charitable Foundation, Ford Foundation, The Goldman Sachs Foundation and The Kresge Foundation. As NFF Vice President of National Alliances, she led the growth of that unit from a program serving one sector with facilities-focused products, to a strategy for engaging national entities, including foundations, financial institutions and national nonprofits, with all NFF’s financial products and capacity-building services. Sharon had previously served nine years as Associate Director of Grants for the Arts of the San Francisco Hotel Tax Fund—a $10 million funding agency to local arts and promotional organizations. Her 34-year nonprofit experience includes serving as Director, Higher Education Opportunity Program, Columbia University; Co-Director, Afro-Americans for Educational Opportunity, Harvard University and Coordinator, San Francisco Annual Ethnic Dance Festival. She has served on numerous boards and panels, including The President’s Committee on the Arts and the Humanities, and the American Recovery & Reinvestment Act (Stimulus Fund) Panel for the National Endowment for the Arts. Sharon received her M.Ed. and MA from Columbia University, Teachers College; and BA in Psychology from Simmons College (Boston, MA).

F	Shelley Cohn Former Executive Director Arizona Commission on the Arts See Bio Cohn joined the Commission on the Arts in 1976 after earning her masters degree in Humanities from ASU. She become Executive Director in 1984, a post she held until retiring in 2005, and was instrumental in motivating Arizona state legislators to expand the budget of the nationally recognized Commission from $600,000 to $3.4 million, as well as the creation of Arizona ArtShare, the public/private endowment for the arts, and the Arizona Arts Trust Fund. Cohn has served on panels of the National Endowment for the Arts as well as on boards that focus on arts issues, such as Grant makers in the Arts, the Western States Arts Federation, the National Assembly of State Arts Agencies, and the Association of Performing Arts Presenters. She also serves or has served on the boards of ASU Hillel, the Jewish Federation of Greater Phoenix and the Tempe Convention and Visitors Bureau. Cohn is on the faculty at ASU's Center for Nonprofit Leadership and Management where she teaches a graduate level course on Art and Public Policy. She has temporarily suspended her retirement to serve as interim CEO for the Scottsdale Cultural Council until a permanent replacement is selected.

N	Sixto Wagan Co-Executive Director & Performing Arts Curator DiverseWorks Artspace See Bio Sixto Wagan, Co-Executive Director and Performing Arts Curator for DiverseWorks Artspace, was the pilot fellow for the National Arts Administration Mentorship Program (NAAMP) from 1998-2000. Prior to his association with DiverseWorks, Wagan taught inner-city public high school and co-founded The Queer Artists Collective – a multigendered, multi-ethnic performing arts collective. A former member of the National Performance Network Board of Directors, Wagan currently serves as a Hub Site Representative to the National Dance Project and as a consultant to Creative Capital.

R	Stanley Katz Director, Center for Arts & Cultural Policy Studies; Lecturer with rank of Professor, Woodrow Wilson School of Public and International Affairs Princeton University See Bio Stanley Katz is President Emeritus of the American Council of Learned Societies, the leading organization in humanistic scholarship and education in the United States. Mr. Katz graduated magna cum laude from Harvard University in 1955 with a major in English History and Literature. He received his M.A. from Harvard in American History in 1959 and his Ph.D. in the same field from Harvard in 1961. He attended Harvard Law School in 1969-70. His recent research focuses upon the relationship of civil society and constitutionalism to democracy, and upon the relationship of the United States to the international human rights regime. He is the Editor in Chief of the recently published Oxford International Encyclopedia of Legal History, and the Editor of the Oliver Wendell Holmes Devise History of the United States Supreme Court. He also writes about higher education policy, and publishes a blog for the Chronicle of Higher Education. Formerly Class of 1921 Bicentennial Professor of the History of American Law and Liberty at Princeton University, Mr. Katz is a leading expert on American legal and constitutional history, and on philanthropy and non-profit institutions. The author and editor of numerous books and articles, Mr. Katz has served as President of the Organization of American Historians and the American Society for Legal History and as Vice President of the Research Division of the American Historical Association. He is a member of the Board of Trustees of the Newberry Library, the Copyright Clearance Center and numerous other institutions. He also currently serves as Chair of the American Council of Learned Societies/Social Science Research Council Working Group on Cuba. Katz is a member of the New Jersey Council for the Humanities, the American Antiquarian Society, the American Philosophical Society; a Fellow of the American Society for Legal History, the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, and the Society of American Historians; and a Corresponding Member of the Massachusetts Historical Society. He has honorary degrees from several universities.

N	Stephanie Hughley Founding Vice President of Programming New Jersey Performing Arts Center See Bio Stephanie S. Hughley, the founding Vice President of Programming for the New Jersey Performing Arts Center returned to NJPAC on June 1st as Vice President of Programming and New Media. Ms. Hughley previously served as a member of the Arts Center’s senior management team from 1995 through 1999, under her leadership, signature NJPAC programs like Sounds of the City and Alternate Routes were created. Hughley has become a leading advocate for the use of technology, new media and social networking and is working towards creating interactive relationships with cultural audiences.In 1999 Ms. Hughley was appointed Executive Producer of the National Black Arts Festival (NBAF). As the chief executive officer and in consultation with the Board of Directors, Ms. Hughley was responsible for the development of the Festival’s strategic vision and served as the official spokesperson for the institution. The scope of her responsibility included artistic and programmatic policy, external and community relations, fund development and strategic planning, as well as operational, financial and administrative management. She is a relationship builder who maintains a high professional profile and is able to access financial resources and develop unique collaborative ventures with other organizations, public and private, for profit and non-profit.Prior to joining NJPAC for the first time, Hughley was producer of theater and dance for the cultural celebrations surrounding the 1996 Olympic Games in Atlanta. She played an integral role in creating the Olympic Arts Festival featuring culture and entertainment events that preceded and ran concurrently with the 1996 Olympic Games as well as other cultural festivals leading up to the Olympics including Norway (1992), A Mexican Tapestry (1992) and Celebration Africa (1994). Hughley also helped to conceive, develop and implement the groundbreaking Africa Exchange Program, an innovative cross-cultural six-year initiative funded by the Ford Foundation’s Internationalizing New Work in the Performing Arts program.Hughley also worked in a variety of managerial positions for fifteen years on Broadway, off-Broadway and for a series of dance companies and artists. In 2008, Hughley received the William Dawson Award from the Association of Arts Presenters for Programmatic Excellence for sustained achievement in programming. She also received a Resolution from the Georgia State Senate for her numerous accomplishments and contributions to her community and the State of Georgia. The Houston International Festival (iFEST) presented her with an award for Artistic Excellence in 2008. She was selected as a recipient of the Georgia Arts & Entertainment Legacy Award (GAELA) as well as being inducted into the Atlanta Hospitality Hall of Fame by the Atlanta Convention and Visitor’s Bureau.Ms. Hughley is a graduate of Kent State University (B.S.) and Antioch College (M.Ed.) at Harvard University. She is a member of the Association of Theatrical Press Agents and Managers, and acts as a consultant to a number of performing arts institutions including the Alvin Ailey American Dance Theater, National Music Center in Washington, D.C. and the Essence Cares Steering Committee.

N	Stephen Gong Executive Director Center for Asian American Media See Bio Stephen Gong is the Executive Director of the Center for Asian American Media. Stephen joined CAAM after working for 18 years at the University of California, Berkeley Art Museum and Pacific Film Archive, most recently as Deputy Director. Previously, he held positions at the National Endowment for the Arts in Washington, D.C. He has been a lecturer in the Asian American Studies program at UC Berkeley, where he developed and taught a course on the history of Asian American media.

N	Steve Dietz Curator of New Media Walker Art Center See Bio Steve Dietz is the founding Director of New Media Initiatives at the Walker Art Center, where he is also responsible for the programming of the online Gallery 9 and co-initiated the Integrated Arts Information Access project (IAIA).He was formerly the head of publications and new media initiatives at the National Museum of American Art, where he established one of the earliest and most extensive museum Web sites. He co-produced the CD-ROM "National Museum of American Art," which won the first prize in Arts and Culture at the 1997 international MILIA festival. He is the principal of YProductions, which works with museums to architect digitally-based cultural programming. He is currently on the board of the Museum Computer Network (MCN) and is a past member of the executive committee of the coalition for the Computer Interchange of Museum Information (CIMI) and project coordinator for NMAA's participation in the Museum Educational Site Licensing Project (MESL).

R	Susan Petry Chair, Dance Ohio State University See Bio Susan Van Pelt Petry (Chair/Professor) has had a twenty year career choreographing, performing, and teaching dance internationally. She has received six Ohio Arts Council Choreography Fellowships, grants and commissions for her work including The Repertory Project, Wellspring Dance Collective, and numerous university dance programs and solo artists; she was Artistic Director of the Van Pelt Dance Ensemble for seven years based in Columbus, Ohio and toured a solo show internationally. Susan has been a visiting artist at many colleges and universities, at Cleveland SummerDance Festival, and a faculty member at Ohio University and The Ohio State University. Susan toured internationally as company teacher and rehearsal director with the Cloud Gate Dance Theatre company of Taiwan, and was a recipient of a residency at the Headlands Center for the Arts in California. In addition to her own work, she has worked with Sara Rudner, Risa Jaroslow, Gloria McClean, Susan Hadley, and John Giffin. Susan is active in advocacy for dance and dance education, was President of OhioDance, and is on the Programming Committee for Martin Luther King Jr, Center, and the Community Arts Fund panel at the Columbus Foundation. She received her BA from Oberlin College in 1979 and her MA from The Ohio State University in 1985, and continues her creative and physical practice based on Iyengar yoga, Hawkins technique, Bartenieff Fundamentals, Alexander Technique, Contact Improvisation, running, and dancing around with her two young sons.She received her MA in Dance at The Ohio State University, and her BA in Dance from Oberlin College.

F	Susan Feder Program Officer, Performing Arts The Andrew W. Mellon Foundation See Bio Susan Feder joined the Foundation in January 2007 as Program Officer for the Performing Arts. For the past 20 years, as vice president of G. Schirmer, Inc., she developed the careers of many leading composers in the United States, Europe, and the former Soviet Union. Previously she was editorial coordinator of The New Grove Dictionary of American Music and Program Editor at the San Francisco Symphony. Ms. Feder is also vice president of the Amphion Foundation. A graduate of Princeton University, she serves on the University’s Music Department Advisory Council and the Alumni Schools Committee. Ms. Feder also received an MA in the History and Literature of Music from the University of California, Berkeley. Ms. Feder has served on the boards of the American Music Center, Music Publishers Association, and Charles Ives Society, as well as the Symphonic and Concert Committee at the American Society of Composers, Authors, and Publishers (ASCAP) and the Strategic Planning Committee of the American Symphony Orchestra League. Her program notes, liner notes, and music criticism have appeared in a variety of publications, and she has been a frequent speaker on issues related to music publishing. Her honors include ASCAP’s Concert Music Award (2001), where she was described as “Publisher, Advisor, Friend, and Champion,” an ASCAP-Deems Taylor Award for her program notes for the American Composers Orchestra, and the dedication of John Corigliano’s Pulitzer-Prize winning Symphony No. 2.

O	Terry Wolverton Owner Consult'Her See Bio She founded Consult’Her in 1982 to provide management consulting services to nonprofit organizations and small businesses. In over twenty-five years of operation, Wolverton has built a diverse practice that includes long-range and strategic planning, organizational assessment, project evaluation, marketing strategy, board development, staff development and human relations issues, executive search, executive and life coaching, conflict resolution, program development, fundraising strategy, and facilitation of group meetings and retreats.Her clients have included arts organizations in a multitude of disciplines, as well as advocacy organizations, social service agencies, small for-profit businesses and individual artists. In recent years, she has expanded her client base to include more public policy projects and consultation to funders. In 2002, she completed work with the Los Angeles County Arts Commission on a Regional Blueprint for Arts Education within the County. From 2001-2004 she conducted an evaluation of a three-year Visual Arts Initiative funded by the California Community Foundation, and a program evaluation of the Los Angeles County Arts Commission’s Arts Leadership Initiative. In 2005, she was hired by Warner Bros./ Corporate Responsibility to conduct an assessment and capacity building project for the Los Angeles County High School for the Arts.In addition, she has served on the Board of Directors of the Woman’s Building, PEN Center USA, and Collage Dance Theater. She is the author of seven books of fiction, poetry, and creative nonfiction, and is an Associate Faculty Mentor in the MFA Writing Program of Antioch University Los Angeles.

N	Tom DeCaigny Executive Director Performing Arts Workshop See Bio Tom DeCaigny currently serves as executive director of Performing Arts Workshop, a 43-year-old nonprofit arts education organization in San Francisco, CA. He was appointed executive director in 2002 and first joined the Workshop in 1999 as the program manager for the Paul Robeson and Diego Rivera Academy, an alternative arts middle school and treatment program for repeat juvenile offenders. Under his leadership, the Workshop has grown from serving 3,500 youth per year to more than 7,500. He has overseen the inception of the Workshop's Artists-in-Communities and Advocacy programs and administered two U.S. Department of Education Arts in Education Model Development and Dissemination projects. He has also led the growth of the Workshop's annual revenue-from $529K in 2003 to approximately $1.3 million in 2008. Tom has amassed over fourteen years of nonprofit leadership experience in the fields of youth development, education and arts administration. Prior to joining the Workshop, he managed the AIDS Memorial Quilt's National Youth Education Program; served as director of actor training for the University of Minnesota's Adolescent Actors Teaching Project; and conducted research for the National Committee for Responsive Philanthropy. He is a 1994 graduate of the National Gay and Lesbian Task Force's Youth Leadership Institute and a 2007 alumnus of the LeaderSpring fellowship program. He has appeared on CNN International's Asia This Day and was invited to present at the first-ever UNESCO World Conference on Arts Education in Lisbon, Portugal. He currently serves on the board of the California Alliance for Arts Education and is a member of the San Francisco Unified School District Arts Education Master Plan Steering Committee. His prior board service includes two years as Board Co-Chair of LYRIC, a LGBTQ youth community center in San Francisco and Steering Committee Chair for Making Art, Making Change, a 2006 conference dedicated to examining the relationship between art and social justice.

N	Vicki Meek Manager South Dallas Cultural Center See Bio Vicki Meek, a native of Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, is a nationally-recognized artist who has exhibited widely. Meek is in the permanent collections of the African American Museum in Dallas, The Museum of Fine Arts in Houston, and Norwalk Community College in Norwalk, Connecticut. She was awarded three public arts commissions with the Dallas Area Rapid Transit Art Program and was co-artist on the largest public art project in Dallas, the Dallas Convention Center Public Art Project. In addition, Meek is an independent curator, writes cultural criticism for Literafeelya, an online art publication and ARTLIES: A Texas Art Journal. With over 30 years of arts administrative experience that includes working as a senior program administrator for a state arts agency, a local arts agency and running a non-profit visual arts center, Vicki Meek is currently the Manager of the South Dallas Cultural Center in Dallas, Texas, a full-service African-centered center that is a program of the City of Dallas Office of Cultural Affairs.

F	Vickie Benson Program Director McKnight Foundation See Bio Vickie Benson is arts program director for the McKnight Foundation in Minneapolis, MN. Before coming to McKnight, she was vice president of the Jerome Foundation, St. Paul, program director at Chamber Music America in New York and senior program specialist at the National Endowment for the Arts in Washington, D.C. She holds a bachelor of arts degree in arts administration from St. Paul's Metropolitan State University, and a master's degree in nonprofit management from the Hamline University Graduate School of Management. An avid advocate for artists, Vickie has a background as a folk singer and guitarist.

N	Victor Payan Director of Programs National Association of Latino Art and Culture See Bio Victor Payan is the Director of Programs for National Association of Latino Arts and Culture (NALAC), which is the nation’s leading nonprofit organization exclusively dedicated to the promotion, advancement, development, and cultivation of the Latino arts field.

R	W. Michael Parkinson Director, School of Music Ohio University See Bio Michael Parkinson is the Director of the Ohio University School of Music. In addition to his administrative duties, he directs the OU jazz combos and performs with Jazz Spoken Here, a professional quintet. He most recently served as chair of the Webster University Department of Music in St. Louis, where he directed the Big Band and “Mini” Big Band and performed with the faculty jazz ensemble and brass quintet, the Paul DeMarinis Quartet, and the Trinity Jazz Ensemble. Previously he served as on the faculties of Case Western Reserve University, Furman University, and the University of Missouri-Kansas City.A native of Cleveland, Tennessee, he received the DMA in wind conducting from the University of Cincinnati, the MM in trumpet performance from Kent State University, and the BM in music education from the University of North Texas. He studied trumpet with Frank Brown, John Haynie, Harry Herforth, and Marie Speziale; and conducting with Kelly Hale, Donald Hunsberger, David Kuehn, and Terry Milligan. His primary influences are Bob Brookmeyer, Miles Davis, Charles Mingus, Bill Scarlett, and Kenny Wheeler.From 1995-2005, he served as director of the International Summer Jazz Academy in Poland. He was named Amicus Poloniae by the Republic of Poland and received the Jess Cole Award from the Missouri IAJE Unit. He is an Artist-Clinician for Benge trumpets (Conn-Selmer) and has directed ensembles for the College Band Directors National Association, Music Educators National Conference, Society of Composers, International Electronic Music Plus Festival, the Iowa, Kansas, Missouri, Ohio, and South Carolina MENC units, and numerous festivals. He has performed with artists including Bob Brookmeyer, Bill Dobbins, Gary Foster, and Bobby Watson, and Polish artists Joachim Mencel, Janusz Muniak, Jacek Niedziela, and Wlodek Pawlik. He has recorded with harpist Michelle Himmell, the Spirit of Kansas City Orchestra, the St. Thomas Quartet, and the Webster Jazz Faculty. Founder of the Webster New Music Ensemble, he has worked with composers such as Robert Cooper, Donald Erb, Donald Freund, Karel Husa, James Mobberley, Eugene O’Brien, Kim Portnoy, Gay Holmes-Spears, and Morton Subotnick.Dr. Parkinson is a member of the AFM, MENC, Phi Mu Alpha Sinfonia, Pi Kappa Lambda, the United Methodist Church, and is an honorary member of Tau Beta Sigma and Kappa Kappa Psi. He is a past president of the Polish & American Youth Jazz Foundation and the Missouri and Ohio IAJE Units. His interests include Formula-1 racing and Polish studies. He is married to Charlene Hanson, a native of North Dakota and director of the OU Women’s Chorale.

R	Wayne Lawson Adjunct Professor, Department of Art Education; Executive Director, Ohio Arts Council Ohio State University See Bio Wayne Lawson is Executive Director of the Ohio Arts Council and an adjunct professor at Ohio State. He has served on many panels for the National Endowment for the Arts, and was chairman of the National Assembly of State Arts Agencies for three terms. He also completed three terms as chairman of Arts Midwest. Dr. Lawson serves on the evaluation team of Young Audiences, New York City, and is a member of the boards of the Fine Arts Work Center in Provincetown, Mass.; the Columbus AIDS Task Force; and the Music-Theatre Group, New York.He received his Ph.D. in Theatre and Comparative Literature, M.A. in European Literature, and B.A. in Romance Languages from The Ohio State University.

N	Wesley Montgomery Chief Operating Officer National Performance Network See Bio Wesley V. Montgomery, Chief Operating Officer, is responsible for the internal operations of the organization, fundraising, and new projects development. He will also serve as a key figure in spearheading many of NPN’s arts intermediary relationships, supporting artists working in the recovery of New Orleans. Montgomery served as the Managing Director for New WORLD Theater, a program of the Fine Arts Center at the University of Massachusetts, Amherst. His experience also encompasses significant work in arts education, having served as the inaugural Director of Education for New York City’s New Victory Theater, a New 42nd Street project that served as a major anchor to the economic redevelopment efforts of the city’s famed 42nd Street. He has been an active member of local and national boards, having served in the past on the boards of directors of NPN, Amherst A Better Chance, and the NAMES Project Foundation. He has also served on panels for the NEA, Theatre Communications Group (New Generations Program), the Pew Charitable Trusts, Maggie Alessee National Center for Choreography, and the Connecticut Commission on Culture and Tourism.