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Please exist aware that South Arts' individual staff member telephone extensions have changed effective November 2021. Please see beneath or use the Dial by Name directory when calling 404.874.7244 to ensure you reach the proper staff member.
mbosarge@southarts.org
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Contact Michael for finance, operations, and homo resource
Michael is an experienced finance and operations professional. He has exemplified years of successfully helping pb organizations in high-level accounting, budgeting and audit compliance. His keen agreement of bookkeeping procedures and software systems is evident in his work.
Several times throughout his professional person career, he assumed additional responsibilities and was promoted internally. His thought leadership is blended with his compassion for the well-being other people, which has likewise helped him excel in human being resource manager roles throughout his career. He has also helped lead information technology strategic planning and full general operational strategies and compliance.
Michael graduated with a bachelor'southward degree from the University of Southward Alabama. While attending college, he was active and held diverse educatee leadership positions including President of the Student Programming Board, Financial Manager for the Student Programming Board, Student Authorities Senator for the College of Business and President of the campus chapter of Circumvolve M International, which is a collegiate service organization that is a leadership program of Kiwanis International.
Michael has over ten years of leadership experience in the not-profit sector as a member of the executive management team at South Arts and previously at Technology Association of Georgia. With both organizations, he has served every bit the executive officer for the finance and operations sectors of the organizations.
edassler@southarts.org
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Contact Ellie for In These Mountains: Central Appalachian Folk Arts & Civilization
Ellie Dassler is the Assistant Director for Traditional Arts. She helps to facilitate Southward Arts' Traditional Arts programs, including the In These Mountains initiative supporting and documenting traditional arts and cultures in Central Appalachia. She is a passionate believer in the office that traditional culture tin play in edifice a more equitable globe.
Ellie holds an MA in Folk Studies from Western Kentucky University and a BA in Anthropology from the College of William & Mary in Virginia. Before joining S Arts, she has worked and interned for the Kentucky Folklife Program, the Journal of American Folklore, the Due north Carolina Arts Council, and Long Isle Traditions. She was a 2017-2018 Fulbright English Teaching Banana at the Academy of Aveiro in Portugal.
nestes@southarts.org
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Contact Nikki for Presentation grants, Limited grants, Professional Development and Artistic Planning grants, Cross-Sector Impact grants, Trip the light fantastic Touring Initiative
Prior to her piece of work at South Arts, Nikki was the Grants Supervisor at the City of Atlanta Office of Cultural Diplomacy (OCA). While at the OCA, Nikki also assisted with the direction of the youth arts program and music festivals. She has worked at the Atlanta Contemporary Art Heart and High Museum of Art – two of Atlanta's most prominent visual arts organizations, and has served every bit a panelist for the National Endowment for the Arts, Alabama Country Quango on the Arts, Georgia Council for the Arts, Kentucky Arts Council, Louisiana Division of the Arts, Mississippi Arts Commission, South Carolina Arts Commission, Fulton County Arts Council, and Woodruff Arts Heart.
Nikki has served on the Board of Directors for Atlanta Celebrates Photography and the Advisory Board for the Foundation Middle-Atlanta. She has a Available of Interdisciplinary Studies for Arts Administration and a Chief of Public Administration for Nonprofit Management from Georgia State University.
jholland@southarts.org
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Jessyca has over 20 years of experience working in the arts and culture field. In 2010, Jessyca co-founded C4 Atlanta, a nationally recognized nonprofit arts service system. During her tenure at C4, Jessyca built and managed programs that reached thousands of artists each yr. In addition to her nonprofit work, Jessyca advocates for artists, the arts field, and community development that spurs economic resilience, nurtures healthy communities, and promotes equity.
Jessyca participated in the Bank of America Neighborhood Excellence Initiative Leadership Plan, the Arts Leaders of Metro Atlanta, and was a Judith O'Conner Scholar for BoardSource. She was named Alumni of the Year by the University of West Georgia Theatre Company in 2013 and received an Achievement Accolade from her Alma Mater, April 2014. She has served as a speaker and panelist for Georgia Frontwards, The National Arts Marketing Project, Georgians for the Arts, Artists Thrive, Association of Arts Service Organizations, and many more.
Jessyca currently serves on the Leadership Council of the National Small Business Association and volunteers with Fine art Works ATL, an artist-centered political action group. She teaches Ignite, a business development seminar with community partners such as Fulton County Arts and Civilisation and the Georgia Hispanic Chamber of Commerce. Jessyca holds a BA in Theatre, a Chief's caste in Library Media, and is pursuing a Master's of Public Administration with a focus on planning and economic development at Georgia State University.
thollingsworth@southarts.org
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Contact Teresa for In These Mountains: Central Appalachian Folk Arts & Culture, Folklorists in the South, Traditional Arts Touring grants
Teresa Hollingsworth is the Program Managing director for Picture show and Traditional Arts. She recently launched a three-year project, In These Mountains, Central Appalachian Folk Arts & Culture that includes arts education, fieldwork, fellowships, and master artist/apprenticeship program expansion working in Appalachian Regional Commission counties in Kentucky, North Carolina and Tennessee. She likewise oversees the Traditional Arts Touring Grant plan. She is also the Moving-picture show Editor for the Journal of American Folklore.
Teresa has contributed to numerous media projects, educational publications and scholarly journals, curated museum exhibits, and frequently serves as a project consultant, lecturer, festival stage director, and grant panelist. Previously, Teresa was a staff member for the post-obit programs: Florida Folklife Program, Maine Folklife Eye, and Kentucky Folklife Program. She holds a MA in Folk Studies from Western Kentucky Academy (Bowling Dark-green, Kentucky). Teresa serves on WKU's Potter College of Arts & Letters' Alumni Advisory Council.
clee@southarts.org
404.874.7244 x822
Contact Cathy for information technology and infrastructure items
A Virginia native, Cathy has worked in the It field for 36+ years. Prior to Southward Arts, she served as the Information Technology Director at the Due south.C. Arts Committee. She has been on the lath and volunteered at several not-profits, including 701 Center for Contemporary Art in Columbia, Due south. C., the S.C. Arts Foundation, and her local volunteer fire department. Beyond her It experience, Cathy has worked as a grant author, panelist, and director. She has also served in procurement, facilities management, event planning, marketing, and graphic design. In addition to her Information technology studies at Northern Virginia Community College and the University of Southward.C., Cathy studied phonation, piano, and music theory. Her unique feel supporting It in an arts surround positions her well to serve South Arts' programs and mission.
lmckeithan@southarts.org
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Contact Leland for accessibility and disability resource
Leland McKeithan is the Director of Special Projects and Accessibility Coordinator for South Arts. She serves as project manager for a variety of programmatic and operational activities such every bit curating the Kennedy Centers' Arts Across America Livestream Series too as developing and implementing a centralized database and grants management system. She is the South Arts Accessibility Coordinator and manages diverse grant programs including the Individual Artist Career Opportunity Grants and Cross-Sector Impact Grants. Every bit a member of the Presenting and Touring team at Due south Arts, Leland contributes to presenting and touring programming and serves as liaison to presenter networks in the South. Prior to sunsetting the program in 2019, Leland was the Director of Performing Arts Exchange conference.
Leland has a background in philanthropy and project management. She has served as a Grants Ambassador for JP Morgan Philanthropic Services, a Program Officer for Southern Partners Fund, and a Grants/Project Direction Consultant for many clients including the Southeastern Council of Foundations. Leland grew up in Winston-Salem, NC; studied at Boston University, School of Fine Arts, and Sarah Lawrence College, where she earned her B.A. in political scientific discipline. She made New York her home for nine years before settling in Atlanta, GA in 2006.
Leland has a performing arts groundwork in musical theater, vox, and dance. She has been the atomic number 82 vocalizer for the customs large bands Capitol City Xpress and Wide Street Jazz, and she currently leads her ain jazz philharmonic The Standards Project. Leland is as well an avid social Latin dancer.
emessere@southarts.org
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Contact Ethan for Emerging Leaders of Color
Ethan holds a Masters of Music in Orchestral Operation from Georgia State University and a Bachelor of Arts with a concentration in music operation from Syracuse University. Prior to his work in arts administration, he worked equally a freelance trumpet role player in Atlanta and in his home region of Upstate New York. A lifelong fan of all things basketball, Ethan cheers on the Syracuse Orange whenever he can.
cphaneuf@southarts.org
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Contact Charles for Due south Arts' strategy and partnerships
Charles Phaneuf is an arts leader who has helped grow a variety of organizations, small and large, with a detail accent on customs appointment, inclusion, and fiscal sustainability.
His career started at UNC-Chapel Hill where he was president of the student wedlock and activities lath. While living in Washington, DC, he served as Associate Managing Director of Shakespeare Theatre Company during its expansion into the Harman Center for the Arts, and also helped found the Capital letter Fringe Festival and the Maverick Caverns Jazz Orchestra. Charles returned to Raleigh, NC to become Executive Director of Raleigh Little Theatre, where he led a revitalization of the organization culminating in a successful upper-case letter campaign. Under his leadership as President, the United Arts Quango of Raleigh and Wake County launched the first-e'er Triangle-wide fundraiser for the arts (Big Dark In for the Arts) with WRAL/WRAL.com, and partnered with Wake County on the $1 million Wake Canton Nonprofit Arts Relief Fund.
Charles has been named Tar Heel of the Week by the News and Observer (2018) and forty Under 40 by the Triangle Business organization Periodical (2014). He was selected equally one of 19 People for 2022 by the Independent Weekly. He currently serves on the board of directors of Arts North Carolina, on the customs commission of Dix Park, and is a past chair of the Friends of the Gregg Museum at NC State. He enjoys biking, golf and playing music, often with his wife Emily, who is likewise a musician.
dponomarenko@southarts.org
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Contact Dmitry for finance, accounting, accounts payable, and function management
Dmitry Ponomarenko received a B.A. in Economics from Georgia State Academy and is currently on rails to graduate in August of 2022 with B.B.A. in Accounting from Georgia Land University. He spent 10 years working as a Information Analyst for LifeLink of Georgia, a non-turn a profit organization which specializes in Organ and Tissue transplantation. Dmitry is also in the process of earning his CPA license in the state of Georgia. He has a bang-up heed for numbers and wants to use his feel and knowledge to assist people properly plan their financial time to come.
In his spare time, Dmitry runs a small wholesale distribution visitor which helps local tattoo artists become the supplies they demand to perform their art. Equally his visitor motto says, "Get out the art to the artist and let us handle the rest."
aporter@southarts.org
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Contact Ashleigh for South Arts' digital communications data including social media, website, and email
Biography coming soon.
ischustak@southarts.org
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Contact Ivan for media relations, web/social media, and Southward Arts' communications equally well as the South Arts Resilience Fund
Ivan Schustak oversees the communications and fundraising activities for South Arts. Prior to joining S Arts, Ivan served equally Marketing and Communications Manager with the Pasadena Symphony and POPS and held the inaugural position of Guest Service Manager at Phoenix's new Musical Musical instrument Museum. Ivan has besides held positions with the Georgia Institute of Engineering Office of the Arts, Arizona Opera, and the Del E. Webb Centre for the Performing Arts. Equally a formerly active performer, Ivan specialized in the euphonium and trombone, belongings first-chair positions in the Rutgers University Current of air Ensemble and the Rutgers Academy Jazz Ensemble Ii. Ivan holds a BM in Music Teaching from Rutgers University, and an MA in Arts Management from Claremont Graduate University.
estevenson@southarts.org
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Contact Emmitt for Private Artist Career Opportunity Grants and the Southern Prize and State Fellowships
Biography coming soon.
ssurkamer@southarts.org
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Suzette "Susie" Surkamer began every bit the South Arts principal executive in 2012. Previously, she had been the Executive Managing director of the South Carolina Arts Commission until she retired in 2009. Her past service includes president of the National Assembly of State Arts Agencies (NASAA), treasurer of the Clan of Performing Arts Presenters, fellow member of the Coca-Cola Scholarship National Pick Committee, member of the National Arts Education Partnership Steering Commission, member of the Winthrop University Board of Visitors, member of Clemson University'south President's Advisory Commission, and on panels for the National Endowment for the Arts and other organizations. Winthrop University awarded her its Medal of Honor in the Arts (2006), and NASAA recognized her with the Gary Immature Honour (2008). Susie earned a MEd in dance teaching from George Washington Academy and a BA in dance from the University of Maryland.
swilder@southarts.org
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Contact Sabrina for items related to South Arts' executive leadership and lath of directors
Sabrina Wilder began with S Arts in April 2022 every bit the Executive Team Administrative Manager, bringing experience in executive assistants, board of directors' management, and project management. Sabrina has over 18 years of experience managing people, projects, and processes including recent work in the teaching sector at Morehouse Schoolhouse of Medicine, The Lovett School, and The Academy of Alabama Organization.
Sabrina holds a Bachelor of Arts degree in Journalism/Public Relations from Georgia Land University and a Primary of Public Administration from Walden University.
In her spare time, Sabrina enjoys reading, attending college football games (Roll Tide!), and spending time with family and friends.
jyoung@southarts.org
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Contact Jordan for Southern Circuit Tour of Independent Filmmakers and media arts
Jordan Young is a media creative person, educator, and arts advocate based in Atlanta, Georgia. As Managing director of Media Arts with South Arts, Jordan oversees media arts initiatives and directs the Southern Circuit Tour of Independent Filmmakers. In his role equally Blueprint Manager, he coordinates media design for South Arts communications. Jordan co-chairs the South Arts Equity Commission, helping to pb efforts to prioritize disinterestedness values in all aspects of South Arts. He is the Co-founder of Fort Psych Media & Events, and holds an MA in Media Arts from University of Southward Carolina with a BA in Product Studies in Performing Arts from Clemson University.
joyyoung@southarts.org
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Contact Joy for programmatic strategies and services for constituents
Joy Young, Ph.D. has more than 25 years of experience in the arts as an entrepreneurial performing artist, arts administrator, and academic. Joy's work as a performing artist included owning a successful music studio and performing every bit a recitalist, sanctuary soloist, studio and background vocalizer. Her 14-twelvemonth tenure with the Southward Carolina Arts Committee was highlighted by serving on the executive leadership squad as the agency Director of Administration, Homo Resources, and Operations. Joy also implemented a diverseness of programs at the South Carolina Arts Commission to include arts/artist entrepreneurship; nonprofit leadership and organizational evolution; cultural tourism; statewide conferences and convening; and the AIR Institute. Joy's contribution to the arts at the national level include service as a grant reviewer for the National Endowment for the Arts, member of the Committee for Private Artists with Grantmakers in the Arts, and a mentor for the NASAA DEI Mentorship Plan.
Virtually recently, Joy served the Executive Director of the Cultural Quango of Greater Jacksonville. Her work saw her committed to a team who worked together implementing innovative programs, developing and executing proactive and quantifiable arts and culture initiatives, and broadening relationships with new networks and stakeholders. Joy found tremendous success capitalizing on the power of public-individual partnerships as a strategy to significantly increment the Cultural Council's earned acquirement.
Joy enjoys sharing her experiences from the field in the classroom by preparing the next generation of arts administrators in the Main of Arts in Arts Administration at Winthrop Academy to be adaptive leaders. Joy holds a Bachelor of Arts in Music, Master of Arts in Voice Functioning, and the Ph.D. in Organizational Leadership. Her research interests include arts leadership, program assessment and evaluation, and organization and leadership adaptations amid dynamic ecology paradigms.
Our Board represents leaders from our nine-state region and beyond. They work beyond sectors in business, authorities, and the arts. We're proud to take these thoughtful and achieved leaders leading and advancing South Arts.
In January of 2019, Barclay was selected to lead the Charles H. Wright Museum of African American History equally its president and CEO.
A former attorney, Barclay was near recently executive managing director and CEO of the Contemporary Arts Center (CAC) in New Orleans. During his v-yr tenure, the institution'southward budget increased by more than 40 percent including lead gifts from the nation's major art philanthropists.
Barclay'southward experience as well includes 7 years of service every bit associate managing director of the Performing Arts Middle for the University of Texas at Austin and service equally founding president and CEO of Pittsburgh, Pa.'s Baronial Wilson Center. Additionally, he was instrumental in capital development planning for Los Angeles' Vision Theater, originally congenital by Howard Hughes for the city.
Barclay has demonstrated his personal commitment to art and culture as a peer panelist for the National Endowment for the Arts, New England Foundation for the Arts' National Dance Project, the Gerbode Foundation and the Mid Atlantic Arts Foundation. A leading national presenter of contemporary performing and visual arts, Barclay serves on the Board of Directors and Executive Committee of the regional arts organization South Arts.
He is currently a member of the College of Communications and Fine Arts Advisory Board for Loyola Marymount University, Los Angeles, his undergraduate and law school alma mater.
Cathy Callaway Adams is a cocky-described arts omnivore, with a particular love for opera, choral singing, theatre, and literature. She serves on the boards of Due south Arts, the Atlanta Opera, the Atlanta Bizarre Orchestra, and the Suzi Bass Awards. She chairs the board of trustees of Mercer University and is on the advisory councils of Growing Leaders and Mercer University Center for Ethics and Leadership. Cathy volunteers every bit a mentor with Georgia State Academy's Women Lead programme and Pathbuilders, Inc., and moonlights as a pianist, accompanying the Georgia Festival Chorus, a 100-voice auditioned choral group. Cathy'due south BA in piano operation is from Tift College, and her MBA in Management is from Georgia Country University. Later on three decades in banking, Cathy maintains a consulting practise focused on leadership coaching and nonprofit governance/management. She and her married man live and work and play on Amelia Island, Florida.
William serves as the pb office partner in Raleigh, NC, for Haynsworth Sinkler Boyd, P.A. Prior to rejoining the firm, William served equally General Counsel to the Governor of North Carolina and Special Counsel to the Attorney Full general of Northward Carolina. He focuses his practice in the areas of land and local government, economical evolution, and business organization litigation. William serves on the boards of SouthArts, Edenton Street United Methodist Church Children's Development Centre Board, South Carolina Chamber of Commerce and North Carolina – Catawba Compact Certification Commission.
Dr. Elliot A. Knight is the Executive Director of the Alabama State Council on the Arts. He grew upwards in Opelika, Alabama and earned three degrees from the University of Alabama including a BA in Visual Advice, an MA in American Studies, and a PhD in Interdisciplinary Studies. Dr. Knight is a Blackburn Swain, member of the Montgomery Rotary Club, and serves on the board of directors of the Alabama Humanities Foundation, Academy of Alabama Community Affairs Lath of Advisors, and the Alabama Tourism Section Advisory Lath. He co-founded and developed the Black Belt 100 Lenses Program, a participatory photography and arts program that worked with high school students in twelve Alabama Black Belt counties from 2007-2012. Knight developed and taught several courses at the University of Alabama in the Section of Art History, the Honors Higher, and the Department of American Studies. He also served as Director of the Arts Living Learning Community at the University of Alabama. At the Alabama State Council on the Arts, Dr. Knight previously held the positions of Deputy Director besides as Visual Arts Programme Manager and Manager of the Georgine Clarke Alabama Artists Gallery.
Ben Rex, of Columbia, SC, has been the CEO of Cyberwoven since its inception in 2001. He is a graduate of the University of South Carolina Honors College and serves on the South Carolina Honors Higher Partnership Board. Ben is actively involved in the community as a fellow member of the South Carolina Philharmonic Board of Directors, the Conservancy Ground forces Advisory Board, and the Central Carolina Community Foundation Board of Directors. Ben has a broad interest in how business, economic development, arts, and culture intersect to strengthen South Carolina, and works actively in each of those sectors.
Alejandro Aguirre is an international business and communications consultant who spent much of his professional career in various positions in 1 of the start Spanish language newspapers in the United States, Diario Las Américas founded in 1953. Too his piece of work in journalism, Aguirre has devoted much of his time in various borough activities particularly in the Arts through participation on various boards such as the Southern Arts Federation, Miami-Dade Cultural Affairs Council, Fairchild Tropical Botanical Garden, Florida Arts Council and Americans for the Arts. He likewise has held leading positions at the Inter American Printing Clan, the western hemisphere'south leading printing liberty system, at which he was Chair in 2010. Currently, also his consulting activeness, Aguirre is a member of the board of TerraBank NA in Miami and is oftentimes consulted by media throughout the hemisphere on political and economic issues.
Chris is the Executive Director of the Kentucky Arts Council. He has been with the arts quango for 14 years. He serves equally Advancement Chair for South Arts, a regional arts organization and on the nominating committee for the National Associates of State Arts Agencies.
Formerly, every bit program branch manager for the arts council, Chris managed customs-based initiatives, developed the Kentucky Certified Cultural Commune plan and produced The Kentucky Crafted Market place. Additionally, his duties included research, development and implementation of processes, programs and initiatives to promote community edifice through the arts, integrating and promoting cultural heritage tourism and marketing of the arts.
Prior to the Arts Council, Chris spent three years at Eastern Kentucky Academy every bit program manager of the Kentucky Artisan Heritage Trails program, a nationally recognized cultural heritage tourism project in the Appalachian region of Kentucky. Under his direction, the program garnered numerous awards including the Kentucky Earth Day Accolade, Center for Information Technology Enterprise'south Best Practices in the KY120, and the University Economical Development Association'due south Award of Excellence in Customs Development. He also helped to develop the kickoff-always Geo-Tourism Map of Appalachia in partnership with the National Geographic Social club. Chris holds an MBA in Business organization Management from Morehead State University. His background includes Cyberspace Marketing, Sales and Retail Management experience.
Chris resides in Lexington with his wife Misty, girl, Olivia and son, Jasper. His personal interests include photography, reading, film (especially Horror) and outdoor activities.
Dedicated to encouraging people to connect with fine art and nature, Elmore DeMott is a speaker, writer, and artist. Through this wide variety of piece of work, Elmore shares the bulletin, "Dazzler abounds. Seek it daily." Elmore earned her BA in Math and Fine Art from Vanderbilt University and began her career in banking. Next, she worked in arts administration before putting her own creative talents to piece of work as an artist. An gorging arts supporter, Elmore was the founding president of ClefWorks, an Alabama arts organization, created to promote the education and enjoyment of chamber music through innovative programming. In Alabama, she is on the founding leadership team of the new Photographic Nights of Selma Festival, and serves equally the president of the Jasmine Loma Foundation. Elmore is as well a board member of the internationally acclaimed JACK Quartet every bit well as the New York-based Collaborative Arts Ensemble. For collaborating, connecting, and sharing creative experience, Elmore received the 2022 +Factor Award from the New York-based string quartet, ETHEL. Elmore is an accolade-winning photographer whose passion for the wonders of Mother Nature inspired her to begin her "Flowers for Mom" series, comprised of daily flower photos, to honor her mother's Alzheimer's journey and celebrate nature. Maria Shriver, founder of the Women'due south Alzheimer's Movement, recognized her equally an Architect of Modify for her employ of art as a means to open up up deep conversations well-nigh the challenges of aging and the need to admit the beauty of gifts amidst the hardships of our life journeys. In addition to exhibits and speaking engagements, her Camera Journey continues to pb to unique collaborations whereby her art serves as a backdrop for performances such as 1 with the San Francisco-based Del Sol String Quartet. This summer at the DAP Dance Festival in Italy, her piece of work was office of the premiere of a ballet by Norwegian dancer and choreographer, Thomas Johansen. Elmore was the artist in residence for the Photography Festival in Pierrevert, France and volition continue to travel in her abode country of Alabama and beyond for upcoming speaking engagements and exhibits to share her work.
John T. Border writes about the American Southward. In 2017, Penguin published The Potlikker Papers: A Nutrient History of the Mod South, named every bit book of the yr by NPR, Publisher's Weekly, and a host of others. Now in paperback, Nashville selected the book every bit a citywide read for 2018. Edge is also the host of the television show TrueSouth, which airs on the SEC Network and on ESPN. Edge is a contributing editor at Garden & Gun and a columnist for the Oxford American. For three years he wrote the monthly "United Gustation" column for The New York Times. His magazine and newspaper piece of work has been featured in eleven editions of the All-time Food Writing compilation. He has won three James Beard Foundation awards. In 2012, he won Beard's M.F.K. Fisher Distinguished Writing Award. Edge holds an MA in Southern Studies from the University of Mississippi and an MFA in Creative Nonfiction from Goucher College. He directs the Southern Foodways Alliance, an constitute of the Center for the Study of Southern Civilisation at the University of Mississippi, where he documents, studies, and explores the diverse food cultures of the American Due south. Edge has written or edited more than a dozen books, including the foodways volume of the New Encyclopedia of Southern Civilisation. He is series editor of Southern Foodways Brotherhood Studies in Culture, People, and Place, published by the University of Georgia Press. Edge has served equally culinary curator for the weekend edition of NPR's "All Things Considered," and has been featured on dozens of idiot box shows, from "CBS Sun Morning" to "Iron Chef." Edge lives in Oxford, Mississippi, with his son, Jess, and his wife, Blair Hobbs, a teacher, author, and painter.
Olga Garay-English, an contained arts consultant, is Senior Advisor for International Affairs to Fundación Teatro a Mil in Santiago, Chile, the producer of the three-calendar week Festival Internacional Santiago a Mil. In 2016, she became Executive Director of the celebrated Ford Theatres, a i,200-seat amphitheatre in the Hollywood Hills for three-years earlier the Los Angeles Combo causeless its management. Olga was Executive Manager of the Metropolis of Los Angeles Department of Cultural Diplomacy. During her tenure at the Urban center, DCA and its programs were awarded more than $23 million in funding from individual and public entities 2007-2014). Every bit founding Program Managing director for the Arts of the Doris Duke Charitable Foundation (1998-2005), she awarded $145 million to U.S.-based and international arts organizations. Ms. Garay-English became a Chevalier dans l'Ordre des Arts et Lettres in 2012. Awarded a "Bessie", the New York Dance and Performance Awards, for sustained contribution to the field – 2006. Fan Taylor Distinguished Service Accolade, Association of Performing Arts Presenters – 2003. Built-in in Santa Clara, Cuba, she became a naturalized Us citizen in 1978. She is the widow of Dr. Kerry English, a developmental pediatrician who defended his life to serving driveling and foster children in South Los Angeles. 
Sonya M. Halpern is an entrepreneur with over two decades of marketing, fundraising, and event production feel in for-profit and non-profit environments. With a passion for the arts, politics and education, Ms. Halpern devotes her community engagement and philanthropic efforts to those areas. In 2011 President Obama appointed her to the President's Advisory Committee on the Arts, a national board of the nation's premier cultural center, the John F. Kennedy Center for Performing Arts in Washington DC. 3 years later when he named her Chairperson of PACA, she became the get-go Georgian and kickoff African American to serve in this capacity since its inception. She embraced leadership roles for nearly a decade with the National Black Arts Festival, one of the oldest multidisciplinary arts and cultural institutions in this country celebrating the piece of work of people of African descent. As Chair of the Lath, she worked tirelessly to usher the organization towards sustainability and a new strategic vision for its hereafter. Sonya is currently an advisory board fellow member of the DeVos Establish of Arts Management/University of Maryland and serves on the Board of Trustees for Public Broadcasting Atlanta, the YMCA of Metro Atlanta and The Children'southward School. She is part of the leadership team for the Women's Leadership Forum of the DNC, and a founder of the Electing Women Alliance Atlanta. Before launching her ain consulting exercise, Sonya spent over a decade in advert sales and marketing at several of the country's leading media companies including ESPN, Inc., The Walt Disney Visitor and Cox Enterprises. Her experience includes cable tv, print and digital media. During her tenure at these organizations, she held positions of responsibility in all aspects of media sales including local and national business concern development, sales preparation, strategic planning and analysis, and sales management. Sonya holds a Master of Business Administration degree from the University of Hartford'south International MBA program where she studied in Paris, France and a Available of Arts in Mass Communications from the University of Massachusetts, Amherst. She lives in Atlanta with her husband, two young sons and daughter.
The Honorable Glenda E. Hood is President of Hood Partners, a strategic consulting firm focused on civic innovation serving the business, government, and independent sectors. Hood served every bit Florida Secretary of State from 2003-2005 and Mayor/CEO of the Metropolis of Orlando from 1992-2003. Before being elected Orlando's kickoff woman Mayor, she was a City Council member for ten years and president of her ain public relations concern. As Mayor, Hood was a strong advocate of growth management and smart growth principles to build safe, livable neighborhoods, a revitalized downtown, and a strong local economy. Every bit Secretary of State, Hood was responsible for the Section'south Divisions of Administrative Services, Corporations, Cultural Affairs, Elections, Historical Resources, and Library and Information Services; and was instrumental in crafting the State's Strategic Programme for Economic Development and leading numerous international concern initiatives. Hood has served every bit President of the National League of Cities, the Florida League of Cities, and Chair of the Florida Chamber of Commerce. She is a Trustee of the Urban Land Plant (ULI) and agile participant and chair of more than 20 ULI Informational Services and Daniel Rose Center for Public Leadership panels; a Beau of the National University of Public Administration; and long-standing board member and Past Chair of Partners for Livable Communities. Hood serves as a corporate board fellow member of Delta Apparel (NYSE: DLA), Baskerville-Donovan, Inc., and chairs both the SantaFe HealthCare, Inc. and Axiom Bank, NA, boards. She is too a board fellow member of the Orlando Land Trust, Alabama's Kentuck Fine art Center and Festival and the Florida Chamber of Commerce where she chairs the Small Business organization Council. Hood received her BA caste in Spanish from Rollins College after studying in Republic of costa rica and Spain. She attended the Harvard Academy Kennedy School of Government Executive Program and participated in the Mayor'southward Urban Pattern Institute at the Academy of Virginia and the Club of International Concern Fellows.
Susannah Johannsen is the Executive Director for the Louisiana Division of the Arts. She took over this role in April, 2021. She has more than than xx years of experience managing projects and teams in strategic planning, customs evolution, and federal grant management. In her well-nigh recent role with Louisiana Main Street, she worked with 49 Certified Local Regime communities and 35 Main Street communities across Louisiana to strengthen business organisation evolution, combat blight and urge revitalization through historic preservation.
Originally from Charlotte, North Carolina, Johannsen studied Fine art History at Randolph-Macon Women's College in Lynchburg, Virginia and she holds principal's degrees in landscape compages and business concern assistants from Louisiana State University (LSU). Johannsen serves on several area boards and commissions, including the LSU Museum of Fine art Advisory Lath, Billy Rouge Gallery, Large River Economical & Agronomical Evolution Brotherhood, and the Louisiana Folklife Commission.
Tina Lilly is the Executive Director of Georgia Quango for the Arts. She has been with GCA for 14 years and previously served as the Grants Plan Director. In that function, she managed all aspects of a $2 million grant program, including the distribution of CARES Act funds and the creation of both the Vibrant Communities, Cultural Facilities, Resiliency and Bridge Grant programs. While at GCA, she likewise served every bit a member of the Tourism Resource Squad with Explore Georgia and advised communities across the state about utilizing the arts for community and economical evolution.
Prior to coming to Georgia Council for the Arts, Tina served as Executive Managing director of the Madison-Morgan Cultural Centre in Madison, GA; Administrative Director at seven Stages Theatre in Atlanta; and Director at Live Allurement Theatre in Chicago. She likewise worked as an offshoot professor at The Theatre Schoolhouse in Chicago and a freelance director at various theatres in Chicago, Atlanta and New York.
Tina received a BA in theatre from Birmingham-Southern College and an MFA in directing from The Theatre School at DePaul University (formerly the Goodman Schoolhouse of Drama).
Gretchen Wollert McLennon was named President and CEO of Ballet Memphis in Baronial 2020. Entering executive leadership of a legacy arts non-profit during unprecedented and challenging times has bolstered Gretchen's unwavering commitment to assuming and audacious leadership reinforced by strategic, long-range planning.
In 2017, Gretchen founded DI Studio to leverage her over 15 years in the philanthropic and non-profit sectors. Gretchen helps organizations optimize their capacity and plan practices in innovative means. Using a collaborative and energetic perspective, her exercise crafts a robust and collaborative procedure that delivers assessments and analyses that integrate tangible and measurable approaches to strengthen levers for affect and better clear a focused narrative for long-term viability. Gretchen worked with clients in Minneapolis, Atlanta, Chicago, and Wisconsin during her three years in private practice on projects ranging from strategic planning to leadership coaching and training.
Prior to launching her consulting exercise, Gretchen spent ten years at the Hyde Family Foundation as a Program Managing director. Her portfolio of piece of work focused on managing the arts & culture, entrepreneurship, and leadership portfolios of the Foundation by making strategic investments across the foundation'due south portfolio averaging over $3m annually. She was named Top 40 Under 40 in 2009 by the Memphis Business Periodical and Alumna of the Year in 2022 by St. Mary's Episcopal School.
Gretchen has served on the board of directors of several local organizations and institutions over the years, including: ArtsMemphis, St. Mary's Episcopal Schoolhouse, Hattiloo Theatre, Ballet Memphis, Playhouse on the Square, MIFA, Slingshot Memphis, Memphis Rock n Soul Museum, Memphis Regional Blueprint Eye, and The Women'due south Foundation for a Greater Memphis. She completed her executive coaching certification at the Teleos Leadership Institute (Philadelphia, PA) in 2018. A native Memphian, Gretchen is a graduate of Northwestern (BA) and Wake Woods (MBA) universities.
William Thou. "Bill" Medich is the Due south Carolina Coastal Segmentation President of Due south State Bank. He is based in Charleston, SC. He earned degrees from the University of S Carolina and the University Graduate School of Banking at Louisiana Country Academy. He is currently Chairman of the Board of Spoleto Festival Usa and serves on the boards of the Coastal Community Foundation (past chair), Gibbes Museum of Art (by chair), Higher of Charleston Foundation (past chair), Trident CEO Council (treasurer), Executive Association of Greater Charleston, and the Regional Development Alliance. His wife, Julie, is an attorney. They have two daughters, Lauren and Emily.
Kara Tucina Olidge, PhD is a scholar and arts and educational administrator. She is the old Deputy Director of the Schomburg Eye for Inquiry in Blackness Culture, a branch of the New York Public Library based in Harlem. Her scholarly work focuses on the intersection of art, disquisitional cosmopolitanism, and community activism. She graduated from Spelman College in 1992 with a Bachelor's degree in Philosophy with a minor in Art History. Dr. Olidge received a Master of Arts in Arts Administration from the University of New Orleans in 2000, where she received the Marcus B. Christian Graduate Scholarship. In 2000, Dr. Olidge was one of four emerging arts administrators selected for the National Arts Administration Mentorship Program where Edmund Cardoni, Executive Manager of Hallwalls Contemporary Arts Center, mentored her. She received her Ph.D. in Educational Leadership and Policy at the State Academy of New York at Buffalo (SUNY Buffalo) in 2010, where she was awarded the Mark Diamond Enquiry Grant for her doctoral work, Critical Cosmopolitanism and the Intellectual Work of Alain Locke.
Nina Parikh has been with the Mississippi Film Office for 22 years, currently serving as the director. She studied filmmaking at New York Academy and Academy of Southern Mississippi, worked in the industry as a producer, and currently teaches as an adjunct professor at Millsaps College. She and the team of "Anchor", an contained characteristic pic made in Mississippi, were honored with two awards at the Sundance Film Festival 2009. Nina is a co-founder and board fellow member of the Crossroads Moving-picture show Festival & Club and Mississippi Film Alliance, a non-profit supporting indigenous filmmaking. She also serves on the boards of the Association of Film Commissioners International, Mississippi Book Festival, Creative Mississippi, and is the producer of TEDxJackson.
For the past 26 years, David Platts has worked in South Carolina every bit an educator, main, and district level administrator. Prior to becoming the Executive Director of the Due south Carolina Arts Commission, David served every bit the arts and sciences coordinator for Lancaster County Schoolhouse Commune, a position he held for 15 years. In add-on to his work as an educator, Platts has served the Lancaster County Council of the Arts equally a board member and president. He has statewide experience as a member, president, and treasurer of the Palmetto Land Arts Education board and equally a electric current fellow member of the South Carolina Arts Alliance board, where he has been active as an arts abet. On the national level, David served as a member of the Teaching Advisory Commission for the John F. Kennedy Center's Partners in Didactics Plan. David keeps his own artistic expression fresh by serving as an accompanist and conductor for school and church choral programs.
Anne B. Pope serves equally the executive director of the Tennessee Arts Commission. Previously Pope served as the executive manager of the Tennessee Stem Innovation Network, a priority of the Tennessee Beginning to the Top Initiative, designed to promote and expand the educational activity and learning of scientific discipline, technology, engineering and mathematics in k-12 public schools across Tennessee. Pope was instrumental in the partnership between the Country of Tennessee and Battelle Memorial Found, the largest research and development nonprofit in the globe, and, in a public partnership with the Tennessee Department of Education, is a managing partner of the Tennessee STEM Innovation Network. Prior to her work with the Stalk Innovation Network, Pope served equally federal co-chair of the Appalachian Regional Commission, an economic development partnership between the federal government and the governors of 13 states. She previously served every bit commissioner of the Tennessee Section of Commerce and Insurance, and as executive director of the Tennessee Motion picture, Entertainment, and Music Commission. In the private sector, Pope served as president/CEO of Proffitt'southward of the Tri-Cities, Inc., formerly a division of Saks, Inc., and prior to that as president/CEO for the Parks-Belk Co., a chain of section stores located in northeast Tennessee. A graduate of Vanderbilt Academy and the Cumberland Schoolhouse of Police at Samford Academy, Pope is admitted to do law in Tennessee and the Commune of Columbia. Growing up in Kingsport Tennessee, Pope has a life-long passion for the arts. She enjoys music, picture show, reading, the outdoors, and spending time with her son.
Dennis Scholl is the President and CEO of Oolite Arts (f.k.a. ArtCenter/South Florida), a 35-year-old organization defended to supporting visual arts in Miami. He is also a collector of contemporary art. He and his wife Debra have i of the largest individual collections of Aboriginal Australian art in the United states of america. Over the last twenty years, Scholl created a series of initiatives dedicated to building the gimmicky fine art collections of museums, including the Guggenheim, the Tate Mod and the Pérez Art Museum Miami. He has served on the boards and executive committees of the Aspen Art Museum; Museum of Gimmicky Art, Northward Miami; the Pérez Art Museum; and the Linda Pace Foundation. He was named three times to the almanac WESTAF list of the Near Powerful and Influential Leaders in the Nonprofit Arts in the Usa, and forth with his wife, Debra, received the National Service in the Arts Accolade from the Anderson Ranch Art Center. He is a thirteen-time regional Emmy winner for his work in cultural documentaries. He is the co-founder of Betts & Scholl, and Mother Tongue Shiraz, which produced honor-winning wines in Australia and France. From 2009 to 2015, Scholl was the Vice President / Arts of the Knight Foundation. He oversaw the foundation's national arts program, including the Knight Arts Challenge and Random Acts of Civilisation, with grants to cultural organizations totaling shut to $200 million. In 2012, Scholl was named a Harvard Academy Advanced Leadership Boyfriend, focusing on the part of civilisation in customs date. From 2012 to 2015, Scholl was a Visiting Scholar at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology Media Lab. Previously, Scholl was a practicing attorney and CPA.
Sandy Shaughnessy became manager of the Florida Partition of Cultural Affairs in 2005 after serving in the bureau as arts administrator for various programs, special events and initiatives since 1997. Prior to the Segmentation of Cultural Affairs, Sandy served as Box Function Manager for Sometime Schoolhouse Square Cultural Arts Heart in Delray Beach, and as Director/Treasurer of Box Part Operations for the Tampa Bay Performing Arts Center in Tampa. She has over 25 years of experience working with performing arts venues, artists, producers, Broadway Road Evidence managers and nonprofit arts administration. Born and raised in New York City, Shaughnessy spent her off school hours working at ABC'southward function of World News Tonight and twenty/twenty also as at the Fashion Institute of Technology. Shaughnessy has a Available of Arts caste in Dramatic Literature, Theatre History, and the Cinema with a minor in Political Science from New York University. Her graduate course work has been in arts administration and she is trained in international protocol. She enjoys writing, designing and hanging art exhibitions, international collaborations, meeting people and serving the customs. In addition to the Due south Arts board, She has served on the National Assembly of State Arts Agencies Lath, currently serving on the governance committee and on the 2022 awards job force. She has also served as a grant panelist for the National Endowment for the Arts and on American's for the Arts' Creative Forces®: NEA Military Healing Arts Network and task-specific working grouping.
A forward-thinking arts professional and Jackson native, Sarah Story became executive director of Mississippi Arts Committee in November 2020. She leads the state bureau in its mission to exist a goad for the arts and inventiveness in Mississippi. Story believes the arts are essential because they bring people from diverse lifestyles and backgrounds into conversations most creative expression, allowing contemplation, participation, and give-and-take. She enjoys leading arts organizations to operate efficiently and inspiring communities to make the greatest impact possible. Having spent much of her career in museum administration, she previously served as the executive director of the UMLAUF Sculpture Garden & Museum in Austin, Texas, which exhibits the work of Charles Umlauf, his influences, and other contemporary artists. Prior to her stint at the UMLAUF Sculpture Garden and Museum, Story served as deputy director of the Ogden Museum of Southern Fine art from 2015-2018, and equally project coordinator from 2012-2014. Earlier the Ogden Museum, she worked equally curator of education at the University of Mississippi Museum and Historic Houses in Oxford, MS. She received a BFA in painting from the Academy of Mississippi and a Master's in Arts Administration from the University of New Orleans.
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