Panelists
2015-2016 Visual Arts

September 18, 2014
9:00 AM - to conclusion
Teleconference (How to participate)

Chair: Glenn Lochrie
Program Manager: Sarah Stage

County

Bio not yet available.

Maria del Valle

Miami-Dade County

Executive Director, South Florida Art Center, Miami, Florida
Previously Executive Director, Center for Creation of the Arts, Madrid, Spain; Cultural Attache, Centro Cultural Espanol of Spain in Miami; consulted for the University of Barcelona in Miami
Degree in Law and Masters in Cultural Management, Universidad Complutense de Madrid; Strategic Perspectives in Nonprofit Management, Harvard Business School Executive Education

Pinellas County

Executive Director, Creative Clay, Tampa, Florida
Previously Program Manager, Associate Director of Arts Services, and Director of Arts Education, Creative Clay; directed the Community Arts Program, Creative Clay Transition Program, Volunteer Program, and began the first Creative Clay Art Around the World Inclusionary Summer Camp in 2009; Creative Clay’s 2008 Emerging Leader
B.A., Creative Writing and minors in Art and English; University of Tampa; M.A. coursework completion in Montessori education; Bank of America Leadership Training

Duval County

Communications and Development Manager, Cathedral Arts, Jacksonville, Florida
Previously Institutional Giving Coordinator and Marketing Manager, Jacksonville Symphony Orchestra; drama teacher, St. Paul’s Catholic School, Jacksonville Beach; worked at the Wilson Center for the Arts
M.P.A. focus in non-profit management, University of North Florida; Bachelor’s, Theatre, Florida State University; A.A., Theatre, Florida State College at Jacksonville

Orange County

Executive Director, The Association to Preserve the Eatonville Community; General Manager, Annual Zora Neale Hurston Festival of the Arts and Humanities, Eatonville, Florida
Compiled and edited the award-winning volume, ZORA! Zora Neale Hurston: A Woman and Her Community
Named "Hero of Preservation" by the National Trust for Historic Preservation; Honorary Doctor of Humane Letters Degree, Rollins College; Women of Distinction Award, Citrus Council of Girl Scouts; Humanitarian of the Year Award (non-profit category), The National Conference for Community and Justice (NCCJ); Mary Call Darby Collins Award
M.S., Library Science, Syracuse University; B.A., History, Ithaca College

Hillsborough County

Professor, Visual Art, Hillsborough Community College; also manager of student art gallery MAZE
Founder and Creative Director, Tempus Projects, Tampa, Florida: an artist-run, community-focused incubator of ideas to promote artists working in all media. Creative Loafing’s 2009, 2010 and 2011 Best Alternative Art Space “Best of the Bay” award
Previously taught Drawing, Foundation Studies, Painting, Sculpture and Printmaking, The University of Tampa and St. Petersburg College
Founding member of the Tampa artist collective [5]art, which presented the work of established and emerging local, national and international artists
M.F.A., Florida State University, Tallahassee, Florida; B.F.A., Printmaking and Sculpture, The Atlanta College of Art