Panelists
2016-2017 Local Arts Agency and State Service Organization

September 3, 2015
9:00 AM - to conclusion
Teleconference (How to participate)

Chair: Robert Judd
Program Manager: Sarah Stage

County

Bio not yet available.

Barbara Hartley

Orange County

Executive Director, Downtown Arts District and Trustee and Legislative Chair, American Advertising Federation, Orlando, Florida
Previously Director, Business Development, Unity Mobile; Past President/Trustee, Ad2 Orlando/Orlando Advertising Federation
M.B.A., Management, Rollins College, Crummer Graduate School of Business; B.A., Marketing, Florida State University

Orangeburg, South Carolina

Executive Director, Downtown Orangeburg Revitalization Association, Orangeburg, South Carolina
Arts Consultant, Florida Division of Cultural Affairs, Florida Department of State; Director of Education, Lemoyne Center for the Visual Arts ; Interim Managing Director, Boys Choir of Tallahassee; Assistant Director, Opening Nights, Florida State University
M.A., Arts Administration, Florida State University; B.A., Music, Minor: K-12 Education, Luther College

Miami-Dade County

Chief of Strategic Initiatives, Miami-Dade Cultural Affairs, Miami, Florida
Previously Deputy Director, Flushing Council on Cultural and Arts, New York City; served as the Queens Borough Leader for the NYC Cultural Institutions Group Government Affairs Committee and as co-captain for the State of New York during National Arts Advocacy Day 2012 in Washington, D.C
2008 Top 25 Powerful People in the Arts in America (Barry’s Blog) and received 2005 Miami Emerging Arts Leader Award from the Arts and Business Council of Miami
B.A., Theater Arts Management, University of Miami; M.A., Arts Administration, Goucher College

Atlanta, Georgia

Grants Program Manager, Georgia Council on the Arts, Atlanta, Georgia
Member of the Georgia Department of Tourism’s Tourism Resource Team, which travels to communities in Georgia to investigate ways to increase tourism in rural communities
Previously Administrative Director, 7 Stages Theatre, Atlanta, Georgia; Managing Director, Live Bait Theatre, Chicago, Illinois; and Adjunct Professor, Theatre School, DePaul University
B.A., Theatre, Birmingham-Southern College; M.F.A, Directing, The Theatre School, DePaul University

Pinellas County

Senior Director of Grants and Government Relations, David A. Straz, Jr. Center for the Performing Arts, Tampa, Florida
Served as an associate of George Thorn and Nello McDaniel at Arts Action Research, an arts consulting group widely recognized for its groundbreaking work in redefining the role, relationships, and operation of arts organizations in today's challenging arts environment
Has served as a grants panelist for the Pinellas and Hillsborough County Arts Councils, the Florida Division of Cultural Affairs and the National Performance Network
M.F.A, Arts Administration, Virginia Tech; B.F.A, Mass Communications and Visual Arts from the University of Alabama at Birmingham