Panel Report Museum Level 1 and Projects

Memorandum

The Museum Level 1 and Projects grant panel meeting was held via teleconference on August 21, 2015. Nine (9) eligible applications were reviewed and all were recommended for funding.

A complete list of all reviewed applications, with the request amounts and final scores, is provided in the following sections.

Panel comment was as follows:

There were no panel comments.

Public comment was as follows:

There were no public comments.

Panel Biographies

Robin Bauer Kilgo

Monroe County

• Social Media Manager and Social Media Consultant, Florida Keys
• Previously, Collections Officer and Museum Registrar, Seminole Tribe of Florida’s Ah-Tah-Thi-Ki Museum
• Member of the AIC Collections Emergency Response Team (AIC-CERT) and  History Section Chair and on the board for the Florida Association of Museums
• B. A., Anthropology and M.A. History, Florida State University; Graduate Certificate, George Washington University

Heather Brown

Hillsborough County

• Curator of Education, Henry B. Plant Museum, Tampa, Florida
• Serves on the Hillsborough County Historic Preservation Challenge Grant Committee
• B.A., History, College of Wooster, Ohio; M.A., Anthropology and Graduate Certificate, University of South Carolina

Pam Kancher

Orange County

• Executive Director, Holocaust Memorial Resource and Education Center of Florida, Maitland
• Previously served as Day Camp Director, Group Services Supervisor and Development Director at Jewish Community Center; Development Director for the New Orleans Center for Creative Arts Institute, and Executive Director of the Legacy Donor Foundation
• B.A. from Washington University, St. Louis, Missouri and M.S.W from Tulane University, New Orleans, Louisiana

Caroline Santiago

Miami-Dade County

• Executive Director, Coral Gables Museum
• Serves on the Board of Bike Walk Coral Gables and Dade Heritage Trust
• B. A., Florida Atlantic University

Leslie Schroeder

Broward County

• Executive Director, Old Davie School Historical Museum, Davie, Florida
• Previously, owned and operated McCall Nursery & Landscape for 25 years and was a construction manager for Wilson Road Company.
• Bachelors and Masters in Finance, Florida Atlantic University

Mindy Shrago

Broward County

• Co-founder and Executive Director, Young at Art Museum, Davie, Florida
• Serves on the Board of Directors of the Florida Association of Museums and is a member of Broward’s Community Cultural Plan 2020
• Served as a professor at Miami-Dade Community College; taught ceramic workshops for the Ceramic Leagues of Broward and Palm Beach counties
• Received the 2012 March of Dimes Women of Distinction Award and named one of the 2013 South Florida Business Journal Influential Business Women
• B.F.A, University of South Florida; B.A., Art Education, Florida Atlantic University

Patricia Zeiler

Broward County

• Executive Director, Fort Lauderdale Historical Society, Fort Lauderdale, Florida
• Previously, Executive Director, Downtown Fort Lauderdale; Managing Director, Sun Trolley; Arts Management Specialist, Broward County
• B.A., Music, Florida Atlantic University; Certificate, Fundraising Management, Indiana University Bloomington

Panel Recommendations

This list contains the panel recommendations to the Florida Council on Arts and Culture. This is not a final funding recommendation. Panel review is step 2 in a 4 step review process.

*Please note this panel will reconvene to consider two additional applications which were left off the panel list due to a computer glitch. Should these be recommended for funding we are requesting your approval to add to the list the following applications:

• 17.5.170.200, Theodore Roosevelt Gibson Memorial Fund, Inc.
• 17.5.170.443, Flamingo Gardens, Inc.