Panel Report Local Arts Agency and State Service Organization

Memorandum

The Local Arts Agency and State Service Organization grant panel meeting was held via teleconference on September 3, 2015. Twenty-seven (27) eligible applications were reviewed and twenty-six (26) applications 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

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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

Jennifer Hoesing

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

Marialaura Leslie

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

Tina Lilly

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

Donna McBride

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

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.