"All of the speakers were clearly experts in their field and
had a wealth
of information
to share."
—Cherie Fryman, Media
City Ballet
- 71st ANNUAL CONFERENCE IN PHILADELPHIA, PA, OCTOBER 29 - NOVEMBER 1, 2008
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Speakers
As a conference delegate, you will gain skills and valuable insights into best practices and emerging trends from visionary leaders in the arts, as well as nationally renowned experts in the fields of assessment and evaluation, fundraising, governance, marketing, partnerships, technology, and more.
Keynoters
Honorees
Pre-Conference Institute Faculty
Session Leaders
KEYNOTERS:
Christine DeVita is President of The Wallace Foundation, a private charitable foundation created by Lila and DeWitt Wallace, the founders of Reader’s Digest, as a legacy of their own philanthropic lives.Ms. DeVita joined the foundation in November 1987. Since then, she has led the foundation as it has shifted away from project-focused grantmaking and toward more integrated strategies that combine program, evaluation and communications expertise to deliver social benefits beyond the recipients of the foundation’s direct grants.Born in New York, she earned her B.A. magna cum laude from Queens College of the City University of New York; and her J.D. cum laude from Fordham University School of Law, where she was an editor of the Fordham Law Review. Prior to joining The Wallace Foundation, she was deputy general counsel for The Reader’s Digest Association. She is chairman of the Board of Directors of The Foundation Center.
Josephine Ramirez serves as vice president of programming and planning at the Music Center (the Performing Arts Center of Los Angeles County). Previously she was a program officer at the Getty Foundation and a Research Associate at the Getty Research Institute of the J. Paul Getty Trust. Josephine also worked independently as both a consultant to numerous cultural organizations nationally as well as a producer of large and small scale performance events. She was the community arts coordinator for the King County Arts Commission in Seattle. For the City of Los Angeles under Mayor Villaraigosa, she currently serves as cultural affairs commissioner spearheading the new city cultural planning process. Josephine is a fellow at the Center for Civil Society at the University of California Los Angeles, serves as an advisor to the Irvine Foundation’s study on cultural participation in California and participates as an advisor to the Urban Institute’s Arts and Culture Indicators in Community Building Project. She recently served on the selection committee for the 2007 national Rudy Bruner Award for Urban Excellence. She is a Loeb Fellow at Harvard University’s Graduate School of Design. Josephine’s residence year (2003) there was awarded in support of her ongoing research about informal, non-professional art making and its relationship to individual and community vitality.
PRE-CONFERENCE INSTITUTE FACULTY:
Claudia B. Horn is President and CEO of Performance Results, Inc., a management-consulting firm specializing in results-focused evaluation, performance assessment and outcomes measurement. PRI’s extensive client list includes the National Endowment for the Arts, US Department of Housing and Urban Development, National Dance Education Organization, US Department of Justice, the DC Arts & Humanities Education Collaborative, the American Association of Museums, and the National Guild of Community Schools of the Arts. The firm has extensive experience working with community-based organizations.
Ms. Horn has more than 20 years of experience in the fields of education and training. For the past 12 years, she has provided evaluation research, technical assistance and training in outcomes measurement, community needs assessment, team-building and strategic planning through her work with PRI. She lives in suburban Maryland with her husband and two daughters.
Magda Martinez is program director, Community Partnerships in the Arts, for the Samuel S. Fleisher Art Memorial in Philadelphia, PA. Ms. Martinez joined the Fleisher community in March 2002 as coordinator for the Arts Team of the Southeast Philadelphia Collaborative, a coalition of organizations created to bring together youth and artists to support creative expression and youth development. This entailed managing teaching artists, budgets and programming as well as building curricula with artists and site directors. In her current position, Ms. Martinez designs programs and manages many in-school artist residencies created in collaboration with classroom teachers and artists. As an art educator, she has worked with populations diverse in culture, age and economic status; constructed curricula around diverse themes using a variety of mediums; taught students from elementary through high school; and facilitated workshops for groups ranging from senior citizens, to university students to incarcerated women. Previously, Ms. Martinez was a social studies teacher and dean of studies at the Community Academy Charter School in North Philadelphia. She holds a bachelor’s degree from Wesleyan University in Latin American Studies, with a concentration in literature and history.
Jan Norman, Ph.D., is national director of education, research & professional development for Young Audiences. In addition to her work with Young Audiences–Arts for Learning, Dr. Norman is a tenured professor and former chair of art and museum education and art therapy at The University of the Arts, Philadelphia, PA. She is also founding director of the Design for Thinking Teaching Institute, which is the conceptual foundation for the Center for a Creative Economy at the University. The Institute’s mission is to conduct applied research in programs developed on the arts-based “design for thinking” model, which has received continual major grant support from the National Endowment for the Arts, the Pennsylvania Council on the Arts, the Pennsylvania Department of Education, and other major funding. She was a visiting scholar for the Harvard Graduate School of Education, arts in education program, and for Project Zero. She is the founding director of the Philadelphia Arts in Education Partnership, a non-profit that links over 80 arts organizations and institutions in the Philadelphia area. Her professional career includes over thirty years in arts education at all levels of teaching and administration. Her early arts training was in music in classical piano and clarinet in which she was an All State musician and performed and competed at the regional, state and national levels. She has also been educated as a visual artist, having her work exhibited in many juried shows and galleries. Her degrees include a Ph.D. from the University of Kansas in arts education, with minors in both measurements and research and in design. An artist, educator, researcher and speaker, she has been a consultant, keynote, board member and program evaluator regionally, nationally and internationally for many institutions, including the Getty Education Institute for the Arts, the Association for Supervision and Curriculum Development (ASCD), Project Zero, Harvard University, Kansas City Art Institute, Arts Education Partnership, the Delaware Center for Contemporary Art, Opera American, VSA arts, the National Endowment for the Arts, the US Department of Education, IDATER (International Design and Technology Educational Research), and was eastern region vice president, National Art Education Association.
David O’Fallon, Ph.D., is president of MacPhail Center for Music in Minneapolis, MN, one of the largest community music education centers in the nation. Previously, David served as executive director of the Perpich Center for Arts Education, a unique state agency in Minnesota housing the State Arts High School, a professional development institute and a research program on a 30-acre campus. Perpich Center makes the arts a fundamental part of an excellent education for all of Minnesota’s pre-K through 12th grade students. Prior to the Perpich Center, Dr. O’Fallon served as the education director for the National Endowment for the Arts, and as a senior staff member at the John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts. He helped initiate the Arts Education Partnership. He has consulted with educational and arts organizations across the U.S. from small rural nonprofits to large national and multi-national organizations. He consulted with the Leonard Bernstein family on the Bernstein Institute for Education through the Arts in Nashville, Tennessee. He served as faculty chair for the Empire State Partnership project in New York State for three years. Dr. O’Fallon has been a frequent keynote speaker at national and international conferences in London, Dublin, Glasgow, New York, Los Angeles and St. Petersburg, Russia. Board services include the American Composer’s Forum, the nation’s first national service organization in support of the American composer and the national board of the Alliance of Young Artists & Writers, Scholastic Art Awards for Scholastic, Inc.
Beth A. Vogel is Director of the National Guild’s Partners in Arts Education Institute. She is a contributing editor of the Guild’s Partners in Excellence Handbook, and an editor of Artists & Communities: America Creates for the Millennium by the Mid Atlantic Arts Foundation. Drawing on a background in American cultural history and modern dance, Ms. Vogel also serves as a consultant on strategic planning, program design and fundraising to numerous arts and human services organizations. She has served as Managing Director of the Reggie Wilson/Fist & Heel Performance Group, and taught Arts Management at New York University since 2002. Earlier, Ms. Vogel served as Program Officer for Arts Education and Artist Services for the New Jersey Council on the Arts, and managed the Council’s literature and dance portfolios. She helped develop partnerships with a variety of arts and arts education organizations, and developed the first statewide infrastructure to support independent artists with career training, information services and grant opportunities. Ms. Vogel has served on numerous advisory boards, including the Standards and Frameworks teams for the N.J. Dept, of Education, the Arts Education Steering Committee for the National Endowment for the Arts, and the N.J. Poet Laureate Selection Committee. She lectures frequently and has presented papers before such organizations as the National Assembly of State Arts Agencies, the U.S. Dept. of Education, Rutgers University, and the Pratt Institute. She and Bill Flood are currently writing a chapter of a German book on collaborations involving the non-profit cultural sector. Ms. Vogel earned a B.A. with honors in American Studies from Barnard College.
SESSION LEADERS:
While this year’s program is still being developed, you can get a sense of the scope and quality of session leaders by visiting our 2007 conference site. Check back soon for a complete list of 2008 session leader bios.
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