Meet the Leading Creatively panelists
Leading Creatively Blog Salon
December 13-17, 2010
Panelist Bios
get the publication Leading Ceatively: A Closer Look 2010
Meet our eight panelists who will be participating in NAMAC's Leading Creatively Blog Salon, happening December 13-17, 2010. We've assembled a thoughtful team of leaders, consultants, educators, and practitioners for this week-long discussion of current issues in leadership in the arts.
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Doug BlandyDoug Blandy is a Professor in the Arts and Administration Program at the University of Oregon. He is director of this program and also Associate Dean of Academic Affairs for the School of Architecture and Allied Arts. Doug's research and teaching addresses arts educational experiences in community-based settings that meet the needs of all students within a life-long learning context. Research and teaching also concentrates on the relationships between art, education, gender, community, and place. Doug’s research defines, describes, critiques, and analyzes the implementation of community arts programs that are participatory, community focused, community based, and culturally democratic. Methods derived from the fields of Folklore and Cultural Studies are used to examine multiple cases in which community arts organizations are contributing significantly to environmental, social, cultural, and economic well-being. Doug’s research has been published in Studies in Art Education, Art Education, The Journal of Multicultural and Cross-Cultural Research in Art Education, and The Visual Sociology Review among other journals. He co-edited several books on art criticism and art education. From 2007 to 2009 he was the Senior Editor of Studies in Art Education. |
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Edward P. ClappEdward P. Clapp has worked in the arts and arts education for the past decade. He is the editor and project director of 20UNDER40—a new anthology of critical discourse featuring twenty essays about the future of the arts and arts education by young leaders under the age of 40. In addition to his work with 20UNDER40, Edward is also a doctoral student at the Harvard University Graduate School of Education where his research interests include arts education, creativity, adult development, and the process of change that affect generational transitions of leadership. As an artist, Edward’s plays have been produced Off-Off-Broadway in New York, and his poetry and fiction have appeared in literary journals and anthologies throughout the United States and abroad. |
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John R. KillackyJohn R. Killacky is the Executive Director of the Flynn Center for the Performing Arts in Burlington, VT. He is the former program officer for arts and culture at The San Francisco Foundation. He received the Sally Ordway Irvine Award in Artistic Vision, the William Dawson Award for Programming Excellence from the Association of Performing Arts Presenters, Dance USA’s Earnie Award as an “unsung hero,” a Gerbode Foundation Professional Development Fellowship, and the Fan Taylor Distinguished Service Award for Exemplary Service to the Field of Professional Presenting from the Association of Performing Arts Presenters. He has served as a panelist, lecturer, and consultant for a broad range of arts and funding organizations; written for numerous publications on the arts; and written and directed several award-winning short films and videos. |
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Paula ManleyPaula Manley is co-director of The Learning Commons, NAMAC’s collaborator in presenting leadership institutes for media arts and visual arts organizations. She is the principal of Paula Manley Consulting and an artist working in ceramics and mixed media. |
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Ebony McKinneyEbony McKinney is currently the Director of the Emerging Arts Professionals / San Francisco Bay Area, a network focused on empowerment, leadership, and growth of next generation arts and culture workers in the San Francisco Bay Area through knowledge sharing, learning opportunities, and partnerships. She serves on the Citizen's Advisory Committee at Grants for the Arts/San Francisco Hotel Tax Fund and the Funding Advisory Council of the Oakland Cultural Affairs Commission. Prior to spearheading EAP/SFBA, McKinney was Program Associate for the Cultural Equity Grant Program of the San Francisco Arts Commission (2006-2009), which is charged with supporting small and mid-sized arts organizations, under-resourced communities and individual artists. Ebony also worked at Intersection for the Arts, San Francisco’s oldest alternative arts space, as Fiscal Sponsorship Coordinator. In her hometown of Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania she sat on the board of The Sprout Fund, managed programming and outreach at the Kelly-Strayhorn Theater, and acted as an aide to a local councilman. An intrepid traveler, Ebony has backpacked through South Africa, worked with NGO's in Botswana and most recently traveled to Beirut, Cairo and London to explore arts, development and cultural leadership activities. |
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Elissa PerryElissa Perry helps organizations and organizational leadership work (and play) better, and is the principal of Think.Do.Repeat. For over a decade she has worked as a learning partner with several organizations, initiatives, and educational institutions in the areas of leadership development, organizational learning, social media, and the arts, including the Leadership Learning Community. She is a lecturer in the MA in Leadership Program at Saint Mary’s College of California, and is also an experienced facilitator with a background in both youth and adult differentiated learning. |
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Victoria Plettner-Saunders
Victoria Plettner-Saunders is an independent arts consultant. With a Masters Degree in Arts Administration from the University of Oregon and more than twenty years experience, Plettner-Saunders’ consulting practice assists local arts organizations, philanthropic foundations, community initiatives and the local arts agency with a range of services. She has led or managed small and mid-sized arts organizations in addition to spending seven years in various capacities with the City of San Diego Commission for Arts and Culture. There she began the first Emerging |
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Marc VoglMarc Vogl is a program officer at The William and Flora Hewlett Foundation managing grants to Bay Area arts organizations and developing strategies to promote next generation leadership. Marc is co-Chair of the city of Oakland’s Cultural Commission’s Funding Advisory Committee and is a member of the Northern California Grantmakers Arts Loan Fund. Marc served on the San Francisco Arts Task Force and Barack Obama’s National Arts Policy Committee. Marc has worked for over a decade with artists and performing arts groups in the Bay Area. He co-founded the sketch comedy group Killing My Lobster and the Hi/Lo Film Festival and served as executive director of Lobster Theater Project, a multi-disciplinary San Francisco non-profit arts organization. Marc's experiences in the arts have included acting, writing, directing and producing award winning comedy shows and new plays, making short films, and programming film festivals. Marc received the 2010 Emerging Leader Award from Americans for the Arts for his efforts to support young arts leaders. Marc lives in San Francisco with his wife and 6 month old son. |
