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June 18, 2008/FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE Contact: Marla Carpenter, 336-770-3337, carpem@ncarts.edu SIX NEW MEMBERS TAPPED FOR THE NORTH CAROLINA SCHOOL OF THE ARTS BOARD OF VISITORS
WINSTON-SALEM – Six new members have been tapped to join the Board of Visitors of the North Carolina School of the Arts, announced Board of Visitors Chairman Jackson D. “J.D.” Wilson Jr. of Winston-Salem. The new members Terrie Davis of Winston-Salem; William Ivey Long of New York, N.Y.; Suzanne Mathews and Gilbert Mathews of San Antonio, Texas; Myles Thompson of New York and Winston-Salem; and Dr. Sandra Tomek of Vienna, Austria. The new members were nominated by and voted on by the Board of Visitors. For more information on the new members, see as follows: Terrie Allen Davis, retired attorney with Womble Carlyle Sandridge & Rice, is an accomplished and respected community leader in Winston-Salem. She has served on numerous civic and community boards, including the Salem Academy and College Board of Trustees and Winston-Salem State University Board of Visitors, as well as president of the Salem Academy Alumnae Association and president of Leadership Winston-Salem. She also has served on the boards of the Winston-Salem/Forsyth County Arts Council and Diggs Gallery. Currently, she is a member of the Hollins University Board of Visitors. She holds a B.A. from Salem College and a J.D. from Wake Forest University School of Law. She and her husband, John W. Davis III, former chair of the North Carolina School of the Arts Board of Trustees and currently a member of the University of North Carolina Board of Governors, live in Winston-Salem. William Ivey Long, five-time Tony Award-winning costume designer (“Grey Gardens,” “The Producers,” “Hairspray,” “Crazy For You,” “Nine”) and native North Carolinian holds a B.A. from The College of William and Mary and an M.F.A. from the Yale School of Drama. He has also received honorary degrees from The College of William and Mary, UNC-Chapel Hill and UNC-Asheville. Other design credits come from the worlds of opera (A Quiet Place, Trouble in Tahiti), ballet (Susan Stroman’s “Double Feature” for the New York City Ballet), film (THE PRODUCERS: THE MOVIE MUSICAL, LIFE WITH MIKEY) and of course, “The Lost Colony.” In North Carolina, he has been the recipient of The North Carolina Award for Fine Arts, The Order of the Long Leaf Pine, the Award for Lifetime Achievement from the PlayMakers Repertory Company at UNC-Chapel Hill, and the Morrison Award from the Roanoke Island Historical Association. In New York City, he was inducted into the Theatre Hall of Fame in 2006. Suzanne Mathews is a member of the Board of Trustees of the Museo Alameda, in San Antonio, the Smithsonian’s first formal affiliate and one that is focused on the Latino experience in America and on the contributions of Latinos to art, history and culture in America. She is a graduate of Finch College, where she majored in art history. Following graduation she worked with one of her professors on an exhibition of art deco architecture which was pursuant to a grant from the National Endowment for the Arts. She has an extensive background as an art gallery owner and private art dealer. She is a director of Lucifer Lighting Company and assists the International Association of Lighting Designers with fund raising and benefit functions.	Terrie Davis William Ivey Long Suzanne Matthews Gilbert Matthews Myles Thompson Sandra Tomek
Gilbert Lang Mathews is chief executive officer of Lucifer Lighting Company, a manufacturer of architectural lighting fixtures with sales operations across the globe. Lucifer Lighting creates lighting for a variety of venues, including art collections of private homes, corporate office headquarters, museums, restaurants, hotels, entertainment spaces and the like. Their fixtures can be seen in diverse attractions around the world, including the Royal Mirage Hotel in Dubai, the Marion Koogler McNay Art Museum in San Antonio, Nobu 57 in New York, and the Mandarin Bar at Foliage in London. His company's vision statement explains much of his success: "Passion for fine art led us to create fixtures that enhance beautiful and valuable objects. Love of lighting led us to create tuneable lights that can be easily adapted to create ever-changing and dramatic effects." Myles Conway Thompson is founder and publisher of Columbia Business School Publishing. Previously he has held executive positions at John Wiley & Sons and in 2000 he founded TEXERE, a global non-fiction publisher of thought leaders in finance, economics, marketing and technology, which he subsequently sold to Thomson Learning. His wife, Lee Thompson, is an internationally recognized marketing professional who has just completed a contract assisting the North Carolina School of the Arts in developing its marketing program. She established the N.C. School of the Arts Press in 2007 and published its first book, “Celebrating West Side Story,” released last fall. Myles and Lee are active in the publishing world, in Winston-Salem arts and cultural organizations, and are members of the Giannini Society. They helped fund student travel to Vienna last fall and were trip participants. Myles has a B.A. and M.A. in Anglo-Irish Literature from the National University of Ireland, Dublin. Myles and Lee are based in New York City and Winston-Salem. Dr. Sandra Tomek, an oncologist, is founder of Best of Film Music Company and the NPO Austria in Hollywood Society, based in Vienna, Austria. An enthusiast of film music, she was the visionary producer of the highly successful “Hollywood in Vienna—Vienna in Hollywood” concert with the Radio-Symphony Orchestra Vienna in the Vienna Concert Hall that featured North Carolina School of the Arts Chancellor John Mauceri and students in November 2007. The concert was part of a festival that Dr. Tomek helped plan to celebrate the life of Erich Wolfgang Korngold, who created what we now know as “the Hollywood Sound.” Her organization plans to continue such events in Vienna every two years, focusing on composers of film music, ideally in partnership with the North Carolina School of the Arts. An arts conservatory of international renown, the North Carolina School of the Arts was the first state-supported, residential school of its kind in the nation. Established by the N.C. General Assembly in 1963, NCSA opened its doors in 1965 and became part of the University of North Carolina in 1972. Students from middle school through graduate school train for professional careers in the arts in five schools: Dance, Design and Production (including a Visual Arts Program), Drama, Filmmaking, and Music. For more information, visit www.ncarts.edu. ###
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June 18, 2008/FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
Contact: Marla Carpenter, 336-770-3337, carpem@ncarts.edu

SIX NEW MEMBERS TAPPED FOR THE NORTH CAROLINA
SCHOOL OF THE ARTS BOARD OF VISITORS

WINSTON-SALEM – Six new members have been tapped to join the Board of Visitors of the North Carolina School of the Arts, announced Board of Visitors Chairman Jackson D. “J.D.” Wilson Jr. of Winston-Salem.

The new members Terrie Davis of Winston-Salem; William Ivey Long of New York, N.Y.; Suzanne Mathews and Gilbert Mathews of San Antonio, Texas; Myles Thompson of New York and Winston-Salem; and Dr. Sandra Tomek of Vienna, Austria. The new members were nominated by and voted on by the Board of Visitors.

For more information on the new members, see as follows:

Terrie Allen Davis, retired attorney with Womble Carlyle Sandridge & Rice, is an accomplished and respected community leader in Winston-Salem. She has served on numerous civic and community boards, including the Salem Academy and College Board of Trustees and Winston-Salem State University Board of Visitors, as well as president of the Salem Academy Alumnae Association and president of Leadership Winston-Salem. She also has served on the boards of the Winston-Salem/Forsyth County Arts Council and Diggs Gallery. Currently, she is a member of the Hollins University Board of Visitors. She holds a B.A. from Salem College and a J.D. from Wake Forest University School of Law. She and her husband, John W. Davis III, former chair of the North Carolina School of the Arts Board of Trustees and currently a member of the University of North Carolina Board of Governors, live in Winston-Salem.

William Ivey Long, five-time Tony Award-winning costume designer (“Grey Gardens,” “The Producers,” “Hairspray,” “Crazy For You,” “Nine”) and native North Carolinian holds a B.A. from The College of William and Mary and an M.F.A. from the Yale School of Drama. He has also received honorary degrees from The College of William and Mary, UNC-Chapel Hill and UNC-Asheville. Other design credits come from the worlds of opera (A Quiet Place, Trouble in Tahiti), ballet (Susan Stroman’s “Double Feature” for the New York City Ballet), film (THE PRODUCERS: THE MOVIE MUSICAL, LIFE WITH MIKEY) and of course, “The Lost Colony.” In North Carolina, he has been the recipient of The North Carolina Award for Fine Arts, The Order of the Long Leaf Pine, the Award for Lifetime Achievement from the PlayMakers Repertory Company at UNC-Chapel Hill, and the Morrison Award from the Roanoke Island Historical Association. In New York City, he was inducted into the Theatre Hall of Fame in 2006.
Suzanne Mathews is a member of the Board of Trustees of the Museo Alameda, in San Antonio, the Smithsonian’s first formal affiliate and one that is focused on the Latino experience in America and on the contributions of Latinos to art, history and culture in America. She is a graduate of Finch College, where she majored in art history. Following graduation she worked with one of her professors on an exhibition of art deco architecture which was pursuant to a grant from the National Endowment for the Arts. She has an extensive background as an art gallery owner and private art dealer. She is a director of Lucifer Lighting Company and assists the International Association of Lighting Designers with fund raising and benefit functions.

Terrie Davis William Ivey Long

Suzanne Matthews Gilbert Matthews

Myles Thompson Sandra Tomek

Gilbert Lang Mathews is chief executive officer of Lucifer Lighting Company, a manufacturer of architectural lighting fixtures with sales operations across the globe. Lucifer Lighting creates lighting for a variety of venues, including art collections of private homes, corporate office headquarters, museums, restaurants, hotels, entertainment spaces and the like. Their fixtures can be seen in diverse attractions around the world, including the Royal Mirage Hotel in Dubai, the Marion Koogler McNay Art Museum in San Antonio, Nobu 57 in New York, and the Mandarin Bar at Foliage in London. His company's vision statement explains much of his success: "Passion for fine art led us to create fixtures that enhance beautiful and valuable objects. Love of lighting led us to create tuneable lights that can be easily adapted to create ever-changing and dramatic effects."

Myles Conway Thompson is founder and publisher of Columbia Business School Publishing. Previously he has held executive positions at John Wiley & Sons and in 2000 he founded TEXERE, a global non-fiction publisher of thought leaders in finance, economics, marketing and technology, which he subsequently sold to Thomson Learning. His wife, Lee Thompson, is an internationally recognized marketing professional who has just completed a contract assisting the North Carolina School of the Arts in developing its marketing program. She established the N.C. School of the Arts Press in 2007 and published its first book, “Celebrating West Side Story,” released last fall. Myles and Lee are active in the publishing world, in Winston-Salem arts and cultural organizations, and are members of the Giannini Society. They helped fund student travel to Vienna last fall and were trip participants. Myles has a B.A. and M.A. in Anglo-Irish Literature from the National University of Ireland, Dublin. Myles and Lee are based in New York City and Winston-Salem.

Dr. Sandra Tomek, an oncologist, is founder of Best of Film Music Company and the NPO Austria in Hollywood Society, based in Vienna, Austria. An enthusiast of film music, she was the visionary producer of the highly successful “Hollywood in Vienna—Vienna in Hollywood” concert with the Radio-Symphony Orchestra Vienna in the Vienna Concert Hall that featured North Carolina School of the Arts Chancellor John Mauceri and students in November 2007. The concert was part of a festival that Dr. Tomek helped plan to celebrate the life of Erich Wolfgang Korngold, who created what we now know as “the Hollywood Sound.” Her organization plans to continue such events in Vienna every two years, focusing on composers of film music, ideally in partnership with the North Carolina School of the Arts.

An arts conservatory of international renown, the North Carolina School of the Arts was the first state-supported, residential school of its kind in the nation. Established by the N.C. General Assembly in 1963, NCSA opened its doors in 1965 and became part of the University of North Carolina in 1972. Students from middle school through graduate school train for professional careers in the arts in five schools: Dance, Design and Production (including a Visual Arts Program), Drama, Filmmaking, and Music. For more information, visit www.ncarts.edu.

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