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WINSTON-SALEM, N.C. – North Carolina School of the Arts
(NCSA) alumni in New York will have the opportunity to hear firsthand
about funding and survival in the arts from some of the city’s most
experienced arts administrators and fundraisers at a forum on Saturday,
March 19, from 2:30-5 p.m. The first event of this kind organized for
the more than 700 alumni living and working in the city, Master Class NY
will be at the Citigroup Theatre at the Ailey Studios, Joan Weill Center
for Dance, 405 West 55th St., at 9th Ave.
Two panel discussions are scheduled: Changing Landscape of Funding in
the Arts, 2:30-3:30 p.m.; and Changing Landscape of the Arts, 3:45-5
p.m. Panelists for the funding discussion include Ben Cameron, executive
director of the Theatre Communication Group; Theodore Berger, executive
director of the New York Foundation for the Arts; and Ruby Lerner,
executive director and president of the Creative Capital Foundation.
Panelists for the second discussion include Scott Noppe-Brandon,
executive director of the Lincoln Center Institute for the Arts in
Education; Virginia Louloudes, executive director of the Alliance of
Resident Theatres/NY; and Shayne Doty, director of development,
Washington National Opera. Doty is a 1979 alumnus of the NCSA School of
Music.
The forum is organized by the School’s Office of Alumni – Career
Services – Outreach and sponsored by the Thomas S. Kenan Institute for
the Arts, a privately funded program of the North Carolina School of the
Arts. It is part of a series of NCSA events in New York during the
School’s spring break: a dance presentation by contemporary students,
March 14-16, and a student flute ensemble concert on March 18, both at
Lincoln Center’s Clark Studio Theatre.
“As part of our Bridging
the Gap initiative, the Master Class event brings together some of
the brightest leaders in the arts today with a significant group of
NCSA alumni,” said Margaret Mertz, executive director of the Thomas
S. Kenan Institute for the Arts. “Central to all of our work in the
arts is understanding the ways that the arts organizations and
development officers work together. This project is a significant
step forward in continuing professional development for working
artists.”
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. It was founded in 1963 by the North Carolina
Legislature. Today it enrolls more than 1,000 students from middle
school through graduate school in five professional schools: Dance,
Design and Production (includes a Visual Arts Program), Drama,
Filmmaking and Music.
www.ncarts.edu
Among the many NCSA alumni working in New York:
Dance – Victor Barbee and Gillian Murphy, ABT; Olivia Bowman and Dwana
Adiaha Smallwood, Alvin Ailey; Mark Dendy; Ayo Janeen Jackson, Bill T.
Jones/Arnie Zane; Keith Roberts, “Movin’Out”;
Design and Production – David La Chapelle, photographer; Barclay Stiff
production stage manager, “Whoopi”; Will Sweeney, properties, and Rachel
Wolff, stage manager, “Monty Python’s Spamalot”; Randy Wray, painter and
Guggenheim fellow;
Drama – Gary Beach, T. Scott Cunningham, Peter Hedges; Joe Mantello,
Terrence Mann, Mary-Louise Parker, Edwin Schloss, Celia Weston;
Filmmaking – David Gordon Green, director, GEORGE WASHINGTON, UNDERTOW,
ALL THE REAL GIRLS; and Tim Orr, cinematographer, GEORGE WASHINGTON,
RAISING VICTOR VARGAS, UNDERTOW;
Music – Dawn Hannay, Lisa Kim, Renee Siebert, NY Philharmonic; Jennifer
Welch-Babidge, Metropolitan Opera; Ransom Wilson; T. Oliver Reid, “La
Cage aux Folles.”
Members of the media are invited to attend all or part of the day’s
events, including a reception following the last discussion at 5 p.m.
Media Contacts: Nancy Dawson-Sauser, 336-770-3335, dawson@ncarts.edu
Eva James Toia, 336-414-7980, in New York, March 14-24
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