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Mr. Frank Hodsoll, Chair
Frank Hodsoll was Chairman of the National Endowment of the Arts from 1981 to 1989 and was the first Deputy Director for Management of the U.S. Office of Management and Budget and Chief Financial Officer of the U.S. Government (1989-93). He is currently a consultant to government and private interests on federal management and policy and a speaker and advisor on arts policy and arts education. In May 1997, Mr. Hodsoll co-chaired the 92nd American Assembly, “The Arts and the Public Purpose,” with Alberta Arthurs, as well as the meetings in 1998 and 1999. Before his work in the Reagan and Bush Administrations, Mr.Hodsoll was a career foreign service officer, a lawyer, the principal of a trading company in the Philippines, and an infantryman in the Army. Hodsoll has received numerous management and arts awards, including an Oscar for the Arts Endowment, an Emmy Special Award, and two honorary doctorates. Mr. Hodsoll was until January 2001 a commissioner of Ouray County in Colorado.

Ms. Marcia Sharp, Vice-Chair back to top
Marcia Sharp is a founding principal and Chief Executive Officer of Millennium Communications Group, Inc., a strategic communications consulting firm targeting growth and change issues in the non-profit and philanthropic sector. She is a research fellow of the Center on Philanthropy and Public Policy at the University of Southern California, and is presently working with the California-based James Irvine Foundation on its statewide Cornerstone arts organization initiative. She also leads the "Marco Polo's in a New Landscape" project, an exploration of the new work of communications in foundations.

She is co-author of “Communications as Engagements: The Millennium Report to the Rockefeller Foundation,” and “Reasons for Hope, Voices for Change,” the March 1998 report of the Annenberg Institute for School Reform on public engagement for public education. Ms. Sharp graduated summa cum laude from Harvard University.

Mr. James Fitzpatrick, Treasurer back to top
James Fitzpatrick is a senior partner in the Washington law firm of Arnold & Porter where he specializes in constitutional and public policy issues. Mr. Fitzpatrick is Vice Chairman of the Board of the Phillips Collection, and is a board member for the Shakespeare Theatre in Washington, D.C., Shakespeare in Santa Fe, SITE Santa Fe, and chairman of the British-American Arts Association.

Mr. Fitzpatrick has been active in the “culture wars” of the last few decades. He filed a brief arguing that Congress acted unconstitutionally when it required that the NEA take into account general standards of decency when making grants to artists. For six years, he served as the President of the Washington Project for the Arts, the alternative arts space which presented Robert Maplethorpe’s “The Perfect Moment,” after the photographic exhibition was canceled by the Corcoran Gallery of Art in Washington. He has also been involved in international issues of cultural repatriation, testufying in a number of Congressional hearings which ultimately led to the passage of the Cultural Property Implementation Act of 1983.

Mr. Fitzpatrick received his law degree from Indiana University and has taught at the London School of Economics, Trinity College Law School in Dublin, the University of New Mexico, and the Georgetown Law Center in Washington, D.C. and has lectured widely on constitutional and policy issues involving censorship and federal funding of the arts.

Dr. Alberta Arthurs back to top
Dr. Alberta Arthurs, Vice President Alberta Arthurs is an Associate of MEM Associates, a not-for-profit consulting group in New York City. Dr. Arthurs served as Co-Director for the Columbia University American Assembly, “The Arts and the Purpose,” in 1997, 1998 and 1999. Dr. Arthurs was Director for Arts and Humanities at The Rockefeller Foundation where she oversaw national and international programming in culture and scholarship. She also served as Director of the Project on Culture and Development at the Council on Foreign Relations, and as a University Fellow at The New School for Social Research. Her background includes five years as President Professor of English at Chatham College, and teaching and administrative positions at Harvard, Rutgers, and Tufts Universities.

Dr. Arthurs has served on a number of corporate and not-for-profit boards and advisory committees, including (currently) Technoserve, the Thomas S. Kenan Institute for the Arts, National Video Resources, The Salzburg Seminar, and the Center for Arts and Culture. She lectures on the arts, higher education, and contemporary values. She has written essays for American Arts, The Los Angeles Times, Prairie Schooner, and other publications.

Mr. James Early back to top
James Early is the Director of Cultural Heritage Policy at the Center for Folklife Programs and Cultural Studies at the Smithsonian Institution, Washington, DC. Since 1984, Mr. Early has served in many positions at the Smithsonian Institution, such as: Assistant Provost for Educational and Cultural Programs, Assistant Secretary for Education and Public Service, Executive Assistant to the Assistant Secretary for Public Service, and Director of Cultural Studies and Communications at the Center for Folklife and Cultural Heritage Studies.

Prior to his work with the Smithsonian, Mr. Early was a humanist administrator at the National Endowment for the Humanities, Washington, DC; a producer, writer, and host of “Ten Minutes Left,” a weekly radio segment of cultural, educational, and political interviews and commentary at WHUR FM radio, Howard University; and a research associate for programs and documentation at the Howard University Institute for the Arts and Humanities, Washington, DC.

A long-time advocate and supporter of cultural diversity and equity issues in the nation’s public cultural and educational institutions, Mr. Early began these pursuits in 1969 at Morehouse College, in Atlanta, GA, where he received a Bachelor of Arts degree in Spanish. In 1971, he entered the Graduate Studies program at Howard University on a Ford Foundation Fellowship to pursue a Ph.D. in Latin American and Carribbean History, and a minor in African and Afro-American History.

Over the course of a 20-year professional career, Mr. Early has consistently recognized the integrity of historically evolved values and cultures of African-American, Latino, Native American, and Asian-Pacific American communities. He has taught high school Spanish, worked with the incarcerated, taught at the college level, lectured in the U.S. and internationally, and written extensively on the politics of culture.

Dr. John Romano back to top
John Romano is a scholar, humanist, writer, and director of television dramas and feature films. He is currently producing “Third Watch”, which premiered on NBC in fall 1999, and producing a feature film to be released later this year. Since 1985, he has lived in Santa Monica and written and has produced numerous television shows and Hollywood films. His credits include the Emmy nominated “Hill Street Blues”, “L.A. Law”, “Cop Rock”, “Knott’s Landing”, “Class of ‘96”, and the film “Sweet Justice”.

Dr. Romano graduated Phi Beta Kappa from Colgate University in 1969 and received his Ph.D. in English from Yale University in 1975. He has written and published extensively, including regular appearances in the Sunday New York Times and editorial work for the Partisan Review . For ten years he lived in New York City and was Assistant Professor of English at Columbia University before leaving academia to begin writing for television and film.

Mrs. Judith O. Rubin back to top
Judith O. Rubin has been Chairman of the Board of Playwrights Horizons since 1992 and a board member since 1985. She was appointed Commissioner for Protocol for the City of New York by Mayor David N. Dinkins on May 1, 1990 and served in that capacity until December 1, 1993. Ms. Rubin is a member of the National Council on the Arts of the National Endowment for the Arts and Chairman of its Council Operations Committee. She is also a member of the New York State Council on the Arts and the Chairman of its Planning Committee, and a member of the Board of Public Radio International.

From 1984 to 1988, Ms. Rubin served as President of the 92nd Street YM-YWHA and from 1988 to 1991 as Chairman of the Board of that institution. She is a Trustee of Mount Sinai Medical Center, a former Trustee of the Central Park Conservatory, and a former Director of East Harlem School at Exodus House. Ms. Rubin chaired the Arts Service Panel of Manhatten Borough President's Awards for Excellence in the Arts, was a member of the jury for the Governor’s Arts Awards in 1990, the jury for the Very Special Arts Awards in 1991, 1992, and 1993, Music Festivals Panel in 1991, and Music Overview and Special Projects Panel in 1992. She chaired the Inaugural Reception for Mayor Dinkens on January 1, 1990. She is a recipient of the Women’s History Month Award 1990. For six years, Mrs. Rubin served as a Trustee of the Collegiate School, the oldest independent school in America, where she chaired its $8.5 million capital campaign. Judith Rubin is married to Robert E. Rubin, former Secretary of the Treasury of the United States. They have two sons, James and Philip.

Dr. James Allen Smith back to top
James Allen Smith is adviser to the president of the J. Paul Getty Trust. He is also a Senior Fellow at UCLA's School of Public Policy and Social Research, an adjunct faculty member in the Milano School of New School for Social Research, and a visiting scholar at the Remarque Institute of New York
University. He has taught history at Brown University, the University of Nebraska and Smith College. He was a program officer (1979-84) and then project director (1984-87) at the Twentieth Century Fund and served as a consultant to a number of Foundations. Dr. Smith was the first resident scholar at the Rockefeller Archive Center (1988-89) and, until recently, served as the executive director of the Howard Gilman Foundation (1991-99). He has written extensively about the history of philanthropy, the role of American think tanks, and public policy research. His books include: The Idea Brokers: Think Tanks and the Rise of the New Policy Elite (1991), which won the Louis Brownlow award of the National Academy of Public Administration and the Herbert Feis Award of the American Historical Association, Brookings at 75 (1991) and Strategic Calling (1993). He was one of the founding board members of the Creative Capital Foundation, a fund established in 1999 to support individual artists, and was founding president of the Center for Arts and Culture until May 2001.

Mr. Harold Williams back to top
Harold M. Williams is President Emeritus of the J. Paul Getty Trust, Los Angeles, CA, a charitable trust devoted to the arts and humanities. He was President and Chief Executive Officer of the Trust from May 1981 until January 1998. During that time six operating programs and a grant program , all dedicated to the visual arts and humanities, were established and the Getty Center complex was completed.

Prior to assuming his position with the Trust, Mr. Williams served as Chairman of the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission from 1977 to 1981.