| Board of Directors | ||
| Mr. Frank Hodsoll, Chair | ||
| Frank Hodsoll is currently a consultant to government and private interests on federal management and policy, and has recently been named as an individual-at-large member of the U.S. National Commission for UNESCO, an advisory body for the Department of State. He was Chairman of the National Endowment of the Arts (1981-89) and 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). In February 2002, Mr. Hodsoll co-chaired the 100th American Assembly on Art, Technology, and Intellectual Property. In May 1997, he co-chaired the 92nd American Assembly on The Arts and the Public Purpose, as well as meetings in 1998 and 1999 on the relationship between the for-profit and not-for-profit arts. 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 and Chairman of the Committee on Rural Telecommunications for the National Association of Counties. | ||
| Dr. Daniele Struppa, Vice Chair | ||
| Daniele
Struppa, Ph.D., a native of Italy, is the Dean of the College of Arts and
Sciences at George Mason University in Fairfax, VA. He earned his doctorate
at the University of Maryland, and a Laurea in Matematica at the University
of Milano (Italy). Before being appointed to his current position, Dr. Struppa
served as assistant professor at the University of Milano, assistant professor
at the Scuola Normale Superiore in Pisa, professor at the University of
Calabria, professor at GMU, chairman of the Math Department at GMU, and
associate dean for graduate studies in the College of Arts and Sciences
at GMU. He has held extended visiting positions at GMU, the University of
Maryland, and R.I.M.S., Kyoto University, Japan. Dr. Struppa has long been interested in bringing diverse groups of people together to pursue common interests. Notably he served as Network Head of the Med•Campus project “Mediterranean Network”, in the European Community, 1993-94; Deputy Director for University Activities: Consortium for University at a Distance, in Rende, Italy, 1992-94; founder and director of the Center for the Applications of Mathematics at GMU, 1990-94; and Coordinator: COMMETT project “UETP Appennino Meridionale”, EC, 1991-92. Dr. Struppa’s mathematical interests have led to the publication of more than 100 papers, many with colleagues in Japan, Russia, and Italy. He has attended and organized conferences worldwide, and lectured in Italy, France, Germany, UK, Russia, Ukraine, Japan, Mexico and the U.S. Dr. Struppa is a member of the Center for Excellence in Education Advisory Board and member of the Executive Committee and Board of the Virginia Foundation for the Humanities and Public Policy. |
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| Ms. Marcia Sharp, Vice-Chair | ||
| Marcia Sharp is the principal of Millennium Communications Group, Inc., a strategic communications firm serving 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 serves on the advisory committee for the Foundation Initiative of the Aspen Institute's Nonprofit Sector Research Fund. She is currently leading Millennium's Marco Polo Initiative, a multi-foundation project to define a new vision and practice for foundation communications. She is co-author of "Communications as Engagement: The Millennium Report to the Rockefeller Foundation." Ms. Sharp graduated summa cum laude from Harvard University. | ||
| Ms. Ellen McCulloch Lovell | ||
| Ellen Lovell is currently president of Marlboro College in Vermont, having previously served as president of the Center for Arts and Culture from 2002 to 2004. Ellen is the former director of the White House Millennium Council under President and Mrs. Clinton. Ms. Lovell also served as director of the President's Committee on the Arts and the Humanities from 1994 to 1997. The committee advised the president and first lady on public and private support for cultural life in the U. S. and published the widely recognized study, Creative America. Prior to joining the Clinton administration, she served as chief of staff to Senator Patrick Leahy of Vermont for 10 years. She began her career at the Vermont Council on the Arts, the state arts agency, which she led for eight years, creating such programs as Artists-in-the-Schools, Touring Aid, and the Governor's Institute for the Arts. | ||
| Mr. James Fitzpatrick, Treasurer | ||
| 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, testifying 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 | ||
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Alberta Arthurs is affiliated with MEM Associates in New York City, which provides programming, planning and research services for not-for-profit institutions. Until 1997, she was Director for Arts and Humanities at the Rockefeller Foundation, initiating and monitoring programs both in the United States and abroad. During 1996-1997, she directed a program on Culture and Development at the Council on Foreign Relations. Arthurs is currently
overseeing cultural projects and studies for several national organizations
including the Pew Trusts, the Irvine Foundation, the Luce Foundation,
the Rockefeller Foundation, and the Chase Manhattan Bank. She is a frequent
speaker and commentator on cultural subjects, and an advisor to a number
of national and international cultural initiatives. She also serves on
several boards, including-at the present time-the Salzburg Seminar, the
American Place Theater, Aid to Artisans, the Center for Arts and Culture,
PEN American Center and National Video Resources (chairman). She is the
immediate past chairman of the Kenan Institute for the Arts and the Bunting
Fellowship of the Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study, and is on advisory
committees for the New School University, the Schomburg Center, Princeton
University, Americans for the Arts, New York University, among others.
In May 1997, she and Frank Hodsoll, former Chairman of the National Endowment
for the Arts, co-chaired the 92nd American Assembly, "The Arts and
the Public Purpose." They are now pursuing programs and issues that
emanated from that Assembly. |
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| Dr. Arnita Jones | ||
| Arnita Jones is Executive Director of the American Historical Association. Arnita joined the AHA in June 1999, after serving 11 years as Executive Director of the Organization of American Historians. She received her bachelor's degree from Vanderbilt University and the MA and PhD in modern European history from Emory University. Jones was also Program Officer for Planning and Assessment at the National Endowment for the Humanities and was the first director of the National Coordinating Committee for the Promotion of History. She has also served as a consultant for many foundations and universities, as well as the National Endowment for the Arts. | ||
| Mr. Marc Leland | ||
| Marc Leland has been President of Marc E. Leland & Associates, an investment advisory firm, since 1984. He graduated from Harvard College; St. John's College, Oxford University, and Boalt Hall, the University of California School of Law. Mr. Leland serves as the Smithsonian National Board liaison to the Cooper-Hewitt Museum in New York and as a director of the Friends of Art and Preservation in Embassies. He is a member of the International Council of the Museum of Modern Art, the Collectors Committee of the National Gallery, the National Board of the Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco, and a Fellow of the Fogg Museum of Art at Harvard University. | ||
| Dr. Robert Pinsky | ||
| Robert Pinsky was born in Long Branch, New Jersey, in 1940. He is the author of six books of poetry: Jersey Rain (Farrar, Straus & Giroux, 2000); The Figured Wheel: New and Collected Poems 1966-1996 (1996), which won the 1997 Lenore Marshall Poetry Prize and was a Pulitzer Prize nominee; The Want Bone (1990); History of My Heart (1984); An Explanation of America (1980); and Sadness and Happiness (1975). In 1999 he co-edited Americans' Favorite Poems: The Favorite Poem Project Anthology with Maggie Dietz (W.W. Norton & Company, Inc.). He has also published four books of criticism, including The Sounds of Poetry (Farrar, Straus, and Giroux, 1998), which was a finalist for the National Book Critics Circle Award; Poetry and the World (1988) and The Situation of Poetry (1977); two books of translation: The Inferno of Dante (1994), which received the Los Angeles Times Book Prize and the Harold Morton Landon Translation Award, and The Separate Notebooks by Czeslaw Milosz (with Renata Gorczynski and Robert Hass: and a computerized novel, Mindwheel (1985). His honors include an American Academy of Arts and Letters award, Poetry Magazine's Oscar Blumenthal prize, the William Carlos Williams Award, and a Guggenheim Foundation fellowship. He is currently poetry editor of the weekly Internet magazine Slate. Pinsky teaches in the graduate writing program at Boston University, and in 1997 was named the United States Poet Laureate and Consultant in Poetry to the Library of Congress. He lives in Newton Corner, Massachusetts. | ||
| Dr. Clement Price | ||
| Clement Price is a professor of history and chairman of the Department of African-American Studies at Rutgers University, Newark Campus. A recipient of numerous academic and service awards and honors, Price teaches classes in African-American history, U.S. urban history, and the history of New Jersey. He is also director of the Rutgers Institute on Ethnicity, Culture, and the Modern Experience, which he initiated in 1996. A past chairman of the New Jersey State Council on the Arts, Price serves as historical consultant for many projects and was recently appointed by Governor Christine Todd Whitman to the New Jersey State Advisory Committee on the Preservation and Use of Ellis Island. He is author many publications that explore Afro-American History, race relations and modern culture, including Freedom Not Far Distant: A Documentary History of Afro-Americans in New Jersey, and Many Voices, Many Opportunities: Cultural Pluralism and American Arts Policy. He is completing a study of Afro-American cultural and social history in 20th century Newark, New Jersey, and a biography of Dr. Marion Thompson Wright, a pioneering historian of New Jersey race relations. Price received bachelor's and master's degrees from the University of Bridgeport, and a Ph.D. from Rutgers University | ||
| Dr. James Allen Smith | ||
| James Allen Smith is adviser to the president of the J. Paul Getty Trust. He is also a visiting professor and Senior Fellow at UCLA's School of Public Policy and Social Research. He has taught history at the Milano School of the New School for Social Research, 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 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. | ||
| Dr. Peter Stearns | ||
| Peter Stearns received his Ph.D. from Harvard University. Editor of the Journal of Social History, he is also a prolific author, having recently published The Battleground of Desire: The Struggle for Self-Control in Modern America; Fat History: Bodies and Beauty in Western Society; Gender in World History; and World History: Patterns of Change and Continuity. Dr. Stearns also is editor of the recently published 6-volume Encyclopedia of European Social History from 1350 to 2000. He is active in several professional organizations including the American Historical Society, the Society of French Historical Studies, the Social Science History Association, and the International Society for Research on Emotion. He is currently provost at George Mason University, bringing to that position nearly 40 years of professional experience in higher education, both as a teacher and an administrator. | ||
| Dr. Stefan Toepler | ||
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Stefan Toepler is Director of the Center for Arts and Culture and Assistant Professor of Nonprofit Studies in the Department of Public Affairs at George Mason. Dr. Toepler, who is an executive editor of the Journal of Arts Management, Law and Society and a current Fellow in Museum Practice at the Smithsonian Institution, served on the faculty of the Johns Hopkins Institute for Policy Studies before joining George Mason in 2002. He holds a doctorate in business administration and economics from the Free University of Berlin in Germany. |
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| Mr. Harold Williams | ||
| 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. |