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Leah Antignas
Thomas E. Backer, Ph.D.
Corbett Barklie
Stephen Benjamin,
CPA, MBA, CFP.
Marcy Hinand Cady
Elisa Callow
Patrick Ela
Ashley Emenegger
Rochelle Fabb
Brechin Flournoy
Debra Esparza
Ron Evans
David Gluck
Jean Hester
Nancy Hytone Leb
Linda Joy Kattwinkel
Amy Kweskin
Lisa Lynne
Jay W. MacIntosh
David Perry.
Michele Pred C.P.A.
Nancy Quinn
Mari Riddle
Allison Sampson
Yesenia Sanchez
Hope Tschopik Schneider
Dewey Schott
Margaret Southerland
Judith Teitelman
Linda Vallejo
Greg Victoroff
Nancy Walch
Richard Walch
Morrie Warshawski
Judith Luther Wilder
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TRAINERS & COUNSELORS
Leah Antignas As a consultant and facilitator, Leah Antignas partners with organizations to design and deliver customized programs on leadership development and organizational effectiveness. Leah is also director of Golden Gate University's Center for Academic and Professional Success where she is responsible for strategic planning and management of academic support and professional development services. Prior to joining Golden Gate University, Leah coached individuals interested in digital media and socially responsible business including work as a career adviser at University of California, Berkeley's Haas School of Business and as adjunct faculty at San Francisco State University and the Art Institute of California - San Francisco. Leah’s background includes work in film production and the performing arts as well as 10 years of experience managing creative teams and producing products for Apple Computer, Broderbund Software and Purple Moon Media. Leah holds an MA in education from San Diego State University, and a BA in sociology from UCLA. She is also an alumna of the Center for Creative Leadership where she received certification in program development methodologies and facilitation of leadership and organization assessment tools.
Thomas E. Backer,
PhD is a licensed psychologist who has
worked with artists for more than 30 years, concentrating on challenges
like stress management and balancing work and personal life. He also
consults with arts organizations, ranging from the Directors Guild
of America, the union for film directors, to Pacific Northwest Ballet,
which he recently helped lead through a year-long organizational transformation.
He is president of the nonprofit Human Interaction Research Institute,
which for 46 years has studied innovation and change in the nonprofit
sector, and he is Associate Clinical Professor of Medical Psychology
at UCLA Medical School. In his own creative life Tom writes and produces
educational films, and has had one play published, as well as many
books and scientific articles.
Corbett Barklie is committed to deep engagement with artists and artist collectives whom she believes are the backbone of the creative community. It is the brave new work undertaken at the grassroots level that informs the field, ultimately shapes the work of arts institutions, and expands the palate of the arts consumer. As an arts coach, Corbett works to re-define the idea of “stabilization” by looking beyond individual organizations and their ability to exist for long periods of time. Her work focuses on stabilizing the flow of high quality artistic impulses and product with minimal corporate infrastructure. Corbett was the founding Director of Loretta Theatre, the Executive Director of ARTS Inc., and served as the Deputy Director of Development for Center Theater Group. She worked with the NEA as an assessor and consultant in their Challenge & Advancement Program. Since 2002, Corbett has been an Adjunct Professor in the University of Southern California, School of Theatre. She also produces theater and writes essays.
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Stephen
Benjamin, CPA, MBA, CFP,
teaches “Tax Tips for Artists”.
He is currently a sole practitioner whose financial services practice
focuses on self-employed clients and those in the arts and entertainment
world. However, his philosophy embraces the concept that financial
planning is necessary for everyone, not just the wealthy. He believes
that everyone should have a basic understanding of their tax responsibilities
and a healthy relationship with their money. In addition to his business
credentials, Stephen has a Bachelor’s Degree in Dramatic
Arts from York University in Toronto and has experience as a stand-up
comic, improve artist, actor and writer.
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Marcy Hinand Cady, has worked for 18 years in the arts and foundation fields. She is an independent consultant and has worked as a facilitator and workshop leader on a wide range of planning and evaluation projects. She co-authored, with Paul Connolly, a handbook on cultural participation planning, Increasing Cultural Participation: An Audience Development Planning Handbook for Presenters, Producers, and their Collaborators and a guide to performing arts documentation, For the Record: Documenting Performing Arts Audience Development Initiative. Marcy was formerly Program director for the Arts at the James Irvine Foundation in San Francisco. Prior to that she worked as a Senior Consultant for the TCC Group in New York City, working with John S. and James L. Knight Foundation. She has also directed national projects for the Ford Foundation and Lila Wallace-reader's Digest Fund.
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Elisa Callow is founding director of the Armory Center for the Arts. During her tenure, the Armory became a national model for excellence in community arts program development and the budget increased from $200,00 to over $2 million. Elisa worked in the philanthropic sector for four years, first as Program Officer for the Ahmanson Foundation and then as Arts Program Director for the James Irvine Foundation. Her most recent professional experience has been as a management consultant working with organizations in the nonprofit sector on strategic issues as they relate to program development, audience and market issues, organizational design and planning and evaluation. Clients include: The Natural History Museum of Los Angeles County, About Productions, The Pacific Asia Museum, The Los Angeles Chamber Orchestra, The San Francisco Symphony, and The Auckland War Memorial Museum. She is currently a mentor for the Durfeee Foundation’s Springboard Fund. Elisa has also served on the Boards of a number of arts, environmental, and education organizations. She is currently a Board member of the Rowe and Gayle Giesen Trust and an Advisory Board member of Pasadena Conservatory of Music.
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Patrick Ela is
an arts consultant, an appraiser, and a sought after speaker
at conferences and on arts panels around the country. He is
the former Director of the Craft and Folk Arts Museum as well
as the institution’s
former Board President. Patrick serves on numerous grants panels
and represents both corporate and private art collectors. He recently
curated “Conversations”, an exhibition at the Museum
of Natural History that featured the work of Tony Berlant, Paul McCarthy,
Ed Moses, Lita Albuquerque, John Valadez, and Kim Abeles. Patrick
serves on CCI’s Trainers Advisory Committee and is a
trainer / co-host for the Arts Boot Camps.
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Ashley
Emenegger Ashley has been an active leader in the arts community since 1997. In 2004 she founded McLean Fine Art. Currently Ashley works in the exhibitions department at the Armory Center for the Arts, Pasadena. She recently served as Managing Editor for THE Magazine, and was the Director of the Bandini Art gallery in Culver City. As the former Executive Director of Gallery 825/Los Angeles Art Association, she presented hundreds of critically recognized exhibitions and educational programs. She also worked at the Santa Monica Museum of Art. Ashley is an exhibiting visual artist, art writer, independent curator, and a frequent lecturer, including with UCLA, MOCA, the Santa Monica Museum of Art, The Japanese American National Museum, Santa Monica City College, Fullerton College, Pasadena City College, among many others.
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Debra Esparza is
a small business consultant with an expertise in non profit management.
A former banker, she served as the Director of the Entrepreneurial
Training Program for the University of Southern California and
has consulted for the Los Angeles Times, Women’s Enterprise Development Corporation,
Cal State Long Beach, and for SBDCs throughout Southern California. Debbie
is currently the Executive Director for Girl Scouts of Greater Long Beach
and teaches classes on “Finance and Business Planning” for
CCI. She also serves as a CCI Counselor on issues related to Financial
Planning.
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Ron Evans Ron Evans founded Group of Minds. Ron is a leading developer and researcher of arts marketing and audience development using technology. His primary area of interest is the exploration of emerging technologies and their impact on patron behavior in expanding arts audiences. He has a history in the field of social interactions using technology, and is known for his work as the user experience and functionality designer behind the Artsopolis.com calendaring software, which has become a national model for collaborative arts marketing. He is a frequent speaker at regional and national conferences, including the National Arts Marketing Project (NAMP), the Association for Performing Arts Service Organizations (APASO) and Arts Reach. He is currently studying the uses and best practices of social networking applications such as Facebook and Twitter, and their potential to communicate with cultural audiences.
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Rochelle Fabb is an award winning performing artist as well as a Producer and Publicist working in theater, dance, art and television. Fabb is the founder of Loudmouth Productions an Event Production, PR/marketing and design firm for clients in the arts and has designed and developed publicity and marketing campaigns for clients including: Farmlab/Not a Cornfield/Under Spring llc, Broadway Cares (Chess), Ford Amphitheatre, Japan America Theater, Watts Towers Arts Center, and more. Fabb is currently producing The Who's TOMMY with Nona Hendryx and Alice Ripley. Fabb has lectured at: California Institute for the Arts, School for the Museum of Fine Arts Boston, College of Santa Fe, the Institute for Studies in the Arts at Arizona State University, L.A. County Arts Commission, Highways Performance Space, and 18th Street Arts Center amongst other venues.
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Brechin Flournoy is a veteran curator, independent producer and publicist/digital communications specialist. A self described ‘cultural omnivore’, Brechin’s administrative career began at the age of 19 as an intern at P.S. 122 in New York City's Lower East Side - handling everything from coffee runs to associate producing showcases. Since then, Brechin has worked professionally in every aspect of the creative sector (from administration to performer and guest curator to tech). Coming out of San Francisco’s vibrant DIY sub-culture in the 1990s, Brechin founded curated and spearheaded public relations and communications plans for the internationally renowned San Francisco Butoh Festival (1995-2003) which effectively popularized the dance genre in the U.S. From 2003-2010, she ran NEQA/Communications a public relations and digital marketing division of Quinn Associates - and represented clients in mainstream venues and 'downtown' galleries and theaters. In accordance with the D.I.Y. approach to art-making, Brechin has been teaching workshops and coaching client staff about public relations and marketing fundamentals for over a decade to empower artists and organizations to make informed decisions about their resources. In July, 2010, Brechin is delighted to launch a new venture called Sagacity Communications to work with a select group of clientele on their digital marketing campaigns.
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David Gluck David Gluck is a San Francisco-based arts consultant specializing in finance and strategic planning. Recent clients include: Headlands Center for the Arts, San Francisco Girls Chorus, SOMArts Cultural Center, New Century Chamber Orchestra, San Francisco Playhouse, Playwrights Foundation, and Stern Grove Festival Association. He has held executive positions with Magic Theatre, California Shakespeare Theater, and the long-running West End production of the musical "Chicago". His educational background includes an MBA from UCLA Anderson and a BA from Princeton University. He has served on the boards of Theatre Bay Area and Crowded Fire Theatre, and was appointed to the San Francisco Arts Task Force during 2005-06.
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D. Jean Hester is
the owner of Dive Studios, a graduate student at California Institute
of the Arts, and a multi-media installation artist who has shown
her work throughout the United States, Mexico and Canada. Formerly
employed as a programmer for Jet Propulsion Lab, Toyota, and other
large corporations located in California, Jean has acquired an
extensive body of knowledge about marketing on the web. She is
an early graduate of “Business
of Art” and has been teaching “Marketing on the Web for Artists
and Arts Organizations” for over three years. Recent
exhibitions and installations have been included in the inaugural show at
LAAA's satellite gallery in Hermosa Beach (juried by Jeremy Strickland); the
Aiden Riley Taylor Gallery; the Armory; and the 13th Annual International
Symposium of Electronic Art, in San Jose.
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Nancy Hytone Leb discovered the world of Arts Administration in 1998 and gleefully left the ad agency world behind. She started Hytone Arts Management in 2004 and is also the Director of Training at the Center for Cultural Innovation. Nancy works extensively with arts organizations and artists in both the Bay Area and Los Angeles providing marketing, development and management guidance. Current clients include Americans for the Arts, Academy for New Musical Theatre and Syzygy Theatre. She also serves as a mentor for dance organizations through Pentacle/Help Desk LA. Nancy recently authored the chapter, Marketing Your Art / Marketing Your Arts Business in CCI’s publication, The Business of Art: An Artist’s Guide to Profitable Self-Employment. In 2009, she was elected to the Board of Trustees for the Pasadena Arts Council. From 2000-2004, Nancy was the Director of Marketing and Development for Playhouse West in Walnut Creek, CA. Prior to entering the non-profit arena, Nancy held senior account management positions at 3 of the largest West Coast advertising agencies working on a variety of national brands. She received a graduate certificate in Arts Administration from Golden Gate University and her B.A. from Iowa State University.
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Linda Joy Kattwinkel is a visual artist as well as an attorney. She practices primarily copyright, trademark, and arts law. She is an experienced transactional attorney and litigator, particularly in federal courts and the Trademark Trial an Appeals Board. Ms. Kattwinkel has also been mediating and arbitrating intellectual property and arts related disputes since 1987. Before becoming an attorney, Ms. Kattwinkel worked for thirteen years as a graphic artist in editorial, corporate and advertising design, illustration and typography. Today she paints at her studio in San Francisco where she sometimes participates in Open Studios. Her artwork has been shown in over 25 museum and gallery exhibitions. She serves as a trainer and volunteer mediator and arbitrator for CLA’s Arts Arbitration and Mediation Service. She recently co-authored the AIGA’’s form contracts for designers. Ms. Kattwinkel is the author of Legalities, a regular online column for artists, for the GAG Northern California chapter.
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Amy Kweskin is an internationally recognized arts management practitioner specializing in Strategic Planning. She has worked with hundreds of organizations as a facilitator, consultant and trainer. Additionally, Amy is the Program Director for the CSUEB Arts Management Career Development online certificate program. In 2009 Amy joined the faculty of the Art Institute of California - San Francisco where she instructs courses in Career Development, Human Resource Management and Executive Leadership. In 2006, Amy was a Research Fellow with Americans for the Arts, exploring mid-career leadership development across the US. She lived in the UK where she worked as a Business Development Manager for Legal Action Group, a social enterprise publishing venture. While in the UK she earned a certificate in Neurolingustic Programming and studied as a coach. In 2009, in partnership with fourteen consultants and coaches, Amy co-founded and is Co-Chair of the community of practice C2Arts: Consultant and Coaches for the Arts. Amy earned a Masters in Arts Administration from Golden Gate University. From Ithaca College she earned a Bachelors of Arts in English and a Bachelors of Science in Cinema/Photography. She currently lives in Oakland where she is Board President of Pro Arts.
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Lisa Lynne is a veteran musician and performer who has sold over half a million albums
of original music featuring her Celtic harp. From humble beginnings she has
ascended the ladder of success to starting her own production company and
recording studio. Having signed with the prestigious Windham Hill and
New Earth Record labels, she simultaneously launched her own label Lavender
Sky Music. Her last four album releases have placed in the top 20
Billboard music chart, ("Hopes & Dreams" reaching #6) as well as holding top
spots in the Celtic, New Age, and world music radio airplay charts. She supports CCI as
both a trainer and counselor.
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Jay W. MacIntosh is
a Los Angeles attorney practicing in the areas of Entertainment
and the Arts, Music Law, Intellectual Property, Corporate Formation,
Contracts, Real Estate; Bankruptcy and Employment Law. The former President
of the Board of Directors for Women in Film and a member of the Blue
Ribbon Panel of the Academy of Television Arts & Science, Ms.
MacIntosh is also a former actress of Film, Television, Commercials
and Theater and a member of SAG, AFTRA and ASCAP.
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David Perry has generated extensive media coverage - print, online, TV and radio - for a variety of clients. He introduced many clients to the Internet and developed their online communication strategies. As a writer he has contributed to a number of national publications and written on textbook, The Media How-To Guide for Nonprofits. David developed an original and international media database, including Internet addresses, with more than 10,000 contacts and his clients have been featured on national and international media. Current clients include Bay Area National Dance Week, Traveling Jewish Theatre, Lighthouse for the Blind, Museum of Craft and Folk Art, SF Girls Chorus, San Francisco International Arts Festival and Theatre of Yugen. David lectures at San Francisco State and the California Institute of Arts. In 2006, he was asked by Grants for the Arts and the SF Visitors Bureau to teach a series of PR basics to the arts community.
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Michele Pred is a conceptual collage/installation artist who works with recycled, confiscated and found objects that are imbued with cultural and political meaning. Her work has been reviewed and featured by The New York Times, The International Herald Tribune, ARTnews, Art in America, WIRED blog, Associated Press Television, CNN, MSNBC, Ready Made Magazine, Travel and Leisure Magazine, The San Francisco Chronicle, Corriere della Sera (Italy), TV4 and Dagens Nyheter (Sweden). Her artwork has been exhibited in galleries and art fairs in London, Stockholm, New York, Bologna, Miami, Los Angeles, Chicago and San Francisco. Her work is part of the permanent collection at the 21st Century Museum, The Contemporary Museum in Honolulu, the Di Rosa Preserve in Napa, CA and is in numerous private collections. She is represented by the Nancy Hoffman Gallery in New York and the Robert Berman Gallery in Los Angeles. In addition to her own artwork, Michele teaches professional practices at California College of the Arts and has been working as an artist career coach for the last year and a half.
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Nancy E. Quinn received her MBA in Arts Administration from the Anderson School at UCLA in 1983. As part of her business school curriculum, she served as an intern in the fundraising office at New York City Ballet. Her professional experience in the arts includes managerial positions with the Sequoia String Quartet Foundation, Chamber Music America, the San Francisco Conservatory of Music, and San Francisco Performances. She is the founder and principal of Quinn Associates, which has been providing fundraising services for Bay Area arts organizations since 1988. In Winter 2007, Nancy served as an Adjunct Professor at California College of the Arts.
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Mari Riddle, is Regional Director of Pacific Community Ventures (PCV) Los Angeles Services. PCV, provides resources and capital to businesses that have the potential to bring significant economic gains to low/moderate income communities. She is a committee member of VEDC's SBA Microloan credit Committee and the Los Angeles Arts Loan Fund. Prior to joining, PCV, Mari was Executive Director of TELACU Community Capital (TCC). There she was responsible for the strategic development, management, and capitalization of a $6.5+ million dollar CDF that provided small business loans, business management workshops, and resources and referrals to small businesses operating in the low-to-moderate income communities of Los Angeles and Orange counties. Mari is also the former Executive Director of the Coalition for Women's Economic Development (CWED), a pioneer microenterprise development organization.
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Allison Sampson’s
career has spanned the worlds of banking, finance and the arts. She has
served as both the Development Director and the Executive Director of
the Los Angeles Festival, as the Assistant Managing Director of the Los
Angeles Philharmonic, and as the Director of the Colburn Foundation.
She has her own consulting company with a clientele that includes Plaza
de la Raza, Deaf West Theatre, United Cambodian Community, the Department
of Water and Power, the Department of Cultural Affairs, Women Incorporated,
and arts organizations throughout California. Allison currently is the
Coordinator for CCI’s Arts Loan Fund and also offers workshops
to CCI artists on “Financing Your Project”.
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Yesenia Sanchez Soleil Coaching & Consulting, is a professional coach and arts management consultant based in the San Francisco Bay Area. She has over 10 years experience working with artists and arts organizations as a financial manager, administrative director, program director, coach and consultant. Previously, she ran one of the largest artist incubation programs in the country at Intersection for the Arts in San Francisco. Yesenia has presented workshops on the topics of fundraising and development, fiscal sponsorship, and personal finance and business planning for artists at The Foundation Center, Independent Arts & Media, and California College for the Arts. She has also served as a panelist for the San Francisco Arts Commission, San Francisco Foundation & Grants for the Arts “Best Practices Series” and the 2008 National Performing Arts Convention.
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Hope Tschopik
Schneider teaches “Planning, Plain
and Simple”, the workshop that always kicks off CCI’s flagship
series, “The Business of Art”. Her skills as a planning strategist
have been employed and enjoyed by Grand Performances, California Institute
of the Arts, the Natural History Museum of Los Angeles County, The Pasadena
Conservatory of Music, and The Pacific Asia Museum. In a previous incarnation,
Hope served as the Associate Director of the Olympic Arts Festival during
the 23rd Olympiad in Los Angeles. More recently, she climbed Mount Kilimanjaro
and made it to the Base Camp of Mount Everest. She has also traveled
to the Galapagos Islands, to Patagonia, and to most of Nova Scotia’s
bays and coves. She is dedicated to her family, explorations of
the spirit, her Book Club, good food and good friends, not necessarily
in that order.
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Dewey Schott is an Associate Certified Coach who passionate about helping leaders soar to new heights. He has over sixteen years of experience working in the social and cultural sectors specializing in capacity building and leadership development. Through both his coaching practice and his role as Senior Manager of Leadership Services for NAMAC, a national arts service organization, he helps people stretch into their leadership potential, achieve their creative goals, develop healthy life/work practices, and create more effective organizations. Dewey is currently researching “next generation” leadership in California arts organizations for The James Irvine Foundation. He is also a member of the LeaderSpring Executive Coaching team; a member of the Bay Area Leadership Coaching Learning Circle convened by CompassPoint Nonprofit Services; and has lead workshops on coaching in the arts for Americans for the Arts. He received his B.A. in Interdisciplinary Studies from the California Institute of Integral Studies and completed his coach training at The Coaches Training Institute
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Margaret Southerland is a Principal in the San Francisco office of Strategic Philanthropy Advisors. Margaret Southerland has more than twenty years of experience in the financial sector. She had a 13-year career with JPMorgan Chase and its predecessor firm, J.P. Morgan, with positions in both California and New York. Most recently she was Vice President of Corporate Philanthropy and Sponsorships for JPMorgan Chase, and served as the California Program Officer for the J.P. Morgan Chase Foundation. Prior to this role, she was Vice President and Director of Corporate Communications and Charitable Giving for the Western U.S. for J.P. Morgan and the California Program Officer for the J.P. Morgan Charitable Trust. Margaret has been active in the California philanthropic and nonprofit communities, serving in a variety of capacities with the Northern California Community Loan Fund, Northern California Grantmakers, Bay Area Corporate Volunteer Council Steering Committee, University of Southern California Center on Philanthropy & Public Policy, and Autry National Center Acquisition Committee.
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Judith
Teitelman teaches “Best Foot Forward” for
CCI. She brings more than twenty years experience in planning,
revenue generation and management strategies for grassroots, mid-size
and large arts organizations to her consulting practice. She has
been a Planning Consultant to the National Endowment for the Arts,
and a Technical Assistance Specialist to the Los Angeles County
Arts Commission. Her other clients include PEN Center USA West,
SCI-Arc, Japanese American National Museum, LA Freewaves New Media
Festival, and Collage Dance Theatre. She is a dedicated world traveler
and is currently working on a novel about India.
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Linda Vallejo has received numerous fellowships, awards and
commissions including the Brody Arts Fund Fellowship, Outstanding Young
Woman of America, the UCLA Chicano Studies Research Center Artist Award and
the Comision Femenil de Los Angeles Latinas Making History Award. She has
had solo exhibitions at the Carnegie Art Museum, the Latino Museum in
Pomona, the Patricia Correia Gallery, SPARC and the Natural History Museum,
Los Angeles County. Her work is in the permanent collections of the Los
Angeles County Museum of Art, the Carnegie Art Museum, the US Santa Barbara
Library, and Self-Help Graphics. Linda has owned and managed her own
grantswriting business for over twenty years
and currently offers grantswriting seminars throughout the country.
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Greg
Victoroff, a
partner at Rohde and Victoroff, literally wrote the book
on “Poetic
Justice” and co-authored “The Visual Artists’ Business
and Legal Guide”. As a lawyer and as an author of legal guides
for both visual and performing artists, Greg teaches workshops
on copyright, collections, trademarks, and contracts for clients
in Honolulu, Oakland, San Francisco, and Los Angeles. When not
protecting artists in the courtroom, Greg plays the role of Super
Dad to his two young sons and their giant dog. A trained orchestra
musician, he also sits in with numerous bands and musical groups,
including Santana, Huey Lewis and the News, and Bobby McFerrin.
He is a member of California Lawyers for the Arts. His workshop
for CCI is called “Copyright, Collections and Contracts’.
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Nancy Walch founded Walch Consulting, LLC in 1973. Walch Consulting provides executive coaching and strategic planning services to corporate giving programs, foundations, and other nonprofit organizations. She enjoys the creativity involved in responding to the diversity of her clients' needs, including: coaching nonprofit leaders and entrepreneurs to take their vision to the next level; refocusing the efforts of well-established corporate foundations and nonprofit organizations, and guiding the development of new organizations. Previously, Walch was Founder of an Experimental Education Program at the Los Angeles Municipal Art Gallery, Director, Los Angeles Junior Arts Center Gallery (curating interactive art exhibits for youth and families), and Co-Founder of Museum Educators of Southern California. Nancy has served on the Corporate Committee of Southern California Grantmakers, and the Executive Committee of ArtTable (a national organization of professional women in leadership positions in the visual arts).
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Richard Walch joined Walch Consulting after 20+ years leading the largest metropolitan bar association in the United States, the Los Angeles County Bar Association, where he served as General Counsel and Executive Director. As a former head of a nonprofit organization, Richard brings to Walch Consulting hands-on experience with a full range of management issues from governance, leadership development, strategic planning and personnel issues to building strategic relationships with the business community. Among his many civic and professional achievements, Richard served as President of the Los Angeles City Ethics Commission. He received his Juris Doctor Degree from the University of Southern California Law Center and is a graduate of the University of California at Berkeley.
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Morrie Warshawski has worked in the nonprofit arts sector for over thirty years as an administrator, consultant, facilitator, teacher and writer. His practice has included work with State and Regional Government Agencies (South Carolina, Missouri, Michigan, California), Foundations (Bush, MacArthur, Pew Charitable Trust), The President's Commission on the Arts and the Humanities, and numerous nonprofit organizations in many disciplines (Operation Shoestring, California Coalition for Youth, Michigan Alzheimer's Organization, San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, St. Louis Black Repertory Company, and others.) He was Executive Director of three nonprofits (including Bay Area Video Coalition). Warshawski has extensive experience in the area of strategic planning. He designed and edited a Website devoted to strategic planning essays for the National Endowment for the Arts called LESSONS LEARNED; and for many years was one of the consultants for the NEA's Advancement Program, which provided fifteen months of planning assistance to organizations throughout the US.
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Judith Luther
Wilder is co-founder
of the Center for Cultural
Innovation (CCI). She was formerly the Chief Executive
Officer of Women Incorporated (WI), a national organization
designed to serve women entrepreneurs, and Executive Director
and Founder of the American Woman's Economic Development
Corporation. Luther Wilder is also the founder/owner
of ALW & Associates, a firm whose clients have included
Arts International, the Japanese American Cultural and Community
Center, the Community Redevelopment Agency of Los Angeles,
the Los Angeles County Museum of Natural History, Center
Theatre Group and The Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles,
among many others. As the Executive Director of the 1990
Los Angeles Festival, a $5 million event that involved 22
countries and over 1500 artists, Luther Wilder helped to
produce the work of hundreds of international artists in
the United States. She has also coordinated numerous special
arts events and economic development projects in Japan, China,
and Cambodia and is the author of three books of poetry,
a textbook for artists and a book published in December 1999,
entitled "Breaking Through the Clutter."
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