Beck Center Executive Director Lucinda Einhouse chosen to participate in the third class of National Arts Strategies Chief Executive Program
by Missy Ricksecker

The Ohio Arts Council is pleased to announce that Lucinda Einhouse, executive director of the Beck Center for the Arts (Lakewood, OH) is a member of the latest class of exceptional leaders in the National Arts Strategies (NAS) Chief Executive Program: Community and Culture. Ms. Einhouse and 49 other executives from around the country and around the world will work with NAS and each other over the next fourteen months to address their biggest challenges and lead change throughout the arts and culture sector.

This is the third class of The Chief Executive Program, which has evolved from the experience of the past two classes and discussions with arts and culture leaders around the world. National Arts Strategies is continuing the program with a focus on leaders of organizations where community is at the heart of the mission. The NAS Chief Executive Program helps leaders explore, reflect, apply and share concepts that address the two biggest challenges for cultural institutions making strategic choices that are on-mission and leading change. Participants chosen to participate in The Chief Executive Program: Community and Culture were selected from a wide range of cultural forms, locations, perspectives and experience levels.

Healthy organizations share deep connections with their communities. Weve seen that leaders who build and maintain a strong sense of local relevance are creating organizations for both the present and the future. We at NAS progress field-wide change by providing the training and support to these leaders. Having experienced this program and bonded as a community, these 50 leaders will have the ideas, tools and connections to effect change in their own organizations and to accelerate their work collectively to strengthen communities and the cultural sector, said NAS CEO Designate Gail Crider.

Development of The Chief Executive Program was made possible by the support of The Andrew W. Mellon Foundation, the Fidelity Foundation and The Kresge Foundation. The Chief Executive Program: Community and Culture represents a significant commitment to the field of creative placemaking by The Kresge Foundation. National Arts Strategies has been working with leaders in arts and culture for over thirty years, providing accessible and affordable, high quality leadership training programs that enable arts and culture leaders to explore their toughest challenges. More about NAS and the Chief Executive Program can be found here.

The Chief Executive Program: Community and Culture Participants

• Neil Barclay, Contemporary Arts Center (New Orleans, LA)
• Jim Beirne, Live Theatre (Newcastle, United Kingdom)
• Michael Bobbitt, Adventure Theatre (Glen Echo, MD)
• Jennifer Boomgaarden, South Dakota Symphony Orchestra (Sioux Falls, SD)
• Tony Butler, Derby Museums Trust (Derby, United Kingdom)
• Polly Carl, HowlRound: A Center for Theater Commons (Boston, MA)
• Tim Carroll, Bankstown Youth Development Service (Bankstown, Australia)
• Serina Chen, Taipei Arts International Association (Taipei, Taiwan)
• Uli Sailer Das, Museum at Prairiefire (Overland Park, KS)
• Robert Davidson, Seattle Aquarium (Seattle, WA)
• Gretchen Dietrich, Utah Museum of Fine Arts (Salt Lake City, UT)
• Lucinda Einhouse, Beck Center for the Arts (Lakewood, OH)
• Ahmed El Attar, Studio Emad Eddin Foundation (Cairo, Egypt)
• Patricia Finneran, Story Matters (New York, NY)
• Gary Ginstling, Indianapolis Symphony Orchestra (Indianapolis, IN)
• Daniel Gorman, Shubbak Festival (London, United Kingdom)
• Brent Hasty, MINDPOP (Austin, TX)
• Jeffreen Hayes, Rebuild Foundation (Chicago, IL)
• Cristy Johnston Limon, Destiny Arts Center (Oakland, CA)
• Anne Katz, Arts Wisconsin (Madison, WI)
• Geoffrey Kershner, Endstation Theatre Company (Lynchburg, VA)
• Karen Kienzle, Palo Alto Art Center (Palo Alto, CA)
• Scott Kratz, 11th Street Bridge Park (Washington, DC)
• Lex Leifheit, SOMArts (San Francisco, CA)
• Sheila Lewandowski, Factory Theater (Long Island City, NY)
• Frank Little, City of Edinburgh Council (Edinburgh, Scotland)
• Mara Claudia Lpez, Ministry of Culture (Bogot, Colombia)
• Karen Mack, LA Commons, A Project of Community Partners (Los Angeles, CA)
• Jeff McCarter, Free Spirit Media (Chicago, IL)
• Lynne McCormack, City of Providence, Department of Art, Culture + Tourism (Providence, RI)
• Hope McMath, Cummer Museum of Art & Gardens (Jacksonville, FL)
• Tanner Methvin, Africa Centre (Cape Town, South Africa)
• Andreas Mitisek, Long Beach Opera (Long Beach, CA)
• Donna Neuwirth, Wormfarm Institute (Reedsburg, WI)
• Adam Philipson, Count Basie Theatre (Red Bank, NJ)
• Marcelle Polednik, MOCA Jacksonville (Jacksonville, FL)
• Kelly Pollock, Center of Creative Arts (St. Louis, MO)
• Michael Rohd, Sojourn Theatre & Center for Performance and Civic Practice (Evanston, IL)
• Abe Rybeck, The Theater Offensive: OUT in Your Neighborhood (Boston, MA)
• Susan Schardt, Association of Independents in Radio (Boston, MA)
• Roger Schmidt, Alaska Arts Southeast, Sitka Fine Arts Camp (Sitka, AK)
• Michael Seiwerath, Capitol Hill Housing Foundation (Seattle, WA)
• Michael Shanklin, Kidspace Childrens Museum (Pasadena, CA)
• Scott Showalter, Oregon Symphony (Portland, OR)
• Connie Spreen, Experimental Station (Chicago, IL)
• Tracy Straus, Celebrate the Beat (Paonia, CO)
• Alicia Sutton, Free Arts for Abused Children of Arizona (Phoenix, AZ)
• Clyde Valentin, SMU Meadows Arts + Urbanism Initiative (Dallas, TX)
• Carol Varney, Bay Area Video Coalition (San Francisco, CA)
• Gerd Wuestemann, Acadiana Center for the Arts (Lafayette, LA)

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