2008 Board of Directors:
Barbara Pioli, Chair, Utah Humanities Council, Salt Lake City
Barbara has dedicated her career to a broad range of nonprofit issues from rehabilitation services and environmental concerns to education and law. Moving from a small farming community in Illinois to Salt Lake City, Utah, with its numerous cultural organizations, provided Barbara with the opportunity to become the founding director of VSA/Art Access. She received her M.F.A. in Arts Administration from the University of Utah and currently serves as development director for the Utah Humanities Council. Barbara also maintains a consulting practice, New Directions, which addresses non-profit management issues. She spends her time away from work traveling, reading, gardening, and spending time with family and friends in the kitchen and around the dining room table.
Ginny Mcomber, Vice-Chair, Salt Lake City Public Library, Salt Lake City
Cami Moffat, Secretary, Salt Lake County Center for the Arts, Salt Lake City
Amanda Finlayson-Moore, Treasurer, Art Access/VSA Arts of Utah, Salt Lake City
Amanda Finlayson-Moore graduated from Westminster College with a BA in English. While studying for her degree, she worked as a Research Assistant in the English Department and was Secretary of the Associated Students of Westminster College and President of the Westminster Theatre Society. Amanda then served with AmeriCorps National Service Organization for two years, promoting literacy and providing social services to underserved families in the Jackson Elementary community of North Salt Lake. She has worked on the staff of Utah Opera, taught for Salt Lake City School District, and was a volunteer in the Utah State Archeology Laboratory for several years. Beginning in January of 2003, Amanda started her current position as the Programming & Development Manager for VSA arts of Utah. She has since juried artwork for local and state agencies, serves on the Utah Arts Council's Arts Education Panel, and has recently joined the Arts in Caring Council founding Board of Directors.
Elizabeth Bradlely, Utah Heritage Foundation, Salt Lake City
Amanda Caraway, Utah Shakespearean Festival
Amanda has a B.A. in psychology from Westminster College where she studied art therapy. She also has a B.A. in communication from Westminster with an emphasis in Public Relations. Additionally, she has an M.A. in Theatre History and Dramaturgy from San Diego State University. Past work experience in public relations include Utah Opera, Ballet West, and a Salt Lake City ad agency. Amanda has been a dramaturg for several theatres in San Diego and also plans to serve as the dramaturg for the New American Playwrights Project at the Festival during the summer of 2008. Amanda currently serves on the New American Playwrights Play Selection Committee.Special interests include Roman history and theatre, and performance studies. Amanda believes that one of the best ways to learn about human beings, in the past and the present, is through a study of performance practices. The arts speak to the very heart of humanity. Amanda strongly believes in the healing power of art.
Laurel Casjens, Utah Office of Museum Services
Jayceen Craven Walker, Pathway Associates, Coalville
Jayceen is a member of Pathway Associates and board member for the Utah Museums Association.
Virginia (Geier) Gowski, University of Utah's Division of Continuing Education
Virginia Gowski, Director of Marketing for the University of Utah's division of Continuing
Education, oversees marketing campaigns for the University's nine continuing education programs,
which cover lifelong learning students from preschool to retirement, in a variety of subject
areas. She was formerly Associate Director of Marketing and Licensing at the Sundance
Institute, which runs the Sundance Film Festival and other local and international film and
theatre programs. Prior to moving to Utah from Washington, DC, Gowski worked with a variety
of non-profit, educational, and corporate clients as Director at Reingold, Inc., a boutique
marketing / communications / training firm. She has also worked for Markowitz &
McNaughton, Inc., in business development and competitive intelligence, and for the
Council for International Educational Exchange. She volunteers with No More Homeless
Pets of Utah, sits on the Downtown Alliance's Farmer's Market Advisory Committee, and
is active with the Utah Cultural Alliance, Western States Arts Federation, the American
Marketing Association, and Americans for the Arts.
Ghulam H. Hasnain, President, Salt Lake American Muslim, Sandy, Utah
Ghulam is an IT professional and a community activist with an abiding interest in
organizing social services, and cultural and interfaith programs including the Salt Lake American Muslim Cultural Festival recognized by the Governor and Salt Lake City and County Mayors website SaltLakeAmericanMuslim.com
Lynnette Hiskey, Utah Arts Council
Lisa Jensen, Ballet West, Salt Lake City
Nancy Lyon, University of Utah Institute of Advancement
Nancy has worked for the University of Utah since 2000, as Assistant Vice-President of
Government Affairs, and currently as Alumni/Advancement Officer. Her extensive leadership
experience includes: Utah House of Representatives, Salt Lake Chamber of Commerce, Salt Lake
Olympic Advisory Committee, Davis School District, Utah Arts Council Advisory Panel, and
Governor's Appointee and Chair, Board for Services for People with Disabilities.
Jeri Openshaw, Utah State Library Library Division
Shawn Rossiter, Artists of Utah, Salt Lake City
Richard Scott, Grand Theatre, Salt Lake City
Richard is the Artistic & Executive Director of the Grand Theatre and the Grand Theatre Institute (GTI) housed at Salt Lake Community College's South City Campus. He has over 20 years of theatrical experience as a producer, director, actor and instructor. He has been with the Grand since August of 2001 after many years as the Producing Artistic Director of Park City's Egyptian Theatre Company. Richard has worked with many of Utah's theatre companies as an actor including Pioneer Theatre Company, Salt Lake Acting Company, and Sundance Summer & Children's Theatre. His directorial credits at the Grand include: director of Anything Goes, Damn Yankees, The Odd Couple (Female Version), this season's 1776 and Our Town. In addition he produced this year's A Community Celebration of Handel's Messiah; Fused with the Energy of Gospel for GTI. He is a member of Actor's Equity Association.
Lisa Sewell, Utah Arts Festival
Marc Weyerstall, Red Butte Garden & Arboretum, Salt Lake City
Crystal Young-Otterstrom, Utah Symphony & Opera, Salt Lake City
Crystal Young-Otterstrom is currently Audience Development Manager for
Utah Symphony & Opera and is constantly looking for ways to grow new
audiences for classical music and opera. While at US&O, Crystal has
successfully started Vivace, a funkified bunch of 20/30/40 somethings
(single, partnered, married) that just happen to get their groove on to
classical music and opera. Vivace has grown to over 800 members and is
now the largest group of its kind west of the Mississippi (all that in
less than 2 years!). Crystal's educational background is as a composer
and singer. Her works have been performed all over the United States.
She received a BA in Music Theory from Brigham Young University and
double MA's in Musicology and Composition from Queens College, NYC.
Although Crystal's academic studies focused on Schenker Theory, she
always had a strong interest in researching how to sell classical music
to young people and other alternative audiences (at least, "alternative" where classical music is concerned) - hence a career in Audience
Development has been very fulfilling and natural. In addition to being
on the UCA board, Crystal serves as a founding member of Opera America's
Young Professional Group Leaders Steering Committee, the marketing
committee for the Downtown Alliance, and is an active member of the Utah
Democratic Progressive Caucus.
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