Jeffrey York
Public Arts Administrator
Town of Chapel Hill, NC

Jeffrey York is public arts administrator for Chapel Hill, NC. He oversees the town’s Percent for Art Program as well as activities of the Chapel Hill Public Arts Commission including an artist-in-residency, community arts, temporary exhibition, and yearly outdoor sculpture exhibition programs. He served as curator for the state’s 80-piece public art collection and assisted communities with public art and facility design planning through a grant program he developed while with the NC Arts Council (2000–2008). He was an advisor to the Art-in-Transit Program of the Charlotte Area Transit System (2003–2007), and the City of Raleigh Arts Commission (2005–2008). Prior to his involvement with public art, Jeffrey spent 18 years in the art museum field as an art museum educator, curator, and director. He has been a juror, facilitator, or a selection committee member for numerous public art competitions, gallery exhibitions, and arts festivals in North Carolina, Florida, Alabama, Mississippi, and Texas. He served as a grant reviewer for the National Endowment for the Arts, Artistic Excellence Category (2007–2009).

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