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Convention Overview
Based on the success of last year’s Innovator Series, we are bringing it back with a group of stellar individuals. Here’s your opportunity to listen in and add your two cents to these interactive one-on-one interviews with pioneers working in and around the arts. This year we will feature:
Rick Foster, Vice President for Leadership, W.K. Kellogg Foundation
Saturday, June 7, 2003
Dr. Rick Foster is Vice President for Leadership at the W.K. Kellogg Foundation of Battle Creek, Michigan. His programming duties include guiding Foundation efforts in rural development, leadership development, and food systems. Dr. Foster also serves on the Executive Team that provides overall direction and leadership for the Foundation. Specific programming initiatives for which he is responsible include the Kellogg National Leadership Program, the new Kellogg Leadership for Community Change Program, Networks for Rural Public Policy, and People and Land.
Kristy Edmunds, Executive/Artistic Director, Portland Institute for Contemporary Art
Sunday, June 8, 2003
As both an artist and a curator, Kristy Edmunds has been a leading advocate for furthering innovative and provocative contemporary art in the Northwest region and nationally. In recognition of her “exceptional personal courage and creative vision in support of free speech,” Edmunds received the 1998/1999 Freedom of Expression Award from the Oregon chapter of the American Civil Liberties Union.
Roberta Uno, Media, Arts, and Culture Program Officer, The Ford Foundation
Monday, June 9, 2003
Roberta Uno is the Program Officer for Arts and Culture at the Ford Foundation in New York City. Prior to her arrival at Ford, she was the founding Artistic Director of the New WORLD Theater, in residence at the Fine Arts Center at the University of Massachusetts in Amherst and a Professor in the University's Department of Theater. Founded in 1979, New WORLD Theater has earned a national and international reputation as a visionary cultural institution dedicated to works by artists of color.
Donald Sampson, Executive Director, Columbia River Inter-Tribal Fish Commission
Monday, June 9, 2003
Donald Sampson, a recipient of The Ford Foundation's 2002 Leadership For A Changing World award, belongs to the Wallulapum tribe and works to restore salmon runs and boost tribal economic health. Chairman of the Umatilla tribe from 1993 to 1997, Sampson helped reverse a severely depressed tribal economy, integrating it into a rapidly developing regional economy. He is a skilled biologist who actively participates in tribal ceremonies and rituals. Last year, Sampson's Jammin' for Salmon festival brought more than 17,000 people to Portland's Waterfront Park to celebrate those cultures to which salmon is centrally important.
Abel Lopez, Interviewer, Artistic Director, GALA Hispanic Theatre
Abel Lopez is the Associate Producing Director of GALA Hispanic Theatre and the President of the Boards of Directors of the Mid Atlantic Arts Foundation and Chair-Emeritus of the D.C. Commission on the Arts and Humanities. He is also immediate past president of the National Association of Latino Arts and Culture and the Non-Traditional Casting Project. In 1995, he was honored by the Theater Lobby with a Mary Goldwater Award for his work as a director and producer, and in 1996 he received a Leadership Award from The Association of American Cultures.
