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previously was engaged in public policy analysis, issue tracking,
and corporate and campaign communications through her work as a public affairs consultant. See related story on page 55.
The Andrew W. Mellon Foundation
has appointed EMIL KANG, former APAP board member, as program director for arts and cultural heritage,
Foundation. “He shares Mellon’s fundamental understanding of art and culture as central to flourishing societies.”
Mary Anne Carter
MARY ANNE CARTER has been named the new chairman of the National Endowment for the Arts. Carter had served
effective in October. In this role, Kang will lead the foundation’s grantmaking program
that seeks to nurture exceptional creative
LAURA KENDALL has been named executive director of the Velma
V. Morrison Center for the Performing Arts at
Boise State
to the
as acting chairman of the agency since
June 2018 and becomes the
Arts Endowment’s 12th chairman since its inception in 1965. “I look forward to continuing to lead a talented and dedicated staff of professionals in our important work of ensuring that every American –
in every community and in every neighborhood – has access to the arts,” Carter said. Since arriving
at the agency, Carter has pushed
to make the National Endowment
for the Arts more accessible to
the American people, directing an expansion of Creative Forces (an
arts therapy program for U.S. service members and veterans recovering from post-traumatic stress, traumatic brain injury, and other psychological health conditions) and bolstering many of its national initiatives, including Shakespeare in American Communities, NEA Big Read, Poetry Out Loud, and the Jazz Masters
and National Heritage Fellowships.
To further expand the reach of the Arts Endowment, Carter has held
the past several public meetings
of the National Council on the Arts
at locations outside the agency’s offices, including Charleston. Carter
Laura Kendall
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Emil Kang
University. She comes
Morrison Center from Omaha Performing Arts, where she served as vice president for programming and education. There, she was responsible for performance and community engagement events in the 2,600-seat Orpheum Theater,
the 2,000-seat Kiewit Concert Hall and 350-seat Scott Recital Hall in the Holland Center in downtown Omaha, Nebraska. She previously worked
as director of visual and performing arts at Millersville University, overseeing the Ware Center and Winter Center venues. “I am thrilled to join the Morrison Center,” Kendall said. “I'm looking forward to working with the exceptional volunteers,
staff, university leadership and
the Morrison Center Endowment Foundation to continue the legacy
of bringing world-class arts experiences to the Boise community – including a stellar Broadway season.” Kendall is a graduate of APAP’s Leadership Fellows Program and routinely speaks at national conferences about arts presenting issues.
accomplishment, scholarship and
art conservation practices while promoting a diverse and sustainable ecosystem for the arts. Kang comes to Mellon from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, where he
has served as executive and artistic director of Carolina Performing
Arts, a program he founded and
built into one of the nation’s largest and leading university-based performing arts programs. Kang has driven change and growth through the arts across the university, programming thousands of artists, commissioning dozens of new works, and championing new scholarship on the arts. “Throughout his career, Emil Kang has understood the role culture can play in making communities more imaginative and connected to each other and the world through the power of creativity,” said Elizabeth Alexander, president of the Mellon