2025 Local Arts Agencies & State Service Organizations & Underserved Cultural Community Development


Webinar

9/8/2023 9:00:00 AM

2025 Local Arts Agencies & State Service Organizations & Underserved Cultural Community Development

2025


Teri Abstein

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Materials

Agenda Files

AgendaLAASSOUCCD.pdf
gps-scp-rubric-2025.pdf
ScoregridLAASSOUCCD.pdf

Panelists (4)

Bellamy, Rhonda

  • County:

Bio:

Bio

  • Founding Executive Director, now President/CEO, of the Arts Council of Wilmington/New Hanover County and Hosts and produces ""Around Town with Rhonda Bellamy"" on WHQR Public Media
  • Prior to working in the arts, was an award-winning news director/anchor/talk show host with twenty-five years in radio, television, and print
  • Awards received: White Lotus Lifetime Achievement Award from NC Project Lead; the City of Wilmington's Living Legend Award; Woman of Achievement Award in the Arts from the YWCA; and Woman of the Year by the New Hanover County Human Relations Commission; named to Wilmington Biz 100 four (4) years in a row
  • Chair of Arts North Carolina
  • B.A., English with a concentration in Media/Journalism, North Carolina Central University

Phaneuf, Charles

  • County:

Bio:

Bio

  • Vice President of Strategy at South Arts, Atlanta, Georgia
  • Previously, President, United Arts Council of Raleigh & Wake County; Executive Director, Raleigh Little Theatre; Managing Director, Joe's Movement Emporium; and Assistant Managing Director, Shakespeare Theatre Company
  • 19 people of 2019, Indy Week; Hillsborough Street Hero, 2018; N&O's Tar Heel of the Week, March 2018; Triangle Business Journal's 40 under 40, 2014; and Leadership Raleigh, 2012-2013
  • B.S., Business Administration, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill

Rouse, Elizabeth

  • County:

Bio:

Bio

  • President and CEO, ArtsMemphis, Memphis, Tennessee
  • Previous positions at ArtsMemphis include Chief Operating Office, Chief Development Officer, Director of Development, Development Manager, and Development Associate
  • Elevated ArtsMemphis' role as a convener and connector for arts sector and started funding individual artists through a new grant program, benefitting 800+ artists of varying artistic disciplines
  • B.S., Business Administration, Presbyterian College

Blood, Matthew

  • County: Orange County

Bio:

County: Orange

Bio

  • Branch Manager, Orange County Library System (2023-Current)
  • Interim Youth Services Manager, Orange County Library System (2023)
  • Assistant Manager, Orange County Library System (2017-2022)
  • Assistant Director of AmeriCorps Programs, Heart of Florida United Way (2014-17)
  • M.P.A, focus on non-profit management, The Evergreen State College
  • B.S., Small Business Management and Marketing, Florida State University