The Metropolitan Atlanta Arts Fund Staff:
Lisa Cremin, Director
Josh Phillipson, Program Associate
Sandy Kring, Administrator, Arts Loan Fund
The Metropolitan Atlanta Arts Fund Advisory Board:
| Carol B. Tomé, Chair | The Home Depot |
| Andrea Barnwell Brownlee | Spelman College Museum of Fine Art |
| Barry Berlin | Atlantic Trust |
| Kenny Blank | Atlanta Jewish Film Festival |
| Ron Brill | The Home Depot, retired |
| John Burd | Brenau University, retired |
| Susana Chavez | Parking Company of America |
| Lynda Courts | Community Volunteer |
| Mark Goldman | Mobile Intelligence & The Gift Bag Company |
| Mira Hirsch | Artist and Educator |
| John Lambert | KPMG |
| Camille Love | City of Atlanta, Office of Cultural Affairs |
| Shirley Mitchell | Bank of America |
| Veronica Njoku | Fulton County Arts Council |
| Karen Webster Parks | Community Volunteer |
| M. Kasim Reed | Holland & Knight, LLP, Georgia State Senate |
| Jan Smith | GE Energy |
| Bahnson Stanley | Ellis, McQuary & Stanley |
| Mark Williamson | Alston & Bird |
| Rob Hollis, ex officio |
Metro Atlanta Chamber of Commerce |
| Lesley Grady, ex officio |
The Community Foundation for Greater Atlanta |
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Past Arts Fund Board Members:
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Elizabeth Bacchetti Rick Beard Candace Bell Veronica Biggins Bill Bodine Merritt Bond Barbara Bowser Bruce Buchanan Valerie Brown Ryan Cameron Robyn Cole Ann Cramer Mary Gellerstedt Leslie Germaine Virginia A. Hepner Anthony Hirschel Booker Izell Ingrid Saunders Jones Frank C. Jones Paul Jones Anita Keith |
Adrian King Nancy Kinzer Edith Love Chris Manos Ellen Meyer Thomas Pechar Carol Reiser Charles Ross Kevin Ross Harriet Sanford Phil Santora Jack Shultz Esther Silver-Parker Bob Silverman Wayne Vason Paula Vaughn Phyllis Weiss Benjamin T. White Grant Wilmer David Yu |
Past Arts Fund Board Chairs:
Virginia A. Hepner: 2002-2005
Jack Shultz: 2001-2002
Grant Wilmer: 1998-2001
Merritt Bond: 1995-1997
Benjamin T. White: 1993-1995
Frank C. Jones: est. -1993
Past Arts Fund Guest Reviewers:
The Arts Fund broadens its reach among community leaders by engaging them in the application process as guest reviewers.
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Barry Berlin Kenny Blank Ron Brill Valerie Brown Kappy deButts Jeanette Foreman Beth Holder Brian Leary Denise Cleveland Leggett Adrian King Sarah Kennedy |
John McColskey Karen Webster Parks Art Rollins Charles Ross Jamey Rousey Cathy Selig Terry Stent Joan N. Whitcomb Christina Whitney Mark Williamson |
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Staff Bios:
Lisa Cremin,
Director, Metropolitan Atlanta Arts Fund
Lisa Cremin is the (founding) Director of the Metropolitan Atlanta Arts Fund. She also serves as a program officer at The Community Foundation for Greater Atlanta and oversees all programs in the area of arts and culture.
Under Cremin's leadership, the Arts Fund has: awarded over $6 million to over eighty metro arts organizations, created the Arts Stabilization Toolbox program with the Georgia Center for Nonprofits, and developed the Arts Loan Fund, a program which uses the Arts Fund's endowment as loan capital. Cremin has made it a priority for the Arts Fund to be the knowledge leader about the arts in the metro area, and to be a convener of individuals, government entities, corporations and foundations around issues of supporting, stabilizing and strengthening
arts organizations.
Previous to coming to the Arts Fund, she operated Lisa Cremin & Associates, a New York-based small consulting firm, directing a variety of entrepreneurial programs and partnerships with both for-profit and nonprofit entities, producing major museum exhibition programs, developing private and public visual art collections, developing philanthropic initiatives with a range of partners, and creating programs that used the arts to promote social change. Her early career also included jobs at Christie's International, New York and the Weston Gallery,
Carmel, California.
Cremin currently serves as on the Executive Committee of the Atlanta Public Art Legacy Fund Board; the national Board of Directors of Grantmakers In the Arts and the Advisory Board of the King Baudouin Foundation U.S. Cultural Exchange Fellowship. Cremin is a graduate of Leadership Atlanta, the Diversity Leadership Academy, and the Regional Leadership Institute. She is a graduate of Hamilton College.
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Josh Phillipson,
Program Associate, Metropolitan Atlanta Arts Fund
Josh Phillipson started at the Metropolitan Atlanta Arts Fund as the second full-time employee in 2003. At the Arts Fund he manages the financial grant program, the Arts Stabilization Toolbox program and communications. Josh graduated from Emory University with a degree in Theater Studies. Before starting at the Arts Fund he worked in graphic design and advertising in San Francisco, both freelance and at the firms Deepend and Tesser.
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Sandy Kring,
Administrator, Arts Loan Fund
Sandy Kring has served as administrator of the Arts Loan Fund since its inception in 2003. Prior to this role, she spent 13 years in Corporate Banking at Wachovia Bank in North Carolina, New York and Atlanta. Her responsibilities included lending to Fortune 500 companies in the northeast and the sale of treasury services products to small and middle market companies in Georgia
and Florida.
A native of Hingham, Massachusetts, Ms. Kring graduated from the University of New Hampshire and The Kenan Flagler School of Business at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. She and her husband, Bill, live in Smyrna with their two children.
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