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Lisa Mount & Cooperating Consultants
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Lisa Mount refuses to specialize. As the Director of Artistic Logistics she works as a consultant with non profit arts organizations . Recent and current clients include New Orleans Jazz and Heritage Festival Foundation, Liz Lerman Dance Exchange, Cornerstone Theater Company, the Neo Futurists, the Network of Ensemble Theaters, the Southern Arts Federation, and the Springer Opera House. As an independent artist she produces, directs, and appears in contemporary performance work, including the acclaimed community story play, Headwaters :: Stories From A Goodly Portion Of Beautiful Northeast Georgia at the Sautee Nacoochee Center. She also tours with the DeLuxe Vaudeville Orchestra as rhythm banjo player. Before embarking on her consulting career in 1997, Lisa served as the Managing Director of 7 Stages theater in Atlanta. She has served as the Board Chair for Alternate ROOTS, the Atlanta Theatre Coalition, and Georgia Shares, a workplace giving campaign. Lisa received the 1996 "Abby" Award from the Atlanta Arts and Business Council for Outstanding Arts Professional, and was named one of the 100 Most Influential Georgians by Georgia Trend Magazine in 2008. |
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Caron Atlas is a Brooklyn NY-based freelance consultant working to strengthen connections among community-based arts, policymaking, and social change. Caron was the founding director of the American Festival Project and worked for several years with Appalshop, the Appalachian media center. Consultancies include the Animating Democracy Initiative, National Voice, A Cultural Blueprint for New York City, 651 Arts, Arab Arts Project, Urban Institute, National Arts Administration Mentorship Project, and the Irvine, Leeway, and Rockefeller Foundations. Caron teaches at New York University’s Tisch School of the Arts and in the fall of 2004 offered the course, "Is this what Democracy looks like? Arts, Elections & Beyond." She has a master’s degree from the University of Chicago and was a Warren Weaver fellow at the Rockefeller Foundation. |
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Kathie deNobriga is a free-lance consultant for small arts organizations, state arts agencies, and the Mary Reynolds Babcock Foundation. She began her community arts career in 1974 with the North Carolina Arts Council’s Visiting Artist program. Kathie managed a performing arts center in Sanford, NC for nine years, directing community and youth theatre and playing a major role in the successful campaign to renovate a historic vaudeville house. For ten years Kathie directed Alternate ROOTS, a service organization for community-based artists in the Southeast, working closely with rural presenters and artists. She serves on the City Council of Pine Lake, Georgia. |
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Rodger French is an accomplished accordionist, percussionist, and juggler. Since 1978 he has served as a theatre musical director, orchestra musician, Vaudeville entertainer, and clowning instructor. Rodger has performed solo as well as half of the clown team Lenny & LaBanana; most recently, Rodger performed in the Off-Broadway production of "Shlammer," a Jewish-Gangster-Vaudeville written by Dan Froot. To rave reviews, by the way. In addition, Rodger is Editor of "Up from the ROOTS," the quarterly newsletter of Alternate ROOTS, based in Atlanta. A long-time member of ROOTS, he has served on its Executive Committee and functioned for many years as "Camp Concierge," coordinating logistics for ROOTS Annual Meetings. Rodger works as a consultant with Artistic Logistics, and has assisted on large-scale research projects for VSA arts of Georgia, and the Kenan Institute of the Arts. Rodger has also performed at the White House. For no money. Twice. |
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MK Wegmann is President and CEO of the National Performance Network, which supports national and international touring and commissioning; and an independent consultant working with artist-focused organizations in the performing and visual arts fields. Her presenting experience includes 14 years at the Contemporary Arts Center in New Orleans and six years as Managing Director of Junebug Productions. She is one of the founders of the Louisiana Presenters Network, a past Board Chair of Alternate ROOTS, and has served on Presenting Panels for the NEA, the Louisiana Division of the Arts, Mississippi Arts Commission, and others. Among her consulting clients are Chamber Music America’s Rural Residency program, Urban Bush Women, and the Alabama Dance Council. |
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