Brattleboro CoreArts Project – Track Two, Session Three
Exploring Brattleboro’s Cultural Landscape: Past, Present, and Future
Saturday, January 11, 2014, 9:30 a.m.-noon
Main Stage, Latchis Theatre
You are invited to join the ongoing discussion about Brattleboro’s arts and culture sector.
For many years, Brattleboro has been lauded as a small community with an outsized profusion of the arts. Many different threads have woven together to form the community we live and work in today. In which ways has the arts and culture sector informed Brattleboro’s personality? What lenses are used to described current trends? Who are the past and present players? What do we need to understand about how the community landscape is formed and subsequently altered? Can we learn from historical trends to nudge creatively at the future?
Panelists for this conversation:
Ellen Lovell, President, Marlboro College
Paul Costello, Executive Director, Vermont Council on Rural Development
Gail Nunziata, Managing Director, Latchis Arts
Ellen Lovell has been the president of Marlboro College since 2004. A graduate of Bennington College, Lovell served as Executive Director of the Vermont Arts Council for eight years, then as Chief of Staff to Senator Patrick Leahy for ten years. In the Clinton administration, she worked as executive director of the President’s Committee on the Arts and Humanities, deputy chief of staff to the First Lady, and deputy assistant to the President and advisor to the First Lady on the Millennium Project.
Paul Costello has been Executive Director of the Vermont Council on Rural Development (VCRD) since 2000. Paul is a graduate of the University of Vermont and holds a PhD in intellectual history from McGill University. In addition to his work at VCRD, Paul is a member of the Housing Vermont Board of Directors and President Emeritus of the national Partners for Rural America organization.
Gail Nunziata has been Managing Director of Latchis Arts since 2004. Prior, she worked with architect Leopold Berman managing properties and historic preservation projects, notably the Hooker-Dunham Building, the Paramount, and the old substation on Arch Street. Gail has served as president of the boards of the Brattleboro Music Center and Building a Better Brattleboro, and as president of the Brattleboro Concert Choir.
Next on the Track Two schedule:
Saturday, January 25, 9:30 a.m.-noon
Main Stage, Latchis Theatre
Cooperation and Collaboration: Exploring Relationships
The Brattleboro CoreArts Project, funded by the National Endowment for the Arts, is a collaborative project of the Town of Brattleboro and the Arts Council of Windham County. Additional funding comes form the Thomas Thompson Trust and the Windham Foundation.
