State and Regional: FY 2017 Grants Panelists

Partnership Agreements
January 10-12, 2017

Leona "Lona" Barrick
Executive Officer
Chickasaw Nation Division of Cultural Tourism
Ada, OK

Allen Bell
Arts Education Manager
Georgia Council for the Arts
Atlanta, GA

Maria S. Farrington (Layperson)
President and Executive Director
Holy Cross Ministries
Salt Lake City, UT

Michael Lange
Musician and Composer
Executive Director
Wyoming Arts Council
Laramie, WY

Renée Margocee
Ceramic Artist
Director of Arts
West Virginia Division of Culture and History
Charleston, WV

Miah Michaelsen
Deputy Director
Indiana Arts Commission
Bloomington, IN

Margie Johnson Reese
Executive Director
Wichita Falls Alliance for Arts and Culture
Wichita Falls, TX

Steven Runk
Director of Communications
Peter B. Lewis Center for the Arts
Princeton University
Langhorne, PA

Lorén M. Spears
Executive Director
Tomaquag Indian Memorial Museum
Charlestown, RI

George Tzougros
Executive Director
Wisconsin Arts Board
Fitchburg, WI

Partnership Projects Panel C
January 26, 2017

Jon Kay
Professor of Practice and Director
Traditional Arts Indiana
Indiana University
Nashville, IN

Selina Morales
Director
Philadelphia Folklore Project
Philadelphia, PA

Folk & Traditional Arts Partnership Projects Panel D
January 26, 2017

Kristina Jacobsen
Singer, Songwriter, Musician
Assistant Professor of Ethnomusicology
and Anthropology (Ethnology)
University of New Mexico
Albuquerque, NM

Amy Kitchener
Executive Director
Alliance for California Traditional Arts
Fresno, CA

Kim Nguyen
Program Officer, Folk Arts
New Jersey State Council on the Arts
Highland Park, NJ

Charles Seemann (Layperson)
Arts Patron, Community Volunteer
Spring Creek, NV

Molly O'Connor
Multi-disciplinary Artist
Director of Cultural Development
Oklahoma Arts Council
Oklahoma City, OK

Langston Wilkins (Layperson)
Program Officer
Humanities Tennessee
Nashville, TN