TO: Nashville Arts Organizations,
3 August 2000
Arts Commission names new staff members
Teri D. McElhaney and Judy S. Miller of Nashville join the Metropolitan Nashville Arts Commission staff this month. Tom Turk, MNAC executive director, announced the appointments.
Teri began August 1st as program coordinator, replacing Laura Brinton Nobles. Laura has moved to South Carolina with her husband.
Teri is responsible for developing, planning and arranging workshops, conferences, and public meetings, along with overseeing the department's public information program. She will assist with the grants program and is available now to field grant questions.
Teri, who formerly served as administrator for the Visual Arts Alliance of Nashville, will be primary liaison with local visual artists and arts organizations in developing and maintaining both the online Artist Registry and the Arts Directory of arts organizations. She also will assist with research projects, human resource and financial management functions, and will be involved in the public art program as it develops.
Before her work with VAAN, Teri worked in the Zimmerman Saturn Art Gallery and for Whitfield-Choate Art Agency. She also managed a photographic studio, served as a project manager with the Vanderbilt University Fine Arts Gallery, and most recently was employed by Borders Books Group as a Waldenbooks retail store manager and then as a research analyst.
Teri holds a BA in Human Resource Management and Studio Art from Belmont University, where she graduated summa cum laude and began work toward an MBA.
Judy Miller will replace Jerad Brewer as secretary and receptionist for the Arts Commission. Jerad will resume his studies this fall in MTSU's graduate English program.
For the past eight years, Judy was secretary for the Tennessee Conference on Social Welfare. She served as a volunteer in Lifeskills here and with the YMCA in Columbus, Ohio. She also worked in administrative positions in both Chattanooga and Indianapolis.
Judy attended University of Tennessee at Chattanooga and Spalding College in Louisville.
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Bunny Burson to head President's Arts Committee
Bunny Cornell Burson, former Metro Nashville Arts Commission member, is the new executive director of the President's Committee on the Arts and the Humanities in Washington, DC. Ms. Burson was appointed to the post July 17, following the resignation of Harriet Fulbright, who left the post for health reasons.
Ms. Burson, who was coordinator of cultural enrichment at the Vanderbilt University Medical School, was first appointed to the Metro Arts Commission in January 1994 and was reappointed to a full term in January 1997. She left Nashville in September 1997 after her husband, Charles Burson, was named attorney for Vice President Al Gore.
The President's Committee on the Arts and the Humanities is a presidential advisory committee established by Executive Order to stimulate private sector support and public-private partnerships for the arts and the humanities and to raise public awareness of the benefits of culture to society.
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Next step for grantees
Successful applicants to the MNAC grants program have until Monday, August 21, to return their revised budget forms to the Metro Nashville Arts Commission. The Metropolitan Nashville Arts Commission awarded $1,408,168 in grants to fifty-eight arts organizations at its July 20 meeting.
A grant contract and related materials will be mailed to grantees as soon as the revised budget forms are received. This revised budget form will replace your original budget projection and become part of the contract. (No grant funds may be obligated toward a funded project until a contract between an arts organization and the Metro Arts Commission has been executed and approved by all parties.) If you have any questions, please contact Jane Ann McCullough, MNAC development coordinator, at (615) 862-6720. The Metro Arts Commission and staff wish you a successful and productive new season.
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Our Web site changes!
The MNAC web site contains continuing complete information on local and national arts including: the 1999 Arts Directory, Artist Registry, Artlinks to other arts-related web sites, and Arts Billboard containing meeting announcements, calls to artists, press releases, and Nashville Arts Alert!.
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