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The Peer Advisory Service offers Full and Education Affiliate members the opportunity to consult with respected leaders in the field on a complimentary basis. Peer Advisors are long-term leaders who volunteer to share their experience with other practitioners through 30-minute phone consultations. Topics addressed range from program development to fundraising and marketing to human resources, technology, facilities, and more. Consultations beyond the first 30 minutes are at the discretion of the Advisor.
How a Peer Advisor can help you:
A Peer Advisor can answer questions, point you to resources, and share wisdom gleaned from years of experience in the field. He/she can help you:
Among the many issues a Peer Advisor can help you address are:
How does the service work?
What can you expect from an Peer Advisor?
Who is eligible for this service?
What does this service cost?
Peer Advisor Biographies
Complimentary 30-minute consultations are available to Full and Education Affiliate Members. To schedule a consultation:
It may take up to three business days under normal conditions to schedule your consultation.
What can you expect from a Peer Advisor?
Peer Advisors are highly regarded community arts education leaders who have volunteered to share their time and expertise with you. While there is no guarantee of a specific result, your Advisor can help you determine the best course of action when you are confronted with a new challenge or opportunity.
Who is eligible for this service?
The program is open to Full Members and Education Affiliate Members. For information on membership, click here.
Initial 30-minute Peer Advisory consultations are free for Full Members and Education Affiliates. Any additional services agreed upon by you and your Peer Advisor (such as a longer-term consultation) should be made directly between you and your Advisor. It may be appropriate for you to compensate your Advisor for these additional services. This should be negotiated directly with your Advisor.
Camille Giraud Akeju has been the
director of the Smithsonianís Anacostia Community Museum since
December, 2005. Prior to assuming this role she was the president and
chief executive officer of the Harlem School of the Arts (NYC). She has
held leadership roles at a variety of not-for-profit, community-based
cultural organizations for over 20 years and was the curator and collections
manager at the New York Transit Museum for five years. Ms. Akeju served
as a program auditor and funding reviewer for the Multicultural Arts Initiative
in Pittsburgh, the New York and New Jersey State Councils on the Arts,
the NYC Department of Cultural Affairs, the U.S. Department of Educationís
21st Century Initiative and the Institute of Museum Services. She also
served on the boards of the National Guild of Community Schools of the
Arts and the Mount Vernon Family YMCA. Ms. Akeju earned a BFA, in secondary
art education and printmaking and a MA degree in art history from Howard
University in Washington, D.C. She completed post graduate studies in
not-for-profit management at the Graduate School of Business, Columbia
University.
Jesse Bermudez is Founder and Executive/
Artistic Director of the Asociacion de Musicos Latino Americanos (AMLA),
a non-profit multicultural organization that promotes the development
and dissemination of Latin music, with an emphasis on educating and empowering
youth and community. Since 1982, AMLA has become a presence via television
and radio performances, concerts, festivals, school and museum workshops,
band bookings and large client productions. AMLA opened Philadelphia's
first Latin Music School, and has fostered dozens of cooperative projects
with local, regional and national arts and culture organizations. Mr.
Bermudez believes in "using Latin music to involve the community and address
its social and economic concerns, and to bring various racial and ethnic
cormmunities together." His diverse background in the arts includes
having served as Master of Ceremonies for hundreds of events around the
city and region. Mr. Bermudez has received awards from many local and national
organizations including the National Congress of Puerto Rican Rights, WFVI-TC7
Channel Six's "Puerto Rican Panorama," the Stockton Rush Bartol
Foundation, the Philadelphia Convention and Visitors Bureau, Latin Beat
Magazine, Philly Salsa Award, Honoree of the Feria del Barrio, the Liberty
Bell from the Navy Defense department and most recently, the Champion
of the Children award given by the Institute for Arts and Education.
Joyce Bonomini leads a dynamic staff
at The Marcia P. Hoffman Performing Arts Institute at Ruth Eckerd Hall
(divisional school aligned with a Performing Arts Center), which now serves
100,000 persons annually with 450,000 contact hours, offering diverse,
multi-discipline programs in instruction, live performances and community
engagement programs; Serving far beyond the walls of the Hoffman Institute
into schools, community centers, hospitals, and other arts centers throughout
Pinellas County, the State of Florida and the east coast of the United
States of America.
The Hoffman Institute is home to The Eckerd Theater Company, a youth theater
company that commissions, produces and presents theater for youth and
family. The company is a significant support to Drama Track in the Preparatory
Department as well as being trained to work in the arts infusion school
based program. Prior to her position at the Hoffman Institute Ms. Bonomini
developed the arts education department for the Aronoff Center for the
Arts in Cincinnati, Ohio and worked for fifteen years at the School for
Creative and Performing Arts of Cincinnati. While at the school Ms. Bonomini
chaired the Technical Theater and Design Program that was recognized as
a leader by the Performing Arts Schools NETWORK for excellence of training;
becoming a national model for high school training in arts management,
directing and theater technology and design. Ms. Bonomini contributes
to multiple committees of arts and education organizations serving Pinellas
County, Florida. For more than a decade, she has also offered insight
on arts education, arts infusion and building community through the arts,
by way of training sessions and speaking engagements.
Please visit the Hoffman Institute at hoffmanperformingarts.org
Bob Capanna came to Philadelphia’s
Settlement Music School in 1976 as director of the School's Kardon-Northeast
Branch; in 1982, he was named executive director. Since that time, Settlement
has grown to six locations serving over 9,000 students on-site and 6,000
students off-site with programs of instruction and activity in music,
dance and the visual arts. Mr. Capanna is an active and widely respected
composer whose works have been performed by the Philadelphia Orchestra,
Milwaukee Symphony, Concerto Soloists, Penn Contemporary Players, Orchestra.
Catherine Scarborough Fletcher is
the director of the ASU Herberger Institute Community School for Design
and the Arts. Ms. Fletcher holds a master’s degree
in piano performance and has won several regional and national prizes
in competitions. While performing and serving on a college piano faculty,
her life’s direction took a turn into arts administration. She formerly
served as director of community schools in Memphis, where she had much
success in building arts programs for children of all ages at Rhodes College
and the University of Memphis. In fall 2004, Ms. Fletcher was asked by
Arizona State University to build a community school of the arts from
the ground up. The ASU Herberger Institute for Design and the Arts is
one of the strongest Institutes for Design the Arts in the country, with
each of its academic units ranked in the top ten in the country. The Herberger
Institute Community School opened its doors in the Fall of 2005 to wide
acclaim and currently serves over 2,000 students annually, taught mostly
by Herberger Institute graduate students.
Thora Jacobson,
newly appointed chief operating officer of Philadelphia's Mural Arts Program,
served for two and a half years in a similar capacity for Philagrafika
2010, an international contemporary art event to be held in Philadelphia
between January and April 2010. A National Guild trustee, Jacobson was
on staff of Philadelphia's Samuel S. Fleisher Art Memorial for 33 years
and its CEO for 23 years. She has served as a community arts organizer,
a management consultant, curator, exhibition and competition juror, and
peer panelist for government grant-makers and foundations.
Kirsten
Morgan joined The Diller-Quaile School of Music faculty
in 1981 and became the Executive Director in 1998. Ms. Morgan holds
a Bachelor's degree in flute performance from Manhattan School of
Music, where she studied with Harold Bennett and Harvey Sollberger,
a Master's degree in educational leadership from Bank Street College
of Education, NYS School Administrator and Supervisor certification,
and a Dalcroze certificate. Additionally, she studied at the University
of Michigan and the Dalcroze School in New York City. Kirsten teaches
children's Dalcroze classes and college level teacher training courses
at Diller-Quaile. Ms. Morgan serves as a vice chairman on the Board
of Trustees for the National Guild of Community Schools of the Arts,
is chair of the National Guild's Committee of School Directors, and
has served as a presenter at the annual meeting of the National Association
of Schools of Music.
Meg
Gehlen Nodzon,
Director of Development at MacPhail Center for Music, has over ten years
of fundraising experience and has been a member of MacPhail since
2005. Gehlen Nodzon earned a Bachelor of Arts in Communication cum
laude at the University of St. Thomas in St. Paul, MN and a Masters
of Arts in Liberal Studies from Hamline University. Prior
to joining MacPhail in 2005, she held various fundraising positions,
specializing in major gifts, at the Saint Paul Chamber Orchestra
and helped to found the St. Paul Arts and Culture Partnership. Gehlen
Nodzon is a frequent lecturer at Augsburg College in their Music
Business program.
Stephen Shapiro is
the executive director of San Francisco’s Community Music Center, a non-profit organization that has made musical study accessible to city residents since 1921. Since Shapiro took the helm in 1978, the school has expanded extensively with an additional branch, collaborative programs with 18 public schools, Latin and jazz curricula and development into a center for education and performance that reflects the rich diversity of San Francisco. In 2003, he received the Gerbode Fellowship for outstanding non-profit leadership. Shapiro has worked as a consultant with five nascent Guild schools in the western United States through the Wallace Foundation funded, Guild-sponsored "Adopt a School" program.
He is currently a member of the Board of Directors for the Zellerbach Family
Foundation, served on the Board of Directors for the National Guild of
Community Schools of the Arts from 1981 to 1990 and was Vice President
of the Guild from 1983 to 1986. Shapiro has played piano professionally
for many years and is also an amateur flautist. He holds an MA and PhD
in History from the University of Wisconsin, Madison, and a BA from Oberlin
College.
Jeffry Walker, Executive Director
of the Community School for Music and Arts in Mountain View, CA, is a
seasoned arts administrator from Trinity College in Hartford, CT, where
he served for many years as the Director of the Austin Arts Center and
was appointed Director of the College's new Office for the Arts.
In 2005, he received the annual Elizabeth L. Mahaffey Fellowship, the
State of Connecticut's highest achievement award for excellence in arts
administration. Mr. Walker's professional experience in
arts education includes faculty positions at Bucknell University (PA),
West Virginia University and Drew University (NJ) as well as administrative
work as Managing Director of Mandell Theater at Drexel University in
Philadelphia. Mr. Walker received an MFA from the School of Theater
at Ohio University and a BA in Theater and Art from Slippery Rock State
College (PA).
