State of the Arts in Plano
STATE OF THE ARTS IN PLANO
AND OUR NATION
Contact: Karen Davis
Plano Arts Coalition Chair
Karen.davis@chamberlainperformingarts.org
Sara Egelston Akers
State of the Arts Committee Chair
sakers@ntpa.org
The Plano Arts Coalition and its media sponsor, Plano Profile Magazine, invite Plano and North Texas residents to our State of the Arts in Plano and our nation on Sunday, October 22, 2017. The event will be held at The Willow Bend Center for the Arts, 6121 W. Park, Suite B216 in Plano, Texas 75093. The event will begin at 5:30 p.m. with light refreshments/ wine and the panel will begin at 6 p.m.
The State of the Arts in Plano and our Nation panelists include Mayor Pro Tem, Rick Grady, Dr. Dennis Kratz, Dean of the School of Arts and Humanities and the Ignacy and Celina Rockover Professor of Humanities at The University of Texas at Dallas, and Katherine Wagner, CEO of Business Council of the Arts. The moderator of the event will be Darrell Rodenbaugh, Governing Board President of North Texas Performing Arts.
The American for the Arts (AFTA) just concluded a national study on Arts & Economic Prosperity 5, a study designed to measure the economic impact of nonprofit arts and cultural organizations across the United States. This is the tenth impact study by BCA over the past 20 years, and the second consecutive one with AFTA.
From Business Council for the Arts Website:
“AEP5 Study Highlights for North Texas:
- The Dallas-Fort Worth-Arlington MSA came in third, measured against other multicounty regions in the country.
- The economic impact of arts and culture organizations in North Texas more than tripled between the previously published study in 2012 and the current study – from $428,512,328 to $1,473,366,015.
- In the region, the nonprofit arts and culture sector equated to 52,848 FTE jobs
supported, translating into $1.3 billion in annual salaries. - North Texas cultural audience attendance numbers totaled 13,970,000 in 2015,
contributing $473,856,433 to the economy.”
— Katherine Wagner, CEO, Business Council for the Arts
About Plano Arts Coalition
Plano Arts Coalition is a consortium of Plano Major Arts Groups, arts patrons, artists, and City of Plano Arts Leaders. Its mission is to establish the City of Plano as a major arts destination. Its vision is to establish Plano as a diverse cultural destination through collaboration, promotion, and advocacy.
Founding arts organizations include ArtCentre of Plano, Chamberlain Ballet, Historic Downtown Plano, Plano International Festival, North Texas Performing Arts -Plano Children’s Theatre, Plano Civic Chorus, Plano Art Association, Plano Metropolitan Ballet, and Plano Symphony Orchestra.
Officers for the 2017-2018 PAC year are: President - Karen Davis; Vice President - Mike Mazur; Treasurer - Robert Reed, Communications - Jennifer Seibert, and Secretary - Sue Oldham. The PAC meets the second Wednesday of the month at 9 a.m. at the ArtCentre of Plano in the historic Saigling home, 902 E. 16th Street in Plano, Texas. Meetings are open to the public. Voting memberships are $100 a year, $500 for corporations, and $25 for independent artists. To become a member, please contact Sue Oldham at (972) 423-7809.
About the panelists:
Mayor Pro Tem, Rick Grady
Mayor Pro Tem, Rick Grady, has been serving the residents of Plano as a City Councilman since 2015. To devote and donate more time to the citizens of Plano, Rick Grady retired from Cornerstone Credit Union League where he was Vice President for Research and Economics. While at the League he led all primary and secondary investigations on economic activities that affected financial institutions and consumers. His 30 years of financial and technology experience provided a platform for spotting future trends and opportunities, and authoring position papers on banking laws and regulations.
Rick has led public relations, M&A, and intelligence activities for Fortune 500 companies such as Affiliated Computer Services, Computer Task Group, and Electronic Data Systems, where he spearheaded technological developments in SaaS, microcomputers, Internet technologies and cloud-based operations. He also served with the Credit Union National Association (CUNA), and The Indus Entrepreneurs Association (TIE), a venture-capital trade association, where he served as the Executive Director, as senior partner of two public relations agencies and, for eight years, a rating-busting rock & roll disc jockey for a leading college-town commercial radio station.
Rick started his community service at the age of 13 when he joined the Civil Air Patrol, a U.S. Air Force Auxiliary. He joined the U.S. Air Force ROTC program in college but was transferred to the U.S. Army where he served as a non-commissioned officer managing a company of forward air controllers in Vietnam and twice decorated with the Army Commendation Medal.
Rick is the Chairman of Friends of Consumer Freedom, a nationwide organization dedicated to financial literacy education, former Chairman of Plano’s Planning and Zoning Commission, and the former Chairman of Plano’s Community Relations Commission.
Rick is involved with the Aircraft Owners and Pilots Association, Alpha Delta Phi Alumni Association, The American Legion, American Marketing Association, American Society of Association Executives, Army Aviation Association of America, Children’s Miracle Network Hospitals, Public Relations Society of America, American Federation of Television and Radio Artists, University of Wisconsin Alumni Association, Veterans of Foreign Wars, and Vietnam Veterans of America.
Rick champions Children’s Miracle Network Hospitals and Credit Unions for Kids fundraising activities across Texas, Oklahoma and Arkansas, raising millions of dollars annually for patient care. About art, Rick says "Art is a universal language. A ballet can be written in Russia, a symphony composed in Germany, a portrait painted in France, a sculpture chiseled in Italy, a landscape brushed in China, a play penned in England or a musical score arranged in Mexico. Yet, we do not need to speak the language of the artist to enjoy the art. Most of these works do not contain words, yet they “speak” to us, they present to us an emotion, they provide to us an understanding and they deliver to us a message. This is why art is an important part of communication on this big, blue marble we call Earth, and this big green pasture called Plano."
Dr. Dennis Kratz
Dr. Kratz received his B.A. magna cum laude from Dartmouth College, where he majored in Classics and was a member of Phi Beta Kappa honor society, He received the M.A. in Classical Studies and Ph.D. in Medieval Latin from Harvard University
Dr. Kratz’s research has emphasized the continuation of the classical tradition in medieval and modern literature. He has published four books and numerous articles ranging from scholarly investigations of epic poetry and the changing concept of heroism to fantasy, science fiction, literary translation, and the future of education. Since 1979 Dr. Kratz has been co-editor of the journal Translation Review.
A popular teacher and speaker, he received the 1992 University of Texas System Chancellor's Council Outstanding Teaching Award. Moreover, throughout his career, Dr. Kratz has been associated with pedagogical innovation. While serving as the university's Dean of Undergraduate Education, he led the establishment of Collegium V, the university-wide undergraduate Honors Program. As Dean of Arts and Humanities, he created two visionary academic programs connecting the liberal arts with science and technology: Arts and Technology and Emerging Media and Communication. He also founded the Center for Values in Medicine, Science and Technology.
Dr. Kratz has also emphasized international education. In 2007, the School inaugurated Texas’s first Confucius Institute, part of a global education network. The Confucius Institute plays a key role in the development of a Global Humanities program designed to foster international understanding and respect.
Katherine Wagner, CEO of Business Council for the Arts
As CEO, Katherine Wagner provides executive leadership for Business Council for the Arts, advocating for a strong bond between commerce and culture in North Texas. Ms. Wagner began her career in arts administration at Indiana University, Bloomington, as Director of the community gallery on campus immediately after receiving her MFA in Printmaking and a Ford Foundation Grant-in-Aid of Research.
Previous to her current position, Ms. Wagner served for more than 10 years as Executive Director of Dallas Visual Art Center (now “the Contemporary”), providing opportunities for regional working artists, arts organizations and arts supporters including programs such as “The Business of Art” series of workshops and seminars. She represented the organization in partnership with The Meadows Foundation, Inc. on the design and building of a new state-of-the-art facility which was completed in 2000.
Ms. Wagner has experience in the business, cultural and academic sectors, working for Trammell Crow Company as it contributed greatly to the growth of the Dallas Arts District as well as at the Dallas Museum of Art and for the Dallas County Community College District.
Ms. Wagner has served on many panels recommending funding, including those of the General Services Administration, the Texas Commission on the Arts and the City of Dallas, Office of Cultural Affairs. She has served on the Private Sector Council of Americans for the Arts, serves on the Cultural Tourism Council for the Dallas Convention and Visitors Bureau, the Advisory Boards of the UNT Center for Visual Arts and Design (CVAD), Creative Arts Center and the Mexico Institute, and is an active member of The Summit.
Special thank you to our partners in the event: City of Plano, University of Texas at Dallas, Business Council for the Arts, The Shops of Willow Bend, and North Texas Performing Arts – Plano Children’s Theatre.
About the Moderator- Darrell Rodebaugh
Darrell Rodenbaugh is a Plano-area investor and volunteer with thirty years in management, sales and marketing roles with IBM, Oracle, I2 Technologies, and Yahoo!. He was SVP of McAfee’s Global Mid-Market Division before founding Champion Fire & Security and serving as its President.
Darrell earned his B.B.A. from Washburn University and MBA from the University of Houston.
Darrell is currently serving his sixth term as President of the Governing Board of Directors of the North Texas Performing Arts, parent of the Plano Children’s Theatre, and is the volunteer Project Executive of its move to the Shops at Willow Bend. Darrell is the recipient of the 2016 Obelisk Award from the Dallas Business Council for the Arts, the 2015 Junior League Leadership Award, and the 2014 Arts Centre Leadership Award.
Darrell is married to wife Lisa. Their son Christopher is a Junior at Loyola University of Chicago and daughter Lee is a Senior at Plano West.
“We can be proud of the leadership role Plano has taken in its support and investment in the arts, and we have to continue that focus to ensure we continue to be a regional arts destination,” says Darrell Rodenbaugh.
State of the Arts Committee former Plano City Councilwoman, Sally Magnuson, Plano Symphony Orchestra Board Member, Mirna Lynch, Plano Cultural Arts Commissioner Janelle Twyford-Silvis, and Chair, Sara Egelston Akers, Founder and Executive Director of North Texas Performing Arts – Plano Children’s Theatre.
Special thank you to our partners in the event: City of Plano, Plano Profile Magazine, University of Texas at Dallas, Business Council for the Arts, and The Shops of Willow Bend, and Willow Bend Center of the Arts.
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Date and Time
Wednesday Aug 30, 2017
Sunday, October 22, 2017
5:30 - 6 pm. Refreshments
6-7 pm. Panel Discussion
Location
Willow Bend Center of the Arts
The Shops of Willow Bend
5401 W. Park, Suite B216
Plano, Texas 75093
(park in the Dillard's parking garage and enter through the mall entrance)
Fees/Admission
Free
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Contact Information
Sara Egelston Akers
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