Ann Daly Arts Consulting LLC : Resume
Scope of Services
Strategic planning, organizational capacity-building, audience development, community cultural assessment and development, policy/trend analysis, research/writing, program design, assessment/evaluation, proposal development, coaching, workshops for artists
Qualifications
- 17 years as university arts professor
- Award-winning scholar
- Author of three books on performing and visual arts
- 25 years in daily journalism, trade publications, and scholarly publishing
- Cultural commentator for New York Times, Village Voice, Chronicle of Higher Education, and NPR’s “Marketplace”
- Invited essayist for leading arts presenters, centers, festivals, funders
- Former president of Dance Critics Association
- International keynote speaker on arts and culture
- National Endowment for Humanities panelist
- Juror for Cal Arts/Alpert Award in the Arts
- Advisory board member for Deborah Hay Dance Company
- Advisory board member for Pro Arts Collective
- Program chair for “The NEA at 40: Cultural Policy and American Democracy,” LBJ Library & Museum
Education
- PhD, Performance Studies, New York University, 1993
- MA, Performance Studies, New York University, 1986
- BA, Journalism and Art History, Duquesne University, 1981 (summa cum laude)
Employment
- Principal, Ann Daly Arts Consulting LLC, 2000 to present
- Associate/Assistant Professor, Department of Theatre and Dance, The University of Texas at Austin, 1989-2006
- Visiting Associate Professor, Department of Performance Studies, New York University, 1996/1997
- Visiting Assistant Professor, Commonwealth Center for Cultural and Literary Change, University of Virginia, Spring 1994
- Editor, Lighting Dimensions, 1987-1989
- Managing Editor, TDR: The Journal of Performance Studies, 1985-1987
- Art/Feature Writer, Pittsburgh Press, 1982-1984
Selected projects
- Conducted community cultural assessment for McAllen, Texas
- Wrote essay on cultural sector for Dance Advance
- Advised on strategic plan for Melanie Stewart Dance Theatre
- Created organizational development plan with Forklift Danceworks
- Designed and facilitated strategic planning retreat for Milwaukee Artist Resource Network
- Developed mission statement with Austin Eurythmy Ensemble
- Designed and facilitated Philadelphia dance community convenings for Nonprofit Finance Fund and advised Pew Charitable Trusts on community growth and leadership capacity
- Advised Animating Democracy Initiative on “Critical Perspectives” program design
- Designed and conducted workshops on audience development for Australia Council for the Arts
- Provided conference wrap-up response for August Wilson Center
Selected clients
- American Institute of Architects Austin
- Animating Democracy Initiative
- Arts Midwest
- August Wilson Center for African American Culture
- Austin Eurythmy Ensemble
- Australia Council for the Arts
- Bentley College
- Dance Advance (Pew Charitable Trusts)
- Early Music America
- Forklift Danceworks (Austin)
- Lied Center for Performing Arts (Lincoln, Nebraska)
- McAllen (Texas) Chamber of Commerce
- Melanie Stewart Dance Theatre (Philadelphia)
- Milwaukee Artist Resource Network
- National Guild of Community Schools of the Arts
- Nonprofit Finance Fund (Philadelphia)
- Rhodes College
- Wayne State University College of Fine, Performing and Communication Arts
Selected publications
- “Sustainability for the Dance Field,” forthcoming.
- “Mission Accomplished,” International Arts Manager (March 2006).
- “Beyond Richard Florida: A Cultural Sector of Our Own,” www.danceadvance.org (Fall 2005).
- “Managing to Succeed,” Texas Photographic Society Tech Sheet #24 (2005).
- “Richard Florida’s High-class Glasses,” Grantmakers in Arts Reader (Summer 2004).
- “Defining Your Brand Identity,” Dance/USA Journal (Fall 2003).
- “No More Starving Artists,” “Marketplace,” National Public Radio (13 August 2003).
- “Writing for Results,” Inside Arts (May/June 2003).
- When Writing Becomes Gesture, Wollemi Pine Press (2003).
- Critical Gestures: Writings on Dance and Culture, Wesleyan University Press (2002).
- Done Into Dance: Isadora Duncan in America, Indiana University Press (1995).