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Elizabeth L. Mahaffey Arts Administration Fellowship
The Elizabeth L. Mahaffey Arts Administration Fellowship annually recognizes one exceptionally accomplished Connecticut arts administrator with a $2,500 award to be used for professional development activities. To be eligible, administrators must be state residents employed by Connecticut nonprofit arts organizations (or involved in ongoing arts programs of nonprofit organizations, colleges and universities). Applicants must have at least seven years of professional arts administration experience, including three with their current organization. Individuals must be full-time residents of the state.
Administrators employed as consultants, contractors or subcontractors are not eligible to apply. Unpaid and volunteer staff members are also ineligible.
The next deadline to apply is expected to be early spring 2011. Questions regarding the Fellowship may be addressed to program manager, Kathleen DeMeo, at 860-256-2735 or kathleen.demeo@ct.gov.
Elizabeth L. Mahaffey Arts Administration Fellowship Recipient 2010:
Steve Sigel {Steve Sigel}
Steve Sigel became the first Executive Director of the Garde Arts Center in April, 1988, and has established the Garde as the major performing arts center for Southeastern Connecticut. He spearheaded a $15 million campaign to renovate the 1500-seat historic theatre and helped acquire four adjacent office holdings for additional theatre, education and community services. His career combines a unique mix of community development, theatre production and administration.
In support of the Garde’s mission as a cultural and economic catalyst, Sigel was a founding member of City Center District, New London’s downtown business improvement district, the New London Main Street Program, and Mystic Coast and Country travel and leisure council. He was also a founder of the Arts Alliance of Southeastern Connecticut, twice produced the Governor’s Arts Awards and hosted and produced The Library of Congress Film Preservation Tour and the national launch of the National Endowment for Arts Shakespeare touring initiative.
Past Elizabeth L. Mahaffey Fellowship recipients:
- Ann Shapiro, Executive Director of Connecticut Storytelling Center
- Lou Ursone, Director of Curtain Call, Inc.,
- Harry Philbrick, Director of Aldrich Contemporary Art Museum
- Jeffry Walker, Director of Austin Arts Center, Trinity College
- Alexander Taylor, former Co-Director of Curbstone Press
- Pamela Tatge, Director of Wesleyan University's Center for the Arts
- Vita West Muir, Executive Director of Litchfield Performing Arts
- Dollie McLean, Executive Director of the Artists Collective
- Victoria Nolan, Managing Director of Yale Repertory Theatre
- R. Rennie McQuilkin, former Director of the Sunken Garden Poetry Festival
- Will K. Wilkins, Executive Director of Real Art Ways
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