Bi-Weekly Recap: March 11, 2019

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  Greetings WESTAF Board of Trustees: Trust you all made it back safely from the BOT meeting in Salt Lake City. Thanks again for making the journey and participating so fully in the whirlwind of activity! I really loved it and I learn a lot. Welcome Victoria Bourns We’re thrilled to welcome Vicki Bourns, Director of the Utah Division of Arts and Museums, on to the WESTAF Board of Trustees, effective immediately. Welcome, Vicki — we’re so glad to have you! Public Art Archive Mentioned in TIME Magazine Some of you might have seen the “Chiseled young Abraham Lincoln Statue”…

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Bi-Weekly Recap: February 22, 2019

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Greetings WESTAF Board of Trustees: Hello again from Denver! Here’s a brief bi-weekly update before we head to Utah next week for our first meeting of 2019. I’m looking forward to seeing you all again! Hopefully, you have all received your Board Book by now — thank you to Samantha Ortega for her great work putting this together. Don’t hesitate to be in touch if you have any questions at all about our time together in Salt Lake City. State Arts Agencies I was able to reach out to each of our thirteen member state arts agencies (SAAs) this week….

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Bi-Weekly Recap: February 11, 2019

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Greetings WESTAF Board of Trustees: Hello again! Checking in with a brief bi-weekly update after my second fortnight at WESTAF and it’s been fun, exciting, a little overwhelming but always action-packed: Onboarding More valuable onboarding sessions happened these past few weeks for me, including an IMTour session and a series of sessions with Anthony, where we went over how WESTAF works with the state arts agencies in the West; how WESTAF works with the national arts service organizations; how WESTAF works with the National Endowment for the arts (NEA) and how WESTAF works with private foundation and non-government entities, among…

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Bi-Weekly Recap: January 25, 2019

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Greetings WESTAF Board of Trustees: Hope this message finds you well and happy. I thought I would check in with you after my first two weeks on the job here at WESTAF to offer a very brief update on how things are going. Onboarding As you probably know, I am about two thirds of the way through a rigorous WESTAF Onboarding process. In the past two weeks, I have had immersive meetings generally comprised of history, overviews and discussions around most of the major WESTAF products and services. Since January 14, we’ve covered General WESTAF Operations, Budget Management, Multicultural Programs,…

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