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Sunday, April 14, 2024
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CFO- Arena Stage


 The CFO is a critical member of the Senior Management Team and important ally to Arena’s co-leaders providing operational leadership and oversight in all matters of ongoing financial management, accounting and strategic business development. [READ MORE]
 

 

Artistic Director – Alabama Shakespeare Festival


 As a beloved Alabama arts institution, ASF broadens the cultural identity of the South by producing classics, Shakespeare, contemporary plays, musicals, theatre for young audiences, and exciting new works. [READ MORE]
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FringeArts seeks CEO & Producing Director 

The Chief Executive Officer and Producing Director (CEO & PD) will drive the organization’s next level of growth through a strategic evolution that enhances FringeArts’ impact and reach. [READ MORE]

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Chief Executive Officer, Motown Museum 

The CEO will be a dynamic, high-energy leader with a minimum of 10 years of strategic leadership experience. [READ MORE]

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Signature Theatre NYC seeks next Artistic Director 

The Artistic Director will design and implement Signature’s artistic vision, curating an exciting and diverse season of productions that is in alignment with its organizational mission. [READ MORE]

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Job Alert: Baltimore School for the Arts, Foundation Director 

The Baltimore School for the Arts Foundation is the fundraising partner of the Baltimore School for the Arts. [READ MORE]

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Executive Director of Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute’s Experimental Media and Performing Arts Center 

They will be accountable for a strategic direction, business model, and adaptive change that are in alignment with the Institute’s Rensselaer Forward plan. [READ MORE]

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Executive Leadership at Alternate ROOTS 

Executive Leadership plays the pivotal role in ensuring fruitful collaboration among members, staff, and Executive Committee – the Alternate ROOTS community. [READ MORE]

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Chief Programming and Engagement Officer 

Pittsburgh Cultural Trust (PCT or the Trust), one of the nation’s premier arts presenters and a major catalytic influence in the city of Pittsburgh, seeks a chief programming and engagement officer (CPEO). [READ MORE]

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Payroll/HR Administrator, Mark Morris Dance Group 

SUMMARY DESCRIPTION: This position supports the entire organization, interacting regularly with all supervisors as well as all employees and independent contractors. In addition to superb attention to detail and accuracy, excellent interpersonal and communication skills are critical to the success of this role. Reporting to the Chief Financial Officer and working closely with the HR […] [READ MORE]

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ART JEWELRY FORUM SEEKS EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR 

Art Jewelry Forum is an international organization with a mission to advocate for the international field of contemporary art jewelry through education, appreciation, and support for the field. [READ MORE]

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Executive Director, Institute for Contemporary Art 

The ICA has become a focal point of Richmond’s energetic arts district, serving as a nexus for creativity and inclusion, where innovative thinking and transformational ideas are drawn from a spectrum of disciplines. [READ MORE]

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Assistant Teaching Professor of Dance 

The Department of Theatre & Dance at UC San Diego invites exceptional dance educators and dance makers who emphasize interdisciplinary methodologies and whose research is rooted in African and Afro-Diasporic experiences and practices that are varyingly multiracial, trans-geographic and intersectional. [READ MORE]

 

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MEDIA

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MUSIC

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PEOPLE

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