Ruby Lerner is an American arts executive. She ran Creative Capital, an arts foundation, from 1999 to 2016.[1][2][3] Under her leadership, Creative Capital committed $40 million in financial and advisory support to 511 projects representing 642 artists.[4] She stepped down from the organization in June 2016.
Beginning in January 2017, Lerner became the inaugural Herberger Institute Policy Fellow at Arizona State University and Senior Fellow to the Patty Disney Center for Life and Work at CalArts.[5]
She serves on the board of directors for Light Industry in Brooklyn, New York. She is also on national advisory boards for the Headlands Center for the Arts in Sausalito, California; the McColl Center for Art + Innovation in Charlotte, North Carolina; the Ackland Art Museum at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill; the Thomas S. Kenan Institute for the Arts in Winston-Salem, North Carolina; The University of Kentucky Art Museum; and SPACE Gallery in Portland, Maine. She serves on the exhibition committee for the Aldrich Contemporary Art Museum in Ridgefield, Connecticut.[citation needed]
Lerner studied comparative religion at Goucher College in Towson, Maryland, where she currently serves on the Art Advisory Committee.[citation needed]
Honors and awards
editIn 2016, Lerner was awarded honorary degrees from the Maryland Institute College of Art[6] and Maine College of Art.[7]
Lerner was a 30th Anniversary ArtTable Honoree (2011). She is recipient of the Art in General Visionary Award (2016), the John L. Haber Award from the University of North Carolina (2009), the Catalyst Award from the National Association of Artists' Organizations (2007), the BAXten Award from the Brooklyn Arts Exchange (2007), a Creative Leadership Award from the Alliance of Artists Communities (2005), the Artist Advocate Award from the Alliance of New York State Arts Organizations (2003) and a Special Citation from Artists Space for her support of individual artists (2003).
References
edit- ^ "Creative Capital Chooses Susan Delvalle as President and Executive Director". The New York Times. Retrieved 26 May 2016.
- ^ "Creative Capital Awards Nearly $4.4 Million in Arts Grants". The New York Times. Retrieved 26 May 2016.
- ^ "How Creative Capital Replaced the NEA and Taught Artists to Be Ambitious". The Stranger. Retrieved 26 May 2016.
- ^ "How Creative Capital Replaced the NEA and Taught Artists to Be Ambitious". The Stranger. Retrieved 8 December 2016.
- ^ "Creative Capital Chooses Susan Delvalle as President and Executive Director". The New York Times. Retrieved 26 May 2016.
- ^ Baltimore Sun (27 April 2016). "John Waters to get honorary degree from MICA". baltimoresun.com. Retrieved 26 May 2016.
- ^ "Idexx founder among honorees at Maine College of Art graduation". The Portland Press Herald / Maine Sunday Telegram. Retrieved 26 May 2016.
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