Board of Directors

OFFICERS

Catharine R. Stimpson (Chair) is University Professor and Dean of the Graduate School of Arts and Science at New York University. Prior to joining the NYU faculty in 1998, Ms. Stimpson served as Director of the Fellows Program at the John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation, and as University Professor and Dean of the Graduate School at Rutgers. In addition to Creative Capital, she serves on the boards of PBS and several educational institutions, and as Chair of the Woodrow Wilson National Fellowship Foundation.

Melissa Bradley (Treasurer) founded New Capitalist, which provides business development, strategy, and capitalization assistance to emerging & social entrepreneurs. Its mission is to leverage human, financial and social capital to create economically profitable and sustainable individuals, businesses and communities.

Louise A. Velázquez (Secretary) is a strategic planning consultant based in Silicon Valley who works with early-stage and pre-IPO companies. In recent years, she has worked with emerging technologies research groups and developed new media partnerships between major international telecommunications companies. Ms. Velazquez also worked with music, film, and television producer Quincy Jones for ten years, and received a Grammy nomination in 1993 as the producer of Live in Montreux, a video featuring Mr. Jones and Miles Davis.

Ruby Lerner (ex officio, President) is the founding Executive Director and President of the Creative Capital Foundation. Prior to Creative Capital, Ms. Lerner served as the Executive Director of the Association of Independent Film and Videomakers (AIVF) and as Publisher of the highly regarded Independent Film and Video Monthly. She has worked regionally in both the performing arts and independent media fields. She served as the Executive Director of Alternate ROOTS, a coalition of Southeastern performing artists, and IMAGE Film/Video Center, both based in Atlanta. In the late 1970's, she was the Audience Development Director at the Manhattan Theatre Club, one of New York's foremost nonprofit theatres.

MEMBERS

Laurie Anderson is a performance, recording, and visual artist, a composer and instrumentalist, and a leader in the use of technology in the arts.

Sunny Bates founded and runs Sunny Bates Associates (SBA)„one of the premier retained search firms. SBA serves businesses ranging from early stage ventures to established multinational corporations in the travel, retail and commerce, publishing, media and entertainment industries. Ms. BatesÍ first book, How to Earn What You Are Worth (McGraw Hill; January 2004), provides insight into how employees can develop a blueprint for success. Ms. Bates currently serves as a founding board member of the New York New Media Association.

William K. Bowes, Jr. is a founding partner of U.S. Venture Partners, a prominent Silicon Valley venture capital firm. Prior to the founding of U.S. Venture Partners in 1987, Mr. Bowes was a Senior Vice President and Director of Blyth Eastman Dillon, a large investment banking and brokerage firm. In addition to Creative Capital, he serves as a trustee of several education-oriented nonprofit institutions, and as a director of five corporations.

Red Burns is the Chairperson of NYU's Interactive Technology Program (ITP). As head of NYU's Alternate Media Center in the 1970s, Ms. Burns designed telecommunications projects including two-way television for and by senior citizens and applications to serve the developmentally disabled. This set the stage for the creation of ITP in 1979; Professor Burns became Chair in 1981 and has since led the program.

Ronald Feldman is Co-Director of Ronald Feldman Fine Arts, the contemporary art gallery that he founded in 1971. Nationally known as a spokesperson against censorship of the arts, Mr. Feldman co-authored ñThe Future of the National Endowment for the Arts,î a 1992 report for the Clinton Administration transition team. In addition to Creative Capital, his board affiliations include People for the American Way, Exit Art, and the Art Dealers Association of America.

Archibald L. Gillies was the President and C.E.O. of the Andy Warhol Foundation for the Visual Arts from 1990-2001. Before assuming the FoundationÍs presidency, Mr. Gillies was President and C.E.O. of the World Policy Institute. He also served as President of the John Hay Whitney Foundation from 1969 to 1979, and was a business and political associate of Governor Nelson A. Rockefeller from 1956 to 1968.

Lisa Heller is Vice President of Original Programming at HBO where she develops, programs, and promotes non-fiction films, new media activity and outreach strategies for HBO documentaries, the Cinemax Reel Life series, and family programming. She came to HBO from the critically acclaimed PBS series P.O.V. where she oversaw all programming and broadcast related initiatives designed to expand the role of independent documentaries in public life.

Lewis Hyde is a writer and the Thomas Professor of Creative Writing at Kenyon College. A 1991 MacArthur Fellow and former director of the creative writing faculty at Harvard University, Mr. Hyde is the author of Trickster Makes This World (1998), The Gift (1983) and other works on arts and culture, in addition to poetry, essays, and criticism.

Colleen Jennings-Roggensack is the Executive Director for Public Events at Arizona State University. A performing arts presenter for over 20 years, Ms. Jennings-Roggensack also has extensive experience as an arts advocate, serving as a Presidential appointee to the National Council on the Arts from 1994-97 and on many grantmaking and advisory panels nationwide.

Lyda Kuth is a founding board member and current director of the LEF Foundation, a private foundation founded in 1985 to support the creation and presentation of new work in the visual arts, performing arts, literary arts, new media, film and video, architecture and design. Lyda serves as an executive member of the Creative Economic Council, the leadership body of the New England Creative Economy Initiative. She was recognized by the Massachusetts Cultural Council for her leadership in arts funding statewide with the prestigious Commonwealth Award (1999); and honored by Women in Film and Video New England with the Image Award for Vision and Excellence in the media arts (2003).

Richard Linklater is the writer/director of Slacker (1991), Dazed & Confused (1993), Before Sunrise (1995), The Newton Boys (1998), and Waking Life (2001). He is also the director of Suburbia (1997), and Tape (2001). Mr. Linklater serves as Artistic Director of the Austin Film Society, which he founded in 1985. The Austin Film Society exhibits more than 100 films annually and has awarded $280,000 in grants to Texas filmmakers over the past six years.

John Morning has lead an active career of service for over 30 years in leadership positions with several organizations. Serving on numerous boards and committees, he has experience in fields as diverse as higher education, banking, philanthropy, the visual arts, theater and historic preservation. He has been a graphic designer in Manhattan since 1960, specializing in publications and materials for leading arts, cultural and philanthropic institutions. Among them have been The Henry Luce Foundation, The Metropolitan Museum of Art, The Museum for African Art, and the Schomburg Center of The New York Public Library.

Peter Norton is the President of the Peter Norton Family Foundation, which he founded in 1989 to support the arts and humanities. Previously, Mr. Norton was a leading software entrepreneur, best known for the computer programs and books that bear his name. In addition to Creative Capital, he serves on the boards of the California Institute for the Arts, Reed College, Crossroads School, and the Museum of Modern Art in New York.

James Schamus is a film producer and the Co-President of Focus Features, a production, financing, and worldwide distribution company committed to nurturing innovative filmmakers. Schamus is well known for his work as co-screenwriter for the film, Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon (2000) which earned him two Oscar Nominations. Other production credits include Happiness, Walking and Talking, The Brothers McMullen, Safe, and Poison. Screenwriting or co-writing credits include The Ice Storm and The Wedding Banquet. He is a board member of the Foundation for Independent Video and Film.

Peter Seidler founded two world-leading interactive design companies Æ Seidler Design and Avalanche Systems Æ and also served as Chief Creative Officer of Razorfish, Inc. in New York, where he was responsible for 1,200 creative employees in fifteen offices in eleven countries. His many articles on web design and interfaces have been widely published in books and in magazines including Artbyte and Understanding Design. His conceptual art projects are in the collections of The Peter Norton Foundation, The Walt Disney Co., Bonnie Raitt, and New YorkÍs Museum of Modern Art.

Jeffrey Soros is a Los AngelesÆbased screenwriter and an advisor to the Paul and Daisy Soros Fellowships for New Americans. In addition to Creative Capital, Mr. Soros serves on the boards of Exit Art and the Santa Monica Museum of Art.

Michael Stipe is the lead vocalist and co-founder of the alternative rock group R.E.M., a photographer, and a film producer. Recent film projects include Being John Malkovich, American Movie, Velvet Goldmine, and Man on the Moon, Milos Forman's film about the late comedian Andy Kaufman. The title of the Forman film, which featured a score by R.E.M., comes from the 1992 R.E.M. hit of the same name.

Joel Wachs (ex-officio) joined The Andy Warhol Foundation for the Visual Arts as its president in October 2001. Previously, he had a long career as a tax attorney and was a long-time member of the Los Angeles City Council. He has served on the boards of a variety of arts organizations, most notably the Los Angeles Museum of Contemporary Art where he was Vice Chairman of the Board of Trustees.

Fred Wilson is an installation artist whose work explores the relationship between museums, individual works of art, and collections of other kinds. He has designed major installations at the Seattle Art Museum, the Southeastern Center for Contemporary Art, and the de Young Museum; his exhibition at the Maryland Historical Society, Mining the Museum, has become a model for the interaction of curators and museumgoers. Mr. Wilson is a 1999 MacArthur Fellow, and will represent the US at the 2003 Venice Biennale.