Creative Capital

Board of DirectorS

Board member Jeffrey Soros with Ruby Lerner

Officers
Lyda Kuth (Chair, Treasurer)
Ronald Feldman (Secretary)
Ruby Lerner (ex officio, President)

Members
Sunny Bates
William K. Bowes, Jr.
Ed Colloton
Suzi Keats Cordish
Peter Gelles & Eve Steele
Archibald L. Gillies (emeritus)
Lisa Heller
Lewis Hyde
Colleen Jennings-Roggensack
Richard Linklater
John Morning
Deborah Rappaport
Stephen Reily
James Schamus
Jeffrey Soros
Catharine R. Stimpson
Michael Stipe
Joel Wachs (ex-officio)
Paige West
Fred Wilson

OfficerS

Lyda Kuth (Chair, Treasurer) Director, LEF Foundation (Massachusetts)
Lyda Kuth is a founding board member and current director of the LEF Foundation, a private foundation that supports the creation and presentation of new work in the contemporary arts. She was recognized by the Massachusetts Cultural Council with the prestigious Commonwealth Award and honored by Women in Film and Video New England with the Image Award for Vision and Excellence in the media arts. In addition to her philanthropic work, she is an independent film producer.

Ronald Feldman (Secretary) Co-Director, Ronald Feldman Fine Arts (New York)
Ronald Feldman is the Co-Director of Ronald Feldman Fine Arts. In 1993, he was appointed by President Clinton to the National Council on the Arts, where he served for five years. His board affiliations include People for the American Way, Exit Art, the Research Center for Arts and Culture at Columbia University and the Art Dealers Association of America.

Ruby Lerner (ex officio) President & Executive Director, Creative Capital Foundation (New York)
Before joining Creative Capital, Ruby Lerner served as the Executive Director of the Association of Independent Film and Videomakers (AIVF) and as Publisher of Independent Film and Video Monthly. She also served as the Executive Director of Alternate ROOTS, a coalition of Southeastern performing artists, and IMAGE Film/Video Center, both based in Atlanta. Lerner received the 2009 John L. Haber Award from the University of North Carolina and is a frequent speaker at conferences and festivals. She is a member of the board of trustees of the Aldrich Contemporary Art Museum in Ridgefield, CT, the Goucher College Committee of Visitors and the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill Innovation Circle..

Members

Sunny Bates Connector (New York)
Operating at the nexus of executives, scientists, artists, creators, entrepreneurs, educators, philanthropists and visionaries worldwide, Sunny Bates provides the energy fueling countless game-changing ventures in media, technology, business, the environment and the arts. A magnet for talent, passionate about innovation, strategically savvy and adept at identifying investors, Bates plays lead roles ranging from member of TED’s influential Brain Trust to guiding muse for crowd-sourced, creative projects funder KickStarter

William K. Bowes, Jr. Founding Partner, U.S. Venture Partners (California)
William K. Bowes, Jr. is a founding partner of U.S. Venture Partners, a prominent Silicon Valley venture capital firm. He serves as a trustee of a number of research and education oriented nonprofit institutions, including the Exploratorium: Museum of Science and the University of California, San Francisco Foundation.

Ed Colloton Managing Partner and COO, Bessemer Venture Partners (New York)
Ed Colloton joined Bessemer Venture Partners in 2001 as Managing Partner and Chief Operating Officer. Colloton chairs the firm's investment and management committees and leads the operations of the firm. Prior to joining Bessemer, he was Chief Operating Officer and a financial services investor at JP Morgan Capital, the private equity arm of JP Morgan. Colloton received his AB in economics from Cornell University and a JD from the Harvard Law School. In 2009, the Forbes Midas List ranked Colloton among leading venture capitalists.

Suzi Keats Cordish Arts Advocate (Maryland)
Suzi Keats Cordish is a community leader, arts advocate and fundraiser with more than 25 years of experience leading boards of directors. She brings expertise in management, marketing, fundraising and community/business alliances. Cordish has served on the boards of Maryland Art Place, the Maryland State Arts Council, Maryland Institute College of Art and the Maryland Public Broadcasting Foundation.  

Peter Gelles & Eve Steele Chair, InterCounsel / Architect (California)
Peter Gelles is a U.K.-born and educated international business and real estate attorney. Eve Steele is an industrial designer, architect and real estate developer. They are married and are residents of Los Angeles. Mr. Gelles serves as President of the Board of Trustees of the Santa Monica Museum of Art, and is a Board member of the Ojai Music Festival. Professionally, he is chair of InterCounsel, a network of independent international law firms, has served as chair of the California State Bar's International Law Section and L.A. County Bar's Real Property Section, and is listed in Best Lawyers in America, Super Lawyers (So. California and Corporate Counsel editions) and Martindale Hubbell's Bar Register of Preeminent Lawyers. Eve Steele is the founding chair of LAXART and a Board member of REDCAT and UCLA Live. She recently worked closely with recent MacArthur Prize winning artist Mark Bradford on the design and installation of his ark project for Prospect.1 New Orleans, and also designed his new L.A. studio. In addition to their Board memberships, Mr. Gelles and Ms. Steele are supporters of the Watts House Project; LA Opera; LAXART; the Los Angeles Philharmonic Orchestra; the Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles; the Ojai Music Festival; REDCAT; UCLA Live; and other arts and nonprofit organizations.

Archibald L. Gillies emeritus (Maine)
Archibald Gillies was the president of The Andy Warhol Foundation for the Visual Arts from 1990 to 2001. In his role at the Foundation, Gillies spearheaded the conception and founding of Creative Capital. Prior to this, he was president of the World Policy Institute and of the John Hay Whitney Foundation from 1969 to 1979. He currently lives in Isleboro, Maine and is on the boards of Islesboro Islands Trust, an environmental group, and Islesboro Affordable Property, a housing organization.

Lisa Heller Vice President, HBO Documentaries (New York)
Lisa Heller develops, programs, and promotes a wide range of documentary films for Home Box Office. She came to HBO in 2000 from the critically acclaimed PBS series P.O.V., where as Executive Producer she oversaw programming and all related broadcast activities. Prior to P.O.V., she worked in development and public affairs at Channel 13/WNET in New York City and Wisconsin Public Television in Madison, WI.

Lewis Hyde Writer (Massachusetts/Ohio)
Lewis Hyde, a MacArthur Fellow and former Director of Undergraduate Creative Writing at Harvard University, currently teaches in the English Department at Kenyon College. He divides his time between Ohio and Cambridge, MA, where he is a faculty associate at Harvard's Berkman Center for Internet and Society. He is the author of The Gift (1983), Trickster Makes This World (1998) and Common as Air (2010), in addition to poetry, translations, essays and criticism.

Colleen Jennings-Roggensack Executive Director, ASU Gammage (Arizona)
A performing arts presenter for more than 30 years, Colleen Jennings-Roggensack also has extensive experience as an arts advocate, serving as a Presidential appointee to the National Council on the Arts from 1994 to 1997 and on many grantmaking and advisory panels nationwide. She currently serves on the boards of The Broadway League, the Tempe Convention and Visitors Bureau, and Childsplay. With The Broadway League, Jennings-Roggensack serves on the Labor Committee, Road Presenters/Intra-Industry Committee and Road/Labor Subcommittee, co-chaired the 2009 Spring Road Conference and is co-chairing the 2010 Biennial Conference.

Richard Linklater Detour Filmproduction (Texas)
Richard Linklater is the writer/director of over 15 films, including Fast Food Nation, Dazed & Confused, School of Rock and Waking Life. He also serves as Artistic Director of the Austin Film Society, founded in 1985 to showcase films from around the world not typically shown in Austin and to award grants to filmmakers. The Film Society was the first recipient of the National Honoree Award from the Directors Guild of America in recognition of its support of the arts.

John Morning Graphic Designer (New York)
John Morning served five years as a trustee of the City University of New York, the nation's third-largest public system. He also served for 23 years as a director of Dime Savings Bank of New York. He is currently a member of the boards of the New York State Council on the Arts, Charles Stewart Mott Foundation, Lincoln Center Theater, Henry Street Settlement and Pratt Institute, and is a recipient of the White House Presidential Recognition Award.

Deborah Rappaport President, Rappaport Family Foundation & CEO Skyline Public Works, LLC (California)
Deborah Rappaport is the President of the Rappaport Family Foundation, which she administers with her husband, Andy. RFF focuses its grant making on increasing civic engagement and deepening civic engagement through social and cultural outreach and to increasing the economic opportunities of and fairness toward disenfranchised citizens. Deborah is also CEO of Skyline Public Works, LLC a civic incubator established in 2003 as a means to further innovation in cultural and political activism. SPW helped start or provided significant funding and organizational support to most of the independent progressive youth-vote focused efforts in the 2004, 2006, and 2008. Deborah serves on the boards of People for the American Way, ProgressNow, and the Bolinas (CA) Museum. She lives in Northern California.

Stephen Reily Founder and CEO, Vibrant Nation & Charman and CEO, IMC Licensing (Kentucky)
Stephen Reily is the CEO and Chairman of IMC Licensing, a licensing agency representing consumer product brands, and is the Founder and CEO of VibrantNation.com, an online community for women over 50. He and his wife, Emily Bingham, are avid collectors of contemporary photography and support many cultural organizations and initiatives in Louisville, KY. Mr. Reily serves on the governing board of the Muhammad Ali Center and has served on the board of the Speed Art Museum.

James Schamus CEO, Focus Features (New York)
An integral contributor to the American independent film business for over a decade, James Schamus is a screenwriter and producer who was nominated for Academy Awards for the films Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon and Brokeback Mountain, respectively. He is also Chief Executive Officer of the worldwide film company Focus Features and a professor in Columbia University’s School of the Arts.

Jeffrey Soros President, Considered Entertainment (California).
Jeffrey Soros is the President of Considered Entertainment, a film production and financing company. Considered’s inaugural production, A Small Act, debuted at the Sundance Film Festival, played theatrically and on HBO, and was awarded the Humanitas Prize for Best Documentary. Soros serves as President on the boards of the Museum of Contemporary Art in Los Angeles and the Paul and Daisy Soros Fellowship for New Americans. He is also a trustee of The Screenwriters Colony.

Catharine R. Stimpson University Professor and Dean Emerita Graduate School of Arts and Science, New York University (New York)
Prior to joining the NYU faculty, Catharine R. 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. She is a member of the board of directors of several educational and cultural organizations and was the president of both the Modern Language Association and the Association of Graduate Schools.

Michael Stipe Singer/songwriter, artist, film producer (Georgia, New York)
Michael Stipe is singer/songwriter for the group R.E.M., an artist and a film producer. Film projects include Being John Malkovich, American Movie, Velvet Goldmine, Saved!, Everyday People, Our Song and Girlstown. In 30 years, R.E.M. has released 15 studio albums and sold over 100 million records worldwide.

Joel Wachs (ex-officio) President, The Andy Warhol Foundation for the Visual Arts (New York)
Prior to joining The Andy Warhol Foundation in October 2001, Joel Wachs had a 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.

Paige West Founder, Mixed Greens (New York)
Paige West considers herself an all around contemporary art addict.  She studied the business of art at Christie's Education and NYU Arts Administration programs and has since promoted and supported artists by curating a major private collection comprised of more than three thousand works by emerging and contemporary artists, producing documentaries on artists Salvatore Scarpitta and Vik Muniz (Worst Possible Illusion: The Curiosity Cabinet of Vik Muniz), and starting Mixed Greens, a company that sells original contemporary art both online and in its New York gallery. She is also the author of The Art of Buying Art: An Insider's Guide to Collecting Contemporary Art.

Fred Wilson Artist (New York)
Fred Wilson is a conceptual and installation artist whose work explores the relationship between museums, individual works of art and collections of other kinds. Wilson is a 1999 MacArthur Fellow and represented the United States at the 2003 Venice Biennale. His work can be found in several public collections, including the Baltimore Museum of Art, The Museum of Modern Art in New York and the Whitney Museum of American Art.

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