Cranbrook Art Museum Jeanne and Ralph Graham Collection Fellow Application

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Lee Carol Giduz, Executive Director

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Lee Ballad serves equally the Executive Managing director of the museum. She is a native of Kentucky and was raised in Cincinnati, Ohio. She was lured to the nifty country of North Carolina first to attend camp and later to nourish Davidson College where she graduated with honors with a BA in Public Policy. She and her hubby, Bob, live in Lenoir where they raised their 3 children.

Lee Carol has over thirty years working with nonprofits and 26 years with arts-based nonprofits. Amidst her previous roles, she served as the Executive Director of the Caldwell Arts Council (1994 - 2015) and on the Board of Directors of the Due north Carolina Arts Council (2002 - 2011). Lee Ballad is honored to be working with the staff and Board of Trustees of BRAHM at this exciting time in the museum'southward evolution.

leecarol@blowingrockmuseum.org
828.295.9099 ext. 3008

Marking Brackbill, Facilities Manager

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Marker and his wife, Linda Hanawalt, purchased a subcontract in Banner Elk several years ago while living and working in Florida. In 2015, they decided to make the Loftier Country their year-round home. Since 1999, Mark has been a small business organization owner. He has owned a painting and renovation company and has managed several rental properties. In Florida, Marker and Linda endemic retail and foodservice businesses. Through his own business organisation experience, Mark understands the needs of a building like BRAHM and his expertise is highly valuable.

Sharon Caldwell, Office Manager

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Sharon has made the North Carolina High Land her home for the concluding 34 years. She came to the Boone/Blowing Rock expanse to visit with friends in 1982 and a chance meeting with local business person, the tardily Bob Caldwell, led to their marriage in 1983. Sharon loves this area and enjoys traveling the High Country and seeing the seasonal changes. Sharon is an avid gardener and reader. She grew up in littoral Connecticut and graduated from West Haven Loftier School with a focus on business. Later on loftier school Sharon was able to travel and alive in a number of locations in the Usa; N and South Dakota and the Blue Ridge Mount area of Virginia, while working and sharing in volunteer activities until settling in Boone. Sharon'due south work career since living in the High Country has been mainly focused on the Part Direction and Accounting areas for a number of local businesses.

officemanager@blowingrockmuseum.org
828.295.9099 ext. 3003

Steve Eichner, Registrar

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Steve grew up in the small towns of rural Pennsylvania. He met his married woman Joyce while at Penn State. It was also in that location that his involvement in cultural heritage actually began, when he was a student working in the university library'south rare books collection. Post-obit along his married woman'south career as a senior administrator and dean at academic libraries he ranged across the country from Virginia to North Carolina -- and Connecticut, Washington and Utah. This "working tour" of the United States helped coalesce in Steve'due south heed the central philosophy of his life - that mountainy, tree-strewn places are "pretty cool" and museums are "actually dandy". Before arriving at BRAHM in 2016 Steve worked in registration, collections direction, exhibit installation and company services. He loves driving and talking about Corvettes, and operation cars in full general, and agreeable his cats. He thoroughly enjoys helping the museum achieve its mission of bringing art and people together.

info@blowingrockmuseum.org
828.295.9099 ext. 3001

Maggie Flanigan, Marketing & Communications Manager

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Returning to her hometown in 2020, Maggie Flanigan had spent the previous two years working in educational activity and galleries in Richmond, VA. Maggie holds a BFA in Studio Fine art from Appalachian Land University and an MFA in Photography from Tyler School of Art, Temple University.

Beingness deeply entrenched in education is of utmost importance to her career, staying engaged in the art community both through gallery and museum work also as teaching brings balance into her personal fine art practice. Currently teaching as an Adjunct Instructor at Appalachian State and Caldwell Customs Higher are just a few ways Maggie maintains this residuum.

While her personal art do centers around ideas of intimacy and immediacy through the use of alternative photographic methods and printmaking techniques, Flanigan is deeply saturated in the art community and finds inspiration in all forms of contemporary art practices from objects to performance and mixed media digital arts.

marketing@blowingrockmuseum.org
828.295.9099 ext. 3005

Jennifer Garonzik, Education Center Director

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After graduating from Thomas Johnson Loftier School Magnet Program for the Visual and Performing Arts, Jennifer earned her BFA in Fine Arts from UNCG with additional coursework in Education. She has taught art in both private and public settings as well as illustrated a serial of early on reader books. After spending 12 years in the fields of deadline-oriented print graphic design and educational publishing, she is grateful to return to the creative classroom. Jennifer has lived in the High Country with her husband, Michael, for 21 years, enjoying the hiking and scenic dazzler that brought them hither from Frederick, Maryland. She volunteers at Blowing Rock School, where her two children currently attend. Existence involved with the Bravado Rock Plein Air Festival has recently rekindled her dearest of watercolor painting en plein air.

jennifer@blowingrockmuseum.org
828.295.9099 ext. 3004

Katie Jensen, Education Outreach Coordinator

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Katie Jensen is new to the high state and cruel in dearest with the area as before long as she arrived. Built-in and raised in Utah, she graduated from Southern Utah University with a Bachelor'south in Art Education, and later with a Master's in Arts Administration. While getting her Chief's, she worked at the Southern Utah Museum of Art planning programs and events for the community.

Katie feels very lucky to be working in such a beautiful museum. She is excited to explore the community and become involved. A lifelong learner, She is e'er working on art projects and loves learning new skills.

ed_outreach@blowingrockmuseum.org
828.295.9099 ext. 3014

Jasmin McFayden, Executive Assistant

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Jasmin came to Western North Carolina in 2006 and never left. A 2010 graduate of Art History from App Country, she joined the museum staff in 2018 after a vii year career at Penland Schoolhouse of Craft. Jasmin applies her dear of art history, her dedication to local artists, and her conventionalities in customs edifice and pedagogy through the arts to her roles as executive assistant, membership coordinator, and special events coordinator at BRAHM. She and her husband have a deep affection for the Appalachian mountains and hope to e'er phone call them dwelling. They dear to go on hikes with their piddling girl and enjoy the area's rich and varied civilization.

admin@blowingrockmuseum.org
828.295.9099 ext. 3011

Seth Perry, Front Desk Director

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After moving from Colorado to Northward Carolina, Seth came to the Loftier Country to pursue a BFA in Studio Art at Appalachian Land University. During his time as a pupil, Seth worked for the Smith Gallery and the Turchin Eye for the Visual Arts, which inspired a passion for sharing art with the public.

Seth's own art practice often gravitates towards the use of fibers and/or new media. When Seth isn't creating or affectionate art, they enjoy hiking in the Blue Ridge Mountains.

seth@blowingrockmuseum.org
828.295.9099

Willard Watson Three, Program & Outreach Manager

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Originally from Fayetteville, North Carolina, Willard moved to Boone in 2008, but his roots run deep in Watauga County. His great-grandfather and namesake, Willard Watson I, was a well-known toy carver, moonshiner, and dancer.

Willard has a Masters in Appalachian Studies with a concentration on Sustainability and a Bachelors of Scientific discipline in Sustainable Development both from Appalachian State University. Since 2010 Willard has been an active member of the High Country community through volunteerism and event planning. He has worn many hats in the area with a variety of organizations such as the Doc & Rosa Lee Watson MusicFest 'n Saccharide Grove, Sustain Appalachian, Heart 45 Climbing & Fitness, High Country Local First, the Watauga Food Council, and the Loftier Country Beer Fest. His academic and volunteer passions intersect on the topic of cultural preservation and customs development through the creative arts.

He is too a fellow member of the 2020-2022 class of the William C. Fridays Fellowship for Human Relations.

programs@blowingrockmuseum.org
828.295.9099 ext. 3006

Ian Gabriel Wilson, Curator of Exhibitions & Collections

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Joining BRAHM in the spring of 2021, Gabe is returning home to Appalachia after a decade of studying and working in the Midwest. A curator, art historian, and arts administrator, he received a BA in Art History and Cultural History from Vermont'southward Marlboro College earlier completing his graduate written report at the School of the Art Found of Chicago (SAIC) and holds an MA in Modern & Contemporary Fine art History, Theory, & Criticism and an MA in Arts Assistants & Policy.

Most recently, Gabe served as the Jeanne and Ralph Graham Collections Swain at Cranbrook Art Museum in Bloomfield Hills, Michigan, where he curated a number of exhibitions includingRuth Adler Schnee: Mod Designs for Living,the outset major museum presentation and publication to study the life and career of the eponymous cloth designer and interior architect. He also co-curated the forthcomingWith Eyes Opened: Cranbrook University of Art Since 1932, an exhaustive book and exhibition project cataloging the illustrious and experimental history of the university of art, craft, and design, its graduates, and kinesthesia.

Gabe has previously held positions at the academic journalARTMargins, the Roger Brown Report Collection in Chicago, and the Sullivan Galleries of SAIC where he was awarded a Graduate Curatorial Fellowship by the Found for Curatorial Enquiry and Practise in 2015. He has besides taught courses in the history of craft and the concepts and methods of visual culture at Detroit's College for Creative Studies.

Raised in Greenville, South Carolina, Gabe has deep familial roots in Western North Carolina and East Tennessee and is grateful to be living in the High Country subsequently then many years in the lowlands. He is excited to proceed exploring his fine art historical specialties in contemporary craft, mural studies, and modern design while maintaining BRAHM'south impressive exhibition calendar and growing its permanent collection. He hopes to broaden the museum'due south audience with dynamic, emergent gallery content that highlights local and regional makers and movements and which complements BRAHM's honey traditions in American Impressionism and Blowing Stone history.

gabe@blowingrockmuseum.org
828.295.9099 ext. 3007

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