Arts Everywhere is advised by three distinguished leadership groups that include UNC-Chapel Hill alumni and supporters, campus arts faculty and senior administrators, and student arts leaders. The initiative is grateful to the individuals below who volunteer their time to shape the future of the arts at UNC.

Carolina Arts Leadership Council

JK Brown, Chair
New York, NY

Richard L. Chilton Jr.
New York, NY

Deborah Gerhardt
Chapel Hill, NC

Ruby Lerner
New York, NY

Shannon Kete
New York, NY

John Powell
New Orleans, LA

Charlotte Wickham
Charlotte, NC

Campus Arts Council

Vivienne Benesch
Producing Artistic Director | PlayMakers Repertory Co.

Renee Alexander Craft
Chair | Department of Communication

Elizabeth Engelhardt
Senior Associate Dean | Fine Arts and Humanities
Professor | Department of American Studies

Maria Estorino
Interim Vice Provost for University Libraries and University Librarian | University Libraries

Alison Friedman
Executive and Artistic Director | Carolina Performing Arts

David Garcia
Chair and Professor | Department of Music

Jeff Spinner-Halev
Interim Chair | Department of Art & Art History

Amy Locklear Hertel
Executive Vice Provost l Office of the Provost

Kathryn Hunter-Williams
Professor and Chair | Department of Dramatic Art

Martin Johnson
Director | Film Studies

Joseph Jordan
Vice provost | Academic and Community Engagement
Director | Sonja Haynes Stone Center

Peter Nisbet
Deputy Director for Curatorial Affairs | Ackland Art Museum

Patricia Parker
Director | Institute for the Arts and Humanities

Amy Russell
Director of Programming | Carolina Performing Arts

Kathryn Wagner
Associate Director | Arts Everywhere

Ross White
Director | Creative Writing Program

Katie Ziglar
Director | Ackland Art Museum