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The Massachusetts Cultural Council Board
The MCC is governed by a board of private citizens appointed by the Governor
for staggered three-year terms. Board members represent various regions
of the state and have demonstrated distinguished service, creativity and/or
scholarship in the arts, humanities or interpretive sciences. 
Cindy Cuba Clements, Newton
Ranny Cooper, Richmond
Walter "Sandy" Fraze, Jr., Fall
River
Michael S. Greco, Wellesley
Barbara W. Grossman, Newton, Vice-Chair
Kevin Howard, Chatham
Joyce Kressler, Worcester
Ira S. Lapidus, Williamstown, Chair
Patricia Welbourn Lorsch, Cambridge
Jeanne Pinado, Boston
Barbara Schaffer Bacon, Belchertown
Malcolm L. Sherman, Wellesley
Troy Siebels, Marlborough
Katherine "Kay" Sloan
David Starr, Springfield
Zakiya Thomas, Boston
Rosamond B. Vaule, Brookline
Lisa Wong, MD, Newton
Cindy Cuba Clements is
an artist and attorney from Newton, Massachusetts. As an artist,
Cindy works primarily as an abstract painter and printmaker, also
experimenting with various elements of mixed media. She has exhibited
in local galleries, both in group and solo exhibitions. Prior
to her career as an artist, Cindy practiced law for several years
with the law firm of Winthrop, Stimson, Putnam and Roberts in
New York City. There, she focused primarily on securities law
and other transactional work. In 1990, Cindy moved to Boston and
joined the law firm of Goulston & Storrs, P.C., where she
represented banking and other business clients and had a substantial
pro bono practice, representing Boston area non-profits.
Cindy retired from the law to raise her family and later to pursue
her art career. Since 1998, Cindy has served as a Board member
for a small family foundation that focuses on education, health
and poverty, acting as Secretary from 1998-2007 and President
and Chairperson from 2007-2011. Cindy has also been an active
volunteer within her community. Cindy is a graduate of Franklin
and Marshall College and The Cornell Law School.
Ranny Cooper is the president of the public affairs practice of Weber Shandwick, a global communications firm, where she specializes in helping public institutions, non-profit organizations and corporations shape and execute their strategic agendas. She was the Chief of Staff for Senator Edward Kennedy for many years, and is now a member of the board of the recently established Edward M. Kennedy Institute for the United States Senate. Ranny is also a member of the board of directors of the Jacob's Pillow Dance Festival, the National Partnership for Women & Families, the John F. Kennedy Library Foundation and is on the board of overseers of the Boston Symphony Orchestra. Ranny is a graduate of the University of Rochester.
Walter "Sandy" Fraze, Jr.,
Chairman of the MCC Grants Committee, is a practicing lawyer
in Fall River. Mr. Fraze was past Chairman of the Massachusetts
Arts Lottery Council and a member of the Massachusetts Council
on the Arts and Humanities. He holds a J.D. from Suffolk University;
a Master of Urban Affairs from Boston University; and an A.B.
from Yale College. Mr. Fraze was a member of the Peace Corps
from 1963 to 1970.
Michael S. Greco,
partner in the Boston office
of the global law firm K&L Gates, LLP, is a business litigator,
arbitrator and mediator with forty years of experience in resolving
commercial and other disputes in the US and internationally. He
is past President of the 400,000 member American Bar Association,
and also served as President of the New England Bar Association
and Massachusetts Bar Association. He has been selected for inclusion
in the 2011 and past editions of Best Lawyers in America, New
England Super Lawyers, Who’s Who in American Law and Who’s Who
in America. Prior to law school he taught English at Phillips
Exeter Academy, and later was a Fellow at the University of Florence,
Italy. As a member of the Board of Directors of the New England
Council (NEC), during 1998-2005 he chaired NEC's Creative Economy
Initiative, a New England regional economic/cultural development
effort whose ground-breaking studies first defined and documented
the term “creative economy” and its substantial importance to
New England’s economy. Additional
biographical information.
Barbara W. Grossman, Ph. D.,
Vice-Chair of the MCC, is an associate professor and chair
of the Department of Drama and Dance at Tufts University.
She has served as a presidential appointee to both the National
Council on the Arts and the U. S. Holocaust Memorial Council,
and counts among her honors the 1999 Hubert H. Humphrey Humanitarian
Award from the National Jewish Democratic Council. She is
a member of the MassEquality board, serves on advisory boards
of the American Repertory Theatre, Tufts Hillel and the Institute
for Global Leadership, and is an adjunct faculty member of
the Tisch College of Citizenship and Public Service. A graduate
of Smith College with masters degrees from Brandeis and Boston
University, Grossman earned her doctorate from Tufts.
Kevin Howard of Chatham is the Executive Director
of the Arts Foundation of Cape Cod, the designated regional arts
agency for Barnstable County. During his previous tenure as President
and Executive Director of the Cape Cod Conservatory of Music &
Arts, he helped to lead the merger of the school with the Cape
Cod Symphony Orchestra creating the largest arts organization
in the region. Kevin is a Board Director of the combined organization.
Kevin was President of Wise Living Management, and made his mark
as an hotelier and in hotel development. As Corcoran Jennison
Hospitality’s Vice President, he led the financial oversight,
sales and marketing, operations and development of Ocean Edge
Resort and Golf Club and three Boston hotel projects. He has worked
at landmark properties such as the Jared Coffin House on Nantucket
and the Copley Plaza and Parker House hotels in Boston. He is
a past member of the Massachusetts Lodging Association, including
Chairman of its Government Affairs Committee, Past President and
current Treasurer of the Cape Cod Chamber of Commerce and Board
Director of the Independence Trail Educational Foundation
Joyce Kressler recently retired as Executive Director of First Night Worcester, a position she held since 1998. First Night is a nonprofit organization that operates the largest, most diverse performing arts festival in Central Mass. Besides its economic boost to the city, First Night Worcester also fostered deep school partnerships that provided arts education to thousands of Worcester students. Kressler is also a founding member and former Vice Chair of the Worcester Cultural Coalition, a 2009 Commonwealth Award winner for its success in building a vibrant cultural sector in Massachusetts’ second-largest city. A Worcester resident, Kressler has also served on the board of Mechanics Hall. She holds a BFA from Boston University.
Ira S. Lapidus, Chair of the MCC, is President
of the Board of Trustees of the Williamstown Theatre Festival,
a position he has held since 1995. Dr. Lapidus served as a
captain in the United States Air Force, holds a B.S. in Zoology
from the University of Maryland, College Park and a D.M.D.
from Tufts University in Boston. He was elected to four terms
on the Mount Greylock School Committee and was Chairman of
the Williamstown Recreation Committee.
Patricia Welbourn Lorsch
has enjoyed a wide-ranging career as a journalist, teacher, and
political activist spanning three continents. Born and raised
in Canada, Ms. Lorsch graduated from McGill University with a
BA in French and Russian Languages. She studied drama in French
at L’Institut International Polytechnique du Spectacle in Paris,
and later worked as a reporter in London on the Evening Standard
and as a feature writer at the Daily Express. Returning
to Canada, she spent the next eight years as a staff feature writer
for the national Weekend Magazine based in Montreal.
Pioneering in such fields as the environment and women's lib,
she focused on a variety of social issues as well as profiles
of writers, politicians, artists, and entertainers. While living
in India, she wrote and taught journalism at the Calcutta School
of Journalism and Mass Communication. Ms. Lorsch is on the Board
of Cambridge Family and Children’s Service (CFCS) where she has
co-chaired the annual Gala and Auction for the past two years
and is currently Chair of the Development Committee. Ms. Lorsch
is married to Harvard Business School professor Jay Lorsch and
has two children and three stepchildren. She co-founded a writer's
group which still meets monthly at her home, and currently is
working on a novel.
Jeanne Pinado is the President
and Executive Director of Madison Park Development Corporation, a non-profit
community development corporation in Roxbury. She has served as a Senior
Equity Investment Officer at Massachusetts Housing Investment Corporation
(MHIC) and as a Project Manager for Metropolitan Structures, working on
development of commercial office buildings in downtown Boston and in Roxbury.
She holds a BA in economics from the University of Virginia and an MBA
in finance from Columbia University. She serves as the treasurer of Massachusetts
Association of CDCs (MACDC) and a member of the Executive Committee of
Citizens’ Housing and Planning Association (CHAPA). In 2003, she received
the African-American Achievement Award for Community Service from the
City of Boston and in 2005 received the Suzanne King Public Service Award
from New England Women in Real Estate.
Barbara Schaffer Bacon co-directs
Animating Democracy, a program of Americans for the Arts that
inspires, informs, promotes, and connects arts and culture as
potent contributors to community, civic, and social change. She
has written, edited, and contributed to many publications including
Civic Dialogue, Arts & Culture: Findings from Animating
Democracy; Case Studies from Animating Democracy; Animating
Democracy: The Artistic Imagination as a Force for Civic Dialogue;
Fundamentals of Local Arts Management; and The Cultural
Planning Work Kit. She has delivered presentations and workshops
for cultural, nonprofit, and foundation leaders nationally and
internationally in Canada, Australia, and England. Since 1990,
Barbara has worked as a consultant in program design and evaluation
for state and local arts agencies and private foundations nationally
and has served as a panelist and adviser for many state and national
arts agencies. Barbara previously served as executive director
of the Arts Extension Service at the University of Massachusetts.
An arts management educator, she has served as a primary instructor
for the Fundamentals and Advanced Arts Management seminars. Barbara
served for 14 years on the Belchertown, MA School Committee. She
is a board member of WomenArts. She serves as president of the
Arts Extension Institute, Inc. A graduate of UMASS, Barbara was
born and raised and has raised her family in western Massachusetts.
Malcom L. Sherman is chairman of the Gordon Brothers Group,
a merchant services business, and a director of Active International,
a media/barter company, and Paratek Pharmaceuticals. He was
formerly chairman and executive vice-president of Zayre Corporation,
and chief executive officer of Regina Electric Company, Chanel
Home Centers, Inc., Morse Shoe Company, Ekco Group, Inc.,
and SmartBargains.com. Mr. Sherman is a former overseer of
the Boston Symphony Orchestra, and the former chairman of
the Museum of Science, where he remains a trustee. He currently
serves on the boards of Brandeis University, Museum of Science,
Two Ten International Foundation, New England Medical Center,
the Mass Eye and Ear Infirmary, The Fourth of July Foundation,
and the Molecular Cardiology Research Institute.
Troy Siebels is Executive Director of The Hanover Theatre, a 2,300-seat performing arts center in downtown Worcester that opened in 2008 following a $32 million dollar historic restoration. The theatre presents a diverse range of more than 140 world-class performances to audiences of approximately 180,000 annually. Hanover is currently rated among the top 50 theatres worldwide by Pollstar, and is a key catalyst to the revitalization of downtown Worcester. Siebels serves as the Chairperson of the Worcester Cultural Coalition and the Massachusetts Performing Arts Center Coalition, and is on the boards of Destination Worcester and StageSource. He holds a BFA from the N.C. School of the Arts, and lives in Marlborough with his wife Jane and children Carter and Charlotte.
Dr. Katherine "Kay" Sloan
served as President of the Massachusetts College of Art and Design
in Boston for more than fifteen years. During that time she fostered
the development of its national and international reputation as
a leading college for visual arts while developing a range of
programs to more deeply engage students in the civic and economic
culture of Boston. She is actively involved in numerous organizations,
including the Boston Arts Academy, which she helped found and
continues to serve as chair, and the Colleges of the Fenway, which
has opened up vast new learning opportunities for MassArt students
and faculty. Kay has also helped broaden the definition of the
creative economy to include the design industries, which employ
an estimated 44,500 people in Massachusetts and contribute to
the overall economic and cultural vitality of the region. She
incubated the Design Industry Group of Massachusetts, which brings
civic and business leaders together to organize and support design
industry clusters through policy efforts, research, and forums.
She is also a member of the statewide Creative Economy Council.
David Starr is President
of the Springfield Republican
and Senior Editor of Newhouse Newspapers. He is a member of
the American Society of Newspaper Editors and the Newspaper
Association of America, as well as Director and past President
of the Massachusetts Newspaper Publishers Association. A graduate
of Queens College in New York City, Mr. Starr's community
activities include affiliations with the
Springfield Library & Museums Association, the Community
Foundation of Western Massachusetts, Springfield Business
Friends of the Arts and the Economic Development Council of
Western Massachusetts.
Zakiya Thomas is the Director of Education and Community Initiatives for the Boston Ballet where she oversees the organization’s nationally-acclaimed education programs Citydance, Taking Steps, and Adaptive Dance. She is also responsible for the development of new programs and initiatives designed to engage the community with the work of the Ballet. Prior to joining the Boston Ballet staff, Zakiya worked for the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston where she managed the museum’s community programs and shaped new audience development initiatives that involved internal staff, external constituents and the museum’s board. Ms. Thomas also worked for the Boston Symphony Orchestra, where her focus was on education research and development. Zakiya studied violin for over 20 years, including time spent at Rice University’s Shepherd School of Music in Houston, Texas. She holds an undergraduate degree from the University of Texas at Austin and a graduate degree from Boston University, having studied both journalism and arts administration respectively. She currently serves on the board of Sociedad Latina in Boston’s Mission Hill neighborhood.
Rosamond B. Vaule participates
in a number of civic and cultural activities. A trustee of
the Brookline Community Fund and of Old South Meeting House,
Ms. Vaule's other affiliations include the Overseer Advisory
Committee of WGBH, Boston committee of Wellesley College Friends
of Art, community advisor to Brookline Arts Center, board
of visitors of the Women’s Union, and corporator of
Larz Anderson Auto Museum. She has a B.A. from Wellesley College
and an M.A. in Art History from Tufts University, and has
recently published a book on American photographic postcards.
Lisa Wong, MD is a pianist,
violinist and violist, pediatrician, and President of the Longwood
Symphony Orchestra. She graduated from Harvard in 1979, NYU School
of Medicine in 1983, and completed her pediatric residency at Massachusetts
General Hospital in 1986. She has been a pediatrician at Milton
Pediatric Associates since that time. As president of Longwood Symphony
since 1991, Dr. Wong has worked with remarkable leaders in healthcare
organizations through the LSO’s Healing Art of Music Program and
has performed with scores of prominent musicians. She was a corporator
of the All Newton Music School and served as Board member of Young
Audiences of Massachusetts for fifteen years.
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