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For Immediate Release
October 15, 2008
Media Contact
- Allison Tratner
- 609.292.4524
- allison@arts.sos.state.nj.us
Chair of State Arts Council Elected to National Board of Directors
Carol Ann Herbert Joins the Board of of the National Assembly of State Arts Agencies
(Trenton, NJ) Carol Ann Herbert, chair of the New Jersey State Council on the Arts was elected to the board of directors of the National Assembly of State Arts Agencies (NASAA). Located in Washington, D.C., NASAA is the membership organization that unites, represents and serves the nation’s 56 state and jurisdictional arts agencies in supporting excellence in and access to the arts.
“I am honored to have this opportunity to represent New Jersey and to work with leaders across the country to advance and promote the arts as an essential public benefit,” said Herbert. “The staff at NASAA provides strategic assistance and visionary leadership that helps all of us meet our individual and collective goals, and I look forward to being actively engaged in all that NASAA does and addressing the needs of state arts agencies nationwide.”
NASAA works at the national, state and local levels to empower State Arts Agencies to help ensure their greatest positive impact in promoting the arts to help address issues such as increasing the economic and cultural well-being of our communities; securing quality education that includes the arts for every child; recognizing and celebrating diversity; and positioning the nation’s artists and arts organizations as key partners in advancing the public benefits the arts provide.
“Carol Herbert has been a steadfast advocate for the arts in New Jersey for more than 20 years, the past four in a leadership position as chair of the New Jersey State Council on the Arts," said NASAA Chief Executive Officer Jonathan Katz. "She brings to her post on the NASAA board a wealth of experience and understanding of the personal and public values the arts provide and also the challenges faced by a rich and diverse arts community. She’s passionate, dedicated and highly professional – a true leader – and we enthusiastically welcome her to the NASAA team.”
Ms. Herbert has been a member of the Arts Council since 2003 and is currently serving her fifth term as Council chair. In her tenure thus far, she has overseen the development of key Council initiatives including Arts Plan NJ, the state’s blueprint for a better New Jersey through and for the arts. She has chaired and served on many committees and created the Public Value Committee, a standing committee of the Council that is dedicated to communicating the benefits of the arts and the work of the Arts Council. A life-long resident of New Jersey, she has been actively engaged in several community-based organizations, and has served in various positions on the boards of the NJ Theatre Alliance, NJ Performing Arts Center (ex officio), Mid Atlantic Arts Foundation, NJ Symphony Orchestra (ex officio), New Brunswick Cultural Center and the George Street Playhouse. She is a recent recipient of the Governor Thomas H. Kean Arts Advocacy award as well as the Lillian Levy Standing Ovation award from the South Jersey Cultural Alliance for her significant contributions to the promotion of the arts, history and culture in New Jersey.
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