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FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
Community School of the Arts appoints
Andrea J. Stevenson as President and Executive Director (Charlotte North Carolina, March 2, 2007) – The Community School of the Arts announced today that Andrea J. Stevenson has been appointed president and executive director of the organization, effective Monday. Ms. Stevenson comes to the Community School of the Arts from the Kimmel Center for the Performing Arts in Philadelphia, PA, where she has served as vice president of venue sales and client relations since 2002. Known for crafting long-term collaborative partnerships with regional arts organizations, Ms. Stevenson joined the Kimmel Center to establish its facility sales department shortly after the building’s grand opening. Her responsibilities included directing and strengthening the Center’s relationships with its eight resident companies and developing more than four million dollars worth of annual third-party event sales. Her work has included marketing, strategic planning, communications and revenue generation, and in 2005/2006, she led the negotiating team that successfully crafted new long-term lease agreements with six of the Kimmel Center’s resident arts groups. “Andi brings a great set of organizational and strategic skills to the Community School of the Arts,” said Mark W. Mealy, chairman of the School’s Board of Directors. “As Charlotte has grown, the Community School of the Arts has become a critically important venue for arts education in Charlotte. Andi’s strengths and passion for growth will be of great help in continuing to further our mission of delivering accessible, high quality arts education to the Charlotte community.” “It will be a privilege to lead one of Charlotte’s premier arts education organizations and serve the mission of developing both artists and future arts audiences,” Ms. Stevenson stated. “I am deeply grateful for the opportunity to work on behalf of the direct arts education that shaped my childhood and led me to a career in the visual and performing arts. This is a time of tremendous excitement for the School, and I look forward to connecting even more Charlotte residents to the outstanding instruction the School provides.” “Charlotte is very lucky to have Andi join our community to provide leadership to the important work performed by the Community School of the Arts,” said Tom Gabbard, president of the North Carolina Blumenthal Performing Arts Center. “She was immensely well regarded as a member of the senior management teams for the Kimmel Center in Philadelphia and Bass Performance Hall in Fort Worth. I look forward to working with her and know that she'll accomplish great things here.” “Andi Stevenson’s work always demonstrated the highest level of professionalism and grace,” added Elizabeth Warshawer, Executive Vice President and Chief Operating Officer of the Curtis Institute of Music in Philadelphia. “She will be sorely missed by the resident companies and community groups who came to rely on her expertise and constant sense of fairness. Philadelphia's loss is Charlotte's gain, and Andi will be an outstanding leader for its cultural community.” Prior to joining the Kimmel Center executive team, Ms. Stevenson was the director of facility planning for the Dallas Center for the Performing Arts Foundation, a $275 million project slated to open in 2009. She served on the founding staff of the $70 million Nancy Lee and Perry R. Bass Performance Hall in Fort Worth, Texas, directing front of house staffing, resident company relations and event sales. Her work in fundraising included grant management for the Amon Carter Museum of American Art in Fort Worth and corporate donor cultivation for the Center for Nonprofit Management in Dallas. Ms. Stevenson has been a national leader in the arts industry, serving on the Performing Arts Committee of the International Association of Assembly Managers (IAAM), chairing the host committee for the 2005 IAAM Performing Arts Facility Administrators Seminar, and serving on the Board of Governors of the IAAM Senior Executive Symposium. She has served on conference panels addressing revenue generation and career management, and she has worked as a consultant for other performing arts centers on management and organizational process issues. In 2006, the Philadelphia Business Journal named Ms. Stevenson one of its “40 Under 40” leadership award recipients. Ms. Stevenson earned a degree in English and political science from Texas A&M University and is married to John H. Hewett of the National Endowment for the Arts. From elementary school through high school, she took private music lessons in three instruments and performed in wind and orchestra ensembles. Community School of the Arts’ (CSA) mission is to provide artistic experiences that enrich lives, cultivate imagination and foster the development of healthy communities. We offer private instruction in 20 different instruments, band, orchestra, visual arts (including pottery), ArtsReach (community outreach program), Early Arts (Pre-School Art Lab, Music Together and Music Around), Music Therapy, family workshops and summer camps. Henry Bridges founded CSA in 1969 with 20 students at First Presbyterian Church. Henry’s vision was to provide music instruction to students who couldn’t afford lessons. Today CSA serves over 1700 students, in over 30 locations with a diverse faculty of 35 who provide the highest quality instruction. ### |
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