Diana Wortham Theatre

Bill Ivey talks about the importance of art in everyday life as the keynote address for the Public Art 360 Conference hosted by the City of Asheville.  There will be a book signing and reception immediately following the talk.

From May, 1998 through September, 2001, Ivey served as the seventh Chairman of the National Endowment for the Arts.  Currently, Bill Ivey is Founding Director of the Curb Center for Art, Enterprise, and Public Policy at Vanderbilt University, an arts policy research center with offices in Nashville, Tennessee and Washington, DC.  He also directs the Center’s Washington-based program for senior government career staff, the Arts Industries Policy Forum, and serves as Senior Consultant to Leadership Music, a professional development program serving Nashville’s music community.  Ivey is a trustee of the Center for American Progress, and served as Team Leader for Arts and Humanities in the Obama-Biden Presidential Transition. 

His book, Arts, Inc.: How Greed and Neglect Have Destroyed Our Cultural Rights, was published by the University of California Press in the summer of 2008.

For information about the Public Art 360 Conference, visit www.publicart360.com or contact Diane Ruggiero at 828-259-5815

Tickets: Regular $12, Student Rush $6