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Indianapolis, Miami, NewYork City, and Detroit; receiving the nation’s
most prestigious award for arts administration (Selena Roberts Ottum
Award); and being one of 12 invitees for the annual Local Arts Agency
Leadership Forum hosted by Robert Redford at the Sundance Resort.
CultureWorks has attracted the unprecedented attention of The
Conference Board to Richmond as the launch site for its new research.
On November 27, 2012 Jonathan Spector, president and CEO of
The Conference Board, spent the day in Richmond convening an
8-hour gathering of 16 senior business executives and 16 artists—a
“Creative Conversation” to examine the nexus of business and the
arts and explore new opportunities for beneficial relationships. The
Conference Board believes that business executives can strengthen
their companies by embracing artists and thereby accessing new ways
of thinking. Richmond was the first of three Creative Conversation
sites—the other two are San Diego and Philadelphia—and The
Conference Board will publish the results among business, education,
and arts communities.
CultureWorks provides leadership for a metropolitan area whose
nonprofit arts and culture organizations have an annual economic
impact of over $300 million according to a study by WolfBrown.
CultureWorks has become the region’s go-to organization for
information, relationships, service, and strategies, and has partnered
with such organizations as the Greater Richmond Chamber and the
Greater Richmond Partnership.
CultureWorks also has a variety of connections with Virginia
government. For example, the Commissioner for the Virginia
Department of Aging and Rehabilitative Services, James A. Rothrock,
is a member of the CultureWorks board of directors and is in line to be
its next chair. About his tattoo, Rothrock says, “CultureWorks has been
so successful in getting our community to think out of the box so it
was quite natural for me to consider the most out of the box thing I’ve
ever done and at the ripe old age of 62 with grandchildren watching,
get the CW tat.” Another example is CultureWorks’ consultative role
for the Governor’s Virginia Indian Commemorative Commission.
And CultureWorks is also an ongoing advocate for increased funding
for the Virginia Commission for the Arts. Peggy Baggett, the VCA’s
recently retired longtime executive director, is now the volunteer
“Senior Policy Advisor” for CultureWorks.
CultureWorks’ board of directors, chaired by David A. Christian,
CEO of Dominion Generation, includes executives from such
corporations as Altria, Wells Fargo, and Hunton &Williams, principals
of the University of Richmond’s Modlin Center, the Richmond Folk
Festival, and the Greater Richmond Chamber, and other community
leaders who are committed to the importance of ever stronger arts and
culture for the region.
Virginia Museum of Fine Arts director Alex Nyerges and
CultureWorks president John Bryan were co-presenters for a recent
gathering of the 2012 Class of LeadVirginia, and both lauded Richmond
as the best city in the nation, due in large part to its vibrant arts and
culture. Bryan’s comments referenced the tattoo along with the fact that
Suzanne Hall, communications director for the VMFA, is one of the
newly inked former tattoo virgins. According to Hall, “CultureWorks
not only deftly promotes and supports the rich variety of performance,
visual arts and events in RVA, but it also represents Richmond’s
creativity.Who else invites residents of the 3rd most tattooed city in the
country to get the oldest tattoo in human history? Thanks for being such
a great catalyst!”
John Bryan, (804) 356-9552,
At Alpha,
it’s not about pats on the back.
It’s about watching each other’s back.
At Alpha Natural Resources, we call it “
Running Right
.” It means watching
out for each other and speaking openly about safety issues. When you have
each other’s back, the rest is simple.
We power the world through the energy of our people.
RICHMOND, VIRGINIA
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ERNIE
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ENDERSON
Director for Family and
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