Board of Directors
Dean Emeritus, College of Fine Arts, The University of Texas at Austin
Douglas Dempster, Board President
President, School of the Art Institute of Chicago
Elissa Tenny, Vice President
Chair and Associate Director, Juilliard Jazz Studies, The Juilliard School
Aaron Flagg, Treasurer
Provost & Vice President for Academic Affairs, Maryland Institute College of Art (MICA)
Rob Sabal, Secretary
Vice Provost for Strategic Partnerships, Rhode Island School of Design
Sarah Cunningham
Former Director, SNAAP
Sally Gaskill
Provost, Pratt Institute
Donna Heiland
Special Assistant to the Provost and former Dean of the College of Arts & Media, University of Colorado Denver
Laurence D. Kaptain
Dean Emerita, Pennsylvania State University
Barbara O. Korner
Director of the Arts for the Community College of Baltimore County
Anne Lefter
Paul H. O'Neill Professor, Indiana University Purdue University Indianapolis
Douglas Noonan
Dean, Yale School of Art
Kymberly Pinder
Dean Emerita, Institute of American Indian Arts
Charlene Teters
Associate Dean for the College of Social Sciences, Arts and Humanities, Florida A&M University
Phyllis J. Walker
Founding Leadership
President, Maryland Institute College of Art
Samuel Hoi
Artist at Antonia Contro Studio & Consultant at Contro Consulting
Antonia Contro
President Emeritus, University Musical Society of the University of Michigan
Ken Fischer
Former Director of the Baltimore School for the Arts
Chris Ford
Chancellor's Professor Emeritus of Higher Education at Indiana University
George D. Kuh
Professor Emerita of Hubert H. Humphrey School of Public Affairs, University of Minnesota
Ann Markusen
Advisor, Facilitator & Project Director
Ellen B. Rudolph
Composer
Robert Sirota
Dean of the Herberger Institute for Design and the Arts at Arizona State University
Steven Tepper
The Impact of the COVID-19 Pandemic on Arts and Design Alumni
The authors of this report, Dr. Rachel Skaggs, Dr. Jennifer L. Novak-Leonard and Dr. Jeff Barbee, provide insight into arts and design graduates whose work is — or before the pandemic was — in the arts, design, or creative realm by examining their working lives, economic lives, and the skills that they needed to attain or update during the first two years of the pandemic in the United States. This report was supported in part by the National Endowment for the Arts.
