A nonprofit arts organization cultivating ongoing fundamental relationships between artists and communities by celebrating self-expression as a basic human right essential for the healthy growth of youth, individuals and communities.
Stephen H. Baird, Founder and Executive Director

PO Box 300112, Jamaica Plain, MA 02130-0030

Telephone: 617-522-3407

TTY/MA RELAY 800-439-2370

Email: info@communityartsadvocates.org

 www.CommunityArtsAdvocates.org

Statement of Purpose

Programs and Services

Non-Profit Arts Management Services

Artist Career Development Services

Staff Profiles and Board of Directors

IRS Tax-Exempt Determination Letter

CATS: Community Arts Trusts

Donations and Contributions

Membership Donors

Internships and Volunteers

Community Arts Advocates Site Map

 

Staff Profiles

Stephen  Baird

Stephen H. Baird is the founder and director of Community Arts Advocates. He has over four decades of performances, arts advocacy and grassroots arts administration experience.

Stephen Baird restructured Club Passim, the historic folk music venue in Cambridge, as a nonprofit organization in 1995-97. He co-founded the Bread & Roses Festival in Lawrence in 1986, founded and directed the Folk Arts Network from 1982-96, published the New England Folk Almanac and Folk Directory from 1982-1996. He produced Jamaica Plain Open Studios and directed the Jamaica Plain Arts Council from 1999-2001.

Stephen Baird's Resume
Cornell Coley

Cornell Coley has worked for 30 years in community development through the arts and education as a producer, coordinator, administrator, fundraiser, performing artist, writer, facilitator and mentor. His fundraising efforts exceeds $2.5 million dollars for the arts, education, youth and community development. He has also developed administrative systems and fundraising offices for his clients. Past clients include the Support Ctrs of MA and RI, Mass. Dept of Education, Dance Umbrella, Jam'nastics, Brazilian Cultural Center, Paige Academy, BNN-TV, Universalist Unitarian Church, the Patric LaCroix Dance Co. and Spontaneous Celebrations.

Barbara Michaels

Barbara Michaels has used the arts to create vivid programming for organizations in diverse fields from public health to neighborhood improvement to direct arts education. She is a former director of Jamaica Plain Open Studios. She has written monthly community newspaper columns on art and artists, curriculum guides for youth, public relations materials, and grants.

http://BarbaraInCharacter.com

Board of Directors

President, Stephen H. Baird
Musician and Arts Administrator
Director, Street Arts and Buskers Advocates
Naturalist, Friends of Jamaica Pond
www.StephenBaird.org

Secretary, Cynthia A. McKeown
Documentary Filmaker
Assistant Director of Interactive Communications at the Dana-Farber Cancer Institute
www.oneineight.net

Treasurer, Cornell Coley
Dancer, Musician & Ethnomusicologist
Director, JP Tropicale and Afro-Latin Workshops
Spontaneous Celebrations Board of Directors
www.afrolatin.net
afrolatin@onebox.com

Clerk, Andy Holiner
Charles River School Music Teacher
Musician and Director of Wildest Dreams
www.WildestDreams.com
andy@wildestdreams.com

Aziza Braithwaite Bey. Ph.D.
Professor Lesley University
Graduate School of Arts and Social Science
www.ArthurMcGee.com
azizabey@juno.com

Cary Dardompre
Artisans World Arts and Craft Gallery
www.artisansworldgallery.biz
cdardompre@gmail.com

Betsy Hinkle
Musician, Director Boston Public Quartet
www.BostonPublicQuartet.org
BostonPublicQuartet@gmail.com

Glenn Williams
Performing Artist, President Roslindale Arts Alliance; Boston Neighborhood Network, Low Budget Records
www.roslindalearts.org
glennwilliams@lowbudgetrecords.com

Janice Williams
Visual artist, Roslindale Open Studios, Boston Neighborhood Network, ETHOS
www.roslindaleopenstudios.org
janice@artfulgift.com

Gerry Wright
President Community Care; Friends of Jamaica Pond
Frederick Law Olmsted One-Man Theater Play
PO Box 300040, Jamaica Plain, MA 02130
617-524-7070
www.FriendsofJamaicaPond.org

 

Community Arts Advocates Index

Statment of Purpose

Programs & Services

Non-Profit Arts Management Services

Artist Career Development Services

Staff Profiles and Board of Directors

Stephen Baird's Resume

Book References

IRS Tax-Exempt Determination Letter

Massachusetts Attorney General Certificate


For translations into different languages -- Arabic, Chinese, Italian, French, German, Russian, Spanish or others visit the web site: http://babel.altavista.com

Community Arts Advocates

Community Arts Advocates, Inc. is a tax-exempt, nonprofit  organization.  Federal TIN 71-0877553
Community Arts Advocates is supported in part by a grant from the Boston Cultural Council,
a municipal agency which is supported by the Massachusetts Cultural Council, a state agency

Copyright © 1999-2010 by Stephen Baird