MARYO GARD EWELL
Community/Arts Development
315 W. Ohio Ave., Gunnison, Colorado 81230
maryo@gard-sibley.org
970-641-4340 (home)
970-641-3570 (office phone/fax)
Maryo
Gard Ewell provides a wide array of services to the non-profit world in
general, and the community arts world in particular.
- She is currently
under contract to the Colorado Council on the Arts (CCA) to manage
their "Increasing Cultural Participation" grants as well as Colorado's
Peer Assistance Network (co-sponsored with the Community Resource
Center).
- She has worked
with the Arts Extension Service of Amherst, MA, to design their 2006
winter and summer Arts Management Institutes, and with the Idaho
Commission on the Arts to evaluate their community arts, folk arts, and
grant programs.
- She offers
workshops and keynote speeches on many varieties of topics.
- Ewell was
Associate Director at the Colorado Council on the Arts from 1982-2003.
Her responsibilities included providing information to arts
organizations and communities; overseeing the CCA Cultural Heritage
Tourism program; managing a technical assistance program; managing
grants programs; and participating on agency planning and management
teams.
Her
specialty is community development and the arts - the linking
of the arts to the furthering of broader community ends.
- For the CCA, she
designed and is managing their community development mini-grant program.
- She
helped to create the Neighborhood
Cultures of Denver, in which artists were paired with community
organizations
in low-income areas of Denver
- She helped to
create the Arts Education Equity Network, in which
teams of educators and citizens devised ways for the arts to become
increasingly prominent in their local schools
- She designed a
regionalized folk arts
program in which the state’s three folklorists work, in part, in
a community
development capacity.
She
currently serves on several boards:
- the Community
Foundation of the Gunnison Valley
- the Gunnison
Council
for the Arts
- the Robert
Gard/Wisconsin Idea Foundation
- She
has been a board member of the National
Assembly of Local Arts Agencies (now Americans for the Arts), and a
board
member and officer of the Colorado Alliance for Arts Education.
She
has recently published The Arts in the Small Community 2006, co-authored with
Dr. Michael
Warlum, and a monograph for Americans for the Arts, “Cultural
Torchbearers of
the Community: Local Arts Agencies Then And Now.” She has written
numerous
articles.
She
currently teaches grantwriting
at Western State College in Gunnison, and is
co-teaching the required community arts course
in the MA Arts Administration program at Goucher College
in Baltimore.
She
has served on grant panels for many states, the Rockefeller
Foundation, and the National Endowment for the Arts.
Recent
honors:
- the 2004
“Arts Advocate of the Year” award from her local Gunnison
Council
on the Arts
- the 2003
“Arts Are The Heart” award for service to the arts in
Colorado
- in 2001 an
Honorary Doctor of Humane Letters degree from Goucher
College
- the 1995 Selina
Roberts Ottum Award from Americans for the
Arts - their highest award for community arts development
- an award from
Rockefeller University to use the Rockefeller Foundation
Archives in pursuit of a research project on community arts development
in
America during the first half of the 20th century
Education:
- BA
Cum Laude with Honors, Bryn Mawr College, Social Psychology, 1970
- MA,
Yale University, Organizational Behavior, 1972
- MA,
University of Colorado-Denver, Urban &
Regional Planning, 1992
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