Collegium 2004
	Honestly exploring the value of arts and culture to people, places, and the public purpose.

Two exceptional thinkers will help us frame the value of culture and cultural expression, and explore the strange places to which our traditional methods have brought us.

Bill Ivey
Director
Curb Center for Art, Enterprise, and Public Policy
Harvie Branscomb Distinguished Visiting Scholar
Vanderbilt University

Bill Ivey is the founding director of the Curb Center, a research center that examines the complex, decentralized system though which federal legislation, government regulation, and the policies of film studios, record companies, and broadcasters shape America's cultural landscape. With offices in Nashville, TN, and Washington, DC, the Curb Center works across traditional boundaries of nonprofit and for-profit cultural industries.

From May 1998 through September 2001, Ivey served as the seventh Chairman of the National Endowment for the Arts. Ivey is credited with restoring Congressional confidence in the work of the NEA. Launched early in 1999, Ivey's Challenge America Initiative has to date garnered more than $25 million in additional Congressional appropriations for the Endowment. Prior to government service, Ivey was Director of the Country Music Foundation in Nashville, TN. He was twice elected board Chairman of the National Academy of Recording Arts and Sciences. Ivey completed degrees in History, Folklore, and Ethnomusicology, and is the author of numerous articles on country, folk, and popular music. He is a four-time Grammy Award nominee (Best Album Notes category), and holds honorary doctorates from the University of Michigan, Michigan Technological University, Wayne State University, and Indiana University.

Deeply committed to the preservation of culture, Ivey today chairs the board of the National Recording Preservation Foundation, a program of the Library of Congress. He is currently at work on a book about America's endangered twentieth century cultural heritage. ANd he is a Senior Fellow at the Center for Arts and Culture, a Washington, DC, think tank.

Adrian Ellis
Managing Consultant
AEA Consulting

Adrian Ellis runs the New York office of AEA Consulting, a firm specializing in strategic, operational, and facilities planning for the cultural sector. Founded in 1990, the company works on an on-going basis with the boards and senior management of many of the world's most successful and innovative cultural institutions and their funders, helping them to define, plan, and achieve their long-term organizational goals.

Before establishing AEA in 1990, he was Executive Director of the Conran Foundation, an educational charity founded by Sir Terence Conran, the British designer, restaurateur, and entrepreneur. In that position, he was responsible for planning and managing the establishment of the Design Museum, which opened on Butlers Wharf, London in 1989. Prior to that, he worked on privatization and monetary policy at the UK Treasury and the Cabinet Office. Ellis writes and lectures regularly on arts and heritage management and planning issues.

Ellis is a board member of the Elaine Kaufman Cultural Center in New York, a member of the Royal Institute of British Architects' Architecture Centre Committee, and a non-executive Director of Pathé Pictures, the film production company. He is a Fellow of the Royal Society of Arts and a member of the Institute of Management Consultants and the Institute of Charity Fundraising Managers. He was educated at University College Oxford and the London School of Economics.

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