About me
Mollie works primarily with two institutions committed to the readiness and recovery of artists and arts organizations in crisis. For NCAPER, the National Coalition for Arts Preparedness and Emergency Response, she serves as the Fund Development and Program Officer. This arm of her work addresses both policy and practice to build resiliency in the national arts sector. For the New York Foundation for the Arts (NYFA), she coordinates NYFA’s Rauschenberg Emergency Grants for individual artists to support them in returning to their creative practice. Working out of Atlanta, Georgia, she also consults widely for arts organizations throughout the United States on strategic planning/organizational development, readiness planning, grantmaking and program design, as well as serving as a skilled facilitator in diverse settings. Recent projects include redevelopment of the Folk and Traditional Arts Program for the Georgia Council for the Arts, and teaming on a new strategic plan for the Santa Cruz County Museum of Discovery.
While serving as the Deputy Director and Accessibility Coordinator of South Arts, Mollie designed and guided programs including ArtsReady following the 2005 Hurricanes Katrina and Rita, the South Arts State Fellowships and Southern Prize, Jazz Road, and the Dance Touring Initiative. She played a lead role in partnerships including the Southern region Creative Placemaking Leadership Summit and arts education research in the South. Prior to joining South Arts, Mollie was the Assistant Director and Accessibility Coordinator of the Arizona Commission on the Arts. She is a graduate in the inaugural class of Executive in Arts and Culture Strategy program, University of Pennsylvania/National Arts Strategies.