CLAIR ZAMOISKI SEGAL

EXPERIENCE

• Fundraising
• Public Service
• Leadership
• Program Development
• Lobbying

Clair Zamoiski Segal LLC, Baltimore
November 2001 – Present

Providing fundraising, consultation and arts administration services to guide organizations through identification and evaluation of goals and help them to better fulfill their missions. Services include assistance to plan, evaluate, manage or implement fund raising, capital campaign, endowment campaign, board development and recruitment, executive search, special events, grants writing or program development objectives.

Mayor’s Advisory Committee on Art and Culture (MACAC), Baltimore
Director, December 1987 – October 2001

In this Mayor’s Cabinet-level position, responsibilities of advocacy and support for the local arts and cultural community were accomplished through:

• Advising the Mayor on financial and legislative issues affecting the arts on city, state, regional and national levels;
  
• Developing administrative arts policies based on quality-of-life, economic development, diversity and regional cooperation;
  
• Making legislative recommendations before the General Assembly and City Council;
• Overseeing grant contracts between the City and its cultural institutions;
• Assisting the development of arts institutions, organizations and programs;
• Implementing arts and cultural programs on behalf of the Mayor;
• Acting in a collegial capacity to Maryland county arts councils;
• Administering a nonprofit 501(c)(3) organization for fundraising purposes;
• Managing a $1.5 million annual budget;
• Supervising a staff of 13, plus temporary and contractual employees.

Visual Arts Planner, Baltimore, April 1984 – November 1987
Cultivated relationships with individual artists through studio visits, exhibition coordination and design.

Baltimore’s Festival of the Arts, Inc. (BFAI), Baltimore
Founder and President, February 1988 – October 2001

• Created this 501(c)(3) nonprofit organization for fundraising purposes, in order to partner public and private efforts in support of arts and culture in the City and region.
• Arts advocacy mission is carried out through programs ranging from Empowerment Zone children’s workshops to an annual, regional ARTSCAPE arts festival with a 1.5 million attendance.

Corcoran Gallery of Art, Washington, DC
Associate Curator of Contemporary Art, 1982 – 1984

Guggenheim Museum, New York
Curatorial Coordinator, 1978 & Curatorial Assistant, 1976 – 1977

Whitney Museum of American Art, New York
Publications Assistant, 1975

PARTIAL CLIENT LIST

Babe Ruth Museum
Baltimore Chamber Orchestra
Baltimore Choral Arts Society
Baltimore Opera Company
Bon Secours Baltimore Health System
Central Scholarship Bureau
Hippodrome Foundation, Inc. for The France-Merrick Performing Arts Center
Howard Community College
Maryland Citizens for the Arts
Maryland Science Center
Maryland State Arts Council
Rep Stage
Run of the Mill Theater
Shriver Hall Concert Series
Soulful Symphony
The Lyric Foundation Inc.
Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars

AFFILIATIONS

Current Personal Commitments To Community:

• The Associated: Jewish Community Federation of Baltimore, Board member, 1993 – Present
• Baltimore Jewish Council, Board Member, 1995 – Present; President, 2006 – 2008
• Baltimore Museum of Art, Board of Trustees, 2008 – Present; Contemporary Art Accessions Committee, 2006 – Present
• Baltimore School for the Arts, Board of Overseers, 1996 – Present; Chair of The Board, 2000 – 2002; Chair, Capital Campaign 2002 - 2008
• Marjorie Cook Foundation, Co-Trustee, 1990 – Present
• Hippodrome Foundation, Inc., Board member, 2006 - Present
• Nursing Advisory Council, Member, School of Nursing, Johns Hopkins University, 2005 – Present
• Planned Parenthood of Maryland, 1985 – 1996, Board Chair, 1992 – 1994
• WYPR, Board member, 2006 - Present

EDUCATION

• University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, B.A., 1975
• University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, M.A., 1975
• Institute of Fine Arts, New York University, New York, ABD, 1975-79
• Guggenheim Museum, Curatorial Fellow, Summer 1976

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