Faculty and Staff

Dee Boyle-Clapp

Director of the Arts Extension Service

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Dee Boyle-Clapp leads training programs in a variety of arts management topics for state arts agencies, teaches in AES’ arts management degree and certificate programs, and conducts AES research projects. Dee is a sculptor, installation artist and has over 25 years of experience in the arts, teaching a variety of studio, art history and arts management. She holds bachelor's degrees in art and art history from the University of Wisconsin at Madison, an MFA in sculpture from UMass Amherst, and a Master's in Nonprofit Management from Regis University in Denver, Colorado.
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Terre Parker

Program Coordinator

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Terre Parker develops and manages community-based programs and professional performances for educational and performing arts non-profit organizations and for her own dance company. She has fifteen years of experience in nonprofit and artist management, including program development, project management, performance production, funding prospect research, and board development for non-profits and independent performing artists. Terre is the founding director of the Movement Arts Ensemble and has performed, taught, and screened work internationally. She has taught dance, theater, and arts-integrated curriculum as a teaching artist and artist-in-residence in school, community, and university settings. She is a certified instructor of Anna Halprin's Movement Ritual technique. She holds a bachelor's degree from Mount Holyoke College and a Masters of Fine Arts in Interdisciplinary Arts from Goddard College.
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Pasqualina Azzarello
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Pasqualina Azzarello is a painter, public muralist, educator, graphic facilitator, and community advocate. Pasqualina serves as City Arts Coordinator at Easthampton City Arts in Easthampton, Massachusetts.
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Kathryn Bentley

Lecturer

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Kathryn Bentley is a theater professional with extensive experience as an actor, director and teaching artist. She holds a Master of Fine Arts degree in Theater Directing and professional training in community arts and social justice. Ms. Bentley is an Associate Professor of Theatre Performance and Artistic Director of Southern Illinois University’s Black Theatre Workshop and works as a teaching artist for the St. Louis’s Center for Creative Arts. In 2002 she was awarded a St. Louis Regional Arts Commission Community Arts Institute Fellowship and now serves as a faculty member for the institute. She is an National Conference for Community and Justice-St. Louis Certified Diversity Facilitrainer and a Certified Lessac Kinesensic Voice and Movement Practitioner. As an artist she has performed with companies such as The St. Louis Black Repertory Company, HotCity Theater, Portland Stage, Cleveland Playhouse and Buffalo Studio Arena and directed dozens of theatrical productions in the US and overseas.

Courses Recently Taught

Creative Community Leadership
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William Cleveland

Lecturer

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William Cleveland is a pioneer in the cultural community development movement and one of its most poetic documenters. His books, Art in Other Places, and Making Exact Change, and Art and Upheaval are considered seminal works in the field. Organizer, teacher, researcher, and musician, he also directs the Center for the Study of Art and Community. The Center works to integrate the arts and community life, focusing on, the development of cultural partnerships, and training for artists, and their community partners. Bill has also led the Walker Art Center's Education Department (1995-97), California's Arts-In-Corrections Program (1981-1989), and the California State Summer School for the Arts (1989-1991). His most recent books, Between Grace and Fear: The Role of the Arts in a Time of Change (with Patricia Shifferd), and STORYstory (with Barry Marcus), were published in 2013 and 2020 respectively. His CD, SongLines, based, in part, on stories from Art and Upheaval, was released in 2014, and a film based on STORYstory was released in 2020.

Courses Recently Taught
Creative Community Leadership
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John Delconte

Lecturer

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John Delconte is a Doctoral Student in Regional Planning at the University of Massachusetts, Amherst. His main topic of study relates to creative placemaking—measuring its effects and testing its relationship to other outcomes, such as tourism. His experience in arts administration includes chairing of the Hillsborough Arts Council (HAC) of North Carolina for 10 years while having a simultaneous career in the health sciences as a medical writer. He has taught courses on downtown revitalization and world cities at the University at Albany and at the University of Massachusetts. He received an MS in sustainable tourism from East Carolina University, an MS in psychology from Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, and a BS in biology from Union College.
Courses Recently Taught

Creative Economy
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Maryo Gard Ewell

Lecturer

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Maryo Gard Ewell has done groundbreaking developmental work in community arts for more than 40 years. She has worked in leadership positions as the Associate Director of the Colorado Council on the Arts, the Community Arts Development Director at the Illinois Arts Council, and the Program Director for both the Westport-Weston and Greater New Haven (CT) Arts Councils. She currently serves on several boards and advisory committees, including the Gunnison Council for the Arts (CO) and the Robert Gard/Wisconsin Idea Foundation. She has won many prestigious awards, including the 2003 “Arts Are the Heart” award for service to the arts in Colorado and the 1995 Selina Roberts Ottum Award from Americans for the Arts, their highest award for community arts development, and an Honorary Doctorate from Goucher College. In her recent consulting work, she has been contracted by distinctive arts organizations including the Idaho Commission on the Arts, Colorado Creative Industries, and the University of Massachusetts Arts Extension Service to develop and evaluate programming. Ewell also co-teaches in the Master of Arts in Arts Administration program at Goucher College. Maryo has Masters Degrees in Organizational Behavior from Yale and in Urban and Regional Planning from the University of Colorado, Denver

Courses Recently Taught

Grantwriting for the Arts
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Christopher Janke

Instructor

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Chris Janke is a poet, publisher, and entrepreneur. Now working on sculptural poems that reflect on the connection between a word and the world, his first book of poems, Structure of the Embryonic Rat Brain, won the Fence Modern Poets Series award and was called a “must read" by the Bloomsbury Review. In Fall 2015, a double volume of poetry will be released on H_NGM_N Books, and poems have been in Harper’s, American Poetry Review, and dozens of other journals. He co-owns a local pub, The Rendezvous, in Turners Falls and hosts a yearly lost-and-found fashion show next door at Suzee's Third St. Laundry. Slope Editions, the non-profit press he has run since 2002, publishes between 1 and 3 titles of innovative poetry each year.

Courses Recently Taught

Financial Management in the Arts
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Jonathan Kuuskoski

Instructor

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Jonathan Kuuskoski helps artists self-start careers. As Chair of the Department of Entrepreneurship and Leadership and Director of the EXCEL Lab at the University of Michigan School of Music, Theatre & Dance, he oversees all aspects of their comprehensive entrepreneurship and career development program. This programming spans extensive coursework and career advising to weekly workshops featuring professionals from organizations like the New York and Berlin Philharmonics, Boston Symphony, Los Angeles Opera, and International Contemporary Ensemble, along with the annual distribution of $100,000 in student project, venture, and internship funding. They maintain active partnerships with organizations like National Sawdust, the Metropolitan Opera, and Michigan’s own University Musical Society. He also teaches a variety of courses focused on performing arts career development. A classically-trained pianist, he continues to perform with the New Muse Piano Duo (with Paola Savvidou), who commission and perform works by living composers for piano four-hands. They have concertized across the US and Europe, and their first album “transhuman” (Blue Griffin Recordings, 2017) has been called “creative” and “highly entertaining” (TheWholeNote). He has proudly served as a UMass Arts Extension Service faculty member since 2013.
Courses Recently Taught

Foundations in Arts Entrepreneurship
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Andrew Tatro

Administrative Assistant

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Andrew Tatro has been on the Arts Extension Service staff since June 2018 and provides administrative support for AES. He enjoys hiking, painting, and traveling with his family.
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Randi Vega

Instructor

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Randi Vega has more than 20 years of management experience in organizational leadership and relationship building. She retired from the Director of Cultural Affairs position at the Baltimore Office of Promotion and the Arts, the arts council for Baltimore City, in 2018. Randi created the Cultural Affairs division from the remnants of a defunct city agency and managed fifteen thriving art programs and productive staff of 7. Randi was the Executive Director of the Martha’s Vineyard Chamber of Commerce from 1994-1999, during which time she doubled membership and implemented new programs to increase income by 35%. Randi has a B.A. in Studio Art from Connecticut College and an M.A. in Arts Administration from Goucher College, where she teaches at the Graduate level. She currently lives in Pittsburgh, where she works part-time for the Pittsburgh Cultural Trust and the Phipps Conservatory and Botanical Gardens.

Courses Recently Taught

Grantwriting for the Arts
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Lisa Barnwell Williams

Instructor

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Lisa Barnwell Williams helps nonprofit organizations to define and achieve their visions. She entered fundraising in the pre-internet 1980s as one of the pioneers in online prospect research and later led development efforts for several organizations of national stature, including Cincinnati Playhouse in the Park, Cincinnati Ballet, and the Agnes Irwin School. After serving as Vice President of a major international consulting firm, Lisa co-founded Chanticleer Consulting to serve nonprofits in a more flexible, creative, and client-focused way. She is a graduate of Williams College and holds graduate degrees from New York University and Columbia University and a Certificate of Advanced Study in Management from the University of Chicago. Co-author of Building Strong Nonprofits: New Strategies for Growth and Sustainability, she has given seminars and workshops to countless audiences around the country on various aspects of organizational development, fund development, and communications.
Courses Recently Taught

Board Development, Strategic Planning, Arts Fundraising
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Nicole Young-Martin

Instructor

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Nicole M. Young-Martin, Ed.D. (she/her) is a writer, performer, producer, musician, nonprofit manager and educator with over 25 years of experience as a practicing artist and over 10 years of working in higher education and the nonprofit sector. Nicole serves as the producer and host of the literary arts focused virtual platform, Black Writers Read, teaches literature, developmental writing, and theatre for Bard Microcollege Holyoke, and works as the Director of Operations for Enchanted Circle, an organization that partners with schools and local organizations to deliver culturally-responsive arts-integration education. As an arts manager, Nicole has worked for professional regional theatres, classical music organizations, and university arts presenters and currently serves as the Board Treasurer for WAM Theatre. She has received artist grants from various organizations including the Community Foundation of Western Massachusetts; Assets4Artists, Easthampton City Arts, and Northampton Open Media. Nicole recently finished a doctorate in Educational Leadership at Bay Path University and has a Bachelor of Theatre Arts from the University of Michigan Ann Arbor, an MFA in Theatre Management from Wayne State University, and an MA in English from University of Massachusetts Amherst.

Courses Recently Taught

Arts Marketing, Cultural Equity in the Arts
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