Bill Ivey, director of The Curb Center for Art, Enterprise and Public Policy at Vanderbilt University, will speak about leadership Jan. 28 at a breakfast.
Ivey, former chairman of the National Endowment for the Arts, follows previous speakers in the series including Sen. Bill Frist, businessman Cal Turner Jr. and chairman emeritus of The Tennessean John Seigenthaler. Each has described a significant leadership crisis faced during their career and how they dealt with it.
The Leadership Breakfasts are sponsored by The Cal Turner Program for Moral Leadership at Vanderbilt. The event with Ivey is set for 7:30 to 9 a.m. Thursday, Jan. 28, at the University Club of Nashville, 2402 Garland Ave.
The breakfast is open to the public, but registration is required to attend. The registration fee is $20. The first 20 Vanderbilt students to register get free admission. To register, go to http://tinyurl.com/ctpJan28 or call Michelle Bukowski at (615) 343-5447.
From May, 1998 through September, 2001, Ivey served as the seventh Chairman of the NEA, a federal cultural agency. Following years of controversy and significant reductions in NEA funding, Ivey’s leadership is credited with restoring congressional confidence in the work of the NEA. He served as team leader for arts and humanities on the Barack Obama Presidential Transition Team.
Ivey’s book, Arts, Inc.: How Greed and Neglect Have Destroyed Our Cultural Rights, published by the University of California Press in the summer of 2008, has been described as “not just a vital book about the arts but a vital book about democracy.”
Media contact: Jim Patterson, (615) 322-NEWS
jim.patterson@vanderbilt.edu