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Claudia Bach

Adjunct Professor
Fine Arts, MFA in Arts Leadership

Curriculum Vitae

Contact Information

Phone

206-296-5360

Email

bachcl@seattleu.edu

Teaching and Research Interests

Fundamentals of the Nonprofit Arts Sector

Biography

Claudia Bach is noted for bringing creative yet pragmatic solutions to the challenges of the cultural sector. She is committed to helping cultural organizations and individual artists tackle questions with timely information, enhanced skills, honesty and openness to unexpected answers. The results are well crafted strategies that synthesize Claudia's more than thirty years of professional experience in arts administration and consulting with the passion and vision of artists, administrators, educators, activists, audiences and boards. She is the principal and founder of AdvisArts Consulting where she works with numerous arts and cultural organizations, from grassroots artists and community endeavors to major institutions. Claudia has a special interest in and projects that explore the potentials and of the not-for-profit model and intersections with cross sector relationships. She has worked extensively on issues related to independent artists and health coverage with Artist Trust, Leveraging Investments in Creativity, the Washington State Health Care Authority, community medical clinics and insurance industry representatives. Her work with the City of Seattle includes the development of the City of Music initiative bringing together commercial businesses, not-for-profit entities, community organizations and governmental departments through the Office of Film + Music and the Office of Economic Development. In partnership with the Washington Executive Service Corps she has developed Springboard for the Arts, a capacity building program for small and mid-size arts and cultural groups. For more than two decades she has worked to provide cohort-based professional development programs for individual artists. She is a frequent collaborator on national projects including cultural planning projects for Eugene, Oregon, Bellevue, Washington, and other communities Additional recent projects include work with 4Culture, Seattle Public Schools, The Vera Project, Centrum, Langston Hughes Performing Arts Center, and ArtsEd Washington. Her considerable management and administrative experience includes a dozen years at the Henry Art Gallery, University of Washington, where as Deputy Director she played a key role in the expansion of that museum. She is a frequent presenter, facilitator and evaluator and is published on a range of topics with her most recent articles published in Grantmakers for the Arts Reader. She is involved with civic and cultural organizations including Leadership Tomorrow, CityClub and National ArtTable. Claudia received her Bachelors degree in Art History, magna cum laude, from the University of Massachusetts, Amherst, and a Masters degree in Communications from the University of Washington, where her research focus was on museums and diverse audiences.  

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