Dear Emerging Leaders,

 

I am beyond excited to introduce to you our Americans for the Arts 2018 American Express Emerging Leaders Award winner. Please join me in congratulating Quanice Floyd, Founder and Executive Director of the Arts Administrators of Color DMV Network. The award will be presented at Americans for the Arts upcoming Annual Convention in Denver, Colorado. As part of the annual Leadership Award series, these awards recognize the achievements of individuals and organizations committed to enriching their communities through the arts.

 

Floyd founded the Arts Administrators of Color Network (AAC) in July 2016 as a network focused on community building and empowering artists and arts administrators by providing resources and tools to advocate for access, diversity, inclusion, and equity in the arts in the Washington, DC, and Baltimore metropolitan areas. The advocates continue to fight for equity in the arts through collaboration, forums, and other outlets that provide a voice for arts administrators and artists of color.

 

Floyd is also a public school music educator and teaches elementary school general and vocal music. She serves as an advisory committee member for the Arts Education in Maryland Schools Alliance, and is an alumna of the ArtEquity Facilitator Cohort, Baltimore Symphony Orchestra’s Music Educators Academy, Arts Administrators Academy, 4pt0 Schools Essentials Program, and the Arts Education Collaborative’s Leadership Academy. During her studies, she served as an Arts Education Fellow at the National PTA, the Arts in Education Chair for her local school district’s PTA, and an Arts Education intern at the National Endowment for the Arts.

 

Born and raised in New York City, Floyd has spent over a decade in Washington, DC, where she received her Bachelor’s and Master’s degrees in Music Education from Howard University and Kent State University, respectively. Her passion for arts administration led her to pursue her second Master’s degree in Arts Management at American University, and she is currently a doctoral student at Drexel University.

 

“Quanice Floyd is a renaissance woman who wears many capes. She motivates, inspires, and invests in youth as our most important resource, and her extraordinary work shows the power that the arts have to transform a community,” said Robert L. Lynch, president and CEO of Americans for the Arts. “Americans for the Arts has been a strong proponent for the advancement of new arts leadership, and Quanice exemplifies that next generation.”

 

“For more than a decade, American Express has committed to recognizing and developing talented, emerging leaders across the social purpose sector,” said Timothy J. McClimon, president of the American Express Foundation. “Ms. Floyd’s devotion to her craft, and the advancement of diversity, equity, and inclusion, represents the future of nonprofit leadership.”

 

The awards will be presented at Americans for the Arts’ Annual Convention in Denver, Colorado, on Saturday, June 16, 2018, from 11:00 a.m. to 1:15 p.m.

 

The five other leadership award recipients are:

 

 

Americans for the Arts’ Annual Convention brings together arts and community leaders to network and discuss strategies for building stronger towns, counties, and cities through the arts. What started as a small group of 45 people in 1955 has now grown to more than 1,100 each year, and continues to grow 10-15 percent annually.

 

Please join me in congratulating Quanice on this well-deserved recognition of her contributions and trail blazing efforts in the arts field. To read Americans for the Arts’ full press release, please click here.

 

 

Best,
Cristyn

 

Cristyn Johnson

Local Arts Advancement Program Manager                         
Americans for the Arts

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