Michael Killoren

About Michael Killoren

Michael Killoren most recently served as the CEO / Executive Director of the Morean Arts Center, a community-based arts organization celebrating 100 years of connecting the St. Petersburg, Florida community with the arts. Prior to that, he served as Director for Local Arts Agencies and Challenge America at the National Endowment for the Arts, where he was responsible for the grantmaking processes for Local Arts Agencies (LAA\'s), developing partnerships to advance the LAA field as a whole, and the Challenge America program. Killoren also served as director of Seattle\'s Office of Arts & Cultural Affairs, a cabinet-level position, from 2002 through 2010, where he led the city department\'s funding and public art programs, developed policy initiatives to increase public access to arts and culture, and established a groundbreaking partnership to restore arts education in Seattle Public Schools. He secured a dedicated revenue stream to strengthen the agency\'s work, and launched several initiaitves to broaden the city\'s support for arts and culture, including the smART ventures program. He was Seattle\'s first director of cultural tourism for Seattle\'s Convention and Visitors Bureau, where he launched an initiative to promote the region\'s cultural assets. He also served as an arts program coordinator and later executive director of the King County Arts Commission, where he worked to increase access and participation in arts and culture, with a focus on rural and suburban communities. He also served as managing director of the Alice B. Theatre, all three organizations based in Seattle. For three and a half years prior to coming to Seattle in 1993, Mr. Killoren was part of the programming staff at the Sheldon Arts Foundation in St. Louis, Missouri. He served as president and vice-president of the U.S. Urban Arts Federation of Americans for the Arts. He was awarded the Ray Hanley Award for Innovation from the USUAF at the AFTA annual conference in June, 2017.

Experience

1. Consultant

   Melissa Gillis Care

   Sep 2018 — Present · Tallahassee, FL, US

Education

• Webster University

  BA

  1976 — 1979

• Indiana University Bloomington

  Telecommunications

  1987 — 1989

Skills

• Nonprofits
• Public Relations
• Leadership
• Fundraising
• Art
• Grant Writing
• Event Management
• Volunteer Management
• Community Development
• Public Speaking
• Nonprofit Organizations
• Non-Profit Administration
• Program Development
• Arts Administration
• Event Planning
• Community Outreach
• Non-Profits
• Grants