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Meg Madden

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San Francisco, CA

 

Meg Madden has served as Executive Director of Music in Schools Today since 1990. Since 1990, she has pioneered work in program development, assessment and active research.  She appears frequently on both traditional and new media.

During 1991-92 Meg worked as Director of the San Francisco Arts Project, brokering community resources, awarding outstanding programs, and providing professional training for artists and teachers. From 1980-1988 she worked at San Francisco Ballet. As Community Relations Manager, she developed Dance in Schools, the Scholarship Program, and educational performances on the San Francisco Opera House stage. As manager of the Ballet Breakers, she offered performances on most of the main stages, smaller stages and many of the parking lots in the Bay Area. She also advocated at federal, state and local levels for increased visibility and funding for the arts.

Meg still consults on program design, assessment and management. She has developed action plans for eight Bay Area school districts and over sixty schools and designed education programs for many Bay Area arts organizations. Selected clients include American Indian Contemporary Arts, American Musical Theatre, Chevron, Chinese Merchants Association, Early Music Society, Grateful Dead Productions, Marin Arts Council, Philharmonia Baroque, San Francisco Education Fund, San Francisco Jazz Foundation, San Francisco Opera, San Francisco Symphony, the San Francisco Unified School District, San Francisco Civic Chorale, San Francisco School of the Arts and Stern Grove Festival.

In 1979, as Assistant to Dr. Frank Oppenheimer, the Founding Director of the Exploratorium, Madden helped coordinate the Coming to our Senses symposia headed by Dr. Oppenheimer and David Rockefeller. Meg serves on the Board of Music in Schools Today, the Advisory Committee of the Music in Education National Consortium and on the Education Committee of the San Francisco Symphony. She served for eight years as chair of the State/Local Advisory Task Force to the San Francisco Arts Commission, which developed an arts policy plan for the city. She served as Chair of the Yerba Buena Gardens Planning Committee and as President of Friends of The San Francisco Arts Commission.  She has received numerous awards from State and local government.

She holds an MA in Arts Administration from Golden Gate University.  She published a book on arts management with Dr. Richard LeBlond, Jr., has videos, multicultural curricula and many articles to her credit, and taught arts administration classes at Golden Gate University.

In her college days, she played ukelele with a girls’ band. In her spare time, Meg rides her speedy Arabian horse Concho at Point Reyes National Seashore, and is exploring ways to integrate cultural traditions, nature and spirituality into her daily life. She loves to garden and to cook.

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