ARTIST's at WORK: Vital to Our World LEADERSHIP TEAM
FALL 2017 ARTIST'S AT WORK: Vital to our world LEADERSHIP TEAM STUART KESTENBAUM Interim President IAN ANDERSON Vice President of Academic Affairs & Dean of the College BETH ELICKER Executive Vice President EDITORIAL BOARD RAFFI DER SIMONIAN Director of Marketing, Communications, & the Annual Fund ANNIE WADLEIGH Assistant Director of Development CLAUDE CASWELL MECA ANNOUNCES NEW PRESIDENT A JOURNEY OF Associate Professor, Academic Studies DR. LAURA FREID POSSIBLITY Photo by Christina Wnek, courtesy of Maine Home + Design. DESIGN FROM STUART KESTENBAUM Dear Students, Alumni, Family, and Friends, BRITTANY MARTIN Interim President Graphic Designer Laura Freid, Ed. D., will lead MECA through our next phase of growth as the 18th president In the fall of 2016, MECA received the Economic Achievement Award from the Portland of our 135-year-old institution. Freid comes to MECA as a passionate and proven advocate Development Council. The Council was recognizing the impact of the investment that PHOTOGRAPHY for the arts and education, most recently serving in partnership with internationally acclaimed the College made beginning in the early 1990s when it moved into the vacant five-story KYLE DUBAY ’18 cellist Yo-Yo Ma, as CEO and Executive Director of Silk Road, a global cultural arts organization building on Congress Street — the former Porteous, Mitchell & Braun Department Store. based at Harvard University. Her prior leadership experience includes serving as Executive It was a bold move at the time, for then President Roger Gilmore and the school’s trustees, Vice President for Public Affairs and University Relations at Brown University and Chief to believe in our capacity to grow and thrive.
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