CONSULTING

Tricia is an enthusiastic and collaborative project team member. She has deep experience convening creative groups with common goals as well as writing grant proposals and project materials. Her consulting focuses on emerging artist residency programs and youth arts mentoring programs.

Tricia was most recently Executive Director of Caldera, an Oregon youth arts and artist residency nonprofit (2007-2017). She was the founding Executive Director of the international network of artist residency programs, the Alliance of Artists Communities (1994-2002). Her earlier nonprofit career included staff writer / project manager roles for the Center for Marine Conservation (now the Ocean Conservancy, in Washington DC), and James Dobbin Associates Ocean & Coastal Planning (now Dobbin International) in Toronto & Washington DC.

She is a Senior Fellow of the American Leadership Forum-Oregon (Class XXVI), and has held a range of public service roles, including board member for Res Artis, the international consortium of artist residency programs based in Amsterdam, planning group member for Sowelu Theatre (now Sowelu Dramatic) and Artichoke Music, both in Portland, Oregon, and arts grant panelist for organizations including the National Endowment for the Arts, the Oregon Arts Commission, and the Academy of American Poets/San Francisco poetry prize. In 2015 she was proud to accept, on behalf of Caldera, a National Arts and Humanities Youth Program Award from the President’s Committee on the Arts and the Humanities, presented to her and a gifted Caldera student, Narz Diane, by First Lady Michelle Obama at the White House in Washington DC.

Tricia has written a wide range of materials for the organizations she has led, and convened national symposiums on creativity and youth development (see “American Creativity at Risk” and “Transformation Camp: What We Learned.”

A résumé or full curriculum vitae is available upon request.