2022 Presenter SCP & GPS Level 1 & 2

• Grants Manager, Broward Center for the Performing Arts
• 13 years of experience in fundraising, grants management, program development and evaluation for non-profit organizations in the arts and human services fields
• District II Representative, City of Fort Lauderdale Community Services Board (oversees administration of CDBG and HOPWA funding)
• Steering Committee Member, Ghost Light Society (young professionals’ group to support arts education)
• B.S., Journalism, University of Florida

• General Manager and Finance Director, Can Wezel Performing Arts Hall
• Board Member, Florida Facilities Managers Association
• B.A., Accounting, University of St. Francis

• Grants Manager, Ruth Eckerd Hall, Clearwater, Florida
• Previously, Nonprofit Grants and Development Consultant; External Relations Director, Families Against Mandatory Minimums; and Director, Grants and Administration, United Way of Miami Dade, Center for Excellence in Early Education
• Treasurer, Flex Your Rights Foundation and Membership Chair, Association of Fundraising Professionals, Tampa Bay
• M.S.W, Social Work, Columbia University in the City of New York; B.S.W Social Work, McDaniel College

• Executive Director, Grace Arts Center, Fort Lauderdale
• Fine Art Broker/Business Owner
• Past Board Member, Broward Enterprise Zone and Community Redevelopment Area (Fort Lauderdale) sponsoring arts resiliency projects
• M.S.P., Urban and Regional Planning, Florida Atlantic University

Clare Vickery is a Producer, Curator, Writer, and Director of original multidisciplinary projects including visual art exhibitions, documentary film, theater, urban design installations and competitions. A South Florida resident since 1991, she’s an active patron of the arts including sponsoring large commercial art exhibitions, elementary school after-school arts-care, paid internships and scholarships to study abroad for high school students, college fashion, architecture and robotics studios, and created a design and creative arts program for teens in foster care. Prior to developing cultural programming, she was the recipient of multiple awards for land development, planning, historic building preservation and design.

• Currently the Director of Cultural Programs at South Florida State College
  
• Former Executive Director at the Bailey Concert Hall at Broward State College, Gold Coast Jazz Society , Wiltsie Performing Arts Center and Troy Savings Bank Music Hall.   Former CEO for Girl Scouts, Scranton Pocono Council.  national award recipient from the American Alliance for Theatre and Education.
• Former Cultural Institutions Evaluator for the Florida Division of Cultural Affairs
• MFA, Theatre, University of North Carolina at Greensboro; BA, Theatre, Penn State University