See also
Arts at Maricopa
District-wide programs for the Arts at the Maricopa Community Colleges.

About the speaker:

Robert C. Booker, Executive Director
Arizona Commission on the Arts

Robert C. Booker is the Executive Director of the Arizona Commission on the Arts (ACA). Prior to joining ACA, Booker was the Executive Director of the Minnesota State Arts Board in February 1997. Since January 1990, Booker had served as the Arts Board’s assistant director, and had previously administered the agency’s Operating Support, Series Presenters, and Touring Arts programs from October 1985. Booker’s involvement in the arts began in 1975, when he served as an intern with the South Dakota Arts Council. In 1977, he joined the staff of the Arts Resource and Information Center at the Minneapolis Institute of Arts, and was promoted to Director of the Resource Center in 1980. Under Booker’s leadership, the Resource Center was awarded a Twin Cities Mayors’ Public Art Award in 1984 and the Lifetime Achievement Award from the Minnesota Crafts Council in 2005. He has served on the media arts panel and the State Partnership panel for the National Endowment for the Arts, and on state arts board grant review panels in Montana, South Dakota, North Dakota, Iowa, Michigan, and Arkansas.

Among his numerous awards, Robert Booker recently recognized for his leadership by the National Assembly of State Arts Agencies and received the 2006 Gary Young Award. Booker serves as the Chairman (Past President) of the board of the National Assembly of State Arts Agencies (NASAA). In addition, he served as a member of the Governor’s Quarter Dollar Commission, and is the former Chair of the Minnesota Governor’s Residence Committee. Booker has served on the boards of Arts Midwest, Minnesota Museum Educators Association, the Cable Arts Consortium, Arts Over AIDS, the Minnesota AIDS Project, and on the advisory committee for the M.A. program in Arts Administration at Goucher College in Maryland. Booker is also an art collector and painter.