about the foundation
Board of Directors
"I am interested in the intersections between communities, social activism and the arts, particularly how engagement with the arts opens different ways of thinking and expression. The arts can and ought to provide leadership in helping know who we are as individuals, as participants in society, and give form to our ideas about what is important and meaningful in the world."
-Cathleen Kiebert GruenCathleen Kiebert-Gruen, Secretary
Ms. Kiebert-Gruen is Board Secretary and has been a director of the foundation since 2003. She is an instructor at Teachers College, Columbia University, and the advisor for the Summer Masters Intensive Program in Art and Art Education.
She has been an arts educator and administrator at cultural organizations and schools in New York City including the Whitney Museum of American Art, the Central Park Conservancy, and the Heritage School in East Harlem. In these settings she has designed arts programs for children, youth, teachers and communities.
Ms. Kiebert-Gruen is an Ed.D. candidate, Teachers College, Columbia University. Her dissertation is entitled "Community Arts Programs, Cultural Cohesion and Political Activism: Case Studies of Henry Street Settlement and El Museo del Barrio". She received an M.A. in Arts Administration, Art and Art Education, Teachers College, Columbia University (1994); BFA in Film Studies, Tisch School of the Arts, New York University (1981); and studied drawing, painting and film at California College of the Arts.