Santa Rosa Symphony Executive Director Selected to Participate In National Arts Executive Program

News Release Contact:
Alan Silow, (707) 546-7097 ext. 213

April 26, 2007

(SANTA ROSA)—Today, the Santa Rosa Symphony announces that Executive Director Alan Silow was selected from a nationwide pool of arts leaders to participate in a two-week intensive leadership advancement program called the Executive Program for Nonprofit Arts Leaders at Stanford University. Fifty arts leaders will attend the program June 24-July 6, developed and presented by National Arts Strategies (NAS), a national nonprofit organization dedicated to strengthening the arts and culture sector through leadership education, and the Stanford Graduate School of Business Center for Social Innovation (CSI).

“We are extremely pleased that Alan Silow was selected in this highly competitive process,” said SRS Board President Sam Brown. “We look forward to the new ideas and approaches he will develop through this experience, and the possibilities for the Santa Rosa Symphony and our community.”

Each year, National Arts Strategies selects 50 outstanding arts and culture leaders to participate in this program through a competitive process based on nominations from leading foundations, corporations and individual arts patrons.

Participants will spend two weeks on the Stanford University campus learning new management approaches, and sharing insights with their peers in all disciplines. They will acquire additional skills and knowledge that will increase their impact on their organizations, their communities and their disciplines. The curriculum integrates conceptual knowledge with the participants’ own experience to generate powerful and practical insights about leadership. The learning stems from a variety of activities including classes, small group discussion and individual study.

National Arts Strategies created this program with the CSI in 2001 in response to the lack of investment in senior-level professional development designed specifically for arts leaders. Since then, more than 250 arts and culture leaders from the US, Australia, Britain, Canada, Hong Kong, Israel and Singapore have completed the program.