Director of Museums, Visual Arts and Indemnity
National Endowment for the Arts
Wendy Clark, Director of Museums, Visual Arts, and Indemnity for the National Endowment for the Arts, manages the portfolios of federal grant making, policy, professional leadership and consultation services for the nation’s Museums and Visual Arts fields, and oversees the Arts and Artifacts Indemnity Program of the Federal Council on the Arts. Clark has three decades of grant-making experience and special initiative management, including the Blue Star Museums program and the Rosa Parks Sculpture Competition for the Architect of the Capitol. Clark selects hundreds of national museum professionals and artists annually for peer review of more than 500 grant applications for federal investment in exhibitions, conservation, collection care, artist commissions and other museum related activities. Additionally, she oversees the peer review for the State Department’s Federal Advisory Commission for International Exhibitions for the selection of the artist at the U.S. Pavilion at the Venice Biennale. Clark worked in public affairs, visual arts, and design at the Illinois Arts Council, was an NEA Fellow, and chairman of design review for Hollin Hills, a mid-century modern residential community in Virginia. She holds a B.A. from the University of Michigan and studied Elizabethan history at New College, Oxford University.
Tuesday, May 21
3:30 PM – 4:30 PM
Tuesday, May 21
3:30 PM – 4:30 PM