MORRIE WARSHAWSKI
ARTS CONSULTANT & WRITER
RESUME & CLIENTS
Consultant
Sample List of Clients:
- Alzheimer's Association/ Michigan Great Lakes Chapter
- American Craft Council (NYC)
- ArtServe Michigan
- Arts Council Napa Valley
- Bush Foundation (Minneapolis)
- California Arts Council
- California Coalition for Youth
- Center for Defense Information (Washington, DC)
- Chitresh Das Dance Company (San Francisco)
- The Council on Foundations (Washington, DC)
- Corporation for Public Broadcasting/ Ford Foundation, Minority Consortia
- Cultural Council of Santa Cruz County, CA
- Federation of State Humanities Councils
- Greater Flint Arts Council (MI)
- Habitat for Humanity - San Francisco
- Illinois Arts Council
- Independent Feature Projects (LA, NY, MN, Chicago, Miami)
- International Ticketing Association (INTIX)
- John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation (Chicago)
- Kala Art Institute (Berkeley)
- Living Jazz (Oakland,CA)
- Los Angeles County Arts Commission
- Madison Art Center (WI)
- Maryland State Arts Council
- Michigan Association of Community Arts Agencies
- Michigan Museums Association
- Mid Atlantic Arts Foundation
- Mississippi Arts Commission
- Missouri Arts Council
- National Assembly of State Arts Agencies
- National Audio Theatre Festivals
- National Endowment for the Arts/ Advancement Program
- Regional Coordinator for Upper Midwest
- National Communications Resource Coordinator
- Planning consultant to Ballet Omaha
- Bemis Alternative Worksite
- KDHX-TV
- Madison Repertory Theatre
- Emmy Gifford Children's Theater & Circus Flora
- National Wildlife Federation
- New Langton Arts/ Rockefeller Grants Project (S.F.)
- Northern California Chapter/ US Green Building Council
- Pennsylvania Council on the Arts
- Pew Charitable Trusts/ Philadelphia Music Project
- President's Committee on the Arts and the Humanities
- Sacramento Metropolitan Arts Commission
- Sacramento Region Community Foundation
- South Carolina Arts Council
- San Francisco Film Society/San Francisco International Film Festival
- St. Louis Art Museum
- St. Louis Black Repertory Company
- Students Run Oakland
- United Arts Council of Calhoun County (Michigan)
- University of Missouri at St. Louis
- Valley of the Moon Natural History Association
- Vintage Vinyl Records
- Washtenaw Literacy (Michigan)
- WGBH-TV/Contemporary Art Television Fund (Boston)
- Western States Arts Federation (WESTAF)
- Wornick Jewish Day School (Foster City, CA)
- Yerba Buena Center for the Arts
Writer
- Author, Shaking the Money Tree: How to Get Grants and Donations for Film and Video - 3rd Edition (Wiese Books/LA, 2010)
- Author, The Fundraising Houseparty: How to Party with a Purpose and Raise Money for Your Cause (Warshawski Books, 2007)
- Author, Fundraising Toolkit, National Alliance of Media Arts and Culture NAMAC, 2006
- Author, Arts Alive! The 2001 Survey Report on the State of Arts Education in Michigan Schools Grades K-12, ArtServe Michigan , 2002
- Co-Author, Creative Family Giving in the Arts, Grantmakers in the Arts Field Resource Book, Vol. 2, October 2000
- Author, Going International: A Case Statement, commissioned by the National Assembly of State Arts Agencies and the National Endowment for the Arts, 2000
- Author, A State Arts Agency Strategic Planning Toolkit, A practical, hands-on toolkit that covers all the intricacies of long range strategic planning, National Assembly of State Arts Agencies and the National Endowment for the Arts, 2000
- Co-Author & Editor, From Nascar to Cirque Du Soleil: Lessons in Audience Development, Western States Arts Federation , 2000
- Editor, Lessons Learned: A Planning Toolsite as part of the National Endowment for the Arts' Website, created under contract to Bay Consulting Group (San Francisco)
- Editor, The Next Step: Distributing Independent Films and Videos (AIVF, New York, 1996)
- Author, Where the Rubber Meets the Road: Presenting the Peforming Aarts In California (Calif. Arts Council 1989)
- Articles / Essays / Reviews Published By:
- Grantmakers in the Arts Newsletter
- Emmy Magazine
- Ford Times
- Foundation News
- High Performance
- Los Angeles Times
- Modern Poetry Studies
- New York Quarterly
- Parenting
- Philadelphia Inquirer
- St. Louis Post-Dispatch
- San Francisco Examiner
- Toronto Globe & Mail
- Videography
- Vis-a-Vis (United Airlines)
- and others
Other Work Experience
- Executive Director, Bay Area Video Coalition, 1983-86
- Executive Director, The Media Project, 1980-82
- Managing Director, Portland Dance Theater, 1977-79
- Project Evaluator, National Endowment for the Arts, 1976
- English Instructor, Los Angeles Southwest College, 1975
- Assistant Director, University of Southern California/Semester of the Arts Program, 1973-75
Education
- Graduate Writers' Workshop, University of Iowa
- MA & BA (Cum Laude), English, University of Southern California
Honors, Prizes, Awards and Panels
- DocAviv Tel Aviv International Documentary Film Festival 2012, Juror for the International competition, and Presenter
- Association of Fundraising Professionals’ Fundraising Day 2010 Conference, San Francisco, CA
- Speaker, Drexel University, 2008
- Speaker, Foundation Centers, New York City and San Francisco, 2008
- Panelist/Juror:
- National Endowment for the Arts, Media Arts Program, 13 times between 1982 - 2001
- Cuyahoga Arts and Culture, Cleveland, OH: General Operating Support for Nonprofit Organizations, 2010
- Michigan Council for Arts and Cultural Affairs, Art Organization Development Implementation Panel, 2001
- Mid Atlantic Arts Foundation, "Artists & Communities: America Creates for the Millennium," Film/Video/Photography selection panel, 1999
- NewView 95 Satellite Showcase; Southwest Region Media Arts Fellowship 1991 & 94
- Mid-Atlantic Region Media Arts Fellowship 1992
- Council on Foundations Film/Video Festival 1985-88
- National Alliance of Media Arts Centers (NAMAC) Technical Assistance Grants 1987 & 1988
- San Francisco International Film Festival 1987 & 1989
- "American Film Committee" for 1984 Summer Olympics
- Western States Media Arts Fellowship 1982
- Finalist, Dallas Area Rapid Transit VA Hospital Poetry Public Art Competition, 1995
- Artist/Coordinator, St. Louis MetroLink Arts-in-Transit "Signs of the System" Project, 1991-92
- Semifinalist, Arts-in-Transit "Art Link" Public Art Competition, St. Louis, 1991
- Travel Grant, International Public Television Conference (INPUT), Montreal, 1986
- Speaker:
- Playback 1996 Video Preservation Round Table, S.F.
- National Federation of Local Cable Programmers (NFLCP) Convention, 1982, 1983 & 1986
- Scholarship, Squaw Valley Screenwriters' Workshop, 1981
- Fellow, National Endowment for the Arts, Summer 1975
- Moses Award (Poetry), Univ. of Southern Calif., 1971-72
Executive Producer
- The Stand In, 90-min. dramatic feature starring Danny Glover, directed by Bob Zagone, 1986
- Council on Foundations' Annual Conference Videotape, directed by Dick Foster, 1988
Miscellaneous
- Art works exhibited and/or in collections of:
- Museum of Modern Art (NYC)
- American Cultural Center (New Delhi, India)
- Visual Studies Workshop
- Manhattan Laboratory Museum
- New Langton Arts
- Tweed Museum of Art
- Northwest Artists Workshop
- California Polytechnic State Univ.
- Technical Univ. of Nova Scotia
- Univ. of Hawaii
- Commentator, NPR's "Marketplace Radio" program, May 31, 1994. "How to Throw a Fundraising House Party."
- Completed Coro Center for Civic Leadership Train the Trainer program, San Francisco, 2010
- Completed Annie E. Casey Foundation funded Succession Planning for Nonprofits Consultant Training, CompassPoint, San Francisco, 2009
- Myers-Briggs Type Indicator [MBTI] - Qualified by the Association of Psychological Type [APT] to administer and interpret the MBTI personality instrument to individuals and groups, July 1996