Tricia, Monica Haslip, Dave Chen discussing arts education.

CONSULTING

Tricia’s consulting focuses on helping writers & artists secure grants, serving on selection panels, and advising arts organizations.

Tricia is an enthusiastic and collaborative project team member. She has deep experience convening creative groups and networks, leading planning projects, and conceiving, writing, and editing communication materials and grant proposals.

 

 

Tricia leading a session at the May 2011 “Transformation Camp,” a conference for creative arts youth organizations and a variety of creative industry leaders. (Caldera, Sisters, Oregon)

Summary of Experience

Tricia was most recently Executive Director of Caldera, an Oregon youth arts and artist residency nonprofit (2007-2017). Before that, she was the founding Executive Director of the international network of artist residency programs, the Alliance of Artists Communities (1994-2002).

Her earlier nonprofit career included staff writer / project manager roles for the Center for Marine Conservation (now the Ocean Conservancy, in Washington DC), and James Dobbin Associates Ocean & Coastal Planning (now Dobbin International) in Toronto & Washington DC.

She is a Senior Fellow of the American Leadership Forum-Oregon (Class XXVI), and has held a range of public service roles, including board member for Res Artis, the international consortium of artist residency programs based in Amsterdam, planning group member for Sowelu Theatre (now Sowelu Dramatic) and Artichoke Music, both in Portland, Oregon, pro bono consultant to the start-up artist residency program, Ironbound Creative Residency, in Nova Scotia, and arts grant panelist for organizations including the National Endowment for the Arts, the Oregon Arts Commission, and the Academy of American Poets/San Francisco poetry prize.

Tricia taught Arts Administration at Portland State University (Oregon) and mentored PSU students in special projects in the nonprofit world.

First Lady Michelle Obama, Narz Diane, and Tricia Snell, Nov. 24/2015, White House, Washington DC

In 2015 Tricia was proud to accept, on behalf of Caldera, a National Arts and Humanities Youth Program Award from the President’s Committee on the Arts and the Humanities, presented to her and a gifted Caldera student, Narz Diane, by First Lady Michelle Obama at the White House in Washington DC.

Tricia has written a wide range of materials for the organizations she has led, and convened national symposiums on creativity and youth development (see “American Creativity at Risk” and “Transformation Camp: What We Learned“).