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Lisa Cremin

**October, 2003*

Lisa Cremin is the founding Director of the Metropolitan Atlanta Arts Fund, a grant-making initiative of The Community Foundation for Greater Atlanta and the Metro Atlanta Chamber of Commerce. She also serves as a Program Officer in the area of arts and culture at the Community Foundation.

Under Cremin’s entrepreneurial leadership, the Arts Fund has provided strategic stabilization funds totaling $3.1 million to over 50 metro area arts organizations. She has made it a priority for the Arts Fund to be the leader in knowledge about the arts in the metro area. Her vision is that it be a force that brings together individuals, government entities, corporations, and foundations to undertake the issues of supporting, stabilizing, and strengthening arts organizations. She sees the need to communicate the critical relationship the arts have on building communities, educating children and adults, and improving the quality of life for citizens and visitors.

Previously, Cremin was a curator of photographs based in New York. She produced international museum exhibitions, publications, and developed related corporate sponsorships, often using contemporary art and photography to promote social change. Before she entered the nonprofit arts arena, Cremin was Director of the Weston Gallery in Carmel, California, working closely with luminary photographers such as Ansel Adams and Brett Weston. She began her career as Associate Director of the Department of 19th and 20th Century Photographs at Christie’s International in New York.

For her work in developing funds necessary for arts organizations in Atlanta to thrive, Public Broadcasting Atlanta and your Atlanta area Lexus dealers join in honoring Lisa Cremin as our Lexus Leader of the Arts.