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message from the
Executive Director

Polk County’s Officially Designated Arts Agency
Wishing everyone a Happy and Prosperous 2018!
Board of Directors
It’s been a busy and productive 2017 as the Polk Arts Alliance in
EXECUTIVE COMMITTEE partnership with our cultural arts community delivered and is Meri Mass
BETH CUMMINGS promoting our impressive economic impact results for the arts in Polk
President County of over $46.5 MILLION! The full report can be found at our website polkarts.org.
RICK JOHNSON
Vice President Also, with so many talented artists in our county, the Alliance is working to build our new
ANDY CROSSFIELD Artist Registry on our web site with as many artists as possible. As an example the cover
Treasurer art this issue is by Trish Pfieffer who is not only a talented artist, but also a Bartow City
CINDY RODRIGUEZ Commissioner and successful business women. We are working to make this registry a great
Secretary resource and database for all genres of creatives to have a platform for their talents as well as
MARTHA ROE BURKE to be the resource for the community to find them in one online location. This data base is for
Immediate Past President
all genres: fine art, muralists, musicians, singers, chefs, dance, fashion designers, performance
DIRECTORS art, pottery, graphic designers, the list is endless! If you are a creative or in need of one, check
it out at www.polkarts.org and go to the Artist Registry tab.
TENNY CROWLEY
TRACY MULLINS
AUBURN TAYLOR You will be seeing and hearing our message this year, ART ROCK$. Keep a look out for our
AMY WIGGINS Polk Museum of Art Summer Art Camp student painted rocks around the community, they
are fun, creative and literally delivering what we all know is true, Art Rock$.
BUSINESS COMMITTEE ARTS
DR. CRAIG COLLINS Meri Mass
TRISH PFEIFFER
HARRIETT RUST
ANITA STRANG
DR. DARYL WARD
CHELSEA YOUNG
MYRTICE YOUNG
ART RESOURCE COUNCIL
JOAN DAVIES, Chair
SUE BENTLEY
DAN CLARK
J. DAVIS CONNOR
BOB ENGLISH
DR. EILEEN HOLDEN
NANCY HALE HOYT
DR. ANNE KERR
PAT LAMB
MIKE LAPAN
CLAIRE OROLOGAS
CINDY HARTLEY ROSS

EX OFFICIO
MELONY BELL
County Commissioner
CINDY RODRIGUEZ
County Arts, Culture & Heritage
Grant Committee Representative
Visitors to the Polk Arts Alliance and Kids Tag Art table, at Art Crawl in Munn Park on November 4, 2017, were given
an opportunity to take home a rock painted with their very own designs.
EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR
MERI MASS

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