George Scheer is a artist-founder, executive director, curator and cultural policy advocate who fosters creative communities at the intersection of art and social change. He is an experienced leader in the museum, residency, and contemporary art fields, with expertise in civic, social, and economic policy and it's cultural intersections.George is the Executive Director of the Elizabeth Foundation for the Arts in New York City, former Executive Director of the Contemporary Arts Center, New Orleans and co-founder and Executive Director of Elsewhere, an experimental museum and artist residency. He is also a founding member of Readying the Museum, a national cohort of artists and museum directors designing a solutions-based methodology for systemic change in the museum sector. As a cultural critic, George writes about arts, museums, cultural economy, urbanization, and place. Other projects include Kulturpark, a public investigation of an abandoned amusement park in East Berlin. George holds a BA from the University of Pennsylvania in Political Communications, MA in Critical Theory and Visual Culture from Duke University, and a PhD in Communication and Cultural Studies from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.
Listed skills include Grant Writing, Museums, Nonprofits, Art, and 73 others.