Howard Klein

Work experience includes 20 years as director for the arts with The Rockefeller Foundation, 10 years of independent consulting for non-profit foundations and organization including the National Endowment for the Arts Advancement Program, and five years as a music reporter/critic for The New York Times.

Organizations and projects in whose founding Howard Klein played a key role (partial list):

The Sundance Institute, Utah
The Actors Company, New York
The Next Wave Festival at the Brooklyn Academy of Music
The Eliot Feld Ballet (later Ballet Tech) New York
The British American Arts Association, London, England
Maurice Sendak’s The Night Kitchen Theater, New York
The Bay Area Video Coalition, San Francisco
The Atlantic Center for the Arts, New Smyrna Beach, FL
National Guild of Community Schools of the Arts
The Carter Family Memorial Music Center, Maces Springs, VA
The Recorded Anthology of American Music, New World Records, New York
The Museum of Holography, New York
INPUT (International Public Television Screening Conference)


Howard Klein has been recognized for his work by organizations including, the American Music Center, The National Music Theater Institute, The North Carolina School of the Arts, The Black Filmmakers Foundation, The Atlantic Center for the Arts, and the Business Volunteers for the Arts of New York and Philadelphia.

Michael Dalakian

Michael Dalakian has more than 25 years of experience in arts management, with special emphasis on developing and evaluating administrative, organizational and program structures. For eight years Mr. Dalakian was full-time consultant to The Rockefeller Foundation, specializing in arts administration and arts-in-education programs, He also evaluated over 400 Foundation grants and assisted in the development of national and international projects. Mr. Dalakian’s technical assistance to grantees resulted in the establishment of the Arts and Business Council of New York’s National program, The Naropa Institute's Arts in Education Intensive (Boulder, Co), the Southeastern Center for Contemporary Art/Awards in Visual Arts Program (Winston-Salem, NC), The Carter Family Music Center (Hiltons, VA), and The NY. Museum of Holography. Created and conducted two Arts and Education programs sponsored by the Private Industry Council of Phildelphia. Also was Director/co-founder of the Theatre Without Bars Arts Remotivation program.

His work has taken him throughout the U.S. and to over 14 foreign countries. He was selected to address the first "Roundtable of the African Producers of the Performing Arts," organized by the Ministry of Culture of Zaire, which was broadcast through the United States Information Agency's WORLDNET Satellite program. The broadcast originating in Washington, D. C.,was interactive with two African USIA Posts, and was seen throughout the African, Near Eastern television network.

Mr. Dalakian is a former Arts Fellow with the National Endowment for the Arts. He has appeared frequently as a speaker for such organizations as the National Community Education Association, the American Theatre Association, the New Jersey Writer's Conference, Business Volunteers for the Arts, the Wharton Business School Club, New York University, University of Pennsylvania and Drexel University.

Awards include: Governors Certificate In Recognition For a Unique Contribution to the Arts of the State of New Jersey; Certificate of Achievement Arts Administration-Administration of the Arts, Department Education, Commonwealth of Pennsylvania Executive Academy; Completion of Arts in Education Program as a Rockefeller Fellow, Naropa Institute; NJ Authors Citation, New Jersey Institute of Technology. As a poet awarded grant from N.J. State Arts Council. His work has appeared in the Laurel Review, Bitterroot International, Orbit and Teaching English in the Two-Year College, East Carolina University.