Judilee Reed

Executive Director – Leveraging Investments in Creativity

Keynote – 9:00 am, Wednesday, April 6th – Propositions for Value: Reasons, Research and Reseources to Strengthen Support for Artists.

For over 15 years, Judilee has worked in the not-for-profit field of arts, culture, and community service directing programs that build on the intersections of people, art, and community development.

Judilee Reed is the Executive Director of Leveraging Investments in Creativity (www.LINCnet.net). Founded in 2003, LINC is a 10 year initiative to build and strengthen the infrastructure for individual artists in the United States. With support from the Kresge Foundation and the Surdna Foundation, LINC is actively working in communities across the US to address artists’ needs for space, health insurance/healthcare, training and professional development, and other material supports. Most recently, LINC launched Space for Change: Building Communities through Innovative Art Spaces in partnership with the Ford Foundation and the MetLife Foundation.

Prior to joining LINC, Judilee was Program and Resource Manager at the New England Foundation for the Arts, where she helped design program and manage fundraising efforts for special initiatives including the programs of the National Dance Project and Art & Community Landscapes, a public art program in partnership with the National Park Service. In addition, Judilee managed the Cambodian Artists Project, a ten-year program to develop the capacity of Cambodian performing arts in the US and in Cambodia that now continues as a program of LINC.

Judilee has a BFA in painting, a BA in Art History, and alumnus status at the Harvard Business School. Judilee has served on several panels and review committees, including the Fast Track program of the National Endowment for the Arts.