Home About ARTOGRAPHY Resource Center

Karen Garrett, Program Director, Grantmaking

In her new role Karen Garrett will manage LINC’s Creative Communities and Artography grantmaking. Her knowledge and skills regarding arts, social justice, and grant making will be a valuable asset to LINC’s Creative Communities program. She comes to us from the Nathan Cummings Foundation, where she was the Senior Program Assistant and Exhibit Coordinator for seven years. Before joining the foundation in 2000, Karen worked on the administrative staff of the Urban Bush Women dance company.

Karen Garrett was the Senior Program Assistant and Exhibit Coordinator at the Nathan Cummings Foundation for seven years. Garrett’s responsibilities included coordinating the efforts of the Program Assistants at the Foundation, maintaining the grantmaking procedures manual, processing and monitoring grant requests, coordinating and participating in Arts and Culture grantee meetings and interfacing with the Arts and Culture Education Team of the Foundation’s Board of Trustees. As the Exhibit Coordinator, she was responsible for three in-house exhibits a year at the Foundation, all representing social justice issues. Before joining the Foundation in 2000, Karen served in several capacities on the staff of the dance company, Urban Bush Women. She began her tenure as the Office Manager and then served as the Company Manager and Interim Director. She was also fortunate enough to be Faculty/Participant Coordinator for the Company’s groundbreaking Summer Dance Institute at Florida State University, which is now an annual event in Brooklyn, NY. Garrett is a graduate of Marymount Manhattan College where she received a BFA in Dance.