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16 <br />Page 1 of 2 <br />UTIrILTArArow <br />Volunteer Application <br />Orange County Advisory Boards and Commissions <br />Name: <br />Name Called: <br />Home Address: <br />Phone (Day): <br />Phone (Evening) <br />Phone (Cell): <br />Email: <br />Place of Employment: <br />Job Title: <br />Year of OC Residence: <br />Township of Residence: <br />Zone of Residence: <br />Sex: <br />Ethnic Background <br />Mr. Art Menius <br />6627 Maynard Farm Rd <br />Chapel Hill NC 27516 <br />919- 675 -2787 <br />919- 675 -2787 <br />919- 675 -2787 <br />art @artmenius.com <br />Art Menius Consulting <br />Owner <br />1973 <br />Bingham <br />County <br />Male <br />Caucasian <br />Community Activities /Organizational Memberships: <br />Town of Carrboro Arts Committee <br />Creative Carrboro Committee <br />Chapel Hill Rotary Club <br />Past Service on Orange County Advisory Boards: <br />None <br />Boards /Commissions applied for: <br />Chapel Hill /Orange County Visitors Bureau <br />Background, education and experience relevant to this board: <br />Thirty years experience in non- profit/government partnerships using the arts for tourism and <br />economic development. Worked in 1980s with Owensboro Daviess County (KY) Tourism <br />Commission to create the IBMA World of Bluegrass events which moved to Raleigh in 2013. <br />Director of Marketing and Sponsorship for MerleFest at Wilkes Community College, building <br />MerleFest into an international brand and an event generating $16M in local economic impact. In <br />that role worked closely with the North Wilkesboro TDA and served on the Tourism Committee <br />of the Wilkes Chamber of Commerce. I was on the Wilkes County Cultural Council for the Blue <br />Ridge National Heritage Area during the time of its creation and launch. I was the college s <br />representative to High Country Host and Advantage West NC. Through those roles I took the <br />National Park Service s intensive Gateway Community training in 2006. <br />As Director of Appalshop in Whitesburg, KY, I worked directly with state and regional tourism <br />agencies, the TourSEKY project, and Appalachian Regional Commission. I was a paid <br />consultant for the Letcher County KY Tourism Commission (2010 -2011) securing $30,000 in <br />funding for a public engagement process resulting in a Coal Heritage Trail and a Quilt Trail and <br />a new county tourism brochure. <br />Returning to Orange County in April 2012, I obtained a State historical marker, Carrboro s first, <br />for Libba Cotten. Vice -Chair McKee took part in the Sept 2013 dedication. I became active in the <br />Chapel Hill- Carrboro Chamber and joined Carrboro s Arts Committee and ESC. <br />