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Page 1 of 2 <br />Frederick Joiner <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. Frederick Joiner <br />204 Oak Glen Place <br />Chapel HIII NC 27516 <br />9842340249 <br />9842340249 <br />9195376890 <br />fred.curates @gmail.com <br />University of North Carolina - General Admin <br />Computing Support Technican <br />2016 <br />Chapel Hill <br />Male <br />African American <br />Community Activities /Organizational Memberships: <br />Carrboro Poets Council <br />Past Service on Orange County Advisory Boards: <br />Carrboro Poets Council <br />Boards /Commissions applied for: <br />Arts Commission <br />Background, education and experience relevant to this board: <br />I have been working as a writer and artist for almost 15 years, during that time I also worked as <br />an IT professional serving artists and arts organizations with strategic information technology <br />guidance and support. <br />In addition to holding a Master s of Fine Arts in Creative Writing, I have also taken online classes <br />in Curatorial Studies at the Node Center in Berlin, Germany. As a curator of the literary, visual <br />and interdisciplinary arts, I have administered and curated a wide range of public programming <br />for various organizations including Smithsonian, Belfast Exposed (Northern Ireland), Medina <br />Galerie (Bamako, Mali), Honfleur Gallery, Hillyer Artspace, the Phillips Collection, the American <br />Poetry Museum and others. <br />I currently or have in the past served on the Board of Directors for Arch Development <br />Corporation, American Poetry Museum, and I continue to act in an advisory role for individual <br />artists and arts organization. <br />I have also served on grant review panels for the DC Commission on the Arts and Humanities <br />and the National Endowment for the Humanities. <br />Reasons for wanting to serve on this board: <br />My interest in serving on the Arts Commission is first to learn more about the arts community in <br />Orange County. Since I have moved here, though I have been frequenting many different kinds <br />of arts events, I feel that I have only been scratching the surface of the breadth of offerings here. <br />Since returning to the United States and moving to Orange County, I have been interested in <br />finding ways to get involved and to use my skills and ideas be an active part of building the kind <br />