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11 <br /> Page 1 of 2 Frederick Joiner <br /> Volunteer Application <br /> Orange County Advisory Boards and Commissions <br /> Name: Mr. Frederick Joiner <br /> Name Called: <br /> Home Address: 204 Oak Glen Place <br /> Chapel HIII NC 27516 <br /> Phone (Day): 9842340249 <br /> Phone (Evening): 9842340249 <br /> Phone (Cell): 9195376890 <br /> Email: fred.curates@gmail.com <br /> Place of Employment: University of North Carolina - General Admin <br /> Job Title: Computing Support Technican <br /> Year of OC Residence: 2016 <br /> Township of Residence: Chapel Hill <br /> Zone of Residence: <br /> Sex: Male <br /> Ethnic Background: 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 />