October 16, 2019 3:30 a.m.
The Ford Family Foundation has announced that Meagan Atiyeh has been appointed as senior advisor to the Visual Arts Program.
Atiyeh is succeeding long-time senior advisor Brewer Nunn, who has stepped down.
A release from the Foundation said that the Visual Arts Program was launched in 2010 to help Oregon’s most promising, established visual artists actively pursue their work and to enrich Oregon’s visual art’s ecology. The program, which at times works with state and national partners, supports creative-work time and space, provides resources to artists who are at a crossroads in their practice, and makes investments in Oregon visual arts institutions.
Atiyeh, who currently manages the visual arts programs at the Oregon Arts Commission, will take over the Ford position in January of 2020. Anne Kubisch, president of the Foundation said “Meagan is ideally suited to step into this role because of her decades of experience in the contemporary arts field and deep ties to arts and arts professionals locally and nationally”.