Board & Staff
Commissioners
The Tennessee Arts Commission consists of 15 members who convene quarterly and are broadly representative of all geographic areas of the state and all fields of the performing, visual and literary arts. Commission members serve five-year terms with the chair and other officers being elected annually.
Jan McNally
Chair
Jennifer Wolfe
Vice-Chair
Amy Rhodes
Secretary
Staff
Anne B. Pope
Executive Director
Hal Partlow
Associate Director of Operations
Ann Brown
Associate Director of Grants
Jason Goldston
Director of Communications and Marketing
Krishna Adams
Director of Visual Arts, Craft, Media, and Design
Lee Baird
Grants Analyst/Director of Literary Arts
Mike Chambers
Information Technology Director
Shannon Ford
Director of Community Arts Development
Alicia Lark Fuss
Director of Arts Education
Bradley A. Hanson, PhD
Director of Folklife
Susan Liverman
Executive Assistant
Kim Johnson
Director of Arts Access
Michelle McEwen
Accounting Technician II
Vickie McPherson
Arts Program Administrative Assistant
Evangeline Mee
Traditional Arts Specialist
Jared Morrison
Director of Performing Arts
Melissa Moody
Arts Build Communities Coordinator
Michelle Sipes
Arts Learning Specialist
Diane Williams
Director of Grants Management
