Artistic Advisory Committee

The ChiArts Artistic Advisory Council is an advisory group of local artists and performers who serve at the invitation of the Board as mentors and advisors to the Arts program.

James Gandre and Kay Mabie
Co-Chairs

Maestro James Conlon
Music Director, Ravinia Festival, Los Angeles Opera, and the Cincinnati May Festival

Glenn Edgerton
Artistic Director, Hubbard Street Dance Chicago

Barbara Gaines
Founder and Artistic Director, Chicago Shakespeare Theater

Judith Haddon
Professor of Voice, Chicago College of Performing Arts, Roosevelt University
(Metropolitan Opera, Lyric Opera of Chicago, Covent Garden, San Francisco Opera, Hamburg Staatsoper, and Houston Grand Opera)

Richard Hunt
Sculptor
(Metropolitan Museum of Art, Art Institute of Chicago, Museum of Modern Art, National Gallery, Los Angeles County Museum, Whitney Museum)

Martha Lavey
Artistic Director, Steppenwolf Theatre

Ramsey Lewis
International Jazz Pianist and Composer

Rachel Barton Pine
International Violinist

Ashley C. Wheater
Artistic Director, Joffrey Ballet