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Before
his appointment as Executive Director of the Cultural Council of Santa Cruz
County Alberto Ráfols worked as an arts administrator for over ten years in
Portland (OR), Dallas and San Antonio. |
Dr.
Ráfols has wide experience as a grantor, as well as expertise with community
and youth programs. During his tenure as Director of Grants and Community
Programs for the Portland Regional Arts & Culture Council, Dr. Ráfols led a
comprehensive grant program which funded over 200 grants a year to arts
organizations, artists, neighborhoods and communities. He was also active in the
creation, planning and implementation of special community arts development
projects in the Portland Metropolitan region. Among those are the nationally
renowned Neighborhood Arts Program that was created in 1995, the Individual
Artists Fellowship Program, and the Arts Management Assistance Program.
Dr. Ráfols has served in many advisory and funding panels at the federal, state and local levels. Panel participation and advisory roles include the National Endowment for the Arts, Arts International, WESTAF, the Arts and Cultural programming for the 2002 Winter Olympic Games, American Composers Forum Millennium Project, Oregon Arts Commission, Kentucky Arts Council, Texas Commission on the Arts, Houston Arts Council, and ArtsLink. He has also been a consultant for the United States Information Agency. Most recently, Ráfols has been invited by the President's Committee on the Arts and Humanities to serve on the Coming up Taller National Jury.
Dr.
Ráfols has served on nearly 20 Boards of Directors and Advisory Committees in
Seattle, San Antonio, Dallas, and Portland, including the Seattle Arts
Commission, the Dallas Symphony Orchestra, Dallas Young Virtuosos International,
Dallas Arts Magnet High School for Performing and Visual Arts, Dallas Playwright
Project, Texas Partners of the Americas, San Antonio Symphony, San Antonio KPAC
Classical Music Radio, Santa Fe Chamber Music Festival in Seattle, Oregon's
Equity Foundation and Basic Rights Oregon.
Alberto
Ráfols holds a Doctor of Musical Arts (DMA) from the University of Washington
in Seattle, and received Fulbright grants in Spain and Italy. He studied the
Spanish masters with famed Spanish pianist Alicia de Larrocha. He has been on
the faculty of the University of Illinois, University of Washington and the
University of Texas. As a performing artist, Dr. Ráfols performed throughout
the United States, Canada, South America and Europe. Ráfols was an Arts
Administration Fellow at the National Endowment for the Arts (International
Program) in Washington D.C. in 1991.
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