TimeSlips
Carol Varney, Executive Director, Timeslips
NPAG is pleased to announce that Carol Varney has been selected for the role of Executive Director. Carol will help elevate the visibility of TimeSlips’ innovative approach to elder engagement and further enhance the organization and its work of inspiring and training communities across the country and around the world to create beauty and joy in daily interactions with aging adults. A lifelong lover of and advocate for the arts, Carol has dedicated her career to community service and engagement through fundraising, program development, and leadership roles at a variety of organizations spanning the arts and education.
Carol comes to TimeSlips from a role as the Executive Director of the Arts Foundation for Tucson and Southern Arizona, where she served as the liaison between the quasi-governmental 501(c)(3) Arts Foundation, elected officials, and artists in the greater Tucson community. In her two years in Tucson she has helped build technical and operational infrastructure at the Arts Foundation, guided the organization through a transparent strategic planning process, built the strength of the board and honed programming to better serve Arts Foundation constituencies.
Prior to her role at the Arts Foundation, Carol provided leadership and vision for Bay Area Video Coalition (BAVC) in San Francisco, overseeing all program areas, fundraising and development activities, and participating on BAVC award review panels, as well as award and grants panels nationally. Before her role as Executive Director, Carol served as BAVC's Managing Director from 2010-2012 and as Director of Development from 2008-2011. During Carol’s tenure at BAVC, the organization received the John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation’s MacArthur Award for Creative and Effective Institutions (MACEI), an award for innovation from the Aspen Institute, and was given the position of San Francisco’s first-ever Tech Sector Coordinator. BAVC’s youth programs were recognized with the National Arts and Humanities Youth Program Award — the nation's highest honor for after-school and out-of-schooltime arts and humanities programs — by the President’s Committee on the Arts and Humanities and conferred by First Lady Michelle Obama at a White House ceremony in Fall 2016.
Before joining BAVC, Carol worked for many years in advancement activities for cultural organizations such as Stanford Live, Maine College of Art, and the Portland Museum of Art. Carol was a member of the 2014-2015 class of National Arts Strategies' Chief Executive Program: Arts and Community, and currently serves as the elected alumni Trustee for the Board of Trustees of Hampshire College in Amherst, Massachusetts. She is a past Executive Committee Board member of the Maine Jewish Film Festival, Project Inform, and SPACE Gallery in Portland, Maine, where she is still a member of the Advisory Board, and also served on the board of San Francisco Cinematheque, Camden International Film Festival, and the Bay Area Chapter of the NAMES Project.
Carol holds a degree in Media and Cultural Studies from Hampshire College. Please see announcement on the TimeSlips website.