Kristy Edmunds to Deliver UCLA Arts Commencement Address
Edmunds is known for innovation and depth in the presentation of contemporary performing arts.
On Saturday, Jun. 17, Kristy Edmunds, Executive and Artistic Director of UCLA’s Center for the Art of Performance at (CAP UCLA) will deliver the keynote address for the UCLA School of the Arts and Architecture’s 2017 commencement ceremony.
As an artist, curator, artistic director and frequent speaker internationally, Edmunds is known for innovation and depth in the presentation of contemporary performing arts. In collaboration with master artists, she has curated unique platforms that survey the breadth of their artistry, while placing equal emphasis on the support and commissioning of new work by some of today’s leading performance creators across disciplines.
Prior to joining CAP UCLA in 2011, Edmunds was the Founding Executive and Artistic Director of the Portland Institute for Contemporary Art (PICA) and the TBA Festival (Time Based Art) in Portland, Oregon. She served as the Artistic Director for the Melbourne International Arts Festival and the Head of the School of Performing Arts at the Victorian College of the Arts/University of Melborne, where she became the Deputy Dean for the College after one year. Concurrently, Edmunds worked as the inaugural Consulting Artistic Director for the now critically heralded Park Avenue Armory in New York.
“The arts require an extraordinary commitment,” said David Roussève, Interim Dean for the UCLA School of the Arts and Architecture. “Kristy Edmunds is one of those rare visionary leaders whose deep commitment to artists and the work they produce knows no bounds. As we unleash another extraordinary community of architects, artists, educators, activists and scholars into a world so in need of creative solutions, who better to ignite and inspire our future cultural leaders than one of our community’s fiercest and most passionate advocates.”
Read more about Kristy Edmunds and CAP UCLA
Hear more of Kristy's wisdom in the UCLA Arts film An Imaginative Offer
UCLA School of the Arts and Architecture 2017 Commencement
Saturday, Jun. 17 | 4 p.m.
Dickson Court North (Perloff Quad).
Parking available for $12 in Parking Structures 2 and 3
Header Image Photo Credit: Thomas Wasper