Creative Flagstaff, formerly Flagstaff Arts Council, the City’s nonprofit art, science, and culture agency seeks applicants to serve as board members. Applicants will fill seats previously filled by long-time board members that have terms ending June 30, 2022.

Diversifying stakeholders, community groups, experience, and expertise represented by the Board of Directors is an important part of Creative Flagstaff’s strategic plan adopted in June 2021.

“Traditionally, Creative Flagstaff’s board leans on the networks of its own members and volunteers to recruit new leaders,” says President Ron Borkan. “Through our new strategic plan, we are committing to serve cultural sector businesses, nonprofits, artists, and other creative professionals more broadly. We are also committed to developing our leadership in ways that deepen our perspective about creative economies and cultural equity. We hope this call will inspire community members to apply that previously have not considered or did not feel connected to leadership opportunities with Creative Flagstaff.”

The Board hopes to recruit 2-4 new members through the application process. While it anticipates keeping a leadership application up on the Creative Flagstaff website year-round, it will prioritize applications received prior to June 1, 2022 for consideration for 3-year terms beginning July 1, 2022.

The Board seeks to recruit new members that provide leadership experience in any or all of the following: nonprofit governance, philanthropy, arts, education, sciences, public policy, and programming. We particularly seek individuals from diverse lived experiences including BIPOC and creative professionals.

The board application can be found online at https://creativeflagstaff.org/support/volunteer/. 

Board Position Description

The diverse experience and perspectives of our collaborative board members & committees ensure thoughtful decisions, strong partner & stakeholder relationships & continued development of Flagstaff as a creative city.

Overview

Creative Flagstaff Board of Directors govern the overall execution of the organization’s mission. Principally, the Board is the fiduciary, overseeing the Executive Director, ensuring sound organizational finances, and setting policy, goals, and priorities.

The Board employs an Executive Director, who is responsible for day-to-day management of the organization. Overall, Board members contribute programmatic, management, legal, and financial skills needed to ensure long-term stability and continuing mission impact.

All board members will help implement Creative Flagstaff’s new mission, to foster creative opportunity, and provide leadership on its new transformative strategies:

• Reducing barriers to participate in the cultural sector and the arts;
• Gather artists, thinkers, makers, and leaders and build community around making change;
• And, create sustainable stakeholder-driven systems and frameworks for cultural sector entrepreneurship and nonprofit excellence.

The Board of Directors has up to 17 voting members that serve 3-year terms.

Board member responsibilities include attendance at regular board meetings (average 11 but not less than 9 per year), annual board retreat, and participation in at least one board-level committee. Average monthly time commitment is 4-10 hours.