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Region 6
609 4th Avenue S.E. |
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Taylor Barnes graduated from Ohio State University with a degree in fine arts in 1971. Taylor received an elementary education degree from Jamestown College and taught in a two room school until she and her husband began an offset printing business. Since 1982, she has coordinated the artist-in-residence program for Jamestown Fine Arts Association. In 1991, she served as the coordinator for the Dakota Arts Congress in conjunction with the North and South Dakota Arts Councils and the Manitoba Arts Board. Taylor was a board member with the North Dakota Council on the Arts from 1990-1993 and since 1997 has been the director at the Arts Center. Her responsibilities at the Arts Center include community outreach and public relations, fundraising, financial tracking, organizational planning and visioning, administration and management, grant and reports compliance, and coordinating the artists in the schools and performances in the gallery…..not to mention the occasional cleaning of the bathrooms. Counties served (figures taken from 2000 census): Wells County, population 5,102; Foster County, population 3,759; Stutsman County, population 21,908; Logan County, population 2,308; McIntosh County, population 3,390; LaMoure County, population 4,701; Dickey County, population 5,757; Griggs County, population 2,754; Barnes County, population 11,775 |