Wendy Clark
Director of Museums, Visual Arts, and Indemnity | National Endowment for the Arts (NEA) | Washington, D.C.

Wendy Clark was appointed Director of Museums, Visual Arts, and Indemnity at the National Endowment
for the Arts in July 2014. In this position, she manages the NEA’s grantmaking portfolio for museums and
visual arts, oversees the Arts and Artifacts Indemnity program of the Federal Council on the Arts and
Humanities and special initiatives, such as the Blue Star Museums program.

Clark has more than 20 years of experience managing various federal grant programs and special
initiatives at the NEA in museums, visual arts, and design. In this capacity she advises hundreds of
museums and non-profit organizations annually regarding federal funding of exhibitions, conservation,
commissions, care of collections, artist residencies, educational outreach, and reinstallation projects.  She
has represented the agency annually at the American Alliance of Museums conference as both a
presenter and exhibitor. Clark is a member of ArtTable, an organization dedicated to advancing women’s
leadership in the visual arts field and the American Alliance of Museums.

Clark has worked on initiatives to make the NEA more accessible to Native American communities, tribal
governments and Historically Black Colleges and Universities. Other major responsibilities include
recruiting hundreds of national museum professionals and artists annually for peer review, and
adjudicating proposals for federal support. Additionally while at the NEA, she managed the Rosa Parks
Sculpture competition for the Architect of the Capitol, the American Masterpieces/Visual Arts Touring
Program and the Renna Scholarship Grants Program. Clark has been a juror for the United States Mint’s
Artistic Infusion Program to improve coin design and administered the cooperative agreements for the
Mayor’s Institute on City Design and Your Town, as well as the Challenge Grant Program for design and
construction of cultural facilities.

Clark has experience in executive search and recruiting, as Vice President of Arts Consulting Group, Inc.,
a full-service management consultancy for the cultural sector. She also has extensive training in diversity,
equity and inclusion, implicit bias, ethics, anti-harassment, Hatch Act, leadership, cyber-security, and
executive coaching.

Early in her career, Clark held positions at the Illinois Arts Council in public affairs, visual arts, and design.
There she worked on a traveling exhibition program initiative, and a cultural facilities planning and design
grant program called Building by Design, which was awarded a Federal Design Achievement Award by
the NEA’s Presidential Design Awards jury. She was an NEA Fellow in arts administration, and was the
chairman of the Design Review Committee for the Civic Association of Hollin Hills, a mid-century modern
residential development designed by architect Charles Goodman and landscape architect Dan Kiley.
Clark has a bachelor’s degree from the University of Michigan and studied Elizabethan history, art, and
literature at New College, Oxford University. She is originally from Dayton, Ohio.

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