
Doreen Kraft began her journey in arts administration in 1983, in an office squeezed inside a janitor’s closet in the basement of city hall. She was the first paid, part-time staff person for the Mayor’s Arts Council (MAC), originally an all-volunteer organization established in 1981 by then mayor Bernie Sanders. The mission of MAC was to “make the arts available to all, regardless of social, economic or physical constraints,” which remains a guiding principle of Burlington City Arts (BCA) today.
Early on, festivals and concerts...
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