Director

Ellen Salpeter

Ellen Salpeter has over 20 years of leadership experience advancing the missions of a wide range of nonprofit arts organizations, working to strengthen community outreach and engagement, increase cultural partnerships, and build audiences and financial bases of support.
Salpeter comes to ICA Miami from the Jewish Museum in New York, where as Deputy Director, External Affairs, since 2012 she has helped to forge a new institutional vision, and expand and diversify its audiences and fundraising streams. Prior to the Jewish Museum, Salpeter was the Director of Heart of Brooklyn, a partnership of leading cultural institutions located in central Brooklyn—including Brooklyn Botanic Garden, Brooklyn Children’s Museum, Brooklyn Museum, Brooklyn Public Library, Prospect Park, and Prospect Park Zoo—which she helped to found in 2001. For over a decade, Salpeter led Heart of Brooklyn’s innovative initiatives, which broke new ground for community development and cultural partnerships.
Previously, Salpeter was Director of Thread Waxing Space from 1994 through 2000, a nonprofit arts and education space in New York that presented works of art not ordinarily accessible to the public, and supported emerging artists, where she established its traveling exhibition and education programs.
Salpeter currently serves on the boards of the Judd Foundation, which maintains and preserves Donald Judd’s permanently installed living and working spaces in New York and Marfa, Texas; Participant, Inc., an alternative arts and education space; The Builders Association, a New York-based performance and media company; and Co-Chairs the Advisory Board of STREB Laboratory for Action Mechanics (SLAM).

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