Nina Dunbar: How I Left the Arts and Learned to Love the Culture of Plants
Channel: Pecha Kucha Night Santa Barbara
Date: 10/03/2015

Nina Dunbar is currently the Director of Development and Communications for the Santa Barbara Botanic Garden.  A native of New Orleans, Nina and her family moved to Santa Barbara in 2007. She was the executive director of the Santa Barbara Arts Fund for five years before joining the Botanic Garden in 2012. She currently serves as a member of the Arts Advisory Committee for the Santa Barbara County Arts Commission.
Nina has spent more than 25 years as an arts advocate, consultant, and administrator in the public and private sectors. She is a graduate of Temple University’s Tyler School of Art and holds an MA in Nonprofit Administration from the University of New Orleans. Most of her arts career was focused on public art, where she oversaw the commissioning of major site-specific art projects for Phoenix Arts Commission’s award-winning public art program and the San Francisco Arts Commission.  From 1994 to 2000, she was a founder and principal in the consulting group, AMPS (Arts Management for Public Spaces), where she worked on arts policy and planning issues and public art commissions in Arizona, California and Vancouver, B.C.