Beth Bowman, MA

Beth Bowman is a ethics-driven, executive-level management professional with diverse leadership experience and a fierce commitment to stewardship, collaboration and inclusion. 

She has worked with many arts and culture organizations including: the Weavers Guild of Minnesota, Interact Center, the Soap Factory, Artspace Projects, Theatre de la Jeune Lune, the Hippodrome State Theatre and the Children’s Museum of Minnesota. She has worked with the following higher education institutions: The University of Minnesota, Augsburg College and William Mitchell College of Law (now Mitchell Hamline School of Law). 

Beth has extensive board of directors leadership experience. She currently serves as a Vice President for the Goldstein Museum of Design advisory board and has previously served on the Givens Foundation for African American Literature and the Cycling Museum of Minnesota boards. Beth was President of the Board of Directors for the University of Minnesota College of Design as well as the College of Visual Arts Alumni Boards. 

She has served in a committee and/or advisory capacity for the Minnesota Orchestra, the Cedar Cultural Center, the Minnesota State Arts Board and DOCOMOMO MN. She has led panels and projects with Art Basel Switzerland/Kickstarter, the American Craft Council, the Walker Art Center/MNArtists.org, the Minnesota Theatre Alliance, the Metropolitan Council  Public Art Program, SooVac and the Springboard for the Arts. 

She was a media delegate for the Nobel Peace Prize Forum (2014) and a recipient of the University of Minnesota College of Education and Human Development 2017 Alumni Society Award of Excellence. In 2018, she was selected for a National Endowment for the Arts-sponsored Creative Center Training Institute program for Arts Administrators in New York.

She is a trained studio artist/designer (BFA) formally trained the United States and France and holds two graduate degrees (MA) in education and design from the University of Minnesota.