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Webb Management Services Inc. 24 <br />personnel + experience (continued) <br />Carrie Blake is a Senior <br />Consultant and Project <br />Manager for a variety of public <br />and private cultural sector <br />clients. <br />Carrie’s Role: <br />Carrie would lead research <br />and analysis for the planning <br />process. She would also <br />coordinate community <br />engagement activities. <br />Carrie E. Blake, Senior Consultant <br />Since joining the firm in 2006, Carrie has completed and participated in <br />more than 150 studies involving community cultural master planning, <br />organizational planning, facility development, and operations. <br />Carrie has gained extensive knowledge on the operation and function of <br />arts organizations through her work with various independent, government- <br />based, and university arts organizations. <br />Before joining the firm, Carrie was the Associate Producer for the Office of <br />Arts + Cultural Programming at Montclair State University (NJ) where she <br />played a pivotal role in the establishment of an ambitious new presenting <br />and producing program. Collaborating with innovative experimental artists <br />from across the nation and around the world, Carrie coordinated regional, <br />national, and world premieres while working to establish identity, presence, <br />structure, and policy for MSU’s new venture. <br />Prior to working at MSU, Carrie developed and managed fundraising events <br />and campaigns for both The Drama League, a New York City-based nonprofit <br />committed to developing artists and audiences for the American theatre, and <br />the Madison Museum of Contemporary Art (Madison, WI). While in Madison <br />she also supported the marketing function of the Madison Civic Center as it <br />prepared for expansion to what is now the Overture Center. <br />Through her master’s degree in business at the Bolz Center for Arts <br />Administration, University of Wisconsin-Madison, Carrie completed a venture <br />development business plan for the Wisconsin School Music Association <br />and a marketing research study for the Madison Symphony Orchestra. Her <br />independent graduate research focused on university arts presenters’ <br />multifarious existence within campus and community contexts. <br />Carrie earned dual bachelor’s in music and arts administration from the <br />University of Kentucky. A native of Cleveland (OH), Carrie’s commitment to <br />the arts first began at the age of nine when, after becoming fed up with the <br />antics of her creatively destructive brothers, she picked up her first clarinet.