Shoshana Zeldner
Shoshana is an artist who is passionate about how art can promote social change and community building. In her current role as Program Manager with the University of Nevada, Reno School for the Arts, Shoshana is committed to developing arts programming that strengthens community and inspires creativity, participation and conversation.
Prior to joining the School of the Arts, Shoshana managed the Nevada Arts Council’s Community Arts Development Program. In this role, she developed and launched two new programs in response to the needs and interests of arts communities statewide. The Nevada Basin to Range Exchange is a yearlong program that celebrates rural-urban collaboration through the arts and the Community Impact Grant supports structural change in communities across Nevada through strategic planning, community engagement, collaboration, and arts participation. She continues to support strategic arts planning in communities across northern Nevada - as a Board Member of St. Mary’s Art Center in Virginia City and through participation in the steering committee that oversees cultural planning for the City of Sparks.
Shoshana has more than ten years of experience presenting public arts programs at public agencies, academic institutions, nonprofit museums and galleries. She worked with the Crocker Art Museum to implement participatory arts initiatives in Sacramento and developed a workshop series for artists focused on social practice art. In Davis, CA she designed and coordinated a public art program for teens with a community gallery. Shoshana spent five years focused on nonprofit fundraising which included grant writing, major gifts, and the management of a successful $1.5 million 25th anniversary campaign.
Shoshana holds a Master’s in Coexistence and Conflict from Brandies University’s Heller School for Social Policy and Management that focused on the role of the arts in peacbuliding and social change.
