Women, Leadership, & the Arts - Jenny Bilfield

Join the BU Arts Initiative for this special event as part of BU Student Government’s GAP Week celebrating and striving for gender equality and female empowerment. Featuring music from women composers performed by CFA students Laura Randal (flute) and Fangfei Chen (piano). Jenny Bilfield was appointed Washington Performing Arts’ President and CEO in April 2013. The organization is the recipient of the National Medal of Arts, the Mayor’s Arts Award for Excellence in Service to the Arts and, most recently, the Mayor’s Arts Award for Outstanding Contribution to Arts Education. Bilfield has broadened Washington Performing Arts’ organizational capacity through re-branding, numerous partnerships (including the SHIFT Festival with the Kennedy Center, and the 11th Street Bridge Park/Building Bridges Across the River), launching the Mars Urban Arts Initiative, commissioning numerous new works, and producing the landmark concert, Of Thee We Sing, at Constitution Hall to honor Marian Anderson. She has been recognized among the “30 Key Influencers in the Arts: Movers and Shakers” by Musical America and as twice by Washingtonian Magazine as one of the “Most Powerful Women in Washington.”