Ellen L. Meyer

Ellen Meyer joined AGB Search in 2017. Ms. Meyer is an experienced higher education administrator, having spent 34 years in leadership roles at art, architecture, and design institutions supporting curriculum development, executive and faculty recruitment and management, strategic planning and partnerships, facilities design and construction, financial planning and oversight, exhibitions, fundraising, and trustee and community relations. 
 
Representative Executive Searches

• Chicago State University - Dean of the College of Arts & Sciences
• Columbus State University - Dean, College of the Arts
• Delaware College of Art and Design - President
• Kent State University - Director, School of Fashion
• Kent State University - Director, School of Music 
• Kent State University - Senior Vice President and Provost
• Montana State University - Executive Director, Museum of the Rockies
• Pennsylvania College of Art & Design - President
• Pratt Institute - Provost
• Texas Woman’s University - Vice President for Marketing and Communication

Experience and Honors

From 2008 to 2015, she served as the President of Watkins College of Art in Nashville, where she was appointed President Emerita and subsequently President Emerita of Watkins College of Art at Belmont University. Ms. Meyer previously served as President of Atlanta College of Art (Woodruff Arts Center) for 14 years, as Director of Continuing Education and Special Programs at Rhode Island School of Design, and as Vice President of Marketing and Extension at Minneapolis College of Art and Design. Her career in the visual arts includes roles as the director of the keystone education program at the National Building Museum; the founding director of an inner-city ceramics program for the National Park Service; a researcher and lecturer at the Smithsonian American Art Museum and the Archives of American Art; a faculty member in art history and ceramics; and a college gallery director. In addition, she has fostered strategic partnerships with music entities and educational institutions, such as Belmont University’s Mike Curb College of Entertainment & Music Business, Warner Music Nashville, the Atlanta Symphony Orchestra, and New Music America.

Ms. Meyer has served as Chair of the Board of the Atlanta Regional Council for Higher Education; on the Commission on Accreditation for the National Association of Schools of Art and Design; as President of the Mid-America College Art Association; and on the boards of the National Black Arts Festival, the Midtown Alliance (Atlanta), the Association of Independent Colleges of Art and Design, and the John C. Campbell Folk School.  She is an alumna of Leadership Music, Leadership Atlanta, and Leadership Nashville.

Education

• B.A. and M.A. degrees in art history and theory from the George Washington University
• Certificate in leadership in public policy (year-long program) at the University of Minnesota’s Hubert H. Humphrey Institute of Public Affairs
• Certificates in advanced management from Georgia Tech’s Scheller College of Business, Executive Education Program 
• Graduate studies in ceramics at Antioch University