Join us in congratulating Emily Garvie as the new Executive Director for Performing Arts Workshop
We are pleased to announce that Emily Garvie has been selected to serve as the new Executive Director of Performing Arts Workshop.
Photo courtesy of Performing Arts Workshop

Emily joins Performing Arts Workshop after recently serving as Executive Director of Young Audiences of Northern California.  Her work in the field of arts education extends to her service as an Executive Committee member of the Arts Providers Alliance of San Francisco and as a grant review panelist for the California Arts Commission. 

Before transitioning to a career in arts administration, Emily attended Yale and Manhattan School of Music and performed opera professionally in the United States and Germany. While singing professionally, she worked as a teaching artist, through which she gained experience in program design and implementation. Emily continues to sing and teach voice on weekends, and is a passionate consumer of the diverse artistic delights on offer in the San Francisco Bay Area.

Read Performing Arts Workshop's announcement about the placement here.

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About Performing Arts Workshop
Founded in 1965, Performing Arts Workshop (the Workshop) is a nonprofit organization whose mission is dedicated to helping young people develop critical thinking, creative expression, and basic learning skills in and through the arts. The Workshop was established to provide a creative outlet for inner-city teenagers in the San Francisco Bay Area. With schools and community centers as her laboratory, the Workshop Founder Gloria Unti developed a teaching method based on the conviction that the creative process is a dynamic vehicle for learning, problem-solving, and communication. The organization currently partners with 20 regional schools and community centers as well as 70 preschool centers to deliver onsite arts education programming, taught by professional teaching artists on the Workshop's staff.
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