In her role as Executive Director since 2010, Maureen Brondyke has worked with a small team and artist-led board to provide over $100,000 in unrestricted grants for artists, create free studio spaces, establish paid artist fellowships, and open a low-commission gallery that functions as a project space for artists to mount new work every month. She supports a collaborative workplace that provides staff sabbaticals, residencies for working artists, and responsive programs to ground creative initiatives in what artists need and want.

Maureen co-founded Charlottesville’s CreativeMornings chapter, co-chaired the Creative Workers Committee for the Charlottesville Albemarle Cultural Plan, and has served as a guest juror for The Bridge PAI, Virginians for the Arts, McGuffey Art Center, and the Shenandoah Valley Art Center. In 2019, she received a “10 Under 40” Award from Charlottesville’s Daily Progress and Regional Chamber of Commerce. Among programs she has co-led at New City Arts is a creative placemaking initiative supported by ArtPlace America (2015) that is featured in their Field Scan on housing and the arts.

Maureen studied Printmaking at the University of Virginia, graduating with a degree in Studio Art in 2008. She loves walking long distances at a leisurely pace, playing pinball, getting crushed by her 4-year-old in Memory, slowly knitting sweaters, and reading the Radiolab credits. She shares nachos every week at Beer Run with her husband, Calvin, and their two kids, Nelson and Avery.