Elizabeth Reiss
Elizabeth Reiss is a life-long arts advocate. Her career has been guided by the simple belief that the arts belong in everyone’s life. Raised in LI, Reiss has worked in NYC, Pittsburgh and the Capital Region, in art museums, children museums, arts festivals and now as the CEO of the Arts Center of the Capital Region.
Reiss has worked as a museum educator, education department director, exhibitions manager and development and public relations director, as well as organizational leader. She is skilled in project development as well as strategic planning and business development. Her favorite creative projects have been developing Craft in the Classroom, a K-12 craft education curricula developed with the NYC board of education, renovating an empty storefront to become the Children’s Museum of the Arts in SoHo, and, as part of the Three Rivers Arts Festival in Pittsburgh, presenting public art projects that interacted with the environment.
Reiss has a BA from Bard College and an MS from Bank Street School for Education. She has played an active role in community and professional service organizations. In the past, she has served as the Chair of the NYC Museum Education Roundtable, VP of Greater Pittsburgh Arts Alliance and has served as a grants panelist for Institute of Museum and Library Services, New York State Council on the Arts, Cleveland Percent for Art, and the Pittsburgh Foundation.
