Craig T. Peterson, currently the Program Director for Arts, Culture and Historic Preservation at the New York Community Trust, has served in numerous leadership positions at arts and cultural institutions over the past thirty years. Most recently he served as President of the Lower Manhattan Cultural Council, the borough’s arts council. For six years he was Vice President of Visual and Performing Arts at Henry Street Settlement and the Executive Artistic Director of the Abrons Arts Center. In prior positions he was the Director of Programs at Gibney Dance and the Director of the annual Philly Fringe Festival. For ten years he served on the staff of Dance Theater Workshop and for four years he was the organization’s Co-Artistic Director. He is a graduate of the Executive Leadership Program of Columbia University’s School of Business and he received a BA in Theater and Dance from Bard College.
