Profile

Affiliated departments:
Arts and Administration Program (AAD)
School of Architecture & Allied Arts (A&AA)
University of Oregon (UO)

Bill Flood is a community cultural development consultant with 25 years of experience working with public and private non-profit organizations. Primary areas of his work are facilitation and planning, program development/management/evaluation, and teaching/training. Current projects including assisting the Oregon Cultural Trust with capacity development of Oregon’s County and Tribal Cultural Coalitions, evaluating the Oregon Community Foundation’s Creative Heights Grants Program, and assisting the Multnomah Arts Center develop The Arts Cottages – shared facilities for small arts organizations and guilds. Bill served from 1996-2005 as the Community Development Coordinator for the Oregon Arts Commission. There he developed and managed the Arts Build Communities Grants Program and Arts Build Communities Technical Assistance Program, and he was one of the first staff at the Oregon Cultural Trust where he developed the grants program which supports county and tribal cultural coalitions. He holds a Master of Science degree in Community Systems Planning and Development from the Pennsylvania State University and is a 2008 recipient of a Fulbright Senior Specialist grant which enabled him to teach for the Cultural Management Program at the Potsdam Fachhochschule -- an applied sciences university in Potsdam, Germany. He currently works both in the U.S. and Germany, and he is adjunct faculty with the University of Oregon Arts Administration Program where he teaches Mobilizing Local Culture: Portland, Oregon (Summer 2014) and Community Cultural Development (Fall 2014). For more information about Bill and his work see http://www.billflood.org

Courses Taught
AAD 4/551 Community Cultural Development
AAD 4/522 Arts Program Theory: Participation and Evaluation