Jason Weeks

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Jason Weeks is the executive director of the Cambridge Arts Council, a city department and public nonprofit agency that engages residents and visitors through programming designed to stimulate awareness, participation, and support for the arts. Jason works with an advisory board, trustees of the nonprofit Cambridge Public Art Commission, elected officials, city administration, and agency staff to oversee an award-winning Public Art/Percent-for-Art program, the Cambridge Arts Grant Program, Cambridge Street Performer Program, and a variety of annual produced events including Cambridge Arts River Festival, Summer in the City, and Cambridge Arts Open Studios.

In addition to his role at Cambridge Arts, Jason is an adjunct lecturer in Arts Administration at Boston University and a founding board member for MASSCreative, a statewide arts advocacy organization supporting individual artists and communities throughout the Commonwealth of Massachusetts. Jason is a regular lecturer at area universities and participates in conferences to discuss effective strategies in arts administration and organizational effectiveness within the creative economy.