The International Council of Fine Arts Deans
Award for Arts Achievement and Excellence
2005 Recipient: Shelley Cohn

Shelley Cohn served as the Executive Director of the Arizona Commission on the Arts for more than twenty years. She was involved in seeing the appropriation of the Arts Commission grow from 14 cents per capita to 80 cents per capita and in developing special funding initiatives including the Arizona Arts Trust Fund and Arizona ArtShare, the Arizona arts endowment fund.

Ms. Cohn has served on panels of the National Endowment for the Arts. She has served on the boards of the Western States Arts Federation, the National Assembly of State Arts Agencies and the Association of Performing Arts Presenters, and currently serves on the Dean's Fine Arts Council at Arizona State University. She holds a masters degree in Humanities from Arizona State University.