“Kendra Whitlock Ingram has landed in Milwaukee as president and chief executive officer of Marcus Performing Arts Center,” writes Bill Glauber in Thursday’s (12/12) Milwaukee Journal Sentinel. “Ingram, who is currently executive director of the University of Denver’s Newman Center for the Performing Arts, will start in Milwaukee in March.” Ingram is an alumna of the League of American Orchestras’ Orchestra Management Fellowship Program. “Ingram will take over … amid a planned renovation project and the upcoming loss of a key tenant, the Milwaukee Symphony Orchestra, which will move into [the renovated Warner Grand Theatre] in 2020…. Previously, Ingram was vice president of programming and education at the Omaha Performing Arts Center. She also had leadership roles with the Shenandoah Conservatory, Baltimore Symphony Orchestra, Detroit Symphony Orchestra, Phoenix Symphony Orchestra and Tulsa Philharmonic. She is a board member of the Association of Performing Arts Professionals and previously was a member of The Broadway League’s diversity committee. ‘Diversity and inclusion for the arts have always been something that interests me,’ she said. ‘I am a woman of color myself. Particularly in the classical music industry … there’s not a lot of people who look like me. It’s starting to grow.’ ”
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