Markus Gottschlich, Executive Director of the Warehouse Arts District Association since 2022, is stepping down and will leave the organization at the end of July.<\/p>\n
In its announcement, the WADA board did not specify a reason for Gottschlich\u2019s departure, but noted that he \u201cspearheaded a period of significant institutional growth and campus revitalization,\u201d expanding its footprint and programming, as well as securing \u201ccritical\u201d funding.<\/p>\n
\u201cThe Board extends its deepest gratitude to Markus for his transformative dedication and wishes him every success in his future endeavors,\u201d it said.<\/p>\n
In a Facebook post, WADA also announced the departures of Manager of Events Rodolfo Troncoso and Director of Arts Education and Community Outreach Vicky Lang.<\/p>\n
Chris Eaton, former director of the Sunscreen Film Festival, has been named Interim Executive Director.<\/p>\n
Gottschlich has been a staunch supporter of artists\u2019 rights in St. Petersburg. \u201cA city that prides itself on the arts would do well to increase the integration and frequency of arts leaders in planning and budgeting decision-making processes,\u201d he told the Catalyst during his first year.<\/p>\n
\u201cCreating and nurturing vibrant art spaces as the city expands is not only the \u2018right thing to do,\u2019 it increases measurable standards such as walkability, profits in the surrounding hospitality and service industry venues and the overall quality of life factors \u2013 to name a few.<\/p>\n
\u201cTo do this well, the arts and culture venues, let alone entire districts, need to be treated and nurtured as public assets.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Markus Gottschlich, Executive Director of the Warehouse Arts District Association since 2022, is stepping down and will leave…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":333346,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[13],"tags":[202,204,203,199,201,200],"class_list":["post-333345","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-st-petersburg","tag-st-pete","tag-st-pete-headlines","tag-st-pete-news","tag-st-petersburg","tag-st-petersburg-headlines","tag-st-petersburg-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/333345","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=333345"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/333345\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/333346"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=333345"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=333345"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=333345"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}