Linda Earle

Senior Consultant

Linda Earle has worked across cultural disciplines as a funder, educator, curator, and nonprofit executive. For over 40 years, she has advocated for innovation, inclusion, access, and participation in arts and cultural organizations while leading the development of new platforms for creative practice. She launched and directed the new program in Fine Arts Management as Professor of Practice at Tyler School of Art at Architecture at Temple University in Philadelphia, creating curricula in cultural policy, the history of philanthropy in the arts, and management practices. Linda was a 2021 Visiting Scholar at the Pew Center for Art and Heritage during which time she produced essays and public programming on Black cultural archives.

Throughout her career, Linda has been an active board member for leading arts and educational organizations. She served as chair of Jerome Foundation board of trustees and is a long-time member of the Art Matters Foundation board. She also currently serves on the advisory boards of the Vera List Center for Art and Culture at the New School, and the Aspen Institute’s Artists Endowed Foundation Initiative. Previous board service included leadership roles with the Alliance of Artists Communities and the Alliance for Inclusion in the Arts. She was also a founding board member of the Sadie Nash Leadership project to equip youth as agents for change in their lives and in the world.

As a funder and advisor, Linda has served on numerous grant, awards, and commissioning panels including: the National Endowment for the Arts; the National Endowment for the Humanities; the New York State Council on the Arts; Pew Trust’s Cultural Management Initiative; The Rauschenberg Archives Research Residency; The Philadelphia Cultural Treasures Fellowships; 3ARTS, Chicago; The McConnell Trust Fellowship Program of the Rhode Island Foundation; the Pittsburgh Sport & Exhibition Authority; the Julie Taymor International Fellowship; and New Dramatists. In addition, she served on the College Art Association’s Excellence in Diversity Awards Committee and is currently advising Tyler’s Accessibility Working Group.  

Before joining Tyler, Linda was the Executive Director of the Great Lakes Colleges Association’s New York Arts Program, a semester-long academic and professional development intensive for undergraduates from a consortium of colleges and universities in the U.S. and around the world. Previously, she served as Director of the Skowhegan School of Painting and Sculpture and as Senior Program Director at the New York State Council on the Arts, where she helped found Individual Artists Program and she managed the Visual Arts and Museum Programs.

Linda has taught film and cultural studies at Mason Gross School of the Arts, Rutgers University, Hunter CUNY, and Barnard College. She has given public talks and has published articles and essays on cultural policy, individual artists’ practices, the creative process, and education.

In addition to Linda’s roles in nonprofit leadership, she has held residencies at Hedgebrook and the Writers Room, and continues her creative practice and curatorial collaboration.

Linda holds an M.F.A. in Film Theory and Criticism from Columbia University and a B.A. from Hampshire College.