Vicki Meek

Vicki Meek, a native of Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, is a nationally recognized artist who has exhibited widely. She boasts a 40+ year career as an arts administrator, working as a state and local arts agency Senior administrator as well as Executive Director of a nonprofit visual arts institution.

In addition, Vicki Meek is an independent curator and writes cultural criticism for Dallas Weekly with her blog Art & Racenotes (http://art-racenotes.blogspot.com) and wrote a monthly column, ARTiculate for TheaterJones, an online performing arts magazine which will launch as a podcast on DallasWeekly.com in 2020. Meek is also an adjunct faculty member for UMass Arts Extension Program in Amherst, Massachusetts where she teaches an online course in Cultural Equity In The Arts.

After 20 years, Vicki Meek retired in March 2016 as the Manager of the South Dallas Cultural Center in Dallas, Texas, a division of the City of Dallas Office of Cultural Affairs. She served on the board of National Performance Network/Visual Artists Network 2008-15 and was Chair from 2012-2014. In 2016, she was selected to be a Fellow in the Intercultural Leadership Institute and is a voting member of Alternate Roots, an arts service organization serving Southern artists. Meek’s grants and awards include: National Endowment for the Arts NFRIG Grant; Dallas Observer MasterMind Award; Dallas Museum of Art Otis and Velma Davis Dozier Travel Grant; Texas Black Filmmakers Mission Award; Women of Visionary Influence Mentor Award and Dallas Women’s Foundation Maura Award.

Vicki Meek is currently a full- time artist who splits her time between Dallas and Costa Rica where she is Chief Operating Officer and Board Member of USEKRA: Center for Creative Investigation, a non-profit retreat for creatives in a wide range of disciplines founded by internationally acclaimed performance artist Elia Arce. Meek is Dallas Mayor Eric Johnson’s at-large appointee to the Arts and Culture Commission and the Public Art Committee.