The Center for Arts at the Armory (CAA) is delighted to announce the appointment of Bart Reidy to its Board of Directors. Bart Reidy is a nonprofit strategist and senior advancement executive with more than 25 years of experience guiding major arts organizations through periods of growth, transition, and strategic planning. He spent 16 years at the Boston Symphony Orchestra, holding several senior roles including Chief Strategy Officer. He led the BSO’s Beyond Measure and Tanglewood Forever campaigns. Previously, he served in key leadership positions at the Tony Award–winning Williamstown Theatre Festival. Since 2017, Bart has advised performing arts organizations nationwide and recently served as founding principal of Arrow Street Arts in Harvard Square.

Bart Reidy joins Hathalee Higgs (President), Neil Berman (Treasurer), Ruth Faris (Clerk), Ivan Abarca and Amanda Klein as members of CAA’s Board of Directors.

The Center for Arts at the Armory is located at 191 Highland Avenue, Somerville, MA 02143. To learn more please visit our website, artsatthearmory.org, our Facebook page, and follow us on Instagram at @ArtsattheArmory. Join our mailing list here.

About The Center for Arts at the Armory: 

The Center for Arts at the Armory (CAA) is a non-profit organization that resides in a historic Armory building, serving Somerville and the Greater Boston community through arts, cultural and community events, exhibitions, markets, classes and more. CAA’s mission is to provide an inclusive and accessible venue that creates opportunities for artists and cultural workers, brings diverse audiences together, enriches and transforms lives, and promotes the creative economy. In addition to the many events that CAA hosts that are produced independently of CAA, CAA has five signature programs: The Spotlight Series, The Performance Opportunity Program (POP), The Somerville Winter Farmers Market, Feet Keep the Beat Festival and ROOTED Armory Cafe Visual Arts Exhibitions.

The repurposed Armory opened its doors as a community arts center in 2008, and Arts at the Armory became the anchor tenant in the building, operating the Performance Hall and Café. Each year Arts at the Armory serves over 200,000 people through 750+ events in disciplines including music, dance, theater, literary arts, visual arts, film, circus, comedy and more. Arts at the Armory provides free and accessibly priced venues to performing arts, cultural and community groups of Greater Boston. The Arts at the Armory Performance Hall and ROOTED Armory Café also provide a vast and inspiring panorama of arts and cultural events to audiences throughout the year. Arts at the Armory hosts dozens of markets each year, which promote the creative economy, local businesses and community economic development. Both the Cafe and the Hall are available for private rentals.