Bill Ivey

[3] He also served as the chairman of the National Academy of Recording Arts and Sciences (NARAS) from 1981 to 1983 and then again from 1989 to 1991,[4] the only individual elected to two separate terms.

Ivey was appointed chairman of the National Endowment for the Arts, by then-President Bill Clinton, serving from 1998 to 2001.

His "Challenge America" small-grant initiative is credited with restoring congressional confidence in the sometimes-embattled NEA.

[7] Following government service Ivey founded the Curb Center for Art, Enterprise and Public Policy, at Vanderbilt University, serving as director from 2002 to 2012.

[8] The center was endowed by Mike Curb, American musician, record company executive, motorsports car owner, and former politician.

He coined the phrase "Expressive Life" to define the part of the human experience shaped by cultural heritage and creative practice.

Ivey currently serves as senior advisor to the Mike Curb Foundation, as a trustee of the Washington, D.C.–based Center for American Progress, and is visiting research scholar to the Indiana University Department of Folklore and Ethnomusicology.