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Emerging Leader Council: Member Bios

Ben Fyffe
Arts & Education Program Coordinator
City of El Paso Museums and Cultural Affairs Department
2 Civic Center Plaza, 1st Floor
El Paso, Texas 79901
T 915.541.4899
E-mail: fyffebe@elpasotexas.gov
Website: www.elpasoartsandculture.org

Ben Fyffe

Ben Fyffe is the arts education program coordinator for the City of El Paso Museums and Cultural Affairs Department, where he works to interface the programs and needs of artists, arts organizations, and schools and oversees a teaching artist program serving 40,000 annually. Previously, Fyffe was youth docent program coordinator at the Austin Museum of Art and most recently assistant head of education at the El Paso Museum of Art, where he directed a bilingual touring program that served 25,000 students annually; produced exhibition-related curriculum distributed biannually to 16,000 educators throughout Texas’ Region 19; and managed outreach to at-risk schools along the U.S.-Mexico Border. Fyffe juried the 2005 Texas Biennial and has curated several exhibitions, including YLA 10: The 10th Young Latino Artists Exhibition at Austin’s Mexic-Arte Museum, under a program encouraging young Latino curators to showcase emerging artists’ work. Fyffe has led workshops fostering children’s and underserved audience’s accessibility to visual art throughout Texas and currently serves as a review panelist for the Texas Commission on the Arts. He holds a B.A. in art history from the University of Texas at Austin, was a 2007 Wallace Foundation Fellow and was recently honored in 2008 by Texas Senator Eliot Shapleigh with the ¡Adelante Con Ganas! Award for his work bringing the arts into underserved classrooms.