Carlton Turner will talk with Artistic Director, Sue Schroeder on October 2 at 6:30 PM. Tune in at coredance.org/livestream!
Carlton Turner is an artist, agriculturalist, builder, researcher, and co-founder/co-director of the Mississippi Center for Cultural Production (Sipp Culture). He has more than 20 years of organizational development and management experience working in the arts and culture sector. He currently serves on the board of First People’s Fund, Grantmakers in the Arts, and the National Black Food and Justice Alliance. Carlton is a founding partner of the Intercultural Leadership Institute and the former Executive Director of Alternate ROOTS. He lives and works in in Utica, MS where his family has been rooted for eight generations.
Carlton is an Interdisciplinary Research Fellow with the Robert Woods Johnson Foundation, was a finalist for the AFTA 2023 Johnson Fellowship, and was named to the Yerba Buena Center for the Arts YBCA100 in 2021. He is also a former Ford Foundation Art of Change Fellow and Cultural Policy Fellow at the Creative Placemaking Institute at Arizona State University’s Herberger Institute for Design in the Arts.
Carlton Turner is also co-founder and co-artistic director, along with his brother Maurice Turner, of the group M.U.G.A.B.E.E. (Men Under Guidance Acting Before Early Extinction). M.U.G.A.B.E.E. is a Mississippi-based performing arts group that blends of jazz, hip-hop, spoken word poetry and soul music together with non-traditional storytelling.
Carlton was awarded the Sidney Yates Award for Advocacy in the Performing Arts by the Association of Performing Arts Professionals (2018). Carlton has also received the M. Edgar Rosenblum award for outstanding contribution to Ensemble Theater (2011) and the Otto René Castillo Awards for Political Theatre (2015).
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