Ella baff biography
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Ella Baff
American art director
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Ella Baff accepting the National Medal of Arts from Barack Obama in 2011 |
Ella Baff was executive director of Jacob's Pillow from 1998 until 2015, where she was most known for her work as executive and artistic director of the annual Jacob's Pillow Dance Festival.
Ella baff biography
Education
Baff was born in New York City and grew up on the Upper East Side. While in high school she took dance and also studied piano, violin, and harp.[1] She began university at the University of New Mexico,[2] where she studied modern dance and English literature.[3] She received her undergraduate degree from the University of California, Berkeley in 1976.
Following graduation she held multiple jobs including teaching in juvenile prisons and on an island in the Aleutian Islands.[4]
Career
Until 1997 Baff was the director of education and community programming at Cal Performances, an arts organization at the Un