Umberto Crenca

Bert Crenca
Born
Umberto Crenca

1950 (1950)
Alma materRhode Island College
SpouseSusan Clausen

Umberto "Bert" Crenca is an American artist, arts administrator, arts advisor and educator. He is known for being a founder and long-time artistic director of the non-profit arts organization, AS220, in Providence, Rhode Island. He has been credited with helping to "lay the groundwork for much of the cultural development that shaped the Providence imaginary in the 1990s and early decades of the 21st century" by scholar Micah Salkind,[1] and in 2010 was identified as one of Rhode Island's Most Influential People by Rhode Island Monthly.[2]

  1. ^ Salkind, Micah (2013). "Creative Revitalization As a Community Affair". In Breitbart, Myrna Margulies (ed.). Creative Economies in Post-Industrial Cities: Manufacturing a (Different) Scene. Routledge. ISBN 9781317158318 – via ebook Academic Collection (EBSCOhost).
  2. ^ "Powerful People". Rhode Island Monthly. 2010-09-17. Retrieved 2019-11-02.