Lili AndersonLili Anderson will be the inaugural executive director of Visual and Performing Arts for the University of Alabama at Birmingham.
Anderson will have chief executive responsibilities for the activities of the Alys Stephens Performing Arts Center and the Abroms-Engel Institute for Visual Arts, effective March 15.
Anderson was selected after a national search. She has served as the interim executive director of the Alys Stephens Center since March 2018.
This will be the first time the Alys Stephens Center, which opened in 1996, and AEIVA, which opened in 2014, have shared a single leader.
“Combining these two important arts assets reflects UAB’s commitment to interdisciplinary collaboration in the visual and performing arts to UAB students, faculty and staff, as well as to the broader Birmingham and Alabama communities,” said Pam Benoit, Ph.D., senior vice president of Academic Affairs and provost at UAB.
Anderson says she is honored and excited to take on the role.
“I look forward to working with our talented team to engage the creative forces within our campus and community that are changing the arts landscape in Birmingham,” Anderson said.
Anderson joined UAB as senior director of Development at the Alys Stephens Center in 2008, after serving in development and membership roles at the Birmingham Museum of Art. She received her undergraduate degree in international trade and Spanish from Auburn University, and her MBA in entrepreneurship from Syracuse University.