Freeport, August 20, 2020 – The Arts and Cultural Alliance of Freeport (ACAF) has elected Nancy Salmon as Interim President of its Board of Directors. Nancy is a founding member of ACAF. She retired from Bates College in 2013 where she was Assistant Director for the Bates Dance Festival and Adjunct Faculty in the Theater and Dance Department. She directed the Arts in Education Program at the Maine Arts Commission from 1987 to 2002, helped develop the Maine Department of Education’s Visual and Performing Arts Learning Standards, and is an author of the Maine Dance Curriculum Guide.  Nancy directed the Dance Program at the University of Southern Maine from 1981 to 1996 and is currently a free-lance performer, choreographer and teacher. Nancy earned her BFA from the North Carolina School of the Arts and her MFA from the Tisch School of New York University.

 Arts & Cultural Alliance of Freeport (ACAF) was formed in 2015 to support and promote arts and culture in Freeport.