Presenter

Ming Ng

Vice President of Community Engagement, The Music Center

Ming Ng is vice president, community engagement for The Music Center. She joined the organization in 2004 to launch and build public engagement programming, known as Active Arts®, which she has shaped, guided and directed since its inception. Occupying the intersection of participation and innovation within the context of an anchor arts institution in a major urban metropolis, Active Arts® is a multi-year recipient of The James Irvine Foundation’s Artistic Innovation Fund, which awards critical funding to forward-thinking public engagement programming in major museums and performing arts organizations throughout the state of California.

Over the past 12 years, The Music Center’s engagement programming has provided hundreds of interdisciplinary arts-based opportunities¬—dance, instrumental and vocal music, and story sharing—and served thousands of people from all walks of life. This programming has connected with local arts and public service organizations in the community and introduced diverse audiences reflective of the changing demographics of Los Angeles to The Music Center. In addition to engagement programming, Ng has also shepherded other programming initiatives, such as The Music Center’s Speakers Series and Global Pop in The Music Center’s Walt Disney Concert Hall and the Dorothy Chandler Pavilion.

Ng serves on the New California Arts Fund Steering Group and has been an invited panelist for the Canadian Arts Summit in Toronto to speak on “Creating a Culture of Innovation: Making Space for Change.” Ng has also spoken on “Active Participation in the Arts” for Denver Arts & Venues/Denver Performing Arts Complex and the Valley Performing Arts Center, California State University, Northridge; at the Grantmakers in the Arts Conference 2014 on “A New Era of Partnership: Developing Enhanced Relationships with Grantees”; for the Arts Regional Initiative at the invitation of TCC Group on “Data, Evaluation and Learning”; and the Department of Urban Planning at UCLA on “Artists, Designers, and Cultural Organizations in Community Revitalization”; among other speaking platforms.

Originally from Singapore, Ng served as program assistant at the Getty Grant Program, program associate at the Center for Intercultural Performance and company manager for Lincoln Center’s Peony Pavilion and Sankai Juku. Ng hold a bachelor’s degree in business administration from the University of Hawaii, Manoa, and M.F.A. in choreography and M.A. in urban planning from UCLA.