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     STATE OF RHODE ISLAND

IN GENERAL ASSEMBLY

JANUARY SESSION, A.D. 2022

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H O U S E   R E S O L U T I O N

CONGRATULATING RANDALL ROSENBAUM ON HIS RETIREMENT FROM THE

STATE OF RHODE ISLAND AFTER TWENTY-SEVEN YEARS OF DISTINGUISHED,

INNOVATIVE AND INSPIRING SERVICE AS THE EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR OF THE

RHODE ISLAND STATE COUNCIL ON THE ARTS

     Introduced By: Representatives Carson, Shekarchi, Blazejewski, Ruggiero, Cortvriend,
Messier, Alzate, Fellela, Kennedy, and Fenton-Fung

     Date Introduced: January 11, 2022

     Referred To: House read and passed

     WHEREAS, Mr. Randall Rosenbaum holds a Bachelor of Music Education degree from

Temple University. Before assuming his current position, he had a distinguished career within the

music and arts nonprofit community. He managed orchestras and nonprofit arts organizations in

Florida, Georgia, and Ohio. He also served as site visitor and panelist for the National

Endowment for the Arts in the Dance, Theatre, Musical Theatre/Opera, and state and regional

programs, and as a panelist for the state arts agencies of New York, New Jersey, Maryland,

Connecticut and Massachusetts, and as a panelist for the Mid-Atlantic Arts Foundation, The

Heinz Endowment of Pittsburgh, and Cuyahoga Arts & Culture in Cleveland. From 1984 to 1995,

he was employed in numerous capacities with the Pennsylvania Council on the Arts, including as

Deputy Director and Director of the Dance and Presenting Organizations Programs; and

     WHEREAS, Since becoming the Executive Director of the Rhode Island State Council

on the Arts in 1995, Mr. Rosenbaum has served as the State's leading arts advocate under five

governors. Thanks to his tireless work ethic, innovative approach to the arts, and superb

leadership skills, he has overseen an arts sector that contributes more than two billion dollars to

the Rhode Island economy; and

     WHEREAS, During Mr. Rosenbaum’s tenure, funding for the Rhode Island Council on

the Arts has increased by more than 800 percent, the Cultural Facilities Grant Program was

created, and programs for nonprofit arts organizations, individual artists, schools and teaching

artists have expanded, receiving thirty million dollars in bond support. Under his leadership,

nearly seventy works of public art were commissioned for State facilities. Additionally, he

created public arts galleries in the State’s main administration building, T.F. Green International

and Block Island airports, and arts programs that honor and reflect the wonderful cultural

diversity of our State. Also, all official portraits of Rhode Island Governors since Lincoln

Almond have been commissioned by the Rhode Island State Council on the Arts and painted by

Rhode Island artists; and

     WHEREAS, Thanks to the many professional contacts and friends he has made

throughout the national arts community, and the high regard he is universally held in by his peers,

Mr. Rosenbaum was able to build strong and enduring partnerships with federal, state and private

entities including the Rhode Island Department of Environmental Management, Department of

Education, Department of Health, and the City of Providence’s Department of Art, Culture &

Tourism; and

     WHEREAS, In 2004, Mr. Rosenbaum brought the Rhode Island Film and Television

Office into the State Arts Council. Since then, the Rhode Island Film and Television Office has

made its mark on the State of Rhode Island, attracting many world-class feature film and

television productions to Rhode Island, and generating many important jobs and resources in the

communities throughout the State; and

     WHEREAS, Most recently, the Rhode Island State Council on the Arts established its

most recent Strategic Plan based on values-based programming in order to ensure that equity and

inclusion will be important parts of the arts and culture community through its funding and

professional development programs; and

     WHEREAS, In his free time, Mr. Rosenbaum is a practicing musician who has sung

professionally in churches and synagogues, as well as with performing groups throughout the

East Coast. He has also taught arts administration courses, classes, and seminars at Brown

University and Rhode Island College, and serves on the Board of the New England Foundation

for the Arts, and the Board of the National Assembly of State Arts Agencies; now, therefore be it

     RESOLVED, That this House of Representatives of the State of Rhode Island hereby

congratulates Randall Rosenbaum on his retirement after twenty-seven years of distinguished and

exemplary service as the Executive Director of the Rhode Island State Council on the Arts; and

be it further

     RESOLVED, That the Secretary of State be and hereby is authorized and directed to

transmit a duly certified copy of this resolution to Mr. Randall Rosenbaum, Executive Director of

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     the Rhode Island State Council on the Arts.

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