Theodora Ashmead
Contributor
BSR Contributor Since February 6, 2007
Broad Street Review publisher Theodora "Teddy" Ashmead
Theodora W. “Teddy” Ashmead brings nearly 20 years of non-profit cultural arts management, fund-raising and marketing experience to Broad Street Review.
She has raised funds for International House of Philadelphia, the Wilma Theater and currently Lantern Theater Company. She has also worked with such historic and environmental non-profit organizations as Bartram’s Garden, Lower Merion Conservancy and the Historic Grange. As an art history graduate student in New York, she worked for the Frick Art Reference Library, Bob Jones University Art Museum and founded her own corporate art consulting company, Ashmead and Rigney, whose clients included the HBO television network and Mitsui Bank.
Teddy Ashmead was raised in an academic family of professors, university administrators and authors. She was born in Taipei, Taiwan, grew up at Haverford College and has lived in India and Paris (through Fulbright and Guggenheim grants). She received her B.A. in archaeology from Bryn Mawr College and her M.A. in art history from the Institute of Fine Arts at New York University. She is a member of the Cosmopolitan Club of Philadelphia and the Franklin Inn Club, a Philadelphia club for writers and arts connoisseurs.
She has raised funds for International House of Philadelphia, the Wilma Theater and currently Lantern Theater Company. She has also worked with such historic and environmental non-profit organizations as Bartram’s Garden, Lower Merion Conservancy and the Historic Grange. As an art history graduate student in New York, she worked for the Frick Art Reference Library, Bob Jones University Art Museum and founded her own corporate art consulting company, Ashmead and Rigney, whose clients included the HBO television network and Mitsui Bank.
Teddy Ashmead was raised in an academic family of professors, university administrators and authors. She was born in Taipei, Taiwan, grew up at Haverford College and has lived in India and Paris (through Fulbright and Guggenheim grants). She received her B.A. in archaeology from Bryn Mawr College and her M.A. in art history from the Institute of Fine Arts at New York University. She is a member of the Cosmopolitan Club of Philadelphia and the Franklin Inn Club, a Philadelphia club for writers and arts connoisseurs.