A search is underway for a new director at a prominent nonprofit organization in New Canaan after the woman who has filled the post for the past decided to step down, officials announced Tuesday.
Valerie Garlick. Published with her permission
Valerie Garlick had served as executive director at Carriage Barn Arts Center for about one year, and will continue in the role through Aug. 10, according to a press release from the organization.
She will take on the same role at the 1826-founded Institute Library in New Haven, according to the release.
“I leave my position at the Carriage Barn with no small amount of sadness,” Garlick said in an email to members of the New Canaan Society for the Arts, which oversees the Carriage Barn. “The Carriage Barn is an exciting and vibrant resource for New Canaan. I will miss the opportunity to continue to explore the many new and imaginative ways in which this unique structure can and will, in the coming years, add to the richness of the cultural scene in New Canaan.”
She had succeeded New Canaanites Eleanor Flatow and Arianne Kolb, who worked about two years as co-directors of the Carriage Barn Arts Center.
New Canaan’s Serena Gillespie, who serves as president of NCSA’s board of directors, said in a press release Garlick helped advance the organization’s missing “with her creativity, innovation, warmth and hard work.”
“The board very much enjoyed our collaboration and will miss her,” Gillespie said.
The NCSA Board of Directors now is searching for a new director. Those interested in learning more should contact Gillespie at sgillespie@carriagebarn.org.