Aimée Petrin

Who We Are

Board of Directors

Josh LaBelle, Vice Chair

Nicole Borrelli Hearn

Maria Rosario Jackson

Aimée M. Petrin

Board Member through January 2011
ampetrin@portlandovations.org Aimee Petrin

Aimée M. Petrin is the Executive Director of Portland Ovations (previously PCA Great Performances), a 77-year-old, Portland, ME-based, multidisciplinary presenting organization. While at Ovations, Petrin has directed an organizational strategic plan; launched a new arts education and community-based outreach program; lead Ovations’ first commission of a new work; introduced an expanded contemporary dance series and is actively building audiences in dance, classical (including non-traditional) and world arts.

Petrin is active in the performing arts field, participating regularly in regional and national grants panels, artist showcase juries, advisory groups, curating excursions, and panel discussions. In addition to serving on the Arts Presenters board, she is a member of the Maine Arts Commission and the Bates Dance Festival Advisory Board. Petrin is a former Board Chair for the Arts Presenters of Northern New England and has been instrumental in initiating and supporting regional performing arts projects. She is the former Northeast partner representative to the National Performance Network. She has twice been invited by the New England Foundation for the Arts to act as a delegate in international exchanges with Mexico.

Petrin previously served for 9 years as the Programming Manager at the Flynn Center for the Performing Arts in Burlington, VT. While at the Flynn Center, her work with AXIS Dance Company helped garner the Flynn the first Innovation in Arts Access awards from MetLife and the Association of Performing Arts Presenters. In Vermont, she initiated longstanding partnerships focusing on diversity and arts access with the University of Vermont and other community organizations, designed and implemented artists' residencies, and produced site-specific performances with internationally recognized artists such as Meredith Monk, Eiko & Koma, Doug Varone, and Joanna Mendle Shaw. She graduated with honors and Phi Beta Kappa from the University of Vermont.