Nevada Folklife Specialist Brad McMullen will provide tips for preparing proposals for state arts agencies. He will go over SAAs request for proposals, provide information on how to best respond with proposals, and useful information on what the process looks like on the SAA side to better understand what’s going on behind the scenes.

Brad McMullen lives in Las Vegas, NV, where he serves as the Folklife Specialist at the Nevada Arts Council. Before joining the NAC, he was the Programs and Gathering Manager at the Western Folklife Center in Elko, NV where he oversaw the National Cowboy Poetry Gathering and other programs. He has three master’s degrees – one in Public Folklore and one in Arts Administration, both from University of Oregon, and one in Welsh from Cardiff University.