LUNCH WITH DOMINIQUE ALFANDRE

August 9, 2025, 1:00 pm Eastern time (virtual event)
 

Dominique currently serves on the Boards of the Newport Performing Arts Center, the Arts & Cultural Alliance, and the RI State Council on the Arts. She also chairs the Board of the Newport String Project. 

Dominique has been involved in arts management since college, where she managed the Radcliffe Choral Society, produced plays, and inhaled a seminar in arts management taught by Tom Wolfe. On graduation, she moved to New York City, becoming Assistant Manager for Nikolais Dance Theatre and then a press representative at the Brooklyn Academy of Music. Dom moved to Newport with her husband, Thomas Palmer, in 1982, just at the time that Miki Ohlsen and a group of dancers were forming the Island Moving Company.

Now retired, she began first as a Board member with IMC and later as a paid manager, building the company into a Newport institution, with 5 staff and 18 dancers on salary. During that time, Dom became active in the arts community in Rhode Island and was especially interested in the need for a performing arts space for Newport. In a sometimes-quixotic effort to encourage artists and arts organizations to talk to each other, she helped found the RI Dance Consortium, RI Citizens for the Arts, and the Arts & Cultural Alliance of Newport County, which she chaired for eight years. She has worked as a consultant with Janice Kissinger at Non-Profit Advisory Services and has offered counsel to many fledgling arts organizations. She has also served on the Boards of Island Arts, RI Public TV, and Friends of Radcliffe Choral Society.

Dom currently serves on the Boards of the Newport Performing Arts Center, the Arts & Cultural Alliance, and the RI State Council on the Arts. She also chairs the Board of the Newport String Project. Dom was a 2005 RI Foundation Fellow and received the Arts & Business Council’s Arts Advocate Award. In 2010, she was recognized for her contribution to the arts community with the inaugural annual “Dominique Award” by the Arts & Cultural Alliance of Newport County.
 

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