Tetia Lee

Tetia Lee is the Executive Director of the Tippecanoe Arts Federation, an arts council and umbrella organization for a fourteen county region in North Central Indiana. Over the last 20 years, Lee has served as Gallery Director, Professor, and Outreach Coordinator in her positions throughout the state. Lee holds fine art degrees from the School of the Art Institute, the American Academy of Art, Florence Academy of Art, Indiana State University and Texas Tech respectively. As executive director, Lee has developed and implemented programs to ensure access to the arts to at-risk and underserved youth, leadership for a cultural plan, and elevated the profile of the organization and its programs around the region, throughout the state and at a national level. Lee is a board member of Indiana Arts Connects, the West Lafayette Public Library Foundation, the Lafayette Police Foundation, and the Quality of Life Council of Greater Lafayette. Lee is a 2009 Joyce Fellow for Americans for the Arts.