Frances Bradley Acting CEO & Artistic Director, Tapology, Inc.
Frances Bradley is a multidisciplinary artist, creative leader, and arts educator who now leads Tapology, Inc. as Acting CEO and Artistic Director. She holds a Bachelor of Fine Arts in Illustration from The University of the Arts in Philadelphia and an Executive MBA for Arts Innovation from The Global Leaders Institute, where she was selected as one of just 60 global arts leaders to receive a prestigious fellowship.
At Tapology, Ms. Bradley oversees programming that preserves the history of tap dance and promotes arts education through performance and community outreach. On a national scale, she served as Learning and Development Facilitator for the REACH initiative, an $8.5 million federally funded arts integration grant, where she coordinated over 40 teaching artists and 250 educators across 55 Title I schools nationwide.
Her teaching experience spans institutions including New College of Florida, the University of Michigan-Flint, the American Tap Dance Foundation, Mark Morris Dance Group, and arts organizations across the United States, the Caribbean, and South America.
Ms. Bradley is recognized for using the arts as a vehicle for social change. Her acclaimed series “Womanhood or Woman’s-Hurt: The Art of Healing” presents her autobiographical visual narrative as a survivor of sexual assault. She has presented this advocacy work at the United Nations Conference on the Elimination of Racial Discrimination in Geneva, Switzerland.
Her artwork has appeared in publications including Ghubar Magazine (Paris), The Guardian, and Black Art in America, with exhibitions both nationally and internationally.