Pat Jones is serving as Eyebeam’s Interim Director while the Board conducts a national search for a new permanent Executive Director.  She has served as a consultant and as an Interim ED for a wide range of arts and other nonprofit organizations and has worked in the nonprofit field for over 30 years.  For 12 years she served as the Executive Vice President of the Alliance for the Arts, an information, research and policy organization serving arts organizations in New York City and the region, where she was responsible for the first city-wide study of the economic importance of the arts as well as programs in arts and education, cultural tourism, and guidesbooks, including A Guide to NYC Museums and the Kids Culture Catalog.  Pat was also the Executive Director of the South Florida Art Center, which offered studio and exhibition space to over 90 artists on Lincoln Road in Miami Beach, and of Nontraditional Employment for Women, a New York City-based organization training women for jobs in the construction trades.  Following a career in print and television journalism, her first nonprofit position was as the Associate Director of the Municipal Art Society. 

As a consultant, Pat has worked with organizations ranging from the Miami City Ballet and the North Miami Museum of Contemporary Art to Abraham House and The Resource Training Center, social service organizations in the Bronx and Brooklyn respectively.  She currently serves on the boards of the Maysles Documentary Center and The Theater at Monmouth (ME), and has been a board member of the Alliance for the Arts, Jennifer Muller/The Works, and the Architectural League.

Pat has an undergraduate degree from Harvard College and a Masters in Urban Planning from Columbia School of Architecture and Planning.