After serving as executive director of The Arts Council for almost four decades, Gladys Wyant has announced her retirement from the Gainesville non-profit.
A search committee chaired by Arts Council board member Ron Quinn has started a nationwide search to fill the position.
Wyant plans to step down this summer, although she will serve as a consultant to The Arts Council in the transition to new leadership, according to a press statement released Wednesday morning. Gladys has been with our organization for so long and wears so many hats - from fund-raising, arts programming and event planning to facility construction - that it will be very difficult to replace her, Quinn said. She will be leaving big shoes to fill as Gainesville s First Lady of the Arts.