Malden Arts Founding President Naomi Brave retiring with stellar accomplishments

  With hearts full of appreciation, admiration and sadness, too, Malden Arts announces that founding president, Naomi Brave, is passing on the mantle of leadership.

  Naomi and Kelvy Bird founded Malden Arts in 2005, and beginning in 2006, Naomi Brave has led the organization through an amazing series of accomplishments: Window Arts Malden, the Switchbox Project, the Salon Series, initiating Little Free Libraries, Malden Pop-ups and the birth of the Malden Arts ARTLine bringing public art to Malden streets and the Northern Strand Community Trail. Always with a small band of volunteers and the citizenry and elected officials behind her, Naomi has led the way.

  She leaves Malden Arts in a good place with more murals and a pocket park in the planning stages, and she will continue as a volunteer in the organization.

  The board of Malden Arts happily announces that the vote was unanimous for naming Ari Taylor as the new president of Malden Arts. Ari Taylor’s energy and enthusiasm for the arts, for Malden and for all its citizens is a perfect match to her new role.