The career of educator-arts administrator Fannie Turnbull Taylor (Fan Taylor) has been one of increasing involvement in the study and administration of programs in the arts and humanities on a local, state, and national level. At the time that her papers were processed in 1989 she was retired from her position in the arts administration program in the Graduate School of Business at the University of Wisconsin-Madison and was working on a history of the Memorial Union.
| 1913 September 11 |
Born in Kansas City, Missouri to Henry King and Fannie Sills Turnbull
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| 1938 |
AB, University of Wisconsin, after previously attending Vassar College
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| 1938 December 2 |
Married Robert Taylor; divorced 1974. Children Kathleen Muir Taylor Isaacs and Anne Kingston Taylor Wadsack
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| 1939-1942 |
Publicity director, Wisconsin Union Theatre
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| 1946 |
Publicity director, State Historical Society of Wisconsin
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| 1946-1966 |
Director, Wisconsin Union Theatre
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| 1957-1971 |
Founding member and executive secretary of the Association of College and University Concert Managers (ACUCM)
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| 1957-1972 |
Editor of ACUCM Bulletin
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| 1964-1972 |
Member of the board of directors of the Wisconsin Arts Council
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| 1966-1967 |
Director of the music program of the National Endowment for the Arts, later a music consultant for the NEA
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| 1967-1970 |
Coordinator, University of Wisconsin Arts Council
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| 1970 |
Consultant on Public Programs, National Endowment for the Humanities
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| 1970-1971 |
Director, University of Wisconsin Office of Arts Programs
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| 1970-1972 |
Associate director, Center for Arts Administration
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| 1971-1972 |
Executive director of Association of College, University, and Community Arts Administrators
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| 1972-1976 |
Director of Program Information, National Endowment for the Arts
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| 1979 |
Emeritus professor, University of Wisconsin
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| 1984 |
Published Arts at the New Frontier
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| 2008 April 15 |
Passed away in Madison, Wisconsin
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