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Dennis Scholl

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Miami Program Director
Knight Foundation

Dennis Scholl is the Miami program director for Knight Foundation. He is responsible for the foundation's initiatives in South Florida, including the Knight Arts Challenge.

He has had a long involvement in philanthropy in the visual arts. Over the last dozen years, he was the founding chair of the Guggenheim Photography Committee, the Tate Modern American Acquisitions Committee and the Miami Art Museum Collectors Council. All of these groups raised funds and acquired contemporary art for these museums.

He has also been a board member of the Aspen Art Museum, the North Miami Museum of Contemporary Art and the chair of Locust Projects, an alternative art space.

He has been a contemporary art collector for over 30 years. He is a founder of Betts & Scholl, which makes wine in France, Italy, Australia and Napa Valley. He is also the cultural correspondent for Plum TV, a resort-based television network with eight stations across the U.S. Previously he was a practicing attorney and a C.P.A.

Scholl graduated from Florida International University with a B.B.A. and University of Miami with a J.D.

A high-resolution photo of Dennis is online here



Phone: (305) 908-2600
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