Daniel Ellison is an attorney in private practice in Durham, NC., concentrating in arts law. He has been working with individual artists, performing arts organizations, arts entrepreneurs, and non-profit organizations for over twenty years and has helped numerous arts organizations obtain their tax-exempt status. He is a frequent speaker and writer on a variety of arts law issues. He regularly teaches a course in the Duke University Department of Theater Studies on “Legal Issues for the Performing Arts” and also teaches a course on “Non-profit Arts & Cultural Institutions.” He has also taught “Legal Aspects of Art & Entertainment” in the Elon University arts administration program and a similar course in the Masters Program in Design & Production at the UNC School of the Arts. He writes a legal issues column for the Southeastern Theatre Conference bi-monthly newsletter and has been a presenter at their convention for each of the past 11 years. His column, “Ask the Arts Lawyer,” appeared in each issue of ArtSee Magazine. He has served on a number of arts organization boards and is currently President of the Durham Arts Council, Chairman of the Board of the North Carolina Central University Art Museum and is a Secretary/Treasurer of the Friends of the Gregg Art Museum (at NCSU). He is a member of the Durham Cultural Advisory Board. He is past president and executive director of the NC Volunteer Lawyers for the Arts and former chair of the NC Bar Association’s Arts Law Committee. He developed Durham Arts Place, celebrating its eighteenth anniversary of providing affordable artist studio spaces inside the loop in Downtown Durham. He is a 2007 recipient of an Indie Arts Award and has received the Durham Jaycees Community Leadership in the Arts Award. In his spare time, he is an avid photographer.