People

Presenters

Tori Abernathy
/ Power Makes Us Sick
Mark Allen
Executive Director / Machine Project
todd ayoung
Mr / Artist of Color Bloc
Kenneth Bailey
Principal / Design Studio for Social Intervention
Jeff Barnett-Winsby
Executive Co-Director / Wassaic Project
Liat Berdugo
Co-founder + Co-curator / Living Room Light Exchange
Mike Blockstein
Principal / Public Matters
Anahita Bradberry
/ DIRT
Henriette Brouwers
Associate Director / Los Angeles Poverty Department
Edmund Cardoni
Executive Director / Hallwalls Contemporary Arts Center
Demone Carter
Creative Catalyst / The School of Arts and Culture at Mexican Heritage Plaza
Melinda Childs
Development Director / ArtStart Rhinelander
Jackie Clay
Executive Director / Coleman Center for the Arts
Irina Contreras
independent artist/educator / independent artist/educator
Hoesy Corona
Founding Co-Director / Labbodies
Maya Crawford
/ Ash Studios
Jenna Crowder
Founding Editor / The Chart
Juan Cruz
Project coordinator Artist / Ash Studios
Paolo Davanzo
EPFC Co-op Member / Echo Park Film Center
Martina Dodd
Founding Editor / DIRT
Xandra Eden
Executive Director & Chief Curator / DiverseWorks
Matthew Fluharty
Executive Director / Art of the Rural
Jack Forinash
First Mate / Homeboat
David Evans Frantz
Curator / ONE National Gay & Lesbian Archives at the USC Libraries
Jennifer Ganata
Land Use Advocate / Inner City Law Center
Noe Gaytan
/ Michelada Think Tank
Matthew Glassman
Co-Artistic Director / Double Edge Theatre
Kian Goh
Assistant Professor of Urban Planning / UCLA
Andrea Gordillo
/ Artists of Color Bloc
Kelly Gregory
/ Homeboat
Deana Haggag
President & CEO / United States Artists
Kimi Hanauer
Artist + Founding Editor / Press Press
Margo Handwerker
/ M12
Onya Hogan-Finlay
Co-Founder / The Bookmobile Collective
Emily Hopkins
executive director / Side Street Projects
Peter Hudson
/ UCLA
Sarrita Hunn
co-founder/editor / Temporary Art Review
Brett Hunter
Director / Hornell Community Arts Center and Broadway Union
Jamillah James
Curator / Institute of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles
Jennifer Joy Jameson
Programs and Media Director / Alliance for California Traditional Arts/The Art of the Rural
Kelletria Jolly
Founder / Women in Jazz Jam Festival
Gelare Khoshgozaran
cofounding editor / contemptorary
Eunsong Kim
co-editor / contemptorary
Spencer Kroll
Coxswain / Homeboat
Ikram Lakhdhar
Founding Editor / DIRT
Nicole Lavelle
Co-Organizer / PLACE TALKS
jason lazarus
Assistant Professor of Art and Art History / University of South Florida
Ellie Lee
Executive Director / Equitable Vitrines
Ricky Lee
Communications Consultant / Mr. Ricky Lee
Candice Lin
/ guest of contemptorary
Jessica Lynne
Co-Editor/ARTS.BLACK / ARTS.BLACK
Charlie Macquarie
/ PLACE TALKS
Hayk Makhmuryan
/ Skid Row Design Collective
John Malpede
Artistic Director / Los Angeles Poverty Department
Jordan Martin
Co-Founder & Editor / DIRT
Nat May
Executive Director / Hewnoaks Artist Colony
James McAnally
Editor / Temporary Art Review
Lauren McCarthy
/ UCLA Design Media Arts / Processing Foundation
Julia Meltzer
Director / Clockshop
Mario Mesquita
/ Michelada Think Tank
Shefali Mistry
/ Michelada Think Tank
elissa moorhead
Artist / TNEG
Katrina Neumann
Co-Founder / res
Emiko Ono
Program Officer / The Hewlett Foundation
Georgie Payne
Co-Founder and Editor, DIRT / DIRT
Calvin Phelps
Director / Pike School of Art - Mississippi
Ada Pinkston
Founding Co-Director / LabBodies
Shirley Ramirez Batun
Urban Futures Lab Fellow / Public Matters
Neil Ramsay
Founder/Director / ArtsUP! Concepts
Darryl Ratcliff
Co-Founder / Ash Studios
Gina Reichert
/ Power House Productions
Lisa Rybovich Crallé
Co-Founder & Co-Director / Heavy Breathing
Erin Salazar
Executive Director / Exhibition District
Sheila Sampath
Principle, Creative Director / The Public Studio
Carolyn Sams
Co-Founder / First Seating
Elizabeth Sanders
General Manager / WMMT-FM (Appalshop)
Sebastien Sanz de Santamaria
Co-founder | Director of Operations / Residency Unlimited
Richard Saxton
Founder + Director / M12 STUDIO
Antonio Serna
Collective Member / Artists of Color Bloc
Jody Servon
Professor / Appalachian State University
Cameron Shaw
Executive Director and Founding Editor / Pelican Bomb
Kira Simon-Kennedy
Co-Founder & Director / China Residencies
Ashley Sparks
/
Shar Starks
/ The Echo Park Film Center
Maria del Rosario Talevi
architect / independent
Elizabeth Timme
Co-Executive Director / LA MĂ¡s
Jack Tse
Real Estate Consultant / Northern California Community Loan Fund (NCCLF)
Raber Umphenour
Director, Co-Founder / Midway Artist Studios
jina valentine
/ UNC Chapel Hill
Elia Vargas
Co-Founder, Co-Curator / Living Room Light Exchange
Fred Villanueva
Co-Founding Artist / Ash Studios
Maysoun Wazwaz
/ 100 Days Action
Mary Welcome
Citizen Artist / M12
Valerie Wiseman
Founding Editor / DIRT
Rosten Woo
/
Nicholas Wylie
Associate Director / Southern Exposure
mimi zeiger
/ independent
Bowie Zunino
Executive Co-Director / Wassaic Project

Organizers

Dana Bishop-Root

Program Director//Co-Founder / Braddock Carnegie Library//Transformazium

Elizabeth Chodos

Director / Miller Gallery

Amanda Choo Quan

Communications + Membership Manager / Common Field

Courtney Fink

Director and Co-Founder / Common Field

Matthew Fluharty

Executive Director / Art of the Rural

Hannah Grossman

Convening Manager / Common Field

Deana Haggag

President & CEO / United States Artists

Eric Kim

Human Resources

Aurora Tang

Center for Land Use Interpretation

Sarah Williams

Managing Director / Women's Center for Creative Work

Attendees

Tori Abernathy
Power Makes Us Sick
Berlin, Berlin

Mark Allen
Machine Project
los angeles, CA

todd ayoung
Artist of Color Bloc
Ithaca, NY

Kenneth Bailey
Design Studio for Social Intervention
Roxbury, MA

Jeff Barnett-Winsby
Wassaic Project
Wassaic, NY

Liat Berdugo
Living Room Light Exchange
Berkeley, CA

Dana Bishop-Root
Braddock Carnegie Library//Transformazium
Braddock, PA

Felix Blesch
Cat Castle
Ramona, OK

Stev Blesch
Cat Castle
Ramona, OK

Mike Blockstein
Public Matters
Los Angeles, CA

Anahita Bradberry
DIRT
Brooklyn, NY

Henriette Brouwers
Los Angeles Poverty Department
Santa Monica, CA

Lexi Brown
Artadia
Los Angeles, CA

Trevor Byrne
Fathomers
Los Angeles, CA

Edmund Cardoni
Hallwalls Contemporary Arts Center
Buffalo, NY

Demone Carter
The School of Arts and Culture at Mexican Heritage Plaza
San Jose, CA

Melinda Childs
ArtStart Rhinelander
Rhinelander, WI

Elizabeth Chodos
Miller Gallery
Pittsburgh, PA

Amanda Choo Quan
Common Field
LA, CA

Jackie Clay
Coleman Center for the Arts
York, AL

Steffani Clemons
National Performance Network/Visual Artists Network
New Orleans, LA

Julia Cole
Charlotte Street Foundation
Kansas City, MO

Irina Contreras
independent artist/educator
Los Angeles, CA

Hoesy Corona
Labbodies
baltimore, MD

Maya Crawford
Ash Studios
Dallas, TX

Jenna Crowder
The Chart
Portland, ME

Juan Cruz
Ash Studios
Dallas, TX

Paolo Davanzo
Echo Park Film Center
Los Angeles, CA

Alec De Leon
National Performance Network/Visual Artists Network
New Orleans, LA

Joseph DiGiuseppe / Ashland, OR, OR

Eric Dobbins
Fathomers
Los Angeles, CA

Martina Dodd
DIRT
Atlanta, GA

Deb Dormody
Alliance of Artists Communities
Providence, RI

Xandra Eden
DiverseWorks
Houston, TX

Camille Erickson
Minneapolis Institute of Art
Minneapolis, MN

Brittany Ficken
Headlands Center for the Arts
Sausalito, CA

Courtney Fink
Common Field
Los Angeles, CA

Annie Fischer
Fathomers
Los Angeles, CA

Ariadne Fish
Kansas City Art Institute
Kansas City, MO

Matthew Fluharty
Art of the Rural
Winona, MN

Anne Focke
independent organizer
Seattle, WA

Jack Forinash
Homeboat
Palouse, WA

David Evans Frantz
ONE National Gay & Lesbian Archives at the USC Libraries
Los Angeles, CA

Jennifer Ganata
Inner City Law Center
Los Angeles, CA

Guido Garaycochea Garaycochea
Queens Museum
Queens, NY

Noe Gaytan
Michelada Think Tank
Brooklyn, NY

Matthew Glassman
Double Edge Theatre
Ashfield, MA

Kian Goh
UCLA
Los Angeles, CA

Andrea Gordillo
Artists of Color Bloc
New York, NY

Rosie Gordon-Wallace
Diaspora Vibe Cultural Arts Incubator, Inc
Miami, CA

Kelly Gregory
Homeboat
Oakland, CA

Hannah Grossman
Common Field
Los Angeles, CA

Deana Haggag
United States Artists
Chicago, IL

Kimi Hanauer
Press Press
Baltimore, MD

Margo Handwerker
M12
Broomfield, CO

Onya Hogan-Finlay
The Bookmobile Collective
Los Angeles, CA

Emily Hopkins
Side Street Projects
Pasadena, CA

Nung-Hsin Hu
Queens Museum
Queens, NY

Peter Hudson
UCLA
Los Angeles, CA

Sarrita Hunn
Temporary Art Review
Fenton, MO

Brett Hunter
Hornell Community Arts Center and Broadway Union
Hornell, NY

Jamillah James
Institute of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles
Los Angeles, CA

Jennifer Joy Jameson
Alliance for California Traditional Arts/The Art of the Rural
Los Angeles, CA

Kelletria Jolly
Women in Jazz Jam Festival
Knoxville, TN

Gelare Khoshgozaran
contemptorary
Los Angeles, MO

Eunsong Kim
contemptorary
Brookline, MA

Eric Kim
Human Resources
Los Angeles, CA

Richard Kooyman
The Provincial
Kaleva, MI

Spencer Kroll
Homeboat
Portland, OR

Ikram Lakhdhar
DIRT
Washington, DC

Nicole Lavelle
PLACE TALKS
Lagunitas, CA

jason lazarus
University of South Florida
Tampa, FL

Ellie Lee
Equitable Vitrines
Los Angeles, CA

Ricky Lee
Mr. Ricky Lee
Brooklyn, NY

Candice Lin
guest of contemptorary
Altadena, CA

Josie Lopez
516 ARTS
Albuquerque, NM

Jessica Lynne
ARTS.BLACK
Brooklyn, NY

Charlie Macquarie
PLACE TALKS
Berkeley, CA

sharon maidenberg
Headlands Center for the Arts
Sausalito, CA

Hayk Makhmuryan
Skid Row Design Collective
La Crescenta, CA

John Malpede
Los Angeles Poverty Department
Los Angeles, CA

Jordan Martin
DIRT
Washington, DC

Nat May
Hewnoaks Artist Colony
Portland, ME

James McAnally
Temporary Art Review
St. Louis, MO

Lauren McCarthy
UCLA Design Media Arts / Processing Foundation
Los Angeles, CA

Julia Meltzer
Clockshop
Los Angeles, CA

Mario Mesquita
Michelada Think Tank
San Diego, CA

Shefali Mistry
Michelada Think Tank
Long Beach, CA

Maria Molteni
New Craft Artists in Action, Boston AIR, Boston LGBTIAQ Artists Alliance, Midway
Boston, MA

elissa moorhead
TNEG
Baltimore MD, MD

Katrina Neumann
res
Brooklyn, NY

Emiko Ono
The Hewlett Foundation
Menlo Park, CA

Jen Ontiveros
Headlands Center for the Arts
Sausalito, CA

Melanie Parke
The Provincial
Kaleva, MI

Georgie Payne
DIRT
Washington, DC

Calvin Phelps
Pike School of Art - Mississippi
Summit, MS

Ada Pinkston
LabBodies
Baltimore, MD

Shirley Ramirez Batun
Public Matters
Los Angeles, CA

Neil Ramsay
ArtsUP! Concepts
Fort Lauderdale, FL

Darryl Ratcliff
Ash Studios
DeSoto, TX

Gina Reichert
Power House Productions
Detroit, MI

Jessica Reyes
RESOURCE/AVIVO
Saint Paul, MN

Laura Ritchie
The Carrack
Durham, NC

Lisa Rybovich Crallé
Heavy Breathing
Vallejo, CA

Erin Salazar
Exhibition District
San Jose, CA

Sheila Sampath
The Public Studio
Toronto, ON

Carolyn Sams
First Seating
Los Angeles, CA

Elizabeth Sanders
WMMT-FM (Appalshop)
Whitesburg, KY

Sebastien Sanz de Santamaria
Residency Unlimited
Brooklyn, NY

Cheyanne Sauter
Art Share L.A.
Los Angeles, CA

Richard Saxton
M12 STUDIO
Broomfield, CO

Kristine Schomaker
Art and Cake
Los Angeles, CA

Antonio Serna
Artists of Color Bloc
NY, NY

Jody Servon
Appalachian State University
Boone, NC

Cameron Shaw
Pelican Bomb
Los Angeles, CA

Kira Simon-Kennedy
China Residencies
Brooklyn, NY

Ashley Sparks / Los Angeles, CA

Shar Starks
The Echo Park Film Center
Los Angeles, CA

Linda Swanson
Forde Visser Archive
Venice, CA

Stacy Switzer
Fathomers
Los Angeles, CA

Maria del Rosario Talevi
independent
Berlin, Berlin

Aurora Tang
Center for Land Use Interpretation
Culver City, CA

Elizabeth Timme
LA MĂ¡s
Los Angeles, CA

Jack Tse
Northern California Community Loan Fund (NCCLF)
San Francisco, CA

Raber Umphenour
Midway Artist Studios
Boston, MA

Sean Uyehara
Headlands Center for the Arts
Sausalito, CA

jina valentine
UNC Chapel Hill
durham, NC

Elia Vargas
Living Room Light Exchange
Oakland, CA

Fred Villanueva
Ash Studios
Dallas, TX

William Warrener
Center for Cultural Innovation
Los Angeles, CA

Maysoun Wazwaz
100 Days Action
san Francisco, CA

Mary Welcome
M12
Broomfield, CO

Madeleine Wilhite
Headlands Center for the Arts
San Francisco, CA

Sarah Williams
Women's Center for Creative Work
Los Angeles, CA

Martha Wilson
Franklin Furnace Archive, Inc.
Brooklyn, NY

Valerie Wiseman
DIRT
Washington, DC

Rosten Woo / Los Angeles, CA

Lacey Wozny
Fathomers
Los Angeles, CA

Nicholas Wylie
Southern Exposure
San Francisco, CA

Allison Wyper
Center for Cultural Innovation
Los Angeles, CA

mimi zeiger
independent
Los Angeles, CA

Bowie Zunino
Wassaic Project
Wassaic, NY