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Ashley Hare (Arizona)Ashley is an administrator collaborating with artists and cultural workers. They have worked in various states across the country training organizations, business, and government agencies on equitable practices within their programming for system-involved youth and adults in detention centers, foster care homes, school classrooms, and neighborhoods. Their practice centers civic arts and cultural engagements to include young people. Ashley is also co-founder of ReFrame Youth Arts Center in South Phoenix. Ashley is also co-founder of ReFrame Youth Arts Center in South Phoenix.
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Mary Stephens (Arizona/California)Mary's practice engages civic engagement and cultural citizenship through the arts, with demonstrated ability to cultivate relationships with diverse communities locally, nationally and internationally. Mary's work advances visibility, representation, and power-sharing between local, state and national artists and organizations. Key to her method is leadership development, building strong partnerships, and intersectional approaches to institutional community engagement. Her curatorial work focuses curating site-specific artistic experiences.
Mary received her B.A. in Theatre from Arizona State University, and an M.A. in International Peace & Conflict Resolution from American University in Washington, DC. |
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Tali Keren (New York/Arizona)Tali Keren is a multidisciplinary artist and educator working across video, participatory multi-media installation, and documentary practices. She is currently the Community Arts Educator and Engagement Specialist for Water Programs for InSite Consultants. Through the creation of immersive cinematic environments she investigates the transformative power of storytelling and political imagination. Her practice is grounded in collaborations and cross-disciplinary dialogue.
Keren's recent solo and collaborative exhibitions have been shown at the James Gallery, CUNY Graduate Center, New York; Queens Museum, New York; The Aldrich, Connecticut; Yerba Buena Center for the Arts, San Francisco; Museum of Contemporary Art, Detroit; Eyebeam, New York; the Center for Contemporary Art, Tel-Aviv; Ludlow 38, MINI Goethe Institute, New York. Her videos and installations have been included in group exhibitions and screened internationally, including at Anthology Film Archives, New York; Museum of the Moving Image, New York; Whitney Museum of American Art, New York; Tallinn Photomonth Biennale, Tallinn; Socrates Sculpture Park, New York; the Jewish Museum. Tali is currently on faculty at Columbia University. |
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Jaclyn Roessel (New Mexico)Born and raised on the Navajo Nation, it is the wisdom of her homelands that shapes Jaclyn Roessel’s cosmovision. Experience early in her career as a museum professional, cultural arts producer and curator confirmed her belief of the inherent power of utilizing cultural learning as a tool to engage and build stronger communities. Molded by her grandmothers, Jaclyn has fostered a praxis that utilizes Indigenous ways of knowing and decolonized methodologies as a catalyst to build cultural equity in organizations across the country. Her work as a certified personal coach integrates her Diné perspective and belief in the inherent wisdom of her coach partners to navigate challenges and achieve healing transformation in their lives and work. Jaclyn is a co-founder of Native Women Lead, a former National Art Strategies Creative Community Fellow and Native Entrepreneur-in-Residence at New Mexico Community Capital. In her role as director of decolonized futures and radical dreams at the U.S. Department of Arts & Culture, she stewards the Honor Native Land Project and currently serves on the New Mexico Governor’s Council for Racial Justice. More about Jaclyn at Grown Up Navajo
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Carolina Aranibar-Fernández (California)Carolina Aranibar-Fernández is a Bolivian-born multi-media artist and curator. She produced key artistic and community-based projects for InSite Consultants, including Arts Equity Dialogues and Politics of Place. Her practice addresses concerns of displacement, privatization of land, exploitation of natural resources, environmental issues, and the invisible labor that supplies global trade. In a range of installations and objects that interweave fabrics, oral storytelling, ceramics, and video, she uses hand-making processes and materials that draw from ancestral and contemporary craft. She explores materials as language—as non-verbal stories, allowing the language of soil, sugar, metals, and crude oil to be the storytellers. She is currently the Director of Galleries and Public Programs at the San Francisco Arts Commission in San Francisco, California.
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