Leaders of Color Scholarship to Attend Americans for the Arts 2019 Annual Convention
NPN awarded xi Almanac Conference scholarships to indigenous leaders/leaders of color staff from NPN Partner organizations. Recipients are doing amazing work in their communities across the country. Nosotros are happy to welcome them to the Almanac Conference in New Orleans!
Alexandra James
Director of Admissions/Operations Manager
Bates Trip the light fantastic Fest
Alexandra is a trip the light fantastic maker, educator and performer based in Southern Maine. She has appeared in the work of Victoria Marks, Trisha Dark-brown, Lisa Gonzales, Betsy Miller, interdisciplinary work of her own creation, also as in s h i f t, a contemporary dance making duo. She presents work in New York, Chicago, Maine, Boston & South Africa, teaches nationally, and with the dance department at Bates College. Alexandra received her BFA from Columbia Higher Chicago in 2009, and currently serves as an Artistic Director with Portland Youth Trip the light fantastic and Admissions Manager/Operations Director for the Bates Dance Festival.
Angela Ii Stars
All My Relations Arts Director
Native American Community Development Institute
Angela is an enrolled member of the Sisseton Wahpeton Oyate. She is the Director of All My Relations Arts, a projection of the Native American Community Development Institute in Minneapolis, MN. Angela is a public creative person and curator and received her BFA from Kendall Higher of Fine art and Design. Her role at All My Relations Arts focuses on highlighting the strength of gimmicky Native American artists in the Twin Cities and the midwest region, too as developing high quality art exhibitions that contributes to creating a cultural destination on the American Indian Cultural Corridor.
Corian Ellisor
Creative / Education Associate
7 Stages
Artist, activist, and dancer with fifteen+ years of experience, Corian is devoted to marginalized communities, like the LGBTQ+ community, ethnic minority groups, and women. He is an skilful in interdisciplinary move, earth dance forms, and storytelling. He is currently touring his original work, MY PEOPLE: A Movement Conversation Betwixt Ii Queer Human Bodies of Color. He is delighted to be a office the Didactics Acquaintance squad at seven Stages, creating artistic responses with students and artists, examining how we re-direct monstrous behavior and re-ascertain stereotypes of pretty as role of his new work, Overjoyed Ones.
Esmeralda (Liz) Salinas
Program Director
MECA
Liz has worked for MECA for 40+ years. MECA's mission is to provide positive opportunities for students and adults through quality and cultural arts education. As a product of the inner-metropolis and underserved community, Liz represents a life of a positive and successful event.
Isabel Cruz
Performing Arts Appointment Coordinator
MACLA
Born and raised in California, Isabel became involved in theater and the performing arts at El Teatro Campesino, in San Juan Bautista, more than than xx years ago. Isabel is a showtime-generation college student, attending community college in South Santa Clara County, and so transferring to UC Berkeley, where she earned her Bachelor of Arts in Theater and Functioning Studies. In June, she graduated from UC Santa Cruz with a Main of Arts in Theater Arts. For her thesis projection, she adapted a 100-year-old Irish play, setting it in 19th century Alta California. It volition be produced this Spring at Gavilan College.
Joshua Bristow
Development and Marketing Associate
The Yard
Joshua is a graduate of College of Charleston with a Bachelor of Arts in Arts Management. Originally from Irmo, S Carolina, he discovered the performing arts subsequently in life, performing in his first product at 16. During his fourth dimension in Charleston, he served as an Creative person Services and Special Events Apprentice for Spoleto Festival USA, and a Direction Intern for Charleston Stage Theatre Company.
Kisha Rockett
Youth Manager
The Carpetbag Theatre Inc
Kisha is the Youth Director for The Carpetbag Theatre whose mission is to railroad train the youth to reclaim the hidden stories of African Americans and empower its communities through music and theatre.
Maya White
Plan Banana
DiverseWorks
Maya is Programme Assistant for DiverseWorks, Houston. She is also an event photographer and anthropology student. Born in Las Vegas, Nevada and raised in Houston, Maya has been involved with organizations such as M.O.C.A.H (Museum of Cultural Arts Houston), Read3Zero, Sacred Sites Quest and Mack Performing Arts Collective, where she discovered the positive power behind creativity. Today y'all can detect her photographing for organizations such as Aurora Pic Show, SoFar Sounds and, of class, assisting with DiverseWorks's exhibitions, performances, and community projects.
Michelle Grant-Murray
Faculty Task Force Member
MDC Live Arts
Michelle, a Georgia Peach-Hybrid Florida Mango, is an Acquaintance Professor of Dance at Miami Dade College. She serves as Faculty Job Force Member with MDC Alive Arts and is Faculty Lead Facilitator with the Miami Dade Higher/Florida International University Humanities Edge program. Michelle is Coordinator of Dance at MDC Kendall, Founder and Artistic Manager of MDC Jubilation Dance Ensemble and Olujimi Trip the light fantastic toe Theatre. She is the author of "Beyond the Surface: An Inclusive American Dance History." Michelle is a leading choreographer, dance educator, arts abet, education artist and mentor.
Ravi Windom
Education and Programs Director
Hammonds Firm Museum
From Decatur, GA, Ravi is a graduate of Howard University (BA Journalism). She has worked in arts and civilisation with the National Black Arts Festival, City of Atlanta Part of Cultural Affairs, Atlanta Public Schools, and currently Hammonds Business firm Museum where she serves as the Pedagogy and Programs Managing director. Ravi is also am the Chair of Events and Programming for the Howard University Alumni Club of Atlanta.
Van Pham
Grants Associate
Portland Constitute for Gimmicky Art
Van is an artist and cultural worker whose artistic practise and research centers on the interactions between culture, people, and spaces. She runs Arcada, an independent grant writing, research, and operational strategy consultancy, is a grants associate for PICA, and co-runs the documentary project Xhurches, devoted to profiling the artistic, secular uses of religious buildings. She holds a Primary of Arts in Cultural Policy, Relations, and Diplomacy from Goldsmiths Higher of London, and is an alumna of National Arts Strategies' Creative Community Fellowship, and the Trampery Republica'due south Creative Pioneers programme.
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