ARTIST RESOURCES: WHAT’S OUT THERE

BRITTNI COLLINS | Creative Capital, Artist Services Manager Brittni Collins began her career in the arts at Whitespace Gallery in Atlanta, where she connected artists to professional development opportunities, and continued with Living Walls, where she was instrumental in the promotion and expansion of street art and tactical urbanism throughout the metro Atlanta area. Prior to joining Creative Capital, she supported the Principals of Mack Scogin Merrill Elam Architects and closely studied the practice and design of modernist architectural forms. After receiving her Bachelor of Arts in Economics from Emory University she completed post-baccalaureate studies at Columbia University in art history and the intersectionalities of human rights and visual culture.

MADELEINE CUTRONA |New York Foundation for the Arts, Senior Program Officer in Fiscal Sponsorship Born and raised in Buffalo, New York, Madeleine Cutrona studied Anthropology and Studio Art at the University of Rochester and graduated with honors in 2008. She earned her M.F.A. at Maryland Institute College of Art (MICA) in 2012. Cutrona is a visual artist who is inspired by colors, patterns and textures she observes in the built and natural environments. She is currently a senior program officer in fiscal sponsorship where she consults with artists about fundraising, grant proposals and project management. She believes creating art to share in the world is public good and honored to work with so many dedicated creators.

THERESA HUBBARD | Fractured Atlas, Associate Director for Program Operations Theresa Hubbard is associate director for program operations at Fractured Atlas. Since joining the Fractured Atlas team in February 2011, Hubbard has provided support for more than 10,000 artists and arts organizations raising funds for their creative projects. She also develops educational resources for those artists and collaborates with the engineering team to design web-based fundraising tools. Hubbard serves on the steering committee of the National Network of Fiscal Sponsors and is a regular presenter at conferences and festivals around the country. In 2016, she earned a Certificate in Arts and Culture Strategy through a partnership between National Arts Strategies and the University of Pennsylvania School of Social Policy and Practice. She also holds a Bachelor of Music degree in Voice Performance from Syracuse University and stays active in the New York choral community by singing with The Oratorio Society of New York.

BEHIND THE CAMERA

LUCILA MOCTEZUMA |Chicken & Egg Pictures, Director of Programs Originally from Mexico City, Lucila Moctezuma has collaborated with New York’s independent film community since 1996. Prior to joining UnionDocs she was manager of the Production Assistance Program at Women Make Movies, a program that provides support to women filmmakers in the development of their media projects. Formerly, she was director of the Media Arts Fellowships for the Rockefeller Foundation, a highly prestigious program that supported media artists in the U.S. and Latin America, and she founded and was coordinator of the TFI Latin America Media Arts Fund for the Tribeca Film Institute. Moctezuma sits on the founding executive board of Cine Qua Non Lab, a residency for international filmmakers based in Michoacán, Mexico, and was vice-president of the board of trustees of The Flaherty. She has frequently collaborated with international film festivals including the Morelia Film Festival in Mexico and the Huesca Film Festival in Spain, and with media organizations such as Cinema Tropical. She has served on selection panels for the Jerome Foundation, the Gucci Tribeca Documentary Fund, the International Emmy Awards, ProImágenes Colombia, the Gucci Ambulante Fellowship (Mexico) and Cinergia Foundation (Costa Rica) among others. Her work as associate producer includes the documentary series “The New Americans” for Kartemquin Films, and “Shocking and Awful” for Deep Dish TV, which was part of the 2006 Whitney Biennial. She studied Philosophy at Universidad Iberoamericana in Mexico City.

NANFU WANG | Independent Filmmaker Nanfu Wang is an Emmy-nominated and Peabody-winning filmmaker based in New York City. Wang’s feature debut “Hooligan Sparrow” was shortlisted for the 2017 Academy Award for Best Documentary Feature. Since its premiere at the Sundance Film Festival 2016, “Hooligan Sparrow” has won over twenty awards internationally including two Emmy Nominations, a Peabody Award, a Cinema Eye Honor for the Best Debut Film, the George Polk Award for the journalistic achievement, an IDA Award, and the Truer than Fiction Award at the Independent Spirit Awards. “Hooligan Sparrow” opened theatrically across North America and was later released on POV, Netflix, Amazon and iTunes. Her latest feature documentary “I Am Another You” premiered at the SXSW Film Festival in 2017 and won two awards including the Luna Chicken & Egg Award for Best Feature Directed by a Woman and the Special Jury Award for Excellence in Documentary Storytelling. Originally from a remote village in China, Wang overcame poverty and lack of access to formal secondary education and went on to earn three master’s degrees from Shanghai University, Ohio University, and New York University in English Literature, Media Studies and Documentary, respectively.

PUBLISHING: HOW TO GET HEARD

JULIE BUNTIN |Catapult, Director of Writing Programs|2005 YoungArts Winner in Writing Julie Buntin is from northern Michigan. Her debut novel, “MARLENA,” was a finalist for the National Book Critics Circle's John Leonard Prize, longlisted for The Center for Fiction's First Novel Prize, and named a best book of 2017 by over a dozen outlets, including Washington Post, NPR, and Kirkus Reviews. Her writing has appeared in The Atlantic, Vogue, The New York Times Book Review, Guernica, and other publications. She has taught creative writing at New York University, Yale Writers' Workshop and Marymount Manhattan College, and is the Director of Writing Programs at Catapult. She lives in Brooklyn, New York. MICHELLE DUNN MARSH | Minor Matters, Founder Michelle Dunn Marsh is an advocate for photography and the printed page. She is currently executive director at Photographic Center Northwest and is the founder of Minor Matters Books. Over the last two decades, Dunn Marsh has served in executive and creative roles in the fields of art photography and publishing. Her professional experience includes 15 years with Aperture Foundation, senior editor of art and design at Chronicle Books and publishing consultant to Jim Marshall Photography, LLC, Museum of Glass and other cultural institutions. She is a part-time lecturer in the M.F.A. program at Parsons/The New School in New York City, and serves on the alumni Board of Governors at Bard College.

RAKESH SATYAL | Atria Books, Senior Editor Rakesh Satyal is a senior editor at Atria Books, a division of Simon & Schuster. He held previous positions at Doubleday and HarperCollins and spent three years working as a naming specialist in the world of branding. He has sat on the advisory board for the annual PEN World Voices Festival and has taught in the publishing program at New York University. He is the author of the novels “Blue Boy” and “No One Can Pronounce My Name,” the latter of which will be published by Picador USA in 2017.

BETH PHELAN | Gallt & Zacker, Literary Agent Beth Phelan has been working in agencies since 2010, and was most recently an agent with The Bent Agency before landing at Gallt & Zacker in late 2017. A lifelong reader, Phelan represents authors of the kinds of books that drove her to love reading in the first place: middle-grade and young adult fiction. She is also the creator of #DVpit, a Twitter pitch event for marginalized creators, which she launched in April 2016. Most of her time is spent reading, editing, and trying new recipes that end in either disaster or total bliss. (Results have been mixed.) These experiments can be found on #EATTHEBOOK on Instagram (@beth_phelan), where she pairs new releases alongside food that looks like the book’s cover.

U.S. DEPARTMENT OF STATE EXCHANGE PROGRAMS

NINA MURRAY | U.S. Department of State Bureau of Educational and Cultural Affairs, Cultural Programs Division, Deputy Division Chief Nina Murray is the U.S. State Department Deputy Division Chief, Cultural Programs Division. She previously managed operations at the Core for Applied Genomics and Ecology having come to science as a grant writer and communicator. As an author, and translator from the Russian and Ukrainian languages, she is committed to raising awareness of the translation art and craft and nurturing public interest in translated literature. Her specialties include Public diplomacy, Cultural diplomacy, Grant writing, especially NIH and USDA formats; technical writing; science editing; poetry; translation, including literary translation; interpretation; event coordination and web design.

LUNCH AND LEARN

EDWARD SHAPIRO | Reed Smith LLP, Partner, Entertainment and Media Industry Group Edward Shapiro is a partner in the Entertainment and Media Industry Group and is the leader of its music, entertainment and sports practices. He is a transactional entertainment lawyer with over 25 years of experience and has become a recognized figure in the business, known for representing today’s top superstar musical performers, producers and songwriters in all genres. His practice extends to the representation of many top professional athletes in major league sports and e-sports. In addition to his talent representation practice, Shapiro’s clients include startups, ventures, executives and brands working within the new media industry. Shapiro regularly drafts and negotiates a wide range of contracts spanning the entertainment industry, including endorsement, sponsorship, tour, residency, festival, merchandising, production and distribution, recording, publishing, licensing and scripted/non-scripted

television agreements. In the electronic dance arena, Shapiro has been cited as the leading entertainment attorney by several industry publications and national news outlets. His relationships extend not only to the artists in this genre but to the managers, agents, record labels and festival producers.

MAKING WORK: PRODUCING 101

LINDA BRUMBACH |Pomegranate Arts, Founder and Director Linda Brumbach founded Pomegranate Arts in New York City in 1988, a company dedicated to developing, producing and touring innovative contemporary performance arts projects through creative collaborations. Since its inception, Pomegranate Arts produced the Olivier Award winning production of “Einstein on the Beach” (Robert Wilson, Philip Glass, Lucinda Childs), “Shockheaded Peter” (The Improbably Theater), “Book of Longing” (Leonard Cohen, Philip Glass), “Dracula: The Music and Film” (Kronos Quartet, Philip Glass and Universal Pictures), “Charlie Victor Romeo” (Collective: Unconscious Theater), “Dan Zanes’ Holiday Show,” Hal Willners’ “Came So Far from Beauty” (Leonard Cohen and guests), “Healing the Divide: A Concert for Peace and Reconciliation” (Dalai Lama, Tom Waits, Anoushka Shankar), “Available Light” (Lucinda Childs, John Adam, Frank Gehry) and most recently Taylor Mac’s “24-Decade History of Popular Music.” As a touring producer, Pomegranate Arts collaborates with Batsheva (Ohad Naharin), The Wedding and Funeral Orchestra (Goran Bregovic) and Sankai Juku (Ushio Amagatu) and Laurie Anderson. Prior to forming her own company, she was the producing director of International Production Associates (IPA) for 11 years, responsible for overseeing all touring productions of artists such as Philip Glass, Twyla Tharp, Spalding Gray, Diamanda Galas, Elizabeth Streb, Karen Finley, Meryl Tankard and the Serious Fun Festival at Lincoln Center. Brumbach served as a consultant for Creative Capitol, the National Dance Project for the NEFA, advisory board of Celebrate Brooklyn, the board of directors of the International Society of Performing Arts (ISPA) and currently serves as a board member of The Association of Performing Arts Presenters (APAP). She is a graduate of the Indiana School of Music and lives in Montclair, New Jersey, with her husband Marty and two children Jonah and Molly.

PAOLA PRESTINI |National Sawdust, Composer, Co-Founder, and Artistic Director Paola Prestini is “the imaginative composer” (The New York Times), “Visionary-In-Chief” (Time Out New York), co-founder and artistic director behind the Brooklyn venue National Sawdust. She was recently named an “innovator” on the list of Top 30 Professionals of the Year by Musical America, the country’s oldest classical music magazine; she is on Brooklyn Magazine’s latest list of “Influencers of Brooklyn Culture…in Perpetuity” alongside such household names as Chuck Schumer and Spike Lee; she is one of the “Top 35 Female Composers in Classical Music” (Washington Post); and on the “Top 100 Composers in the World” list by NPR. Prestini’s music and works have been commissioned by and performed at The Cannes Film Festival, Carnegie Hall, the Kennedy Center, BAM, the Barbican Centre, The Los Angeles Philharmonic, The New York Philharmonic and the Choir of Trinity Wall Street, among others. Since 1999—when she co-founded the multimedia production company VisionIntoArt while at the Juilliard School (now merged with National Sawdust)—she has collaborated with poets, filmmakers, conservationists and astrophysicists in large-scale multimedia works, often in collaboration with Beth Morrison Projects). New works include “The Amazon,” her newest eco-cantata with filmmaker Murat Eyuboglu (collaborator on the acclaimed “The Colorado”); two new works with Royce Vavrek: “Old Man and the Sea,” a new opera-theater work with Robert Wilson and cellist Jeffrey Zeigler, and “Film Stills,” a monodrama for mezzo Eve Gigliotti, director R.B. Schlather and Cindy Sherman; a new opera with poet Brenda Shaughnessy for Atlanta Opera; and Edward Tulane with librettist Mark Campbell, commissioned by Minnesota Opera. She was a Paul and Daisy Soros Fellow, and studied with Peter Maxwell Davies, Samuel Adler and Robert Beaser at The Juilliard School.

ANNA M. SALA | AB Artists Management, Co-Founder and Director Anna M. Sala is the co-founder of AB Artists Management with Birdland Jazz Club. She has over 20 years of experience as an arts professional in the fields of music, dance, theatre and music production. Born and raised in Miami, Sala spent her formative years studying classical dance. While still a teenager, she joined the cast of Pennsylvania Ballet, and later became a member of American Ballet Theatre under the direction of Mikhail Baryshnikov. After retiring from ballet, she joined the staff of Elias Arts, a renowned audio production company, where she worked with legendary jazz manager Mary Ann Topper. In 2003, Sala decided to devote herself exclusively to personal management, opening AMS Artists Management representing Ann Hampton Callaway, Ravi Coltrane, Nicholas Payton, Benny Green, Robin Eubanks, Karrin Allyson, and more. Through AMS, she also provides client support, royalty administration, and consulting services to non-exclusive clients. Additionally, Sala supervised the creation of a new label and became label manager for Paytone Records, the major enterprise by client Nicholas Payton. Throughout her career Sala has been a champion of the arts and a dedicated student of Eastern Philosophy and yoga. She is a summa cum

laude graduate of New York University, with a degree in International Studies and Political Science, and an additional certification in intellectual property law. She is a voting member of the National Academy of Recording Arts and Sciences (NARAS) Grammy® Awards.

THE FUTURE OF CREATIVE SPACES

LISA DENT | Powerhouse Workshop, Senior Director of Cultural Production Lisa Dent is a thought leader and advocate for cultural workers, living artists and the work that they do. With extensive experience in the field, Lisa brings enthusiasm, humor and heart to her work every day. This has included her creative practices as well as collaborations on larger artistic projects. She has owned businesses and managed departments at small, mid-size and large organizations through the lens of inclusion and equity. While overseeing the financial and advisory resources for organizations and artists her ultimate goal is always to provide the desired outcomes for all stakeholders. Her experience with multi-level teams across long term and temporary projects has provided her with the confidence and skills to bring creative work to the forefront of public life.

JASMINE WAHI | Project for Empty Spaces, Founder and Co-Director Jasmine Wahi is a curator, activist, and the founder and co-director of Project for Empty Space. Her practice predominantly focuses on issues of female empowerment, complicating binary structures within social discourses, and exploring multipositional cultural identities through the lens of intersectional feminism. In 2010, Wahi co-founded Project for Empty Space, a not-for-profit nomadic organization that creates programming and multidisciplinary art exhibitions that encourage social dialogue, education and systemic change through the support of both artists and communities. In 2015, Wahi joined Rebecca Jampol to open a brick and mortar gallery for PES Newark, New Jersey. In addition to her other work, Wahi is also on faculty at the School of Visual Arts’ MFA in Fine Arts program, where she focuses on intersectional feminism and art praxis. She is a former board member of the South Asian Women’s Creative Collective (SAWCC) and instructor for the Girls Educational Mentoring Services (GEMS) group. She has also co-organized numerous interventions and happenings as part of her social activist work. Wahi’s curatorial work has been featured in the Wall Street Journal, Vogue, Vogue India, Hyperallergic, Whitewall Magazine, ArtNet and ArtNews, to name a few.

ON STAGE

ALEX KNOWLTON | Director of Joe’s Pub at The Public Alex Knowlton is the director of Joe’s Pub at The Public Theater, which is hailed as one of New York City’s most prestigious and genre-defying venues for emerging and established artists. Previously, he handled programming for Jazz at Lincoln Center’s Rose Theater and Appel Room in addition to producing the tours of Wynton Marsalis’s esteemed JALC Orchestra. Earlier in his career, Knowlton worked extensively in the realm of communications—managing marketing and public relations for both Joe’s Pub and globalFEST in New York, and, more recently, for Yoshi’s Jazz Club in Oakland, C.A. At Yoshi’s, his focus turned to programming; he developed a free weekly music series, produced the Yoshi’s JazzFest in celebration of the venue’s 40th anniversary, and booked nightly performances. Knowlton received a B.S. in Music Industry from Northeastern University and currently resides in Brooklyn.

AARON MATTOCKS | The Joyce Theater, Director of Programming Aaron Mattocks is a Pennsylvania native, Sarah Lawrence College alumnus, two-time New York Dance and Performance (Bessie) Award nominee for Outstanding Performer (2013, 2016) and one of 2016's best performers according to Dance Magazine. He is currently the director of programming with The Joyce Theater Foundation, Inc. Formerly, he served as the executive director of Big Dance Theater, the producing director for Pam Tanowitz, the former company and general manager for the Mark Morris Dance Group (2002-2010) and has produced projects, premieres and tours for Faye Driscoll, Beth Gill and Steven Reker. Under his leadership, artists have received multiple NEFA/National Dance Project Production and Touring grants; Guggenheim, New York Foundation for the Arts, Foundation for Contemporary Arts and United States Artists Fellowships, and many others. In the last three years, he has successfully produced artists and engagements with many of the nation's leading presenting organizations, including the Walker Art Center, the Wexner Center, the ICA Boston, Fusebox Festival, CounterCurrent Festival, Mass MoCA, Mass Live Arts, FringeArts Philadelphia, American Dance Festival, and the Fisher Center for the Performing Arts at Bard College. As a dance writer, he has been published by The Performance Club, Culturebot, Hyperallergic, Critical Correspondence, and more. He has taught movement for actors at NYU's Tisch School of the Arts' Playwrights Horizons Theater School and given master classes and lectures at Keene State College, Duke University, Sarah Lawrence College, Florida State University, Emerson College and Rutgers University's Mason Gross School of the Arts.

PATI HERTLING | Performance Space New York, Deputy Director Appointed in 2018, Pati Hertling is the first deputy director of Performance Space New York. She serves as the primary mover with regard to major gifts, marketing and finance. She is a curator and art lawyer who has organized various independent curatorial projects, including a Evas Arche und der Feminist, a salon series in Berlin and New York from 2005 until 2010 that combined visual artists with performance artists; three group exhibitions in New York at the Chelsea Art Museum, White Columns and the Swiss Institute; and various other curated evenings combining food, performance and readings. She is the editor, together with Negar Azimi, of an online epistolary archive called Deadlines and Divine Distractions and the co-founder of Material Vodka, a vodka company with the mission to establish alternative funding mechanisms for art.