AIMO - Speed-Networking Participants 2016
Speed-Networking for Creatives
January 27, 2016
5:00 pm - 7:30 pm
For more information, contact:
Sophia Villarreal sophiav1@stanford.edu
Julie Chang
Julie Chang is a San Francisco based contemporary artist who works primarily with painting and print making. Her work is rooted in an investigation around cultural identity, highlighted by the ways in which patterns serve as powerful and ubiquitous markers of class - as symbols of arriving and belonging. She is engaged in a practice of appropriation, reassertion, and subversion of meaning, one that allows her to navigate through the complex space of social and cultural values, longings, anxieties and fears. She manipulates the language of textile and wallpaper design with elements of identity in order to participate in a dialogue around the larger issues of race, gender, class and the commodification of culture. Chang is among five artists chosen to design public art projects for the San Francisco Transbay Transit Authority in conjunction with the San Francisco Arts Commission. She is represented by Hosfelt Gallery in San Francisco.
Will Clift
Will Clift’s favorite toy as a child was a set of old wooden blocks. He’d assemble these into towers taller than him, or into cantilevered structures that would grow until they came crashing down. He never really stopped since. In 1998 he entered Stanford University, where he studied nearly everything but art — from engineering to philosophy to psychology. All the while Clift continued making sculpture on his own time; he’d sneak into the engineering machine shop to make a new work, or find a way to justify an abstract sculpture as a class project. Clift has been a professional artist since 2006, and has exhibited his work in galleries and museum across the US, Asia, and Europe. This spring he will install a large outdoor commission at the Denver Botanic Gardens, and he was recently awarded the “Invited International Artist Award” by Australia’s Sculpture by the Sea Exhibition. He is currently a Visiting Artist with Stanford University, through May.
Barbara Goldstein
Barbara Goldstein is an independent consultant focusing on creative place making and public art planning. She is the former Public Art Director for the City of San Jose Office of Cultural Affairs and editor of Public Art by the Book, a primer published by Americans for the Arts and the University of Washington Press. Ms. Goldstein has directed the public art programs in Seattle and Los Angeles, worked as a cultural planner, architectural and art critic, editor and publisher. She has lectured and participated in workshops on public art in the United States, Japan, China, Taiwan, Korea, Canada the Netherlands and Abu Dhabi. She is past chair of the Chair of the Public Art Network for Americans for the Arts and is currently a Board member of MACLA, Movimiento de Arte y Cultural Latino Americana and is Board Chair for ZERO1: the Art and Technology Network. She was a 2015-16 Fellow in Stanford’s Distinguished Careers Institute.
Alex Mallory
Alex Mallory is a theatrical director and creative leader in New York. She recently directed Dijla Wal Furat: Between the Tigris and the Euphrates by Maurice Decaul with Poetic Theater Productions and Telling: East End with the The Telling Project and the Joseph J Theinert Memorial Foundation. She has directed for Poetic Theater Productions, Culture Project's Women Center Stage Festival, Writopia Worldwide Plays Festival, Working Theatre Director's Salon, and more. Her production of Takeo Rivera’s Goliath has been performed for veterans, family members and civilians across the country. She received a B.A. in Drama from Stanford University, where she was the recipient of the Louis Sudler Prize in Creative Arts and the Sherifa Omade Edoga Prize for work involving social issues. Up next: Telling: Stanford with local military veterans and family members. February 18-26. www.alexmallory.me
Nia-Amina Minor
A performer, choreographer, teaching artist, and screen dance filmmaker. Nia-Amina received her BA in Communication with a minor in Film and Media Studies from Stanford University in 2012 and her MFA in Dance at the University of California, Irvine in 2014. Nia-Amina is an artist with many disciplinary points of inspiration, including dance and technology, screen dance choreography, as well as the intersection of media studies and performance studies. Her work (on film and in live performance) focuses on the human body in its social, political, and digital contexts. Nia-Amina is currently a curator and performer with No) one. Art House and a performer with the Union Project Dance Company.
Greg Morris
Producer/director Greg Morris began his artistic career 20 years ago as a fine art and documentary photographer. Primarily self-taught, he cites the social histories Let Us Now Praise Famous Men (James Agee and Walker Evans) and How the Other Half Lives (Jacob Riis) as childhood influences that continue to impact how he sees the world. Between 1995 and 2005, Greg’s photography was exhibited in group shows in New York, Los Angeles, Washington, D.C., and throughout the United States. His work also appeared in Hayden’s Ferry Review. In 2002, he received the Golden Bear Juror’s Award and Blue Ribbon for photography at the California State Fair. Since 2005, Greg has turned his attention to management consulting, with an emphasis on inclusion and diversity, and more recently to film. He serves on the Screening Committee for the San Francisco International LGBT Film Festival and is a member of San Francisco’s Scary Cow film co-op. The forthcoming documentary The Mah Jongg Game, which celebrates a pivotal yet unsung generation of Jewish-American women who came of age in the years immediately after World War II, is his directorial debut. As a consultant, Greg works with organizations and individuals to increase their productivity by building work environments that are broadly inclusive. His work incorporates traditional and non-traditional facets of diversity. Greg uses his early-career background as the manager of one of Hewlett-Packard’s largest product lines to help clients explicitly link their people-related initiatives to overarching business objectives, and to help them manage these initiatives just as they would their other highest-level business priorities. He has served clients in multiple industries including life sciences, manufacturing, mining, and technology. Greg holds an MBA from Stanford University and an AB in economics from Princeton University.
Patricia Narciso
Patricia Narciso has dedicated more than 20 years to public service and community leadership. She joined Children’s Discovery Museum of San Jose as Director of Development and Marketing in 2008, where she has been responsible for resource development to advance the Museum’s mission to inspire creativity, curiosity and lifelong learning for children and families in the Bay Area. Supported by a talented and capable team, Patricia leads strategies to bring in contributed and earned income of more than $6 million and attract an audience of more than 300,000 visitors annually. An advocate for human rights and basic needs, Patricia has been appointed to several local Boards and Commissions. She was awarded a commendation for her leadership chairing the Santa Clara County Social Services Advisory Commission, and achieved recognition for initiatives in service-learning and diversity education while serving as adjunct faculty at Benedictine University and Santa Clara University. She has been a featured speaker at numerous events and conferences, notably at the University of Notre Dame and Stanford University. A Certified Fund Raising Executive and recent Past President of the Association of Fundraising Professionals Silicon Valley Chapter, Patricia graduated Phi Beta Kappa from Syracuse University and earned an M.A. from Stanford University.
Ken Savage
Ken Savage is a Bay Area theater director and graduate of Stanford University (B.A. in Drama with Honors and M.A. in Communication with a concentration in virtual reality and theater). His musical theater directing credits include: Sweeney Todd (SFBATCO and 4th Walrus), My Fair Lady (Broadway By the Bay), Sunday in the Park with George, Company, The Fantasticks, The 25th Annual Putnam County Spelling Bee, and The Last Five Years. Recently, this spring Ken directed the blockbuster hit Hairspray at Stanford which broke box office records selling over 6,000 tickets over two weekends of shows and selling out Stanford's 1,600-seat Memorial Auditorium. Professionally he has worked at Arena Stage in Washington D.C., The Public Theater in New York City, Theatreworks Silicon Valley, and American Conservatory Theater (A.C.T.) in San Francisco. Currently, Ken is working as the Directing and Outreach Fellow at A.C.T. where he is the assistant director for A Christmas Carol, assisting to co-produce the New Strands New Play Festival, and directing The Aliens by Annie Baker as part of the Sky Festival.
Elizabeth Sullivan
Elizabeth (Liz) Sullivan is the Director of Pace Art + Technology, a leading contemporary art gallery representing many of the most significant international artists and estates of the 20th and 21st centuries. Having previously worked at The Metropolitan Museum of Art and Sotheby’s after receiving her Masters from Bard College in the History of Decorative Arts, Design and Culture, Sullivan manages renowned Pace represented artists including The Estate of Alexander Calder, Chuck Close, Tara Donovan, Claes Oldenburg & Coosje van Bruggen, Michal Rovner, Lucas Samaras, James Siena, James Turrell and Keith Tyson. She has successfully executed numerous international exhibitions relating to the above named artists and now will help to launch Pace Art + Technology, the newest program started by Pace President Marc Glimcher. Pace Art + Technology is dedicated to showcasing interdisciplinary art groups, collectives and studios whose works explore the confluence of art and technology. The program will launch in 2016 with exhibitions at Pace Menlo Park in California, including the highly anticipated exhibition by the Japanese art collective, teamLab, with The Living Space and Future Parks exhibition.
