funders and supporting organizations include


National Endowment
for the Arts


Fireworks Gallery

Brisbane, Australia


Gallery of Southwest Manitoba

Canada

California Council for the Humanities

The Christensen Fund

Palo Alto, California

Rio Tinto

Melbourne, Australia

Transforming Cultures
Research Center

University of Technology, Sydney

Common Ground Conferences and Publishing, Ltd.

Urbana and Melbourne

The Globalism Institute

RMIT University

Melbourne, Australia

American Indian Contemporary Arts

San Francisco

World Arts Organization

Berlin

ArtWorkSF

San Francisco

Canadian Consulate General

Los Angeles

Women’s Leadership Institute

Mills College, Oakland, California

Intersection for the Arts

San Francisco
Affiliates and Artists

As part of our ongoing efforts to assist individual artists, we have developed a program component that
links artists to existing programs, and provides a pool of affiliated artists who work closely with us in the development of new projects.  For example, we enlisted many of our affiliated artists in our acclaimed
Cultural Copy exhibition at UCLA’s Fowler Museum of Cultural History. We also work with our supporting artists who assist with site specific works and presentations.

New affiliated artists are welcomed to submit a resume, artist statement and work sample for consideration. We also provide resource and referral advising for artists.

staff affiliates


Curatorial and Exhibition Associates: 
Matt McKinley, Robert Melton, Jennifer Herd, Marie Bouchard, Marianne Wagner-Simon, Marco Centin


Arts Facilitor: 
Judith Zorzy


Program Associates: 
Laura Rogers, Javier Romero


Founding Director:
Tressa Berman


Web Designer: 
Ariel Roman

Supporter: 
LaserCom, Gino Squadrito

selected participating and supporting artists


Bill Allen


Arthur Amiotte


Jenny Fraser

Durand Garcia

Scherezade Garcia

Magdalena Gomez

Guillermo Gomez-Peña

Jose Guedes

Vijali Hamilton

Jennifer Herd

Fred Ho

Horea

Jonathan Jones

Jerome Kitzke

Frank LaPena

Francois Miglio

Betsie Miller-Kusz

Purago Murabe

Darcy Nicholas

Iouri Pestov

Antonio Puri

Gloria Rolando

Stephanie Russell

Randall Wong

Dan Taulapapa McMullin

Maria Teresa Valenzuela

Rafael Trelles

Flavia Fernandez

Tonel

(Antonio Eligio)

Lydia Nakashima Degarrod

Alejandra Chaverri

Selected Affiliated Artists

international conferences on the arts in
society international advisory board

Judy Chicago

Artist and Author,
New Mexico, USA

Peter Sellars

Opera Director,
World Cultures Program,
UCLA, USA.

James Early

Director of Cultural Heritage Policy,
Smithsonian Institution,
Center for Folklife and Cultural Heritage,
and Acting-Interim Director,
Anacostia Museum Center
for African American History, USA

Mark Bauerlein

National Endowment
for the Arts

Tonel (Antonio Eligio)

Artist, Art Critic,
University of British Columbia, Canada,
and Havana, Cuba

Gerald McMaster

Curator of Canadian Art,
Toronto, Art Gallery of
Ontario, Canada

Peter Sellars

Opera Director,
World Cultures Program,
UCLA, USA.

Ella Shohat

Departments of Art and Public Policy,
Middle Eastern and Islamic Studies
New York University

Arthur Sabatini

Associate Professor of
Performance Studies,
Arizona State University, USA

Daniela Reimann

University of Art
and Industrial Design,
Linz, Austria

Bill Cope

Director, Common Ground
University of Illinois,
Urbana-Champaign, USA

Mario Minichiello

Academic Director and Chair, Loughborough University School
of Art and Design, UK

Robyn Archer

Performer, Festival Director, Australia

Judy Spokes

Policy Officer, Arts Victoria, Australia

Fred Ho

Composer, Writer, Producer
New York, USA

Mehdi Faridzadeh

President, International Society
for Iranian Culture (ISIC),
New York, USA and Tehran, Iran

Andrew Jacubowicz

Faculty of Humanities,
University of Technology,
Sydney, Australia

Marianne Wagner-Simon

Independent Curator
and Producer,
Berlin, Germany

Darcy Nicholas

Contemporary Maori Artist
General Manager, Porirua City Council,
Pataka Museum of Arts and Cultures, Aotearoa/New Zealand

Cima Sedigh

President, Global Education and Health Alliance, Faculty of Education,
Sacred Heart University
Fairfield, Connecticut, USA

Mary Kalantzis

University of Illinois,
Urbana-Champaign, USA

Jennifer Herd

Artist, Curator, and Founding Faculty,
Bachelor of Visual Arts in
Contemporary Indigenous Arts, Queensland
College of Art, Griffith University,
Brisbane, Australia