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 Felicia Feaster is a curator and writer who received her BA in film and Eastern European studies from the University of Florida and her MA in film studies from Emory University. Her master's thesis on exploitation film became a book, Forbidden Fruit: The Golden Age of the Exploitation Film co-authored with her husband, filmmaker Bret Wood. Her writing has appeared in Atlanta magazine where she is a contributing writer, Elle, New York Press, Paper magazine, Sculpture, Art in America, The Atlanta Journal-Constitution, Design Bureau, Charleston CIty Paper, Turner Classic Movies, Santa Fe Reporter, Artnews, Playboy, Creative Loafing and Art Papers. She has a regular film column featured on Burnaway.org. She has curated exhibitions for the Atlanta Contemporary Art Center and TEW Galleries in Atlanta and Fe Gallery in Pittsburgh. She has received multiple Green Eyeshade Awards for criticism and feature reporting from the Society of Professional Journalists and this year was named one of "Atlanta's 50 Most Creative People" by CommonCreativ magazine. She is a member of the Southeastern Film Critics Association, the Women Film Critics Circle and ArtTable. |
 Cinqué Hicks is an arts writer and cultural producer. He is currently art critic and columnist for Creative Loafing, and is a co-author of the book Noplaceness: Art in a Post-Urban Landscape. He has also written for Rhizome.org, Public Art Review, International Review of African American Art, Cantanker, The Art Section, and Austin Downtown Arts. From 2003 to 2005 he produced the resource blog Electric Skin, covering contemporary art and technoculture. In 2004, Raphael Rubinstein in Art in America named Electric Skin one of 10 art blogs most worth daily reading. In 2003, he also launched Bare and Bitter Sleep, one of the earliest self-published blogs to cover contemporary art rigorously. He currently serves on the board of Art Papers and on several prize and curatorial committees. He obtained a BA in Literature from Harvard and an MS in Digital Media from Georgia Tech where he wrote his thesis on digital media art in public spaces. |
 Steve Jarvis is an Atlanta based artist who was born in Keflavic Iceland. He received a Bachelor of Fine Arts degree from the University of Arizona and a Master of Fine Arts degree from the University of California at Davis. He credits his artistic endeavors as much to his parents as to his education. He has had multiple solo and group exhibitions both nationally and internationally including a solo exhibition at the Museum of Contemporary Art in Tucson Arizona and a solo exhibition at Gallery Stokes, Atlanta Georgia. He was part of Still Water, an exhibition of water related works at Agnes Scott College in Atlanta GA. Currently, he is collaborating with Susan Krause on project181, the reworking of a post-foreclosure 1920's house into a machine for living collaboratively with nature. |
 Oronike Odeleye is a creative writer and arts administrator. She is a founding member and Administrative Director of Taller Portobelo Norte, an international artist collective that seeks to encourage critical dialogues around the art and culture(s) of the African Diaspora. She is a contributing writer for the online Black visual culture magazine, Code Z. Oronike is also a Partner and Account Executive at the graphic design agency RED|Creative. |
 DeNatalie Phillips develops and implements communications programs including event production, media and sponsor relations. She has applied this expertise for clients such as the Atlanta University Center Development Corporation, Communities in Schools, the Fulton County Arts Council, The Atlanta Office of Cultural Affairs, the National Black Arts Festival and The Trumpet Awards, for whom she has coordinated appearances for performing artists such as Sidney Poitier, Jill Scott, Sonia Sanchez and others. As the publicist with a passion for performance poetry, her signature piece, "The Emancipation of a Black Executive" is featured on her CD, From the Desk of DeNatalie. Her mission is to create and serve, making cultural connections that support broad thinking in a small world. |
 Lucha Rodriguez is an experimental printmaker, graphic artist and avid drawer who enjoys color at its brightest palettes. She has produced various "pink projects," ranging from etchings, monoprints, serigraphies to immersive surreal environments. She develops organ inspired creaturettes, to expand her own extravagant symbolism related to the body as an internal space. Lucha currently works in a beautiful, cozy studio in Atlanta, Georgia. Her seductive pink creations have been shown in Mexico, India, France, Hong Kong and the United States. |
 Louise E. Shaw has been a cultural activist in Atlanta for over 30 years, working in the intersection of arts, humanities and community building. From 1983 to 1998, she served as Executive Director of Nexus Contemporary Art Center (now The Contemporary). Prior to that, she was Assistant Curator at the Atlanta Historical Society (now Atlanta History Center), and Director of the Georgia State University Art Gallery. She has worked internationally on projects in Mexico, France, Norway, Ghana, Macedonia, and Albania, among other countries. Since 2002, she has served as Curator of the David J. Sencer CDC Museum (formerly the Global Health Odyssey Museum) at the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, where she has curated exhibitions such as VD: Values, Rights, Public Health and Watching Hands: Artists Respond to Keeping Well. |
 Mary Stanley is the creative energy behind a broad array of cutting edge contemporary art initiatives. As an independent curator, private art consultant, arts advocate, and artist representative, she maintains relationships with museums, galleries, nonprofit organizations and a select group of talented, established and emerging artists, international in scope. Her Young Collectors Club, started in 2006, provides an educational and social networking opportunity for over 200 young professionals interested in learning about and collecting contemporary art. Art has been a personal passion for many years, and became her second career in 1997. She started her own art business, Mary Stanley Studio in 2004. Mary serves on the Board of the Museum of Contemporary Art of Georgia, Board of Visitors at Lamar Dodd School of Art at University of Georgia, the Advisory Board of Atlanta Celebrates Photography, and several other nonprofit initiatives. |
 Shannon M. Turner works for Alternate ROOTS as Manager of Programs and Services. When she's not being an arts administrator, she also blogs, writes poetry, performs, and tells a pretty good story (especially at Carapace on the 4th Tuesday of every month at Manuel's Tavern). Shannon enjoys her residence in the Little 5 Points community, and along with her active membership in Alternate ROOTS since 2005, she serves on the Advisory Board for the Community Arts Network and recently joined the board of WonderRoot. She received an M.F.A. in Arts Administration and Public Dialogue from Virginia Tech in 2007. |
Volunteers
 Margaret Kargbo is a seasoned communications and marketing professional with experience providing strategic branding and communication solutions to businesses and nonprofits. Her specialty areas include client services, project management, public relations and experiential marketing. An art and culture enthusiast, she volunteers her time and resources to a variety of community-based projects and women-centered outreach initiatives. She enjoys travel, photography and aged scotch whiskey. |
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Fall 2011 Investors
Allison Rentz Anne Sterchi Anne Tracht Annette Cone-Skelton & Bob Hipps Anonymous Antonio Darden ArtsGeorgia Basheerah Ahmad Brenda Massie Cheryl Adams Odeleye Christopher Campbell Cinqué Hicks Daniel Gaetan-Beltran, Shay Nichols David Schuster Elizabeth Chapman Elyse Defoor Felicia Feaster Flora Maria Garcia George King Greta Mandell Jeff Vanderlip Joey Orr Joseph P. Peragine Judy Lampert June M. Grant Katherine M. Barringer Klimchak Kwanza Hall Lisa Alembik | Lisa Tuttle Lisa Frank Loran Hamilton Louis Corrigan Louise Shaw Lubo Fund Lucha Rodriguez Mark Basehore Martha J. Whittington Mary O'Horo Mary Stanley Matt Sigmon Melissa Snyder Nancy Floyd Nicole Livieratos Oronike Odeleye Pamela Rogers Paul Hagedorn Paul Boshears Robert Brawner Rocio Rodriguez Shannon Turner Steve Jarvis Susan Krause Susan Bridges Thomas Swanston Waduda Muhammad Your Name Here! |
Fall 2010 Investors
Allison Rentz Amy Miller Anne Dennington Anne Sterchi Anonymous ArtsGeorgia Brenda Locke Chris Campbell Cinqué Hicks Cosmo Whyte David Schuster David Hamilton Dorian McDuffie Flora Maria Garcia George King Jeani Elbaum Jeff & Julia Guy Judy Lampert Julia Myers Leatrice Ellzy-McNair Lisa Alembik Lisa Tuttle Louis Corrigan | Louise Shaw Lucha Rodriguez Lucinda W. & Robert Bunnen Machiko Ichihara Marianne Lambert Mark Basehore Mary Stanley Mary Ohoro Michael David Murphy Morolake Odeleye Nancy Floyd Nicole Livieratos Opal Moore Oronike Odeleye Pam Rogers Priscilla Smith Sarah Emerson Stacie Lindner Steve Jarvis Susan Krauss Susan Bridges Susannah Darrow Wesley Chenault |