Alison Croney Moses
Artist, craftsperson, educator, art administrator, mother, and Black woman. Alison cultivates spaces of learning, making, and sharing of art, craft and design that are welcoming and nurturing of the diverse identities that these spaces are built from. Alison’s professional work weaves together her values and passions focusing on empowering both youth and adults to use their knowledge, skills, and experiences to make positive changes in the world around them.
Laurel Nakadate
A photographer, filmmaker, video and performance artist. For twenty-five years she has investigated her relationship to strangers through stories built on camera. Located through chance encounters, DNA tests, open casting calls, family histories, and unsolicited email communication, these strangers were invited by Nakadate to participate in performances that bridge the worlds of fact and fiction, documentary and constructed narrative.
Nakadate’s first feature film, “Stay the Same Never Change,” premiered at the Sundance Film festival and went on to be featured in New Directors/New Films at Lincoln Center. Her second feature film, “The Wolf Knife” was nominated for a Gotham Award and an Independent Spirit Award. Her ten-year-survey of photography, video, and performance work, “Only the Lonely,” premiered at MoMA PS1. Nakadate has completed two monographs, 365 Days: A Catalogue of Tears published by Hate Cantz, and Strangers and Relations published by the Des Moines Art Center. Nakadate’s most recent projects include the photo series, “The Kingdom,” and the critically acclaimed group show, “Mother,” co-curated with Leslie Tonkonow Artworks + Projects in New York City, which travelled to New Mexico State University Art Gallery in 2020 and will open at George Mason University in April of 2022.
Nakadate’s work is in many collections including the Museum of Modern Art, the Whitney Museum of American Art, the Yale University Art Gallery, the Hessel Museum of Art, Bard College, Princeton University Art Museum, Smith College Museum of Art, LACMA, and the Guggenheim Museum.
Ruth Erickson
The Mannion Family Curator at the Institute of Contemporary Art/Boston, where she has curated solo exhibitions with artists Kevin Beasley, Mark Dion, Wangechi Mutu, Tschabalala Self, and Vivian Suter, as well as traveling group exhibitions on Black Mountain College and another on contemporary art and migration. Her forthcoming projects include a group exhibition titled “A Place for Me: Figurative Painting Now” that registers the current wave of portraiture among artists of her generation as well as “To Begin Again: Artists and Childhood” an international and intergenerational survey of artists who have derived inspiration from childhood. At the ICA/Boston, she oversees the permanent collection and had led a comprehensive review of acquisitions through the lens of diversity and equity. She has edited and contributed to multiple exhibition catalogues, including Leap Before You Look: Black Mountain College 1933-1957, and presented and published her work widely, in venues from Jeu de Paume, Paris, the Wexner Center for the Arts, Columbus, OH, and the Hammer Museum, Los Angeles, to Art in America and Framework. She received a BA in Art History from Carleton College and an MA and PhD in Art History from the University of Pennsylvania, and regularly serves as a visiting critic, most recently at Maine College of Art and Massachusetts College of Art and Design.
Cierra Rembert
A visual artist, arts administrator, critic, and curator based in Cleveland, OH. Cierra Rembert is the Artist Initiatives Coordinator at SPACES, the resource and public forum for artists who explore and experiment. Her practice as an artist and contributor to the arts is embodied through her mission to create opportunities for artists. In her role at SPACES, Cierra manages three re-granting programs in partnership with The Andy Warhol Foundation, Cleveland Foundation and Cuyahoga Arts & Culture; in addition to overseeing interns and volunteers while contributing to social media and marketing. She has been involved in charitable contributions such as America SCORES Arts Inspired Auction; juried for Deep Roots Experience: She Art Vol.3 Transcendence (Cleveland, OH) and The Luminary Futures Fund (St. Louis, MO).