STAFF

Carol Stakenas, Executive Director (09/05)

Since her arrival at LACE in 2005, Stakenas has worked with over 400 artists, more than 50 of which have developed unique and innovative projects that could only be realized through a residency at LACE. Through training and experience, Stakenas leads LACE’s staff to deliver core programs.  These programs require socially intensive processes to engage numerous community groups, local businesses, city agencies and thousands of residents. Stakenas is also a faculty member at the University of Southern California in Public Art Studies.

Previously, Stakenas was the Deputy Director/Curator of Creative Time, New York City’s adventurous public arts presenter. She has worked with a broad range of artists including Asymptote, Haluk Akakçe, Natalie Bookchin, Chris Doyle, Cai Guo-Qiang, Granular Synthesis, Shu Lea Cheang, Vik Muniz, Takashi Murakami, Marjetica Potrç, Toshi Reagon, Erwin Redl, Steve Roden, Christopher Russell, Mary Ellen Strom and Lebbeus Woods.  She has curated and produced multidisciplinary public art at sites such as Massless Medium and Music in the Anchorage in the Brooklyn Bridge Anchorage; Consuming Places in DUMBO Brooklyn; the DNA Deli Cups and the DNAid Billboards; PDPal, a mobile mapping project commission in Times Square; Shimon Attie's Between Dreams and History on Manhattan's Lower East Side; and Karaoke Ice, a mobile public art project that traveled throughout Los Angeles.

Robert Crouch, Associate Director/Curator (07/08)
robert(at)welcometolace(dot)org

Having joined LACE in 2008, Crouch is responsible for the day-to-day operations of the organization.  He works closely with the Executive Director in planning and fundraising activities. Crouch has a decade of fundraising and non-profit membership management experience. During his 9-year tenure at the Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles, he increased annual membership revenue by 60% over a three-year period, raising annual membership revenue from $740,000 to $1.2 million. He is also the co-founder and co-curator of Volume Projects, which functions as a catalyst for interdisciplinary new media work through exhibitions, performances, events, lectures, and publications.

Geneva Skeen, Program Coordinator (10/09)
geneva(at)welcometolace(dot)org

Skeen joined LACE in the summer of 2009 to help coordinate production on the annual 10K as a volunteer. Since then, she has taken on production of the vast spectrum of LACE's exhibitions and programming. As part of this effort she liaises with all artists, guest curators, gallerists, educators, vendors, partnering organizations, and schools in addition to running the internship and volunteer programs. Her creative practice in music and performance encompasses solo and collaborative work throughout Los Angeles. She is a graduate of Occidental College, where she studied Critical Theory & Social Justice, and studied at NYU's Tisch School of the Arts in Dramatic Arts.

Andrea Dominguez, Los Angeles Goes Live Producer (08/10)
andrea(at)welcometolace(dot)org

BOARD MEMBERS

Bill Moreno, President (12/10) is a visionary leader with diverse background in non-profit and corporate programming and management. Moreno was most recently the founding Executive Director of the Claremont Museum of Art in Claremont, CA, where he was responsible for the completion, programming, and staffing of this private venture which secured $12M in commitments. Critically acclaimed exhibitions there included Karl Benjamin: Conversations in Color, Ephemeral: Explorations in Light, Mutiverse, and Vexing: Female Voices from East LA Punk. He has also excelled as Executive Director of The Mexican Museum, San Francisco, and Director of Aguirre Gallery in Silicon Valley, CA. He has served on the City of Los Angeles Individual Artist Fellowships and the NALAC Fund for the Arts panels, and is a member of FOCA, Los Angeles; The Director's Forum, NY, the College Art Association, and ICI. Moreno is a graduate of NALAC, and has appeared extensively as featured speaker and panelist to discuss global art issues. In addition to his leadership at LACE, he also serves on the board for Make Music LA.

Synderela Peng, Secretary, (6/07) is an artist and graphic designer.  She is currently an art director at yU+co.  Her clients include Universal Studios, Disney, Sony Pictures, and Touchstone Pictures. She provides strategic direction in developing LACE’s communication plan, and demonstrates strong leadership in her support of LACE programming.

Glenn R. Phillips (6/05) is Research Associate and Consulting Curator in the Department of Contemporary Programs and Research at the Getty Research Institute. He recently curated the acclaimed California Video retrospective at the Getty Museum.

Vincent Ruiz-Abogado, Vice-President, (06/07) is an independent art director and film maker.  He created title sequences for films such as Brokeback Mountain, Fantastic 4 and XXX.  His clients include HBO, Bravo, TNT and Partnership for a Drugfree America. This year he directed A Walk in the Park, a documentary feature film. He brings his expertise to developing access to the LACE Video Archive Project for the 30th Anniversary.

Margie Schnibbe, Treasurer (6/10) is a multidisciplinary artist and filmmaker whose works have appeared at numerous venues including Rotterdam International Film Festival, Arte TV Europe, MIX NYC, David Kordansky Gallery and MOCA Los Angeles. Margie was one of the organizers of Lust 4 LACE 2008, which restored one of LACE’s most notorious events – the Annual Valentine’s Benefit. She brings an enthusiastic DIY spirit and a background in technical theater, film and independent media production.

Jackie Sharp (5/10), a nearly-native of Los Angeles, has spent the majority of her professional career working in the video and music industries. After establishing her own independent video distribution company (Independent World Video) in the mid-80s and earning the titles of Executive Producer and later, Vice President of Production and Original Programs at VH1, Sharp returned to LA to run her family's business. Since 1980, her continued work with Target Video (aka TargetVideo77) has documented and shared hundreds of shows to independent and museum venues, including LACE, the Getty Museum, and MOCA.  She remains deeply committed to the idea that art should knock your socks off or trouble you deeply.

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