Sabine Schumacher M.A.
Director
During the last 17 years, Sabine worked as the assistant editor of Kommunalwirtschaft a special interest magazine published in Germany. Kommunalwirtschaft provides information for mayors, consultants, lawyers, city workers, industry companies supplying cities with infrastructure items. The same company also organized business events for some of its clients to promote innovative technology, often new environmentally sustainable products.
The diversity of the requirements let her develop a wide portfolio of organization skills.
Sabine possesses her master’s degree is in contemporary art history, and worked as customer manager at ART COLOGNE for 5 years. She currently works for Margarete Roeder Gallery, Soho.
Linda Cunningham
Cofounder & Board Member
Linda Cunningham is a New York City based artist who exhibits extensively both in New York and Germany. She is represented by Art Capsule and Odetta Gallery in Brooklyn. As a former professor, Linda Cunningham founded and administered the exhibition program at Franklin and Marshall College for a number of years. She was involved in organizing the first open artist studios in the South Bronx in 2005, and in early 2009 began working with Mitsu Hadeishi to put on a series of events in the space now known as BronxArtSpace.
Aristides Logothetis
Board Member
Born in Athens, Aristides is a visual artist who has attended several residencies and exhibited in the Metropolitan Museum of Art, Bronx Museum, and Duke University among others. In addition, he has curated several landmark exhibitions; founded and directed Gallery Schmallery in Boston; worked as consultant and instructor in university programs; and founded the Young Artists Placement Program in New York City public schools. Aristides is the Founder and .Executive Director of ARCAthens.
Sharon Vatsky
Temporary Chair
Sharon Vatsky supervises school, teacher, and family programs at the Guggenheim Museum and oversees the development of curriculum materials for Guggenheim exhibitions in New York and Bilbao. In her previous position as curator of education at the Queens Museum of Art, she formulated programming for dozens of exhibitions of modern and contemporary art for audiences of all ages. Vatsky also teaches graduate courses in museum education at the City University of New York (CUNY) and Teachers College, Columbia University, and has taught college level courses in drawing, painting, art history, and arts education. She holds graduate degrees from the State University of New York at Albany, Hartford Art School, and an undergraduate degree from New York University. She is the 2008 recipient of the Charles Marshall Robertson Award, which is presented annually to an educator “who has made a significant contribution to art education.”
Mitsu Hadeishi
Cofounder & Board Member
Mitsu Hadeishi has been organizing and curating multi-media art/video/performance events in the Bronx and New York City since 2003, exhibiting experimental video, performance art, 2D and 3D visual art, net art, installations, music, and site-specific interactive work, and he’s also collaborated with artists on internet projects for many years prior to that. He has an undergraduate degree in Physics from Harvard University and has lived in the Bronx for over a decade.
Melissa Guzman
Board Member
Melissa Guzman is a second-generation Bronx resident and a dedicated Realtor serving both The Bronx and Westchester County. With a background in hospitality and food and beverage, Melissa brings a unique perspective to the real estate industry. Passionate about her community, she embraces new experiences and continually seeks knowledge.
Traci Molloy
Board Member
Traci Molloy is a Brooklyn-based artist, collaborator, and educator.
Molloy’s exhibited her art in over 175 venues, including solo shows in New York, Chicago, Kansas City, Nashville, and participation in the Atlanta Biennial. Molloy also creates large scale, multi-media collaborations with young adults across the nation who have experienced trauma. Five of her collaborations are in the Permanent Collection at the National September 11th Memorial and Museum. Her projects have been exhibited at the United Nations, Pentagon, Bronx Museum of the Arts, CDC’s Global Health Odyssey Museum, Norman Rockwell Museum, International Summit on Racism in Johannesburg, and Tokyo’s Children’s Museum.
Maria Scarpini
Board Member
Maria graduated from the Universitá Internazionale dell'Arte in Florence in 1982 and began her restoration career in Milan in 1983 with frescoes and large-scale altar paintings on canvas at Studio Parma. She further expanded her work experience in Rome with Coop CBC in a variety of media: from monuments and frescoes to paintings on canvas and panel. In 1993 she established a private conservation practice in Milan. She worked for several institutions including PAC in Milan (Padiglione d'Arte Contemporanea) and the Galleria Nazionale d'Arte Moderna in Rome.
Carol A. Zakaluk
Board Member
Carol spent two years as a grant and shop assistant for sculptor, Timothy Blum, then went on to be one of three co-directors for the Haven Arts Gallery in the Bronx. A graduate of Binghamton University with a degree in English Literature, she's a third-generation Bronxite who has been living in the Mott Haven neighborhood for over 49 years.
Beverly Emers
Community Liaison
Beverly Emers started taking classes at Bronx Community College for her associate’s before coming to Hunter to major in sociology.
On May 29, 2019 she received her bachelor’s degree as well as a standing ovation from the audience at a packed Madison Square Garden during Hunter’s graduation ceremony. She now plans to get a master’s degree in labor studies to help educate impoverished children in the South Bronx.
Beverly Emers is currently working for Children’s Aid and is a Board member of the Soul Box Project. Listen to her speak about the Soul Box Project here and here.