Art21's small staff is responsible for the creation of the series, as well as the related educational resources, public programs and new media that reach millions each year.
Susan Sollins, Executive Director
Migs Wright, Producer
Eve-Laure Moros Ortega, Managing Director
Sara Simonson, Managing Director
Wesley Miller, Associate Curator
Jessica Hamlin, Director of Education & Public Programs
Kelly Shindler, Director of Special Projects
Marc Mayer, Manager of Education and Public Programs
Joe Fusaro, Senior Education Advisor
Jonathan Munar, Manager of Digital Media and Strategy
Nick Ravich, Director of Production
Ian Forster, Production Coordinator
Diane Vivona, Senior Development Officer
Heather Reyes, Development Assistant

Susan Sollins
Executive Director

Susan Sollins, Executive Producer and Curator of Art:21—Art in the Twenty-First Century, has been well known in the field of contemporary art for more than 30 years for her innovations in public programming and museum education, and as a curator. In addition to her work for many art institutions as a curator and consultant, Sollins is the co-founder and Executive Director Emerita of Independent Curators International (ICI), a nonprofit organization that develops, organizes, and circulates traveling exhibitions of contemporary art presenting a broad range of recent trends and aesthetic concerns to viewers nationwide and abroad. During her 21-year tenure, ICI’s 75 exhibitions featuring more than 1,700 artists were seen at more than 360 institutions and alternative spaces in the US, Europe, Canada, and Mexico. Sollins was formerly the Visual Arts Consultant for Thirteen/WNET’s Emmy and Peabody Award-winning arts magazine City Arts; serves on the Boards of the MacDowell Colony and ICI, and has been a panelist for the NEA, NYSCA, and New York’s Percent for Art program. Early in her career, Sollins was the Curator of Education (Chief, Museum Programs) at the Smithsonian’s American Art Museum, and Curator of its Discovery Gallery, which showcased contemporary art. In her private life, as the wife of the late composer Earle Brown she has been actively involved in the world of contemporary music for many years. Migs Wright
Producer

Since joining Art21 in 1997, Migs Wright has worked on many facets of the Art21 organization. In addition to her role as Producer of the Art:21—Art in the Twenty-First Century television series, Wright also serves as President of the Art21 Board of Trustees. Her husband, Bing Wright, is a photographer; they have two sons. Eve-Laure Moros Ortega
Managing Director

Eve-Laure Moros Ortega, Series Producer of the Art:21—Art in the Twenty-First Century television series, has worked in film and television for more than 15 years on documentaries and independent feature films. Prior to her work on Art in the Twenty-First Century she worked on projects with Oscar-winning directors Deborah Dickson and Bill Fertik , MacArthur Fellow Yvonne Rainer, Amir Naderi, and Curious Pictures, among others. Moros Ortega holds a B.A. in Political Science and Art History from Barnard College, where she was awarded honors for her work on postmodern art, and an M.A. in Cinema Studies from New York University. She has been a panelist for NYSCA, and is also the Producer/Director of Made in Thailand, a documentary about women factory workers in Thailand who are struggling to form labor unions. Made in Thailand, funded by the Soros Open Society Institute, the Jerome Foundation, and others, was nominated by the International Documentary Association as best documentary short, and is currently distributed by Women Make Movies, as well as through a grassroots outreach campaign funded by the Paul Robeson Fund. Sara Simonson
Managing Director

Sara Simonson launched her career at Art21 as a summer intern following her graduation from Stanford University with a B.A. in Art History and Film Studies. She has held staff positions in production and development. During a hiatus from Art21, Simonson earned her M.B.A. at the UCLA Anderson School of Management, where she focused on entertainment and media strategy. While living in Los Angeles, Simonson worked on primetime network television series including 24, Friday Night Lights, and Shark at Ron Howard and Brian Grazer's Imagine Television. Simonson has studied film and video production at the New School and New York University, and her short films and visual art have been included in juried exhibitions at Stanford. She received the Lorenz Eitner Award in Art and Art History at Stanford, and was a John and Edith Titley Fellow at UCLA Anderson. Wesley Miller
Associate Curator

Wesley Miller is an artist in addition to his work for Art21. He holds a B.A. in Philosophy and Art from Sarah Lawrence College and an M.F.A. in Sculpture from Yale University. His first museum exhibition, a public project titled P.S., opened Fall 2001 at the Yale University Art Gallery in New Haven, CT. In 2002, Miller attended the Skowhegan School of Painting and Sculpture where he completed an installation, Birds of Prey, for the L.C. Bates Museum in Hinckley, ME. He attended the Pilchuck Glass School in 2003. Before joining Art21 in 1999, Miller worked in museum education at the Blaffer Gallery, University of Houston, and in public relations, marketing, and development at the Contemporary Arts Museum in Houston, TX.
Jessica Hamlin
Director of Education & Public Programs

Jessica Hamlin has spent the past twelve years talking about, thinking about, teaching and writing about contemporary art and its potential as a pedagogical resource. As an art educator, Jessica has spent time in museums, galleries, non-profit arts organizations and schools connecting the art of our time to students, teachers and public audiences. Previous to joining Art21, Jessica led education programs at the non-profit gallery Art In General, the community-based Saturday Art School at Pratt Institute, and participated in a comprehensive planning and assessment process with the Boston Mayor’s Office of Cultural Affairs, examining school and community-based arts programs in the Boston Public Schools. Jessica is also an adjunct faculty member at New York University where she completed her Masters degree in Art Education. Kelly Shindler
Director of Special Projects

Kelly Shindler graduated summa cum laude with a B.A. in English from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. Before joining Art21 in 2003, she worked at the Shorts International Film Festival, the Massachusetts Museum of Contemporary Art (MASS MoCA), as well as on a number of programs showcasing new and archival Central and Eastern European cinema. Outside of Art21, Shindler has curated film and video for Australia Cinematheque, Scandinavia House, the Sequences Festival in Reykjavik, CineWomen NY, and others. She is also a writer and the co-founder/curator of the Package Deals film series, whose programs have been seen in cinemas, artspaces, and film festivals in over thirty cities around the world.
Marc Mayer
Manager of Education and Public Programs

Marc Mayer joined the staff of Art21 in May of 2008. Mayer has spent the last four years working in museum education, serving both youth and adult audiences. He was associate educator at the New Museum, integrating contemporary art into the high school curriculum. Previously he held a twelve-month internship in the education department at the Museum of Modern Art, assisting with adult and academic programs. He also worked for three years at a not-for-profit using new technology to bring mentors to underserved youth in New York City. Mayer earned his B.A. from Wesleyan University in American Studies concentrating in visual culture. Joe Fusaro
Senior Education Advisor

Joe Fusaro received his Masters Degree in Education from the City University of New York and his Bachelors Degree in Fine Arts from Hofstra University. He is an exhibiting artist, educator, and the Visual Arts Chair for the Nyack Public Schools in New York since 2003. Prior to his work in Nyack, he was a teacher and staff developer in the New York City school system for 13 years. Fusaro is currently an adjunct instructor for New York University's Graduate Program in Art and Arts Professions, certified by the National Board for Professional Teaching Standards, and has led staff development workshops in contemporary art education for the New York State Art Teachers Association and the National Art Education Association over the past five years. His recent exhibitions include solo shows at Kickstart Gallery in New York City, the University of California, Santa Cruz, and the Garnerville Arts Center in New York. Fusaro also served as the summer artist-in-residence at Massachusetts College during 2005 and 2006.
Jonathan Munar
Manager of Digital Media and Strategy

Jonathan Munar joined Art21 in August 2008, bringing seven years of Web-related experience in an art environment. Before joining Art21, Jonathan was the Website Technology Manager at the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York, responsible for various aspects of maintaining and advancing the museum's Web and new media initiatives.

As Art21's Manager of Digital Media and Strategy, Jonathan manages the Art21 Web and digital media-based presence, initiatives, and strategies, as well as the organization's social media activities. Jonathan is the editor the Art 2.1 column on the Art21 blog, which explores the uses of social and Web-based technologies by artists, museums, and other relevant arts organizations and individuals.

Jonathan holds a B.A. in computer science from Fordham University. Nick Ravich
Director of Production

Upon graduating from the Massachusetts College of Art in 1997, Ravich worked with filmmaker Errol Morris as a researcher, starting a ten-year career in documentary film and television production. Since that time, he has worked for various broadcast companies including the Discovery Channel, History Channel, and Comcast. Ravich has also worked on a number of award-winning PBS-broadcast arts and culture productions. Ravich worked as a researcher for Blackside’s I’ll Make Me a World, and as a production coordinator for WGBH-TV’s Greater Boston Arts. Ian Forster
Production Coordinator

Ian Forster joined Art21 as the production coordinator in October 2009. Ian holds a B.S. from the Newhouse School at Syracuse University in television, radio, and film. While enrolled at Syracuse, he worked as a production associate at NBC during the Beijing Summer Olympics and as a production intern at the MTV Networks-owned LOGO channel. Ian brings to Art21 a passion for public television programming and appreciation of contemporary art. Delighted to join the Art21 team, he is especially eager to work on Art21’s ever-expanding collection of online video.

Diane Vivona
Senior Development Officer

Diane Vivona is Senior Development Officer of Art21. Previous leadership, arts management, and fundraising roles have included: Executive Director, The Field, a service organization for performing artists; Associate Director and affiliated consultant, David Bury & Associates; Development Director, chashama; and Interim Director of Artists Services, Dance Theatre Workshop. She has an M.Litt. in the History of Art from the University of Glasgow, an M.A. in Dance from London City University, and has had an extensive career in dance as a performer, choreographer, and educator. Heather Reyes
Development Assistant

Heather Reyes graduated from Fordham University in 2008, receiving a B.A. in Art History and Spanish. Before joining Art21, Heather worked as a twelve-month Curatorial intern at the Museum of Modern Art in the Drawings department, where she provided research and administrative assistance for a variety of exhibitions, including Tangled Alphabets: Leon Ferrari and Mira Schendel. She has also held internships at Christie's and the Studio Museum in Harlem. She began as a Development intern at Art21 in November 2009 before joining the staff full-time in March 2010. Heather is thrilled to be a part of the Art21 team and looks forward to lending a hand with fundraising projects and other development initiatives.