Board of Directors
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Desirée Alvarez
Artist, Poet, and Educator at Juilliard and CUNY
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Sally Apfelbaum
Artist, Founder & Director of Art Republic Space
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Margarita Boyarskaya
PhD candidate at NYU Stern, engaged in research on fair and equitable machine learning.
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Amina Cruz
Artist, whose interests are based in queer culture, photography, and exploring the space between transformation and identity.
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Kevin Irby
Managing Director of Funders for Regenerative Agriculture (FORA)
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Jodi Moise
Director of The Fine Art Program and Collection at Montefiore Einstein, NYC
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Peter Simmons
Chief Operating Officer of the Doris Duke Foundation
“Our goal is to enable older professional artists to keep working and enriching the arts, and culture; to build community, and provide support.”
Sally Apfelbaum is the founder of Art Republic Space and an artist based in NYC, with an MFA from Tyler School of Art, and an M.P.H. (Master’s in Mental and Public Health Administration) from the University of Minnesota.
Her work is in collections internationally, and she has received several artist grants, including a 2022 NYSCA Individual Visual Artist Grant, several French Cultural Services grants, and the Giverny Award to live and work at Monet’s Garden. While in Normandy, she met Joan Mitchell, who became a friend and mentor. She was selected to be a Design Team Artist for a 10 mile 10 station commuter rail line in St. Louis, MO, received a Percent for Art Commission from the General Services Administration, NYC, and an Arts in Transit Commission from the MTA, NYC.
She has been a guest artist at Yaddo, McDowell, and La Cite Internationale des Arts, Paris; taught at Cooper Union, Parsons School of Design, and the School of Visual Art, and been a Visiting Artist at Middlebury College, Bennington College, Rhode Island School of Design, NYU Tisch School of Art, and other schools.
Advisory Board
Bettina Cousineau, Artist, Exhibitions Curator/Designer
Jill Enfield, Artist, Author, Professor
Stacy Greene, Artist
Amy Hill, Artist