ABOUT US
Amanda Trager, Founder/Director
Amanda is a visual artist who works in partnership with Erik Moskowitz. Her work as a producer of curated exhibitions, readings, and panel discussions exists alongside and outside her artistic practice, and began with the "Nassau Street Show," an art exhibition organized with Jean-Michel Basquiat, that occupied fugitive space in a 19th-century Lower Manhattan office building. Other venues have included The Vera List Center for Art and Politics, The New School for Social Research (NYC), and Los Angeles Contemporary Archive (LACA).
Grants and awards include the Artist Community Engagement Grant from the Rema Hort Mann Foundation (2017), support from the The Ida and Robert Gordon Family Foundation (2020), and most recently, the Scotia Scholars Award from Research Nova Scotia, the Joseph Beuys Memorial Scholarship, and a Fellowship with the Institute for the Study of Canadian Slavery (2021-22) — all connected to her pursuit of a Master's Degree in Art Education (Community-Based Practice track) at NSCAD University (Halifax). She is the 2022-23 Visiting Artist at the UC Davis Humanities Institute.
Anne Seidlitz, Head of Development
Anne has over twenty years experience as a writer and development consultant working with filmmakers, cultural institutions, not-for-profits, and public television. She has helped develop fundraising strategies and raised significant funding for organizations such as 13/WNET, The Rubin Museum of Art, Healing the Divide, The Garrison Institute, and Firelight Media. Anne also writes documentary films; her latest project is Becoming Frederick Douglass, which premieres nationally on PBS in October 2022.
Andrew McNeely, Chief Consultant
Andrew is a writer, editor, and curator. His curating focuses on aesthetics, the philosophy of race, and spatial and environmental politics. His recent exhibition at LACE, A NonHuman Horizon (2019), investigates the articulation of racial identity in the work of three generations of environmentalist artists. He also curated Restless Debris (2016) at UCI’s UAG, which highlights the collective attachments to superfund sites often found in communities of color. Since 2018, Andrew has stewarded the Community Reading Group (CRG), a collective that is dedicated to verbalizing the limits of community and the duties of common life. CRG is organized by Olivia Leiter, Michael Berlin, Joy / Jade, Hailey Loman, and Zach Whitworth.
The Advisory Board is currently in formation.