Douglas Back, Web Designer + Digital Media Producer
Originally from Chicago, Douglas moved to New York after graduating with a B.F.A. in Lighting Design from The Theatre School, DePaul University. After a multi-year stint with Apple, Douglas merged his background in the arts with his experience in technology and joined LMCC. Having been mistaken for a cheeseburger by an otherwise friendly cat, he has recently found his life to be imitating Internet memes.
Nolini Barretto, Producer,
Sitelines Festival
Nolini Barretto has long been part of the New York arts community. She worked
for the Martha Graham School of Contemporary Dance for thirteen years, the last
few years as Administrative Director of the school. She was the Director of Marketing
for Dance Theater Workshop in Chelsea, helping it transition into its new building,
managing its rebranding efforts and launching its Inaugural season. While at
DTW, she was part of the National Arts Marketing Project's Advanced Audience
Development Training. She was a founding Director of the Emergency Fund for Student
Dancers and continues to serve on its Board and the on the advisory Board of
Buglisi/Foreman Dance. Nolini received a Masters degree in Arts Administration
from Teachers College, Columbia University.
Patrick Barnes, Executive Coordinator
Patrick Barnes comes to LMCC after a brief stint at the Lincoln Center Institute for the Arts in Education as Development Writer. Prior to that assignment, he served for several years as Executive Coordinator at the New York Regional Association of Grantmakers, where he was responsible for a wide variety of services for NYRAG’s 280+ grantmaking member organizations. Patrick is also a composer with The 52nd Street Project, a nonprofit organization that pairs theatre professionals with children from New York’s Hell’s Kitchen neighborhood, and has published short fiction in such anthologies as Two Hearts Desire, Obsessed, and What I Meant Was. He has lived over a fish store in Turtle Bay for the past 15 years.
Maggie Boepple,
President
Prior to joining LMCC in October 2007, Maggie spent three years as Senior
Advisor to London's Commissioner of Transport leading the efforts in the
transfer of the London Underground to the London government. In New York,
Boepple served as New York City’s chief lobbyist within the Koch
administration, the first woman to hold such a position, and subsequently
became the Director of Intergovernmental Relations where she represented the
City’s interests with Federal, State and local government entities. Her
years in public service include work with the Metropolitan Transportation
Authority as Director of Government Relations and with the City University
of New York as Vice Chancellor of University Relations. Maggie has also
represented a number of New York City-based cultural institutions and
corporate clients as President of her own lobbying firm, Maggie Boepple
Associates LTD. She and her husband, the sculptor Willard Boepple, currently
live downtown.
Chad Bolton,
Program Manager, Boroughwide Grants
Chad
was born in Baltimore, hon, but has lived in NYC for the best parts of
his life. While he recently worked at the Citigroup Foundation helping
applicants navigate the world of online grant applications, he earned
his stripes in the trenches of nonprofit theater. His first job was at
Baltimore’s regional theater, Center Stage, where he was molded
into an arts administrator. There were a few formative summers at the
Berkshire Theatre Festival before he moved to NYC to work at the New
Victory Theater. The New Vic exposed Chad to Aussie circus, French modern
dance, and Japanese Bunraku puppets, but his heart has always been in
the streets of NYC. In his spare time he likes to eat good food and study
for a masters degree.
Elaine Bowen
Elaine Bowen joined LMCC in March 2007. For
the past ten years Elaine has worked with non-profit contemporary arts
organizations, helping them with fundraising, resource management and program development. She moved to New York City from her native Canada in
2002 to join apexart, a non-profit curatorial program in Lower Manhattan, as
their Development, Residency & Conference Director, where she worked until
2005. Prior to her current role with LMCC, she was the Director of
Development with CUE Art Foundation, a non-profit contemporary arts
organization in Chelsea. While in Toronto she worked in the development
departments of both The Power Plant Contemporary Art Gallery and the
provincial art museum, the Art Gallery of Ontario. In 2005 she co-founded
Development Professionals in the Arts, a discussion group of development
directors working for visual arts organizations in NYC. Elaine is a former
Board member of YYZ Artists' Outlet, Canada’s longest-running artist-run
center.
Sean Carroll, Residency & Swing Space Associate
Sean grew up on Boston’s North Shore and spent many years living in the Nation’s Capital before moving to Brooklyn in 2004. Over the years he has been an executive assistant, art gallery manager, photography workshop manager, black and white film processor, caterer, lifeguard, and paper boy. In his spare time he likes to take pictures, ride trains, read maps, and drive his car in, around, and out of the city. He is a fan of the scenic route and the Boston Red Sox. Sean went to college at American University in Washington, DC and received an MFA in Photography from Pratt Institute.
Natasha Chuk, Program Associate, Grants & Services
Originally from Monterrey, Mexico, Natasha grew up in San Antonio and Minneapolis. She comes to LMCC with a background in film and television production. She holds a BA in Film Studies and an MA in Media Studies and teaches at School of Visual Arts and as an educator at the Museum of the Moving Image. In her free time, Natasha likes to read, watch films, and write about new media.
Erin
Donnelly, Director of Residency
& Swing Space
Erin
Donnelly is Residency Director and Curator and has been with the Council
since 2001. Independent and guest curatorial projects include Henry
Street Settlement/Abrons Art Center, Gigantic ArtSpace, and ‘the
lab’ at the Roger Smith Hotel all in New York City,
The Peekskill Project, and Kunsthalle Exnergasse in Vienna, Austria,
among others. She has worked on exhibitions at the Lower East Side Tenement
Museum; the Grey Art Gallery, New York University; and the New Museum
of Contemporary Art. She has taught at New York University. She was awarded
a Helena Rubinstein Curatorial Fellowship, Independent Study Program,
Whitney Museum of American Art and received an MA from Gallatin School
of Individualized Study and certificate in Museum Studies from New York
University.
Savannah Gorton holds an MA in Curating Contemporary Art from the Royal College of Art in London and has worked in non-profit art organizations for over ten years. Most recently she co-organized, managed, and programmed Printed Matter's 2006 and 2007 NY Art Book Fairs for international contemporary art publishing as well as their wildly fun 2007 Spring Benefit featuring John Waters and Peaches. She was a 2005-2006 Curatorial Fellow at The Kitchen and has interned in exhibitions at London's Whitechapel Art Gallery, programming and production at Creative Time, and publications and press at SITE Santa Fe. In addition she spent four years working in Tamarind Institute's gallery while earning her BFA in Photography and Art History at the University of New Mexico. Currently she also pursues projects as an independent curator and writes on contemporary art.
Emily Katzif, Development Manager
Prior to joining LMCC in November 2007, Emily worked for two years in The
MacDowell Colony’s New York office, writing grant proposals for its artist
residency program and supporting the Colony’s centennial campaign. Before
MacDowell, she was a member of the NYC development teams of Arts & Business Council and Americans for the Arts. In addition to grant writing for these
and other nonprofits, her professional experience includes technical
writing, teaching, and organic farming. Originally from Massachusetts, and
having lived in various cities on both coasts and in between since receiving
her B.A. from Syracuse University, she has now settled happily in Brooklyn.
When not at LMCC, she would ideally spend her time writing, traveling, and
eating good food (preferably in combination).
Ben
Kerrick, Art Spaces Associate
Meeting-scheduler
to the stars, Ben is a native Idahoan who now calls the tough
streets of Brooklyn home. And he's got the scars to prove
it. An actor, director, circus performer, and erstwhile imaginer
of t-shirt designs based on archaic textbook diagrams, Ben
also likes to knit, ride his bicycle across bridges and under
branches, and look up at the sky, be it night or day. He
went to Whitman College in Walla Walla, Washington.
Adam
Kleinman, Curator
Adam Kleinman is a curator and critic who has programmed numerous projects
ranging from intimate site specific performances to museum-scale
exhibitions, conferences and various print based endeavors. Although
catholic, his main interests lay with architecture, economics, and history.
Melissa
Levin, Residency & Swing Space Manager
A
native of Los Angeles Melissa has made New York City her home since
graduating from Barnard College in 2002. (Though a zealous Lakers fan
from birth, she has also discovered an affection for Knicks basketball.)
After a 2 year stint at Andrea Rosen Gallery, she started planning
the Council’s benefits, and has now found a cozy home in the
Residency Department which is where it’s at. She has also written
about art, curated, and designed costumes for several off-off-off Broadway
shows.
Maureen McMahon, Development Associate
Maureen joined LMCC in January 2008 after a two-year stint as the Development Assistant at The MacDowell Colony’s New York office. While there, she worked on special events, produced their annual appeal, and managed the conversion from their old donor database to Raiser’s Edge. She graduated from Wellesley College in 2005 with a major in French and a minor in Art History, and now considers herself a Boston girl at heart (despite having grown up outside of Los Angeles). While living in Manhattan, Maureen indulges in the city’s best assets: food and art.
Diego Segalini, Director of Finance & Administration
Born and raised in Brooklyn, Diego is a first generation Italian-American
artist and businessman living in New York City. Prior to joining LMCC in May
2007, Diego spent three years as Managing Director of 3-Legged Dog Media and
Theater Group where he played a pivotal role in fundraising, financial
planning and project management to establish a new multi-million dollar Art
& Technology Center in Lower Manhattan. Most recently he worked for
Nonprofit Finance Fund where he was responsible for performing financial and
organizational analyses for clients nationwide. Diego has designed dozens of
shows in his career from Shakespeare to Sartre to musical standards and
continues to pursue his artistic endeavors as an independent producer and
production designer for stage, film and special events. He holds a double
B.A. in Drama and Mathematics from Vassar College and is a proud alum of
Stuyvesant High School.
Kay Takeda, Director of Grants & Services
Kay joined the Council in March 2005 to develop and oversee the Council’s
downtown-focused cultural grants, borough-wide grant programs and
artist services. Prior to joining the staff, she served for five
years as Program Manager of the Advised Funds and Regranting Programs
division at Arts International, where she oversaw a roster of national-level
grant programs providing support for visual and performing artists
working internationally. Her background includes three years with
Snug Harbor Cultural Center in Staten Island, New York as Assistant
Director of Visual Arts, where she managed contemporary art exhibitions
and public programs as well as a studio program that provided workspace
and professional development opportunities for visual artists. She serves on the Board of Directors of Goliath Visual Space in
Brooklyn.
Liza White , Program Associate, Grants & Services
Liza is originally from the wacky little town of Myrtle Beach, SC. She attended Long Island University’s Friends World Program where she studied in London, Northern Ireland, Costa Rica and Nicaragua. While in London Liza was a member of Soho Theatre’s Young Writers Program. Most recently Liza worked as a teaching artist and administrator for Creative Arts Team and the NYC Student Shakespeare Festival. She is a current member of the Stolen Chair Theatre Company and proud auntie. Liza fancies the color green.
Originally from Chicago, Douglas moved to New York after graduating with a B.F.A. in Lighting Design from The Theatre School, DePaul University. After a multi-year stint with Apple, Douglas merged his background in the arts with his experience in technology and joined LMCC. Having been mistaken for a cheeseburger by an otherwise friendly cat, he has recently found his life to be imitating Internet memes.
Nolini Barretto has long been part of the New York arts community. She worked
for the Martha Graham School of Contemporary Dance for thirteen years, the last
few years as Administrative Director of the school. She was the Director of Marketing
for Dance Theater Workshop in Chelsea, helping it transition into its new building,
managing its rebranding efforts and launching its Inaugural season. While at
DTW, she was part of the National Arts Marketing Project's Advanced Audience
Development Training. She was a founding Director of the Emergency Fund for Student
Dancers and continues to serve on its Board and the on the advisory Board of
Buglisi/Foreman Dance. Nolini received a Masters degree in Arts Administration
from Teachers College, Columbia University.
Patrick Barnes comes to LMCC after a brief stint at the Lincoln Center Institute for the Arts in Education as Development Writer. Prior to that assignment, he served for several years as Executive Coordinator at the New York Regional Association of Grantmakers, where he was responsible for a wide variety of services for NYRAG’s 280+ grantmaking member organizations. Patrick is also a composer with The 52nd Street Project, a nonprofit organization that pairs theatre professionals with children from New York’s Hell’s Kitchen neighborhood, and has published short fiction in such anthologies as Two Hearts Desire, Obsessed, and What I Meant Was. He has lived over a fish store in Turtle Bay for the past 15 years.
Prior to joining LMCC in October 2007, Maggie spent three years as Senior
Advisor to London's Commissioner of Transport leading the efforts in the
transfer of the London Underground to the London government. In New York,
Boepple served as New York City’s chief lobbyist within the Koch
administration, the first woman to hold such a position, and subsequently
became the Director of Intergovernmental Relations where she represented the
City’s interests with Federal, State and local government entities. Her
years in public service include work with the Metropolitan Transportation
Authority as Director of Government Relations and with the City University
of New York as Vice Chancellor of University Relations. Maggie has also
represented a number of New York City-based cultural institutions and
corporate clients as President of her own lobbying firm, Maggie Boepple
Associates LTD. She and her husband, the sculptor Willard Boepple, currently
live downtown.
Chad
was born in Baltimore, hon, but has lived in NYC for the best parts of
his life. While he recently worked at the Citigroup Foundation helping
applicants navigate the world of online grant applications, he earned
his stripes in the trenches of nonprofit theater. His first job was at
Baltimore’s regional theater, Center Stage, where he was molded
into an arts administrator. There were a few formative summers at the
Berkshire Theatre Festival before he moved to NYC to work at the New
Victory Theater. The New Vic exposed Chad to Aussie circus, French modern
dance, and Japanese Bunraku puppets, but his heart has always been in
the streets of NYC. In his spare time he likes to eat good food and study
for a masters degree. 
Originally from Monterrey, Mexico, Natasha grew up in San Antonio and Minneapolis. She comes to LMCC with a background in film and television production. She holds a BA in Film Studies and an MA in Media Studies and teaches at School of Visual Arts and as an educator at the Museum of the Moving Image. In her free time, Natasha likes to read, watch films, and write about new media.
Erin
Donnelly is Residency Director and Curator and has been with the Council
since 2001. Independent and guest curatorial projects include Henry
Street Settlement/Abrons Art Center, Gigantic ArtSpace, and ‘the
lab’ at the Roger Smith Hotel all in New York City,
The Peekskill Project, and Kunsthalle Exnergasse in Vienna, Austria,
among others. She has worked on exhibitions at the Lower East Side Tenement
Museum; the Grey Art Gallery, New York University; and the New Museum
of Contemporary Art. She has taught at New York University. She was awarded
a Helena Rubinstein Curatorial Fellowship, Independent Study Program,
Whitney Museum of American Art and received an MA from Gallatin School
of Individualized Study and certificate in Museum Studies from New York
University.
Prior to joining LMCC in November 2007, Emily worked for two years in The
MacDowell Colony’s New York office, writing grant proposals for its artist
residency program and supporting the Colony’s centennial campaign. Before
MacDowell, she was a member of the NYC development teams of Arts & Business Council and Americans for the Arts. In addition to grant writing for these
and other nonprofits, her professional experience includes technical
writing, teaching, and organic farming. Originally from Massachusetts, and
having lived in various cities on both coasts and in between since receiving
her B.A. from Syracuse University, she has now settled happily in Brooklyn.
When not at LMCC, she would ideally spend her time writing, traveling, and
eating good food (preferably in combination).
Meeting-scheduler
to the stars, Ben is a native Idahoan who now calls the tough
streets of Brooklyn home. And he's got the scars to prove
it. An actor, director, circus performer, and erstwhile imaginer
of t-shirt designs based on archaic textbook diagrams, Ben
also likes to knit, ride his bicycle across bridges and under
branches, and look up at the sky, be it night or day. He
went to Whitman College in Walla Walla, Washington.
Adam Kleinman is a curator and critic who has programmed numerous projects
A
native of Los Angeles Melissa has made New York City her home since
graduating from Barnard College in 2002. (Though a zealous Lakers fan
from birth, she has also discovered an affection for Knicks basketball.)
After a 2 year stint at Andrea Rosen Gallery, she started planning
the Council’s benefits, and has now found a cozy home in the
Residency Department which is where it’s at. She has also written
about art, curated, and designed costumes for several off-off-off Broadway
shows.
Maureen joined LMCC in January 2008 after a two-year stint as the Development Assistant at The MacDowell Colony’s New York office. While there, she worked on special events, produced their annual appeal, and managed the conversion from their old donor database to Raiser’s Edge. She graduated from Wellesley College in 2005 with a major in French and a minor in Art History, and now considers herself a Boston girl at heart (despite having grown up outside of Los Angeles). While living in Manhattan, Maureen indulges in the city’s best assets: food and art.
Born and raised in Brooklyn, Diego is a first generation Italian-American
artist and businessman living in New York City. Prior to joining LMCC in May
2007, Diego spent three years as Managing Director of 3-Legged Dog Media and
Theater Group where he played a pivotal role in fundraising, financial
planning and project management to establish a new multi-million dollar Art
& Technology Center in Lower Manhattan. Most recently he worked for
Nonprofit Finance Fund where he was responsible for performing financial and
organizational analyses for clients nationwide. Diego has designed dozens of
shows in his career from Shakespeare to Sartre to musical standards and
continues to pursue his artistic endeavors as an independent producer and
production designer for stage, film and special events. He holds a double
B.A. in Drama and Mathematics from Vassar College and is a proud alum of
Stuyvesant High School.
Kay joined the Council in March 2005 to develop and oversee the Council’s
downtown-focused cultural grants, borough-wide grant programs and
artist services. Prior to joining the staff, she served for five
years as Program Manager of the Advised Funds and Regranting Programs
division at Arts International, where she oversaw a roster of national-level
grant programs providing support for visual and performing artists
working internationally. Her background includes three years with
Snug Harbor Cultural Center in Staten Island, New York as Assistant
Director of Visual Arts, where she managed contemporary art exhibitions
and public programs as well as a studio program that provided workspace
and professional development opportunities for visual artists. She serves on the Board of Directors of Goliath Visual Space in
Brooklyn.
Liza is originally from the wacky little town of Myrtle Beach, SC. She attended Long Island University’s Friends World Program where she studied in London, Northern Ireland, Costa Rica and Nicaragua. While in London Liza was a member of Soho Theatre’s Young Writers Program. Most recently Liza worked as a teaching artist and administrator for Creative Arts Team and the NYC Student Shakespeare Festival. She is a current member of the Stolen Chair Theatre Company and proud auntie. Liza fancies the color green.