kubo - PLANNING AND MATERIALS ADVISOR

KuBO, born in 1962, has lived and worked in Los Angeles, Hong Kong, and Sweden as well as his native Germany for the past several years, as much to accommodate his inter- national business work as to stimulate his artwork. His art making encompasses painting, sculpture, photography, and combinations thereof, and capitalizes on his extensive employment of and research into pigments, inks, and coatings. This research in turn has been spurred by his longtime commitment to worldwide ecological practice, and his experience with such materials allows him to give a peculiar luster to the surfaces of his images and objects. Before settling in Hong Kong KuBO lived and worked in several other Asian cities, most notably Istanbul. The nom de plume “KuBO” comes in part from the Cantonese term referring to a broken but repaired vessel, a metaphor for reconciliation after a period of dispute.

shana nys dambrot

Shana Nys Dambrot is an art critic, curator, and author based in Downtown Los Angeles. She is currently LA Editor for Whitehot Magazine, and a contributor to KCET’s Artbound, as well as HuffPost, Creators (Vice), Fabrik, Art and Cake, Palm Springs Life, Juxtapoz, Artillery, and Porter & Sail, and was Contributing Editor to the late great Art Ltd. Magazine. She studied Art History at Vassar College, writes loads of essays for art books and exhibition catalogs, curates and/or juries a few exhibitions each year, is a dedicated instagram photographer and author of experimental short fiction, and speaks in public at galleries, schools, and cultural institutions nationally. She currently serves on the Board of Art Share-LA and the Advisory Council of Building Bridges Art Exchange. An account of her activities can be found at sndx.net.

stefanie nafe - LOGISTICS/EUROPE AND SCANDINAVIA

Stefanie Nafé was born in Germany. She did an apprenticeship as a restorer and church painter. She worked as a colorist and was responsible for the development and realization of color concepts for textile printing and the photographic management for marketing, presentations and fairs. Since 2000, she has been working as a freelance artist and had several solo exhibitions with her photo-art. She also did commission work for exhibition catalogues and catalogues of work for several artists. Today, she is the project manager of Trans Angeles in Germany and lives in Germany and Sweden.

the dark bob - performance art advisor

Born in Santa Monica, California, The Dark Bob began his performance art career in 1975 when he co-founded the multi-media art team of Bob & Bob. This early work has been historicized in books, catalogs and documentary profiles for television, radio and film. He is generally regarded as a "pioneer" in L.A. performance art.

His one-man, multi-media shows combine song, dance, film, storytelling, live on-stage painting and comedy.     The Dark Bob's artworks (drawings, paintings, sculptures and installations) have been exhibited in galleries and museums across America and around the world. 

He has been featured on numerous local television shows around the U.S. and has appeared many times on radio stations in this country and abroad. Notably: “Life & Time Tonight”, KCET-PBS TV profile, "California Stories", KCET-PBS - TV profile, NPR (National Public Radio) profile by Elizabeth Perez Luna, "Views From L.A", by MVC - TV, "Young Turks", a documentary film by Stephen Seemayer, The Pacifica Radio National Network Interview, "The Territory of Art”, Produced by The Museum of Contemporary Art (Los Angeles). He is currently working on a new documentary with ViCA. Numerous profiles, articles and reviews have been written on The Dark Bob, notably: The Washington Post, The Los Angeles Times, Village Voice, L.A. Weekly, The Chicago Reader, Artforum and Artweek.

MAY SUN - public art advisor

May Sun is a Los Angeles based artist working in Sculpture, Multi Media Installation and Photography, Drawing and Painting. Her work has been exhibited nationally and internationally, including MIT's List Center for the Visual Arts, ArtPace in San Antonio, Texas and the Asia Society Galleries in New York.

She has won numerous awards and fellowships, including two NEA Visual Artist's Fellowships, a Getty Fellowship for the Visual Arts, an AIA Certificate of Recognition Award, and an Honor Award from the Los Angeles Westside Urban Forum. Her installation UnderGround is in the permanent collection of the Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles. Her multi-media installation "L.A./River/China/Town" premiered at the Santa Monica Museum of Art's Art in the Raw series in 1988, and the MOCA produced radio version of the installation won a Silver Award from the Corporation for Public Broadcasting.

Public art commission locations include the Hollywood and Western Red Line Subway Station in Hollywood; Union Station Gateway Center, Los Angeles; City Hall in Culver City; Warner Center, Woodland Hills; San Antonio International Airport, San Antonio, Texas; a public plaza in Chinatown in Boston, Massachusetts and the Robert F. Kennedy Inspiration Park at the site of the former Ambassador Hotel in Los Angeles.

She received her B.A. in Art (Painting/Sculpture/Graphic Arts) from UCLA and attended the MFA program in Sculpture at Otis Art Institute, Los Angeles. Teaching experience includes several years as a faculty member at California Institute for the Arts, and a visiting artist and lecturer at art schools and colleges nationally. 
She recently taught at Otis College of Art and Design in Los Angeles and will be an artist in residence at the Rinehart School of Sculpture at Maryland Institute College of Art in Baltimore, Maryland for the fall/2017 and spring/2018 semesters.

dr. judi bloom - psychology of art advisor

Dr. Judi Bloom is an expert in understanding the emotional impact of visual stimuli on human psychology. Her background in visual communication includes 15 years as an Emmy Award winning television news anchor and reporter in New York, Miami, Philadelphia and Los Angeles prior to obtaining her Doctorate in Clinical Psychology. A Cornell University graduate, she also co-produced Art/World with Juri Koll, focusing on the relationship between politics, culture and art. Dr. Bloom currently is co-host with celebrity interviewer Richard Skipper of the bi-weekly video podcast “Creativity in the Age of Covid”, merging the worlds of psychotherapy and the creative arts and how artists have faced the challenges presented by the current pandemic. Dr Bloom is a licensed psychotherapist in private practice in California and Florida.