Julia Angel

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Undergraduate, UC Berkeley

Julia Angel is a fourth-year undergraduate student at UC Berkeley, majoring in Art History and Spanish and minoring in Human Rights. She has worked as the Education Intern at the National Museum of Women in the Arts in Washington, DC, and as a Research Intern with the postcard collection at Magnes Museum of Jewish Art and Life in Berkeley, CA. Building on her work with HAHS this past summer, Julia is continuing to research development and change in the historically Black New Orleans neighborhood of North Claiborne as a research apprentice for Dr. Anna Livia Brand. In Berkeley, she teaches art classes to elementary school students and paints in her spare time.

Speaker – Session 3: HAHS Emerging Voices Internship Program

Valerie Balint

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Director, Historic Artists’ Homes & Studios

Valerie Balint is the Director of Historic Artists’ Homes and Studios (HAHS), program of the National Trust for Historic Preservation. She is the author of the Guide to Historic Artists’ Homes and Studios (Princeton Architectural Press, June 2020). Prior to HAHS, Ms. Balint served for seventeen years on the curatorial staff at Frederic Church’s Olana (also a HAHS site), most recently as Interim Director of Collections and Research. Her previous work also includes curatorial positions at Chesterwood and the Frelinghuysen Morris House & Studio (both HAHS sites). She served as the New York State Coordinator of “Save Outdoor Sculpture,” a program of the Smithsonian American Art Museum to document all public sculpture in the United States.  A frequent lecturer and writer, Balint is a longtime advocate of the role preserved artists’ spaces play in our national cultural heritage.

Moderator – Session 3: HAHS Emerging Voices Internship Program

Sydney Barofsky

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Phd candidate, University of Chicago

Sydney Barofsky is a PhD student of art history at the University of Illinois at Chicago. They are broadly interested in art of the Americas, considering themes such as ecology, heritage, and material culture. Their project in the Historic Artists’ Homes and Studios program addresses the work of Chicano/a/x muralists in Denver, Colorado as their studios manifest in the streets of their communities.

Speaker – Session 3: HAHS Emerging Voices Internship Program

Sasha Davis

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Executive Director, Renee & Chaim Gross Foundation

Sasha Davis is Executive Director of the Renee & Chaim Gross Foundation, the historic home and studio of American sculptor Chaim Gross (1902-91) and his wife Renee (1909-2005). Prior to becoming executive director in 2017, Davis served as Curator of Collections. Davis previously held internships at The Museum of Modern Art, MoMA PS1, and the Newark Museum. Davis received a BA from New York University in Art History with a minor in Studio Art and a certificate in Arts Administration and Collections Management, also from New York University.

Speaker – Session 1: Aspen Institute’s Artist-Endowed Foundations Initiative (AEFI): Consortium Advancing Next-Gen Leaders in the Visual Arts

Omar Eaton-Martínez

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Senior Vice President for Historic Sites, National Trust for Historic Preservation

Omar is the Senior Vice President for Historic Sites at the National Trust for Historic Preservation, where he leads the preservation, interpretation, and overall stewardship of 28 historic sites across the country to tell the full American story. Recently, he managed the interns and fellows’ program at the Smithsonian’s National Museum of American History (NMAH). Omar has worked at the National Park Service, the Office of the National Museum of the American Latino Commission, NASA and he also was a K-12 teacher in NYC and DC. He builds coalitions that support diversity, equity, accessibility and inclusion.

Welcome remarks – Session 3: HAHS Emerging Voices Internship Program

Carolyn Keogh

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Director of Education and Public Programs, Olana State Historic Site

Carolyn Keogh is the Director of Education and Public Programs at The Olana Partnership where she oversees programs for diverse learners of all ages at the renowned landmark historic site, Olana. Previously, Carolyn managed school, youth, and teen programs at the Guggenheim Museum. She has presented at national conferences on intergenerational art and technology programs, inclusive historic farm interpretation, and visitor-centric teacher development. Her research on empathy-building and art museum education was published in “Theory and Practice” in 2019. Carolyn received her BA from NYU in Art History and an MA in Art History with a focus on Art Museum Education from City College.

Speaker – Session 2: Studio Sessions – How Historic Artist Sites Are Training Tomorrow’s Leaders

Joe Lewis

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President, Noah Purifoy Foundation

Joe Lewis is a nationally recognized artist, educator, and musician. He is a Professor of Art at the University of California, Irvine’s Claire Trevor School of the Arts and serves as President of the Noah Purifoy Foundation. Lewis was also the co-founding Director of Fashion Moda, a pioneering artist-run space in New York’s South Bronx. His work is exhibited widely, with recent shows at James Fuentes Gallery and Wall Works, NY, and Mesa College, San Diego, the Museum of Contemporary Art in Oaxaca, Mexico, and the Museum of Modern Art (MoMA). Lewis’s art is held in prominent collections, including the Los Angeles County Museum of Art and MoMA. In recognition of his significant contributions to the arts community, Lewis was named a 2023 Legacy Fellow by the California Arts Council.

Speaker – Session 2: Studio Sessions – How Historic Artist Sites Are Training Tomorrow’s Leaders

Lauraberth Lima

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Consulting Learning Leader, AEF Consortium Advancing Next-Gen Leaders in the Visual Arts

Lauraberth Lima is the Chief of Exhibitions and Collections at the American LGBTQ+ Museum and adjunct Professor of Museum Studies at New York University. Lima has also worked as an established Cultural Consultant with over 15 years of experience in education and community engagement in Museums and cultural institutions. They earned an MFA in Photography, Video, and Related Media from the School of Visual Arts.

moderator – Session 1 Aspen Institute’s Artist-Endowed Foundations Initiative (AEFI): Consortium Advancing Next-Gen Leaders in the Visual Arts

Antonio David Lyons

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Board President, The Valerie J. Maynard Foundation

A multi-disciplinary artist whose storytelling often fuses poetry, music, and embodied movement. An Applied Theatre Practitioner who manages to maintain a thriving career as a professional artist in tandem with his activist and scholarly pursuits. He has been an Art and Social Justice Fellow at Emory University.  A Fulbright Awardee, an Oregon Shakespeare Festival Producing Fellow, and a Scholar in Residence at the University of Michigan (Ann Arbor). He is the creator of “We Are Here”, a social activism campaign birthed in South Africa that utilizes discoursive play to engage men and boys in themes of identity, Masculinity, relationships, gender-based violence, and HIV/AIDS.  We Are Here has implemented programs and toured in South Africa, Namibia, and the USA. 

Closing remarks – Session 3: HAHS Emerging Voices Internship Program

Michael McFalls

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Director, Pasaquan/Columbus State University

Mike McFalls is a practicing artist, professor, and director of Pasaquan and the Bo Bartlett Center at Columbus State University. Since 2014, he has led Pasaquan’s transformation into a nationally recognized interdisciplinary hub, overseeing restoration of the seven-acre visionary art environment created by self-taught artist St. EOM (Eddie Owens Martin). McFalls has coordinated over 30 CSU interns in conservation efforts and developed robust programming including artist residencies, performances, and educational partnerships across the Southeast.

He lectures widely on St. EOM’s legacy at institutions including LACMA, Intuit Chicago, and the Outsider Art Fair. His recent curatorial projects include Eddie Owens Martin: Drawing Between Worlds at Kentler Drawing Center, Pasaquoyan in the City at Institute 193, and the traveling exhibition Viberations of Pasaquan. A former Fulbright Scholar at the University of Gothenburg, McFalls’s own interdisciplinary art practice centers on collaborations with artists, poets, and musicians. He holds an MFA from UC Davis and a BFA from Columbus College of Art and Design.

Speaker – Session 2: Studio Sessions – How Historic Artist Sites Are Training Tomorrow’s Leaders

Sophia Molina

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Undergraduate, Wesleyan University

Sophia Molina is a member of the Class of 2026 at Wesleyan University, where she is double-majoring in history and art studio. From the Washington, D.C. area, Sophia is interested in historic preservation, arts communications, public engagement, and art law. Her academic work centers on bridging historical narratives and visual culture to create nuanced perspectives on present-day issues. During a Summer 2024 internship with HAHS, Sophia researched women of the Washington Color School, focusing on Anne Truitt and her studios across Washington, D.C. Her project examines Truitt’s position within the movement while highlighting the significance of artists’ workspaces in Washingtonian modern art history.

Speaker – Session 3: HAHS Emerging Voices Internship Program

Lluvia Munoz

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Undergraduate, Oberlin College

Lluvia Munoz is a rising senior at Oberlin College studying American and Hispanic Studies, born and raised in South Chicago (actual Southside). Recently, Lluvia’s research is focused on Los Four, a groundbreaking Chicano art collective from the 1970s based in East L.A., responsible for the first major exhibition of Chicano art in the U.S. Over the past year, Lluvia has been researching how Spanglish is represented in visual art, specifically through the work of Mexican-American artist Enrique Chagoya under the Mellon Mays Undergraduate Research Fellowship. She has presented this research at several conferences and recently submitted her work to a journal affiliated with Harvard Press, fingers crossed!

Speaker – Session 3: HAHS Emerging Voices Internship Program

Victoria Munro

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Executive Director, Alice Austen House

Victoria Munro (b. 1975, Wellington, New Zealand) is an artist, educator, writer, and curator whose multifaceted practice bridges sculpture, public art, and cultural leadership. Munro is the Executive Director and Curator of the Alice Austen House Museum, where she stewards a site of LGBTQ+ visibility and storytelling. She also serves as Board President of the Museums Council of New York City and sits on both the Executive Leadership Committee of the NYC Parks and Open Spaces Coalition and the National Trust’s Historic Artists’ Homes and Studios Program. As founder of the Queer Ecologies Garden Project at Alice Austen Park, Munro fuses environmental activism with queer theory, cultivating a living, evolving space that reimagines relationships between identity, land, and community. Her work—across sculpture, curation, and ecological practice—champions queer presence in both natural and institutional spaces.

Moderator – Session 2: Studio Sessions – How Historic Artist Sites Are Training Tomorrow’s Leaders

Julie PhamVu

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Program Manager, Dedalus Foundation

Julie PhamVu is the Programs Manager at the Dedalus Foundation, where she oversees the Foundation’s undergraduate and graduate internship programs, along with other grant making initiatives. She received a BFA in Studio Art and Art History from the University of San Diego. 

Speaker – Session 1: Aspen Institute’s Artist-Endowed Foundations Initiative (AEFI): Consortium Advancing Next-Gen Leaders in the Visual Arts

Keelin Pogue

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Postgraduate, Bard Graduate Center

Originally from Walla Walla, Washington, Keelin Pogue is currently working as a special education teacher in the NYC public schools, while pursuing a career in museum education. She holds an M.A. in Decorative Arts, Design History, and Material Culture from the Bard Graduate Center, where her academic studies focused on museum practice and history, as well as folk art.

Speaker – Session 3: HAHS Emerging Voices Internship Program

Infiniti Robinson

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AEF Consortium Cohort 2023

Infiniti Robinson is a postgraduate Bloomberg Arts Intern Mentor and an alum of Studio Institute’s “Arts Intern” program. Most recently, Infiniti has worked with the Studio in a School Association as a Lead Mentor and co-coordinator for the Bloomberg Arts Internship program, and continues to support the Aspen Institute’s Artist Endowed Foundation Initiative (AEFI) as a 2023 Alumni Cohort co-coordinator and as a Seminar Management intern for the AEF Seminar between February and May, 2026.

Speaker – Session 1: Aspen Institute’s Artist-Endowed Foundations Initiative (AEFI): Consortium Advancing Next-Gen Leaders in the Visual Arts

Valerie Rodriguez

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AEF Consortium Cohort 2023

Valerie Rodriguez is a Project Assistant at the Helen Frankenthaler Catalogue Raisonné. She was an Assistant Researcher at The Greenwich Collection (Robert Ryman’s Catalogue Raisonné). Previously, she worked at the Metropolitan Museum of Art as a Visitor Experience Ambassador. She remains interested in Contemporary Female Latinx artists and their relationship to nature. Outside of work, she keeps a poetic practice. She received her B.A. from New York University in 2024.

Speaker – Session 1: Aspen Institute’s Artist-Endowed Foundations Initiative (AEFI): Consortium Advancing Next-Gen Leaders in the Visual Arts

Blue Tarpalechee, PhD

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Director of the Native American Center, Stanford University

Dr. Blue Tarpalechee is an enrolled citizen of the Muscogee (Creek) Nation and currently serves as Associate Dean of Students and Director of the Native American Cultural Center at Stanford University. Blue is a proud husband and father. His research interests in Muscogee literature, Indigenous Data Sovereignty, and storytelling traditions developed during his undergraduate and master’s studies at the Institute of American Indian Arts in Santa Fe, New Mexico, and further developed in his Ph.D. studies at the University of Oklahoma. Now, he writes about the semiotics of the Native image using the tools of authorial custody and story stewardship. 

Speaker – Session 3: HAHS Emerging Voices Internship Program

David Walker

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Archivist, Louise Bourgeois Archive/The Easton Foundation

David Walker is an archivist at The Easton Foundation & Louise Bourgeois Archive in New York City. He is currently processing Bourgeois’s extensive audiovisual materials, including the artist’s audio diaries (1967–1986). He received his MLS from CUNY Queens College in 2021 and a BA in photography from Earlham College in 2014. He is an active member of the Archivists Round Table of Metropolitan New York and serves as the Arts & Culture Editor of its online publication, the Metropolitan Archivist.

Speaker – Session 2: Studio Sessions – How Historic Artist Sites Are Training Tomorrow’s Leaders