Staff + Board

Cea (Constantine Jones) Administrative Collaborator

Cea (Constantine Jones) is an interdisciplinary Greek-American thingmaker raised in Tennessee and housed in Brooklyn. Their practice is collaborative in nature and rooted at the intersections of HIV/AIDS futurity / archival as cultural care-work / poetry as catalyst for social instigation. They are the author of a novel, IN STILL ROOMS (Operating System 2020) and a collaborative chapbook with Portuguese visual artist Vicente Sampaio, BALEEN: A POEM IN TWELVE DAYS (Ursus Americanus 2022). They served as Director of the Visual AIDS Oral History Project, THE BODY AS AN ARCHIVE, from 2021 to 2024, and are an active member of the collective, What Would An HIV Doula Do? They are an independent student of world epic poetry and are currently at work on their own epic. They live at the corner of stories and noise.

previous staff

Shawn Escarciga (9/2018-3/2020)

Pelenakeke Brown (5/2018-12/2019)

Linnea Ryshke (2017-2018)

Madelyn Ringold-Brown (2016-2018)

Board:

Chloë Bass
Artist, Culture Push Fellow 2013 and Faculty at Queens College-CUNY Social Practice Program
Chloë Bass is a conceptual artist working in performance, situation, publication, and installation. Her work addresses scales of intimacy, where patterns hold and break as group sizes expand, and daily life as a site of deep research. Her current project, The Book of Everyday Instruction, is an eight-chapter investigation into one-on-one social interaction. Chloë is a 2017 - 2018 Workspace resident at the Center for Book Arts, and a 2017 studio resident at Triangle Arts Association. Her projects have appeared in recent exhibitions at CUE Art Foundation, Elizabeth Foundation for the Arts Project Space, The Southeastern Center for Contemporary Art, the James Gallery, and elsewhere. Her forthcoming book will be published by the Operating System in December 2017; her writing is most often found on Hyperallergic. She is an Assistant Professor in Art at Queens College, CUNY.
www.chloebass.com

Alicia Grullón
Artist, NYFA Immigrant Artist Mentor, Columbia University Wallach Art Gallery Fellow, Culture Push Fellow 2013
Alicia Grullón moves between performance, video, and photography, channeling her interdisciplinary approach towards critiques on the politics of presence, an argument for the inclusion of disenfranchised communities in political and social spheres. She received a BFA from New York University and an MFA from the State University of New York at New Paltz. Grullón’s works have been shown in numerous group exhibitions including: The 8th Floor, Franklin Furnace Archives, the Bronx Museum of the Arts, BRIC, School of Visual Arts, El Museo del Barrio, Jamaica Flux 10, Performa 11, Old Stone House and Art in Odd Places. She has received grants from the Puffin Foundation, Bronx Council on the Arts, the Department of Cultural Affairs of the City of New York, and Franklin Furnace Archives, among others. She has participated in residencies in the United States, Korea and Germany and has done workshops for the Creative Time Summit 2015, Naturally Occurring Cultural Districts, The Royal College of Art, The Point CDC, NYCHA, United States Association for Art Educators, Culture Push, and Migrating Academies in Kassel Germany. These workshops were a part of Grullon's legislative social practice project PERCENT FOR GREEN, a functioning green bill created as art with Bronx residents. This project contributed to her acting as one of the co-lead organizers in the Bronx for the People's Climate March. Grullon is currently serving as a mentor for NYFA's Immigrant Artist Mentoring Program and a fellow for Columbia University’s Wallach Art Gallery. Her work has been reviewed in Hyperallergic, Creative Time Reports, Art Fag City, New York Daily News, and the Brooklyn Press. Grullón is a contributing author for the forthcoming publication from Palgrave Macmillian "Rhetoric, Social Value and the Arts: But How Does it Work?" out in October 2017. 
www.aliciagrullon.com

Nancy Nowacek
Artist, educator and Culture Push Fellow 2012
Nancy Nowacek makes art engaged with power and politics of the body in late-capital, post-industrial culture. Embodying latent or invisible systems—bureaucracy, infrastructure, computer coding—she intervenes into the designed environment with sculpture, performance and installations that challenge and shift assumptions of the social and body schema. Often situated between speculation and reality, Nowacek’s work brings conceptual environments and uses of the body into concrete, tactile sensory experience through the transformation of found objects and readymades. Her projects are often socially-engaged and process-driven, involving the collaboration of dozens to hundreds of participants in their realization. Nowacek was an honorary Culture Push fellow in 2013. Her work has also been supported by Eyebeam, the Brooklyn Arts Council, Recess, the Lower Manhattan Cultural Council, Zero1 San Jose, and the Sharpe Walentas Studio Program. She has exhibited and presented works in New York, Los Angeles and the Bay Area, Canada, South America and Europe. www.nancynowacek.com

Carolyn Hall is a freelance dancer originally from Los Angeles. She has performed with numerous choreographers/directors and was awarded a "Bessie" for performance in 2002. She has been a company member of the "Bessie" Award winning Then She Fell with Third Rail Projects for over three years and is currently working with Lionel Popkin, Rebecca Davis, Clarinda Mac Low, and Shannon Hummel/CORA Dance. She has also performed in the works of Sally Silvers, Carrie Ahern, Heather Kravas, Jordan Fuchs, Amanda Loulaki, Allyson Green, Ori Flomin, Jimena Paz, Abigail Levine, Sarah Maxfield, Ralf Jaroschinski, Sam Kim, Nina Winthrop, Karl Anderson, and Helena Franzen. Additionally, Carolyn is a marine ecologist working as a research assistant with author Paul Greenberg and is an instructor with the Alan Alda Center for Communicating Science. To combine her two interests, she is a board member of the Interdisciplinary Laboratory for Arts, Nature and Dance (iLAND).

Nadia Tykulsker, a native Brooklynite, is a mover/maker/administrator/activist. Her work is centered around anti-racist organizing, arts advocacy, and dance making. She is currently Administrative Partner to Marjani Forté-Saunders, Jonathan González, Jennifer Harge/Harge Dance Stories, and Ivy Baldwin. She is also a proud member of the Financial Operations Team at ArtsPool Services, Inc. She was formerly the director of Programs at Fourth Arts Block, an arts and advocacy organization in NYC. She has worked administratively with a variety of artists and arts organizations, including Lionel Popkin, Faye Driscoll, Donna Uchizono, Brooklyn Arts Exchange, and Cora Dance. Her current and long-time dancing collaborators are EmmaGrace Skove-Epes, Katie Dean, Kim Savarino and Tara Sheena, each of whom she is immensely grateful to be in creative conversation with. In the last few years she has taught at the University of Michigan and set work on the repertory company at James Madison University, her work was presented by The Tank at Standard Toykraft and toured to The Jam Handy in Detroit. She also has performed in works of Maya Ciarrocchi, Phoebe Berglund, Alexandra Pinel, and Kim Brandt. She is deeply committed to collaboration and the examination and dismantling of racism and other social inequities, using creation as a forum to organize and build stronger communities.

Haiba Hamilton is and artist and curator, and the accounting manager for both a New York City non-profit and a Chicago-based design software educational company.