| GAF 2023 | Student Leadership Team | Artists | Events | Installation Views |
Curators
Ashley Hurst (she/her) is a senior from Birmingham, Alabama and is concentrating in the Management and Marketing of Contemporary Arts and Culture at Gallatin with a special interest in gallery management. Her love for contemporary art was cemented through her prior experience interning for James Fuentes Gallery in New York’s Lower East Side and working at NYU Special Collections. Joining the team for a second year, Ashley is thrilled to be collaborating with her peers at Gallatin to present yet another in person art experience.
Maggie Wei (she/her) is born and raised in Taipei, Taiwan. She is a senior at Gallatin studying curation and collaborative storytelling with a minor in art history. She is interested in global cultural access and repatriation in today’s museum world. Throughout her career at NYU, she experimented with storytelling mediums. She designed her own narrative game, produced a Chinese podcast, and done creative direction at an online publication to explore culture exchange and hear the unheard of. She previously worked as a curatorial and collection management intern for Los Angeles County Museum, where she gained interest in curation community archives. Outside of art, Maggie loves exploring the city, hiking, and eating good food. She is delighted to be a curator for the Gallatin Arts Festival and to showcase the work of her peers.
Maia Fauvre (she/her) is a senior in Gallatin concentrating in Sustainable Design: The Art and the Practice. With experience in both art and fashion, she is interested in how sustainability can be integrated into creative fields to promote the urgency of climate change and encourage sustainable lifestyles. As an artist, she works primarily in digital mediums and also runs a small business in which she upcycles denim pieces to create custom garments. She has worked as a graphic designer for companies like Cult Gaia and Cultured Magazine and has also been published in Confluence for both writing and creative work.
Lex Jacquet (she/they) is a mixed-media artist originally from New Orleans who explores the cultural construction of identity through their own personal history. At Gallatin, their concentration examines the performance of the everyday, feminist theories of the body, existential phenomenology, and class politics. They hope to engage audiences with how performance and cyberculture offer routes to resist and redefine normativity while expanding our understanding of ways of being as a curator for the Gallatin Arts Festival.
Nikki Myers (she/her) is a Dominican-American fourth-year undergraduate student at Gallatin studying Latin American Women in Global Media. Her concentration deals with the intersection of imperialism, gender, race, and visual culture. She currently works as a Program Associate at The Latinx Project at NYU, an organization that highlights artwork and scholarship by Latinx artists and thinkers. In her free time, Nikki volunteers with various migrant justice organizations, preparing asylum applications and translating documents. Nikki is particularly interested in curation as a form of bridging the gap between the NYC art scene and community organizing.
Producers
Sofia Lopez Arredondo (they/them) is a multidisciplinary artist from San Miguel de Allende, Mexico. They are a third-year student at NYU Gallatin, studying theatre, decolonization, and the queer archive. Sofia has previously produced with Broke People Play Festival. They are passionate about harm reduction in theatre, exciting narratives centering marginalized experiences, and working towards a liberated theatre practice. Sofia is excited to be a part of the GAF team and looks forward to supporting and uplifting the wonderful artists in the Gallatin community.
Reyna Carrillo (she/her) is a first-year
masters student at Gallatin researching the foundational imbalances in ballet. She is from Mexico and has danced since she was three years old. Reyna has performed in Washington D.C., New York, London, Moscow and St. Petersburg. One thing she can’t live without is coffee. Reyna is honored to be a producer for the Gallatin Arts Festival and excited to meet more members of the Gallatin community.
Mariana Braga (she/her) is a senior at NYU Gallatin concentrating in Biosocial Health: from Neural Processes to Health Outcomes with a minor in Child and Adolescent Mental Health Studies. She is passionate about technical theatre and loves to work with others to put on productions; she has experience with stage management, light design, and prop/scenic design. She loves to play guitar, read, and write during her free time.
Maya Masa’deh (she/her) Maya is a junior at Gallatin exploring directing experimental theatre, post-colonial studies, journalism and psychoanalysis. Born and raised in Amman Jordan, Maya is interested in how culture and collective memory manifest themselves in the performing arts; particularly in conflict zones and post-colonial societies. She is delighted to be a producer for the Gallatin Arts Festival.
Community Engagement Managers
Ruthy Micha (she/her) is from Mexico City and currently a senior at Gallatin concentrating in marketing, psychology and art. She’s passionate about creating digital and physical communities through art and social media. Being multicultural (both Jewish and Mexican), she understands the importance of bringing people together and creating spaces where people can express themselves freely. She has studied art throughout her four years in college and got a chance to appreciate it more closely in NYU Summer Abroad at Florence. Ruthy is thrilled to be promoting GAF and bringing the Gallatin community a little bit closer!
Jack Teehan is a first year student at Gallatin studying art history, postcolonial theory, and public policy. As a curator, Jack organized two exhibits at the Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts, “Multitudes: Whitman at 200” and “At One Stroke: Prints by Helen Frankenthaler”. Jack is very interested in the politics of power in visual culture, especially the relationship between culture and Capital. Jack is also a practicing artist, working chiefly in acrylic and oil, but also textile arts. He earned a Scholastic Gold Key in 2020 and 2021 and has shown his work at multiple galleries in the Philadelphia area. In his free time, Jack enjoys cooking, gardening, learning languages, and Vietnamese food.
Graduate Assistant & Festival Manager
Ben Fears (they/he) serves as the Graduate Assistant of NYU’s Gallatin Arts Festival, where he fosters creative collaboration, passion for interdisciplinary art and engagement of the arts for positive change In his creative work Ben is a songwriter, performer, musician, and interdisciplinary artist. Born and raised playing bluegrass in southern Indiana, Ben was captivated by the power of music and performance to bring people into community with each other. Ben’s artistic practice centers on the interactions of musical composition, performance art, and collaborative making. He explores how these mediums are uniquely situated to understand and reflect Trans/Queer experiences. Ben is a founder, songwriter, and vocalist for The Qu!et for the Neighbors, a rock band based in the New York City area. Ben has also composed original music for internationally awarded short films like Jester, which won gold in the 2021 Barcelona Film Festival as well as songwriting for artists such as Wolftyla.
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