| GAF 2024 | Student Leadership Team | Artists | Events | Installation Views |
Curators
Dove Bardin (she/her) is a 22-year-old interdisciplinary artist born and raised in New York City. In her fine art practice, she is interested in memory, history, place, gentrification, complicity, trans lineages, and dynamics of race and class in lower Manhattan.Much of her fine art work relies on her research practice to contextualize our current experience of downtown New York City. This kind of confessional narration comes up in her music as well, where she tells more personal stories of her life in New York.
Iris Erwin (they/them) is a lens-based artist and curator currently residing in New York. Currently a senior at Gallatin, their concentration—and much of their work—involves photographic practices that utilize portraiture, collage, and sculpture to explore ideas of place and its intersections with memory, family, identity, and place.
Caroline Larsen (she/her), a multimedia artist and curator from Los Angeles, works primarily in textile, ceramic, photography, dance, and design. In her work, she explores ideas of femininity, autobiography, and popular culture. Caroline’s Gallatin concentration—Representation and Experience; Images, Bodies, and Archives—is an inquiry into the relationships and power dynamics between what we see and believe and how representation influences our experience and actions.
Sahana Srinivasan (any pronouns) is a curator and researcher based in Brooklyn, NY. Currently a third-year student at Gallatin, Sahana’s concentration focuses on Diasporic Narratives Through Dress. She is interested in the role fashion plays, be it as a document or a language, to tell the stories of the South Asian Diaspora. They have worked with a range of organizations and brands, such as the Textile Arts Center in Brooklyn, Villa la Pietra in Florence, and Biskit in Chennai. Sahana hopes to engage in community organization through artistic practices, documentation, and current cultural dialogue at the Gallatin Arts Festival.
Gary Whitt (they/she/he) is an interdisciplinary artist and curator from Winston-Salem, NC who is now based in New York City. Their work examines how we create meaning through material histories and relationships. Working across a wide variety of mediums, they seek to combine creative practice, curatorial practice, and systematic analysis to create new pathways for understanding how we construct concrete representations of subjective experience.
Producers
Carolina Hurtado Castro 
(she/her) is a producer from Bogotá, Colombia. She is currently a junior in Gallatin concentrating in the Business of Entertainment, Production of Theatre and Film, and Latin American Cultural Representation. She is interested in unifying the business and creative sides of the Entertainment Industry. Her goal is to provide more opportunities for Latin American artists, in order to give light to their stories outside of the single narrative stereotypes they have been forced to fight against. She is delighted to be a performing arts producer at this year’s Gallatin Arts Festival.
Sofi Lopez Arredondo (they/them) is a multidisciplinary theatre artist from San Miguel de Allende, Mexico, passionate about care and consent-based practices in theatre, exciting narratives centering marginalized experiences, working towards a liberated theatre practice, and camp (ALWAYS camp!). Sofi is a senior at NYU Gallatin studying a concentration titled Queering and Decolonizing Theatre Practice, which interrogates the role of the theatre-maker in the struggles for decolonization and queer liberation. This will be Sofi’s second time producing the Gallatin Arts Festival. To learn more about them, visit sofilopezarredondo.com
Dejing Eloise Wang (they/them) is a playwright and director from NYU Gallatin School of Individualized Study. Their concentration Translating Science on Stage aims to explore the intersection between science and theatre, using science as a methodology for storytelling. Recent credits: Hollow Cross (Associate Director, Walkerspace Theatre), As You Like It (Director, Gallatin Theatre Troupe), Anti-Gone 俺抬杠?! (Director, Brandspankin’ New Works Festival), i want us both to eat well (Director, BPPF), Stereotype Susceptibility (Playwright/Director, Gallatin Arts Festival 2022).
Carly Baker (she/her) is a junior at Gallatin with a concentration in “Theatrical Marketing and Producing”. She was a stage manager last year for Gallatin Theatre Troupe’s Zombie Prom and is honored to be on the executive board this year as Marketing Director. She was a social media intern last spring with Lamplighters NYU. This year she is stage managing with Broke People Play Festival and on Dejing Eloise Wang’s piece Tropopause. Carly is an avid theatre lover. She has enjoyed working with the student leadership team and mentors of GAF.
Storytellers
Helen Gui (she/her) is a multidisciplinary artist and researcher from Beijing, China. Based in New York, she is a junior at Gallatin concentrating in Visual and Experience Curation. She focuses on the different elements that come together to craft a narrative or experience—from the way different senses are stimulated/deprived to how a story is told beyond words. In the past, she has interned at various spaces within the art industry including Christie’s New York. Working with the student leadership team for GAF has been a rewarding and fun process for her. Her work lives on helengui.com
Benji Hsu (he/him) is an artist from Oakland based in New York. His work reflects his own experiences, focusing heavily on the influence of racial identity and intimate relationships. He grounds his work in lens-based mediums that feature his relationships with his close ones. Hsu engages with a layered history of othering and their ongoing legacies through questioning what it means to be visible and allowed to desire.
Festival Manager
Kruthika NS (she/her) is a multimedia artist and lawyer. Her work explores feminist advocacy, human rights, and justice, with a focus on the global majority. Her current interests involve the power of radical imagination in dreaming, realising, and birthing new futures. She is interested in breaking rules of genre, often incorporating play, humour, and twists in her work. In both kinds of her art—that which is overtly political and that which is seemingly more playful—she uses narrative, storytelling and audience expectations as an invitation to shared dialogue. She is from Bengaluru, India and works in New York. Most of her work is on her IG: TheWorkplaceDoodler
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