Instructor Information
Larry Baza
Director
Course: Gallery Management
Larry Baza is a San Diegan with 31 years experience as a professional arts administrator. His work in the arts has included directorships of 501 (c) 3 nonprofit arts organizations, grant panelist and site visitor for local, state and national arts agencies, and grant writing consulting. In the private sector, he has worked as a public relations and marketing director and fine art consultant. Baza has serve as a Consultant, Grant Panelist and Site Visitor, Board Service to various cultural organizations including the National Endowment for the Arts, California Arts Council, Arizona Arts Commission, City of San Diego Commission for Arts & Culture, California Association of Local Arts Agencies, The National Performance Network, The National Association for Latino Arts & Culture, San Diego Community Foundation, San Diego Youth & Community Services, The Chicano Federation, San Diego Performing Arts League, Kidzarts, San Diego Foundation for Change, and The Women’s History Museum and Educational Center.
Mauricio Chavez
Project Manager and Editor
Course: Business Writing Skills for the Arts: Business Plan Development and Analytical Thinking
Internationalist by nature, Mauricio Chavez has firsthand experience in cross--cultural projects and seminars. He is aware of its vitality in today’s flattening world. Chavez comments on “the need to communicate efficiently and productively across borders, culture, gender, class, and race.” All these elements are vital for the development of linguistic ability, writing style, and in the construction of international networks and collaborations. Chavez has taught university-level English and Spanish. His communication skills have allowed him to participate in trans-border projects including research studies with institutions such as INSITE 2005-2006, UC/MEXUS, CONACYT, University of Cincinnati, University of California, San Diego, Instituto Internacional de España, Universidad Iberoamericana, NOVA Intercultural Institute in Japan, Universidad de La Coruña, ESOMI.
He has contributed with diverse publications including The Rag, Linea Terrarium, Rio Bravo Mediterranean (Sociologist study with ESOMI). In addition, he is currently an Arts & Culture columnist for A-List International Magazine.
Adriana Cleves
Curator
acleves@clevesculturalprojects.org
Course: Program and Exhibition Development:
Temporary Exhibition Theory and Practice
Adriana Cleves is a Museologist with extensive international experience in the fields of Public Programming, Exhibition Development and Communications in Europe, Latin America and North America. She has worked at the Royal British Columbia Museum, Art Gallery of Greater Victoria, St. Ann’s Academy Interpretive Centre, Emily Carr Historic House, in Victoria, Canada, the International School of Peace Negotiations, in Amsterdam, Netherlands, the Museum of Latin American Art, in Long Beach, USA, and the National Museum of Colombia, in Bogotá, Colombia. She has lectured and organized workshops in Croatia and Canada. Currently, Adriana collaborates with the Celia Cruz Foundation taking the Smithsonian National Museum of American History travelling exhibition “Azúcar! The Life and Music of Celia Cruz” to Latin America, Europe and Japan.
Adriana Cleves received a Bachelor of Arts in Communications and Journalism in 1993 from the Pontificia Universidad Javeriana, a Postgraduate Diploma in Cultural Management and Arts Administration in 1996 from the Universidad del Rosario, Bogotá, Colombia, and a Master of Arts in Museum Studies in 2002 from the Amsterdam School of the Arts – Reinwardt Academy, Amsterdam, Netherlands. She graduated with distinction thanks to her master’s thesis “Museology of Peace and Reconciliation through Intangible Heritage: Exhibitions and Public Programs”. Adriana also studied French Literature at the Université de Paris-Sorbonne, France, and History in Art, Business Administration and Cultural Heritage Sector Leadership at the University of Victoria, Canada. In April of 2010 she will has commence PhD studies in Museology at the University of Leicester, England.
Karla Duarte
Director
Course: Museum and Art Gallery Special Event Management: Development, Logistics and Protocol
Karla Duarte is an art promoter and non-profit event planner. She began in the cultural non-profit field working with the San Diego Children’s Museum, where she became engaged with public relations, marketing and event planning. She has provider her services to cultural organizations in San Diego including The San Diego Mingei International Museum, The San Diego Museum of Art, The San Diego Museum of Man and The La Jolla Playhouse. With nine years of experience in arts administration she would like to encourage others into the science of nonprofit and gallery event management and travel exhibitions.
Karla’s vision is to provide her students with an International perspective on ways to develop collaborations and cultivate donor relations; her vision is embodied in her company enterArt which specializes in bi-national cultural event collaboration, USA / Mexico.
Dr. Wayne Lawson
Professor
Course: International Cultural Collaboration
Dr. Wayne Lawson became the Distinguished Barnett Professor of Public Policy and Arts Administration in the Department of Art Education at the Ohio State University in 2006. Lawson began the OAC's International Program with a cultural exchange between Ohio and India in 1988. Since then he has raised more than $3 million in private funds to support international exchanges of visual and performing arts. The OAC's International Program has promoted exchanges between Ohio and Japan, China, Russia, Germany, Spain, Argentina, Chile and Easter Island. With assistance from private founders and the National Endowment for the Arts, the OAC's ArtsLink program helps Ohio arts organizations develop residencies with arts managers and artists from Central Europe and the former Soviet Union. Lawson has led numerous arts delegations to Russia, Japan, Mexico, Czech Republic, Hungary, Israel, Cuba, Chile and Argentina. He now serves as the International Project Director, Ohio Arts Foundation, Inc. He co-authored An Appreciative Journey, a guide to developing international cultural exchanges in 2006.
Lawson has been a guest scholar at San Angelo State University in Texas and sat on the Coca-Cola Scholars Foundation Selection Committee for three years. He has been a speaker at a variety of colleges, universities and state agencies throughout the country and abroad.
Natasha Bonilla Martinez, MA
Vice President
Thompson & Martinez Fine Art Appraisals, Inc.
appraiser@thompsonandmartinez.com
Course: Art Collecting, Sales, and Auctions
Natasha Bonilla Martinez is a fine art appraiser, art historian, and Vice President of Thompson and Martinez Fine Art Appraisals, Inc. She is a specialist in Latin American and Latino art and photography and Native American photography, and their markets. She writes and lectures on Latin American art, collecting, appraisal and the art market, most recently at the Cannon Art Gallery in Carlsbad where she spoke on Latin American Art Corporate Collections. She has more than 25 years of experience in museums and visual arts organizations as a curator, art administrator, educator and consultant, working with and caring for large and small art and photography collections.
Martinez has served as a consultant to several museums including the National Museum of the American Indian-Smithsonian Institution, the Centro Cultural de la Raza, and the Oceanside Museum of Art. In her most recent institutional post she served as Director of the Museum and the arts education programs at the California Center for the Arts, Escondido, where she organized a number of exhibitions, including Public Projects: Db Smith, Look. React. Engage: The Art of Collecting at Two San Diego Museums, and Niki de Saint Phalle: California Dreaming.
Felicia Shaw
Director, Arts & Culture Analysis and Strategy
Course: Nonprofit Management for
Visual and Performing Arts Organizations
As director of arts and culture at the San Diego Foundation, Felicia utilizes her expertise and knowledge of San Diego’s arts and culture community to ensure that the region has the necessary resources to become a nationally competitive arts and culture center. Advised by the members of the Arts and Culture Working Group, she works to establish arts and culture as a community priority, to reintroduce the arts to San Diego schools, increase the capacity of arts and culture organizations to serve new audiences and cultivate donors’ passion for the arts. To support these efforts, Felicia is currently leading the “Drive to 25,” a campaign to establish a $25 million permanent endowment at the Foundation for arts and culture and “Art Works for San Diego”, a multi-year initiative grounded in the belief that art and culture are powerful tools for social change and civic engagement. Prior to joining the Foundation, Felicia served as Senior Program Manager for the City of San Diego Commission for Arts and Culture, where she assisted in the management of the City’s multi-million dollar arts and culture contracts for service program for over 12 years. She is a frequent panelist and juror for arts agencies such as the National Endowment for the Arts and the California Arts Council, is a member of LEAD San Diego and was past vice-chair of the Carlsbad Arts Commission. A graduate of Northwestern University with a degree in Communications, Felicia also completed post-graduate studies at the University of California, San Diego in Art History, Theory and Criticism.
Brian van de Mark
Managing Partner
BGR Communications
Course: Marketing for the Arts
Brian van de Mark is managing partner of BGR Communications, and has over 15 years of executive level global marketing and communications experience. Clients include both major corporations and non-profits, as well as small business and capital ventures. His firm’s philosophy is based on the theory of market disruption and uses the latest technologies to reach target consumers. Van de Mark has worked in four different countries, and has traveled to over 140, including all seven continents. He currently teaches at the Art Institute of California-San Diego, and recently served as the Academic Dean at Northwestern University’s Civic Leadership Institute. Van de Mark’s prior corporate marketing and communication positions include Schering-Plough Pharmaceutical’s Osaka Division, and he was responsible for consolidation all 16 of Maxwell Technologies’ marketing departments in order to create a cost-competitive in-house agency. He holds a Bachelor's degree in Asian Studies and Japanese from the University of Missouri-Columbia. He also holds Master's degrees in International Business from the top-ranked Darla Moore School of Business at the University of South Carolina, and Japanese from the International Christian University in Tokyo.
Richard (Dick) F. Zellner
Course: Fundraising and Patronage
Dick Zellner has collaborated in diverse performing arts organizations. He has developed and managed entrepreneurial certificate programs in the performing arts for various national universities. Also, he has directed various national and international nonprofit performing art organizations, where they’ve toured and performed in Eastern Europe and at the Olympics. In addition, Zellner has become a founding member of the nonprofit corporation Minds Un-Limited, where he managed a major grant from the US West Foundation, creating an experiential museum exhibit called the “ImaginEARium.” This project highlighted the research’s objective “Music Is Fundamental.” Zellner has served as the President and CEO, director, and board member of cultural organizations including National Repertory Orchestra, and the Greater Twin Cities Youth Symphonies, the Colorado Harmony Project, and The Performing Arts Center in El Cajon to mentioned some. In addition, he currently teaching on-line courses “Developing Financial Resources” for the Baltimore, MD based Goucher College, Master of Arts in Arts Administration Program.
