Our Current Board

Sara Davis, President
Nina Sazevich, Vice President
Joan Avallone, Treasurer
David Hansen, Secretary
Edward Baba
Amy Eliot
Ilan Hornstein
Hannah Kahn
Don Lusty
Kathryn Morrison
Cindy Morton
Catherine Norris
Jeff Spicer
Meg Spriggs
Brenda Tucker
Kris Twining

Administrative, Management & Support Staff

Amy Auerbach, Gallery & Office Manager
Ann Kappes, Marketing & Business Development Director
E. Francis Kohler, CE2 Studio & Services Manager/Visual Arts Instrutor
Kim Malhotra, Development Director
Paul Moshammer, Studio Manager/Visual Arts Instructor
Elena “Bety” Ortiz, Habilitation Aide
Janessa Post, Gallery and Administrative Assistant
Chelsea Ryoko Wong, Art Sales Associate
Amy Taub, Executive Director
Matthew Verscheure, Associate Director
Thad Warren, Art & Exhibition Preparator

By Bertha Otoya

Victor Cartagena

Visual Arts Instructor

Salvadoran-born Victor Cartagena has been making art in the Bay Area since the late 80s. The work that he produced in the early to mid-1990’s battled with memories of the violence in El Salvador and the pain and separation he experienced in relocating to the US. Cartagena’s work in the past decade moved beyond solely articulating the immigrant experience to address other sociopolitical issues. His artistic practice ranges from printmaking, drawing and painting, to sculpture, audio and video installation.

In the San Francisco-Bay Area, Cartagena has exhibited at the University Art Museum at UC Berkeley, Galeria de la Raza, Intersection for the Arts, Southern Exposure, the Mission Cultural Center, the Oakland Museum, and the African American Museum and Library. Cartagena has exhibited in Central and South America, as well as Europe.

As an educator, Cartagena has served as Artist-in-Residence at ZEUM,Southern Exposure, and SF Art Commission’s WritersCorps, and has given numerous workshops at SFMOMA. He was on the faculty of Arrowsmith Academy from 1998 to 2006, where he taught printmaking, mixed media, experimental video and sculpture. Cartagena joined Creativity Explored’s teaching staff in 2008.

You can view Victor's website here. 

Creativity Explored is an open space, a safe place where one does not have to “watch his/her back.” It’s an art workshop full of tenderness, creativity, love, friendship, understanding, and above all a laboratory of art distinguished by authentic ar

Teaching Artists

Pam Berry, Visual Arts Instructor
Frank Callozzo, Visual Arts Instructor
Victor Cartagena, Visual Arts Instructor
Suda Changkasiri, Visual Arts Instructor
Gilles Combet , Visual Arts Instructor
Leeza Doreian, Visual Arts Instructor
Ester Hernandez, Visual Arts Instructor
Judith LaRosa, Visual Arts Instructor
Eric Larson, Assistant Studio Manager & Visual Arts Instructor
Kelley Kerslake, Visual Arts Instructor
Geri Montano, Visual Arts Instructor
Larry Morace, Visual Arts Instructor
Ming Mur-Ray, Visual Arts Instructor
Pilar Olabarria, Visual Arts Instructor & Services Coordinator
Grace Rosario Perkins, Visual Arts Instructor
Mara Poliak, Visual Arts Instructor & Volunteer Coordinator
Miranda Putman, Visual Art Instructor
Horace Washington, Visual Arts Instructor