Individuals
Sacramento boasts one of the largest creative communities on the west coast. Our individual members represent the depth and breadth of the Sacramento region’s cultural community.
Individual members include artists, curators, actors, musicians, and other content creators, as well as arts administrators and creative sector employees that together represent the economic impact of the industry as a whole. We want to thank our 2020 individual members for lending their names and voices to SARA. Want to join our cause? Fill out the form below to add your name and stay connected.
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Brooke Abrames, Arts Administrator, Blueline Arts
Marie Acosta, Executive & Artistic Director, Latino Center of Art and Culture
Jo Ann Aiello, Artist
Scatha G. Allison, Artist & Producer
Zahra Ammar, Artist
Eric Bianchi, Live Streaming, Event Production Services, Audio Engineering, Musician
Tavarus Blackmon, Artist; Curator; Composer; Administrator, Axis Gallery; Founder, Art Music Lit Space
Bill Blake, Arts Management Consultant
Doni Blumenstock, Leadership Consultant, Arts Advocate, Sacramento ACCE Commission member
Massiel Bobadilla, Arts Administrator, Verge Center for the Arts
Melanie Bown, Art teacher
Barbara Burge, Interior Designer
Patrick Burns, Playwright, Composer, Production Manager
Allison Cagley, Executive Director, Friends of Sacramento Arts
Elizabeth Cord, Artist, Educator
Margaret Cowitz, Community Engagement Coordinator, Blue Line Arts
Jim Crosthwaite, Executive Director, Arts Council of Placer County
Marissa Eng, Director of Education, Broadway Sacramento
Ifamodupe Kimberley Edington, Artist, Publisher, Arts Educator, Cultural Curator, Asst. Dir Arts Education Images Theatre Company, Founder All Creation
Amanda Erwin, Artist
Jennifer Fearing, Advocate
Linda S Fitz Gibbon, Artist and Educator
Johnny Flores, Podcast Producer and Advisor
Gioia Fonda, Artist, Arts Educator, Sacramento City College
Bree Garcia, Educator/creative
Amy Greer, Artist, Arts Administrator, Verge Center for the Arts
Alysia Hamner, Artist/Author
Linda Hardy, Ceramics, Flute Singing
Rachel Hartsough, Arts & Culture Manager, City of Davis
Julia Heath, Director of Visual Marketing
Sid Heberger, Performing Arts and Auditorium Manager
Carrie Hennessey, Opera singer and vocal instructor
Arla Hesterman, Caterer
Michele Hillen-Noufer, Executive Director, Northern California School of the Arts
Jeannie Howell, Director, Consultant, Coach, Musician
Gwenna Howard, Gallerist
Benjamin Saffold, Organizer
Linda Hoschler, Artist & President of Rocklin Fine Arts
Ginger Pennington, Musician, Actress
Shawntay Gorman, Art Educator, Artist
Margaret Park, Education Consultant
Jennifer Jackson, Art Consultant
Carol Jenkins, Artist
Judith Johnson, Artist & Docent
Gerry Kamilos, Community Developer, Vice Chair-Friends of Sacramento Arts, Past Chair of Sacramento Metropolitan Arts Commission
Farzeen Khan, Teacher
Karen Killebrew, Retired/Arts Organization Board Member
Chelsea Larson, Director of Development, Crocker Art Museum
Gregory Latraille, Artist, Composer
Charla Jeanne Lawson, Education & Operations Manager, Sacramento Philharmonic & Opera
Betsaida LeBron, Artist, Consultant & Teaching Artist
Liz Liles-Brown, Marketing & Sales Director, The Sofia, Home of B Street
Kelly Lindner, Curator
Jennifer Lugris, Artist, Arts Educator, Sierra College
Justina Martino, Arts Administrator, Verge Center for the Arts, Founder, Art Tonic
MaryTess Mayall, Arts Administrator, Blueline Arts
Faith McKinnie, Curator, Founding Director Black Artists Foundry
Anita Menon, Founder & Artistic Director, Anjali School of Dance
Sheree Meyer, Dean, College of Arts & Letters, Sacramento State
Liv Moe, Artist, Founding Director, Verge Center for the Arts
Heather Morrow, Technical Sales, Synbyo Prototyping
J Ross Parrelli, Hip Hop Educator
Elliot Prestwich, Executive Director, Crest Sacramento
Jon Raskin, Musician
Jeanne Reilly, Retired
Keith Riedell, General Manager, Capital Stage Company
Daniel Romandia, Marketing Director, Harlow's & The Starlet Room
Don Roth, Executive Director, Mondavi Center for the Performing Arts, UC Davis
Aliyah Sidqe, Artist
Rubie Simonsen, Marketing and Communications Consultant
Cynthia Speakman, Teaching Artist
Abraxis Spera, Executive Director, Dwellpoint, M5arts
Michael Stevenson, Producing Artistic Director, Capital Stage
Bill Stotler, Writer/Photographer/Publisher, articulator
Denise Timmons, Community volunteer
Mya Louw, Artist
Rachel Oliver, Artist & Art Teacher
Peter Foucault, Artist & Curator & Museum Preparator
Mary Mayyuarn Fong, Artist
Uli Smith, Artist
Chandra Merod, Artist
Teresa Carle, Artist
Cameron Bradley, Student Artist
Twiana Armstrong, Leadership Consultant, Arts Advocate, Board Chair at Arts Council of Placer
Kellie Raines, Artist and Podcast Producer
Amie Tokuhama, Artist/Educator
Daniel Alejandro Trejo, Artist, Independent Curator
Deidre Trudeau, Brush of Creativity Art Events
Kari Uhlman, Artist
Jackie Vanderbeck, Director of Community Engagement, Broadway Sacramento
Patrick Wilson, Journalist
Danielle Yeti, Music Teacher
Ariana Young, Public Programs Manager, Verge Center for the Arts
Tom Sorensen, Artist
Diana J McLaughlin, Interior Designer & Artist
Robin Fisher, Musician
Teresa Stirling Forsyth, Producing Artist Director
Danielle Brazell, Arts Administrator & Beginning Potter
Jennifer Pickering, Artist & Writer
Arry Murphey, Artist & Designer
Mel Smothers, Artist & Collector
Mary Rodgers, Visual Artist
Sarah Marie Hawkins, Curator & Artist
Lori Kinsella, Artist
Janine Mapurunga, Artist
Eileen Moffatt, Artist
Wayne Darby Cook, Retired
Margi Park, Social Justice & Arts Activist
Chelle Brantley, Visual Artist
Vince Sales, Arts Programmer, PNDA LahiArts
Ilena Finocchi, Artist
Tracy Nash, Esparto Unified School Board President & Theatre Arts Teacher & Artist
Kara Smith, Arts Administrator
Shelly Willis, Public Art Planning and Project Management Consultant
Emily Peterson, Development Associate at Blue Line Arts
Brenda Waters, Events Coordinator & Supporter, Arts in River Park
Cheryl Halston, Retired Artist & Jeweler & Designer
Selena Brown Rios, Art Education Major
Houghton Kinsman, Adult Education Coordinator, Crocker Art Museum
Amy Kweskin, Arts Management Consultant & Coach & Educator & Author
Safiya Neal, Artist
Nann Mahon, Writer
Perscilla Rau, Artist
Deborah Hall, Mixed Media Artist
Alexandra Yakovleva, Artist & Painter
Frank Wheeler, Manager
Vallene Hardman, Artist & Mediation Program Director & Educator
Sheryl French, Artist
Nicole Martin, Arts Administrator & Educator, Verge Center for the Arts
Corey Oiler, Musician & Music Teacher
Livia Kerr, Artist, Livia Kerr Fine Art
Valerie Messervy Birkhoff, Artist
Susan Giles, Artist
Rod Malloy, Documentary Film Producer & Director
Darlene Engellenner, Artist & Art Studio Trek Member
Teri Umhauer, Artist & Educator
James R Morrison, Photographer & Artist & Portraitist
Cheri Awalt, Art Handler & Gallery Attendant
Victoria Brooks, Artist & Art Teacher
Amy Vanya, Artist
William Ishmael, Artist & Arts Volunteer
Barbara Boren, Artist
Trina Drotar, Artist & Writer, Founder of Amber Moon Press and Crossroads Literary Series
Rebecca Desmond, Roseville Theatre Arts Academy Board Member & Costume Designer
Allison Spreadborough, Artist
Sarah Walter, Arts Advocate
Sharon Jennings, Textile Artisan & Community Activist & Mental Health Advocate, MonAngeDolls.com
Justina Martino, Artist & Arts Professional
Kat Haro, Director of Marketing and Communications, Crocker Art Museum
Michelle Hollis, Broadway Sacramento
Allegra Silberstein, Dancer, Poet, Retired Teacher
Sara Mumolo, Writer
Anne Del Core, Artist
Jenna Harris, JB Creative Consulting/Education Director at YoloArts
Malaika Osborne, Artistic Director, Producer and Founder of Borne to Create and Mosaic School of Integrated Arts
William Glasser, Producer