Curatorial and Steering Committee

worked first in Boulder at the Sun Sign, an art supply and craft store she owned with her husband. She then became the first paid and longest employed (12 years) director of the Boulder Center for the Visual Arts, now the Boulder Museum of Contemporary Art. In 1992, she moved to the Boulder Public Library as Director of Cultural Programs. She worked there until the end of 2005, when she retired. Working in the arts was often difficult, she said, but something she loved doing. Celebration! A History of the Visual Arts in Boulder is dedicated to her memory.
Karen Ripley Dugan curated HOVAB @ Canyon Gallery, Boulder Public Library.

is an independent scholar, award-winning cultural journalist, critic, and curator, who has lived and worked in Boulder since 1975. Her many international touring exhibitions include Water, Water Everywhere: Paean to a Vanishing Resource (the first in a climate-change trilogy), which began traveling in 2012; The Veil: Visible & Invisible Spaces, which toured the United States from 2008 to 2013; and Black Velvet: The Art We Love to Hate. The Map is Not the Territory: Parallel Paths— Palestinians, Native Americans, Irish launched in 2013 in Washington, D.C., has traveled in the US and Europe, and is the foundational exhibition for a planned series of art shows about peace, justice, and reconciliation. Nowhere to Run: Climate Refugees is in process. Heath is the author/editor of twelve books of fiction and non-fiction, including On the Edge of Dream: The Women of Celtic Myth and Legend (Penguin, 1998), The Echoing Green: The Garden in Myth and Memory (Penguin, 2000), The Scimitar and the Veil: Extraordinary Women of Islam (Paulist Press, 2004), The Veil: Women Writers on its History, Lore, and Politics (University of California Press, 2008), Land of the Unconquerable: The Lives of Contemporary Afghan Women, with Ashraf Zahedi (University of California Press, 2011), and Children of Afghanistan: The Path to Peace, also with Zahedi (University of Texas Press, 2014).
Jennifer Heath conceived and directs HOVAB and is senior curator-at-large.

is Senior Vice President of Investments for Wells Fargo Advisors. His background includes politics, finance, and community service. He spent five years as a Legislative Assistant to a senior U.S. Congressman, followed by five years in Federal Relations for the City of Boston. He was a Financial Advisor with E.F. Hutton and Merrill Lynch before joining Wells Fargo Advisors in Boulder. He has served on the boards of The Community Foundation Serving Boulder County, Attention Homes, and the Colorado Chautauqua Association. He’s been active with his church as a trustee, treasurer, and Sunday school teacher.

has lived and been active in the arts in Boulder since 1976. She co-owned a gallery in downtown Boulder and has actively supported the community and the arts through a wide range of fundraising projects. She has extensive experience promoting artists’ careers through her company, Kathy Mackin Fine Arts, LLC. She was Board President of Boulder County Arts Alliance (BCAA), and Board Member of the Colorado Business Community for the Arts (CBCA) for more than six years. In 2005, at the request of United States Senator Mark Udall, she judged the U.S. Congressional High School Arts Competition. She studied Art History at the University of Colorado-Boulder and has been an active docent and member of the Educational Council at the Denver Art Museum since 2004.
Kathy Mackin co-curated HOVAB @ Rembrandt Yard: People, Places, and Things, and liaised with curators for HOVAB @ Naropa and HOVAB @ NCAR: EcoArts Connections.

was born in New York and has resided in Boulder since 1978. She received her BA from Hunter College and her MA from the University of Colorado-Boulder. She is a former gallery owner, curator of the virtual Women of the West Museum, and was co-executive director/senior curator of the Boulder Museum of Contemporary Art from 2005-2010. She is currently an independent curator.
Joan Markowitz curated HOVAB @ BMoCA: Evolving Visions of a Changing Landscape and HOVAB @ Macky Auditorium: Shark’s Ink., and serves as curator-at-large.

is professor and chair of the department of Art and Art History at the University of Colorado-Boulder. In addition to many articles, book chapters, and reviews, he is author of three books on medieval art. His current projects include a study of blindness and art. He presently serves as editor-in-chief of The Art Bulletin, the journal of record for art historians in the United States.

is the Curator of Visual Arts at the Dairy Arts Center. She holds dual BA degrees in Art History/Archaeology and Psychology (University of Missouri), and her MA in Art History and Museum Studies (University of Chicago). Rebecca previously worked at the Hyde Park Art Center and interned at the Oriental Institute Museum, both in Chicago. She currently also serves on the Exhibitions Jury at the Firehouse Art Center.

is originally from Mississippi and has lived in Boulder since 1990. Inspired by 20th-century Modernism, her paintings waver between abstraction and surrealism, exploring tensions between 2-D surfaces and an implied 3-D depth. Her most recent work, Between the Lines, was presented in 2015 at Naropa University’s Lincoln Gallery. Her art is showing at HOVAB exhibitions in the Canyon Gallery, Boulder Public Library, and for HOVAB Book Arts @ Boulder Public Library.

earned her MA in Art History from the University of Colorado-Boulder, another MA in Museum Studies from the University of Missouri, and her BA in Art History from Southern Illinois University. She was previously the curatorial assistant at the CU Art Museum at the University of Colorado-Boulder. Her experience includes public program design for the Denver Art Museum; a government-funded Educator and Public Programs residency at Native-run Alaskan museums; Community Engagement and Education Associate at the Saint Louis Art Museum; and multiple roles in the Saint Louis contemporary art world. Nicole joined BMoCA’s staff as Education Coordinator in 2014.

has always been passionate about fabric and paying homage to women’s timeless traditions of handwork in all forms. Growing up in Chicago, the Art Institute was extremely influential. Studying Art History in Europe was life-changing. She earned a BA in Art History and Art Education from Hope College in Holland and in 1973 entered the University of Colorado-Boulder to study Fine Art Photography and its history. Her love of photographic processes continues in collage and the creation of her images. Her art is showing in HOVAB exhibitions at The Dairy Arts Center and at First Congregational Church Gallery: Sumptuous Locals.

is the curator at Boulder Museum of Contemporary Art. Goff holds an MA from the Courtauld Institute of Art, London, and earned a BA in Art History from the University of Colorado-Boulder. Goff has worked for art institutions, organizations, and private collections in the US and abroad including: Biennial of the Americas, Denver; The Royal Academy of Arts, London; National Gallery, London; Denver Art Museum; and the Peggy Guggenheim Collection in Venice, Italy.

is a former Executive Director of Open Studios and has an extensive background in non-profit marketing, program direction, graphic design, and events coordination. Prior to joining Open Studios in 2010, he served as the executive director for Ringing Rocks Foundation in Sedona, Arizona, and as marketing manager for Montalvo Art Center in Saratoga, California. His own work is interactive, fully immersive, and experiential, often created for festivals such as Burning Man, Apogaea, and Arise Music Fest.

is the founding director of EcoArts Connections (EAC), a not-for-profit organization that brings together science, arts, and other fields to increase awareness of global change and inspire sustainable living. EAC commissions, produces, and presents performances, exhibits, talks, tours, conference activities, youth programs, and other events. Among her awards are the Colorado Governor’s Award for Excellence in the Arts, the first University of Colorado Creative Climate Communication Prize, and the Dairy Center Honors. Kirn has been a speaker/panelist and/or consultant for organizations in the US, Europe, Australia, Latin America, and India.

holds a PhD in Mythological Studies, and studied painting and drawing in Italy and the US. Since 1980 she has worked in Boulder as a painter, picture-book illustrator, photographer, and teacher. She hosted international music programming at KGNU for more than 20 years, and taught World Art and Drawing at Naropa University. She designed the HOVAB catalogue and her art is showing at HOVAB exhibitions the First Congregational Church Gallery: Sumptuous Spirits, at Naropa University, and in HOVAB Book Arts @ Boulder Public Library.

was raised in rural western New York in the village of Silver Creek. He received a Bachelor of Fine Arts in Painting from the State University of New York at Fredonia and a Master of Fine Arts in Sculpture from West Virginia University. He currently resides in Longmont, Colorado, and is the Exhibitions Manager for the University of Colorado Art Museum and a Lecturer in the Department of Art & Art History at the University of Colorado-Boulder. His art is on exhibit at HOVAB @ First Congregational Church Gallery: Sumptuous Spirits.

arrived in Boulder in the summer of 1966. The mountains, the long distances, the ability to actually SEE the Earth’s curvature from a terrain so different from anything she had ever known, almost immediately changed her artistic direction. Access to a large university and an innovative art department set her course for a career of teaching and of making and exhibiting her art work. Along the way, her dedication to women artists and their creative work became a focus. Her women artist friends, her artistic expression, and the beauty and location of Boulder, in many ways her muse, are inextricably bound to one another. Her art is showing at HOVAB exhibitions in The Dairy Arts Center, the Canyon Gallery, Boulder Public Library, and the First Congregational Church Gallery: Sumptuous Locals.

is a curator who works across contemporary art, craft, and design in Europe and the US. She worked as a curator of Contemporary Programmes at the Victoria and Albert Museum in London between 2002 and 2014, and curated numerous acclaimed exhibitions. She currently teaches curatorial studies at the University of Colorado-Boulder and independently curates exhibitions and events for diverse clients and institutions. She writes regularly about contemporary creative practice for catalogues and magazines.

is a fiber artist specializing in layered, stitched, and painted works of art. She has permanent art at Boulder Community Hospital; the Children’s Hospital Chapel in Aurora, Colorado; the Earth Sciences Map Department, University of Colorado; and the First United Methodist Church. She is a graduate of Boulder High School and has lived in the community since 1980. Her art is showing at First Congregational Church Gallery: Sumptuous Spirits.

has a BFA from the University of Wisconsin-Stout. She started as a volunteer at the Firehouse Art Center in March 2012 and is now its Executive Director/Curator. She’s worked with more than 156 artists, curated twelve exhibitions, and produced more than fifty-eight shows. Her passion is local contemporary art.

attended the University of Colorado-Boulder and in 1963 joined with several artists to found Drop City, a geodesic artist community in southern Colorado. Out of Drop City evolved Criss-Cross, a Boulder artists’ collective associated with the “pattern and decoration” movement of the 1970s. Currently working with “quasi” structural systems, Richert exhibits at Rule and Gildar galleries in Denver, and is a professor at the Rocky Mountain College of Art & Design. His art is showing at The Dairy Arts Center: Criss-Cross Collective and at the Canyon Gallery, Boulder Public Library.

graduated from the University of Colorado-Boulder with a BFA in painting and photography. She has worked in many art-related fields including museum installation, professional photographic printing, and, since 1996, has been owner and curator of Mercury Framing Gallery, where, as of 2016, she had curated more than eighty shows, exclusively devoted to Boulder artists. She has juried Boulder Open Studios, done portfolio reviews, and privately consulted with local artists preparing for exhibits.

received her MFA from the University of Colorado-Boulder. She has been involved in the Colorado art scene as an artist and museum professional since 1983. Her museum background includes director, curator, exhibition designer, and grants writer. She has worked at prominent arts organizations, such as the Denver Art Museum, the Arvada Center for the Arts and Humanities, The Dairy Arts Center, and Naropa University. Her art is showing at The Dairy Arts Center.

, MFA, is a community builder and event curator. She works as the Program and Content Director for Boulder’s historic Highland City Club, co-curates the monthly reading series Bouldering Poets, and recently launched Boulder Writers Warehouse, a new collaborative writers residency in collaboration with Boulder Creative Collective.

Mandy Vink is the Public Art Coordinator for the City of Boulder. Prior to this position she oversaw many public art projects for the City of Denver, including Denver International Airport’s Hotel and Transit Center commissions. In addition, she has a variety of gallery experience, including Walker Fine Art in Denver, and currently serves on the Denver Art Museum Contemporaries Board.

Glenn Webb is the director of the Boedecker Theater in the Dairy Arts Center.