Deborah Davidson (she/her) is an artist, curator and educator. She received her M.F.A. from the School of the Museum of Fine Arts/Tufts University and B.A. from Binghamton University. She is founder and director of Catalyst Conversations, devoted to the dialogue between art and science. She is currently part of the core faculty in the MFA program at Lesley University, maintains a studio practice and directs the Suffolk University Gallery.
Jason Weeks (he/him) is the executive director of the Cambridge Arts Council, a city department and public nonprofit agency that engages residents and visitors through programming designed to stimulate awareness, participation, and support for the arts. Jason works with an advisory board, trustees of the nonprofit Cambridge Public Art Commission, elected officials, city administration, and agency staff to oversee an award-winning Public Art/Percent-for-Art program, the Cambridge Arts Grant Program, Cambridge Street Performer Program, and a variety of annual produced events including Cambridge River Festival, Summer in the City, and Cambridge Open Studios.
Alberta Chu (she/her) is founding director of ASKlabs, a boutique digital content production company, established in Boston in 2004. As cultural producer and digital content creator, Chu works collaboratively to develop engaging content and experiences that bring creativity and innovation to global audiences. Alberta's award-winning documentaries often explore the intersection of science and art and the process of making. From science programming to art documentaries, and most recently client-based video work, the common themes throughout are: ingenuity and innovation. In 2014, Chu co-founded Facetopo, an ongoing global beauty and wellness project.
Mags Harries’ (she/her) public art projects have received national recognition and have won many awards. She observes the small things that, like DNA, reveal all that is important to know about a place. She uses surprise and sometimes humor to energize public places and communities. Her early projects Asaroton and Glove Cycle have become icons of the Boston area. Mags frequently designs her work with landscape materials and responds to environmental issues. She has an increasing interest in water and city scale elements of infrastructure, pathways and connections.
Meagan Hepp (they/ them) is a Boston based artist, educator, administrator. Along with being cited as Kingston Gallery’s Emerging Artist for 2021-2022, they teach at Suffolk University. They are also the Ceramics Technician at New Arts Center in Newton, MA. In addition to serving on the board of Catalyst Conversations, they are a member of the board of TransCultural Exchange, a non-profit organization dedicated to fostering a greater understanding of world cultures through large-scale, global art projects, cultural exchanges and educational programming.
Jameson Johnson (she/her) is a writer, editor, and independent curator based in Boston. She is the founder and editor-in-chief at Boston Art Review and the marketing associate at the MIT List Visual Arts Center. Her research practice is rooted in the exploration and preservation of narratives through contemporary information archives.
Jill Slosburg Ackerman (she/her) was born in Nebraska and loved the idealism and pragmatism of the Pioneers who settled the Great Plains. She is a part-time activist and has been a teacher. Slosberg Ackerman recently retired after 47 years of teaching from MassArt. She is a mother and now a widow, who cooks for those in need. Still, she treasures the soliloquy of the studio more than anything. Jill’s work mediates between opposing notions and her public and private selves. She continues to be grateful to inhabit this space of wonder and discovery. Jill was one of the 2022 Artists-In-Residence at Mt. Auburn Cemetery.
Catheline van den Branden (she/her) is a multidisciplinary artist and seasoned non-profit executive. She is the former president and executive director of the French Library/French Cultural Center in Boston and a former cultural attaché for the government of Québec. In 2018 Catheline was named Knight in the Order of Academic Palms (Chevalier dans l’ordre des Palmes Académiques). In 2021 Catheline was awarded the Robyn Gittleman Teaching Fellowship at Tufts University. Aside from art-making, teaching and doing related research, Catheline is also a long-time committee member and supporter of the Emerald Necklace Conservancy.