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NPN 25TH ANNIVERSARY ANNUAL MEETING IN DALLAS<br />
ATTENDEES<br />
QUITA SULLIVAN<br />
New England Foundation for the Arts<br />
Program Manager, Theater<br />
145 Tremont St., Seventh Floor, Boston, MA 02111<br />
617.951.0010 ext 531 fax 617.951.0016<br />
qsullivan@nefa.org<br />
THERESA SWEETLAND<br />
Intermedia Arts<br />
Executive Director<br />
2822 Lyndale Avenue South, Minneapolis, MN 55408<br />
(612) 874-2808 fax 612-871-6927<br />
theresa@intermediaarts.org<br />
ANYA TALBOT<br />
Tigertail Productions, Inc.<br />
Project Coordinator<br />
842 NW 9th Cour, Miami, FL 33136<br />
305 324 4337 fax 305 324 4337<br />
anya@tigertail.org<br />
VANESSA TAYLOR<br />
Limehouse Theatre<br />
Artistic Director<br />
1223A Kings Hwy, Dallas, TX 75208<br />
817-437-7407<br />
vanessamercadotaylor@gmail.com<br />
PAUL TERUEL<br />
Columbia College Chicago<br />
Director of Community Partnerships<br />
600 S. Michigan Ave, Chicago, IL 60605<br />
(312) 369-8871 fax 312.369-8015<br />
pteruel@colum.edu<br />
SAMUEL THOMPSON<br />
1190 West Northern Parkway, #804, Baltimore, MD<br />
21210<br />
210/385-7991<br />
samuelathompson@yahoo.com<br />
MORGAN THORSON<br />
Artist/Choreographer<br />
3112 10th Avenue South, Minneapolis, MN 55407<br />
(612) 221-3416 fax 612 221-3416<br />
emorgant@earthlink.net<br />
PATRICIA TINAJERO<br />
Hola Hora Latina<br />
board member<br />
100 Gay Street suit 109, Knoxville, TN 37930<br />
865-363-0889<br />
tinajeromariapatricia@yahoo.com<br />
Quita is the new Program Manager for Theater at New England Foundation for the Arts and is managing a new<br />
initiative, the <strong>National</strong> Theater Pilot. She has had a many-layered career in nonprofits- arts-related and otherwise.<br />
She holds a BA and MA in Theatre from Knox College and SUNY Stony Brook, as well as a law degree from<br />
Wayne State University. Before law school, she worked as a stage manager in Chicago and later as an<br />
Administrative Assistant for a not-for-profit artist management office, creating contracts and managing booking<br />
and performing fees for musicians in the Great Lakes area. In 2006, she was accepted into Associated Grant<br />
Makers Diversity Fellowship where she became immersed in the intricacies of grant making, including presenting<br />
several arts-related grants to Trustees.<br />
Theresa Sweetland, Executive/Artistic Director of Intermedia Arts, is an experienced director, community<br />
organizer, youth worker and leader in the field of community cultural development. Her passion and know-how<br />
have brought together diverse sectors of the community, artists and developers, elders and teens, prisoners and<br />
poets, to build collaborations and partnerships that expand and enrich lives and build community. She holds a BA<br />
in Cultural Anthropology from the University of Minnesota and a Masters degree in Urban and Regional Planning<br />
at The University of Minnesota Hubert H Humphrey School of Public Affairs with a concentration on community<br />
and economic development. Theresa is a Co-Founding Artistic Director of B-Girl Be, the world‟s first international<br />
women in hip hop summit<br />
Anya Talbot, currently the Project Coordinator for Tigertail, received her MA from the U of Miami in International<br />
Administration and her BA from New World School of the Arts/University of Florida in Miami (Magna Cum Laude).<br />
She has worked as the Public Policy Liaison for the Thomas Armour Youth Ballet, interned at the 92nd Street Y<br />
and Wingspan in NYC, studied ballet in Russia with the Bolshoi Ballet and currently teaches ballet in the Miami<br />
area. Anya is a member of the Steering Committee of the Arts Action Alliance; a member of the E-board,<br />
Educational Committee of the U of Miami Greater Miami Alumni Club and a member of the E-board of the Russian<br />
Round Table. She is fluent in Russian and French.<br />
Vanessa has an MFA in directing from Ohio University and is the Co-Artistic Director of Limehouse Theatre, which<br />
performed at the Prague Int'l Fringe Festival in 2008. For almost a decade she has created performances which<br />
create a dialogue about human rights and social justice, create spectacle with raw ingredients, and articulate a<br />
call for action To ensure that conversations are not separate from the practice, she has produced and directed<br />
performances that engage in a dialogue with local and international service organizations through support,<br />
awareness and advocacy. (Artivism). She is currently developing two projects in Dallas. Ni de Aqui ni de Alla<br />
focuses on the struggles of first generation immigrants. Neighbor/HOOD is an exploration of the North/South<br />
divide in Dallas.<br />
Since making his east coast debut at the 2006 New Haven International Festival of Arts and Ideas, Samuel<br />
Thompson continues to establish a multifaceted career as orchestral leader, recitalist, chamber musician, soloist<br />
and journalist. Hailed as a “musician‟s musician” by his colleagues and praised for the “skill and sensitivity”<br />
(Ambush Magazine) he brings to works of all musical periods, recent seasons have included performances<br />
received with great audience acclaim in Seattle, Toronto, New York, Chicago and throughout the southeastern<br />
United States. Samuel‟s ardent interest in other art forms has led to appearances with Carpetbag Theatre and<br />
Rajni Shah Theatre (London). His essays, interviews and program notes have been published both in Strings<br />
Magazine and at violinist.com.<br />
Morgan Thorson is a 2010 Guggenheim Fellow in choreography. She regards dance-making as an occupation of<br />
necessity. Through her work, she recognizes a persistent intuitive drive to investigate dance as a purveyor of<br />
culturally, socially and perceptually relevant life experience. Her original works mix movement, light, sound and<br />
objects to create live performance for audiences; taking into consideration the site of the work, the representation<br />
of the body, the work of her collaborators and the history of the field. Morgan lives in Minneapolis, Minnesota.<br />
Patricia Tinajero is an assistant professor in the department of Art at the University of Tennessee in Knoxville, and<br />
the newest board member of Hola Hora Latina. Born in Quito-Ecuador Tinajero often uses her work to rise<br />
questions about cultural identity and social practices. Her focus and expertise involve performance, video, sound,<br />
and installation to examine ecological practices in art making that can be applied conceptually as well as<br />
practically. Tinajero has participated in many artist residencies, exhibitions and fellowships including the American<br />
Academy in Rome with an affiliated fellowship from the University of Tennessee. Her work has been exhibited at<br />
the Islip Museum of Contemporary Art, New York; the Center for Contemporary Art, Grand Rapids, Michigan; and<br />
others.<br />
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