4TH ANNUAL BAY AREA ART STARS
SATURDAY, SEPTEMBER 3, 2:30-5:00pm
301 Main Street, San Francisco

Connect with Art Stars from the Bay Area arts scene at NCWCA's 4th annual “Bay Area Art Stars Women’s Networking Event." Emerging women in the arts are invited to join us for a professional meet-up with established artists, gallerists, curators, and representatives from major arts organizations.
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2022 ART STAR BIOGRAPHIES

AMI DAVIS
Executive Director
​New Museum Los Gatos

ELENA GROSS
Co-Director | Berkeley Art Center
​Independent Writer & Culture Critic
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​Ami Davis is committed to making art relevant and accessible to all audiences. She has worked in museums since 1998, with a focus on art history, exhibitions, education, fundraising, and community partnerships. She has served institutions such as the J. Paul Getty Museum, the Monterey Museum of Art, the Orange County Museum of Art, San Jose Museum of Art, and the Santa Cruz Museum of Art & History. She has also taught courses in contemporary art at UCLA Extension and has been a panelist and presenter at numerous national museum conferences. She currently serves as Executive Director of NUMU | New Museum Los Gatos.

CYNTHIA BRANNVALL
Art Historian & Artist | Foothill Community College

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Cynthia Brannvall is an art historian and a multi-media artist who teaches art history as a full-time faculty member of Foothill Community College. An advocate and ally for social justice and equity, Cynthia’s artwork explores identity formation envisioned in an imagined deep time terrain of memory, reclamation, and the geographies of forced and voluntary migrations of body and spirit. Cynthia was selected for the 2022-2023 Emerging Artist’s Program at the Museum of African Diaspora in San Francisco where she had a solo exhibition in 2022.

LUCKY RAPP
Internationally-known visual artist

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​Lucky Rapp is a San Francisco based visual artist with a background in both fashion and art. Her self-taught style is often characterized as being text-based. Her methodology incorporates layers of resin, paint, and acrylic forms that create texture and depth within the dialogue of her work. Lucky’s approach is process-oriented and physical. The end result combines inquisitive statements that play with both language and the potency of graphic communication, while the three-dimensional nature of the layered resin fosters a sculptural reflective quality
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Elena Gross is the Co-Director of the Berkeley Art Center and an independent writer and culture critic living in San Francisco, CA. Her research has been centered around conceptual and material abstractions of the body in the work of Black modern and contemporary artists. She has presented her writing and research at institutions and conferences across the U.S., including Nook Gallery, Southern Exposure, KADIST, Harvard College, YBCA, California College of the Arts, and the GLBT History Museum. Elena is the co-editor of OutWrite: The Speeches that Shaped LGBTQ Culture.    

DIANE OLIVIER
Artist & International Drawing Instructor

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Diane Olivier My continuing passion is hand to paper drawing. The physical touch, the give of the surface as it yields to mark making transports me. My current artwork travels in two veins: one plein air landscape, the other figurative. Both are records of personal interactions with the present. I explore the moments I experience suspended in a place beyond the everyday and relish the alchemy of transforming paper and dust into worlds beyond their limits. I engage with my models’ personalities and hope to depict them with their influence. My landscapes are visits to nature to remind myself we are but just a speck in the universe. I share with the viewer what keeps me whole and grounded. 

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