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6TH ANNUAL
BAY AREA ART STARS
Sunday, November 10, 2024, 2:30-5:00PM
​at Root Division, 1131 Mission St, San Francisco, CA

GET YOUR TICKETS NOW!
Mark your calendars for Sunday, November 10, 2024, 2:30-5:00PM at Root Division, 1131 Mission St, San Francisco, CA

Join us for an inspiring day of art and mentorship at the Bay Area Art Stars Women’s Networking Event, presented by the Northern California Women's Caucus for Art! This exciting in-person gathering gives women and non-binary people in the arts a unique chance to meet with established gallerists, curators, artists, and representatives from major arts organizations.

This event is a great opportunity for BFAs, MFAs, fine art and curatorial students, and emerging/mid-career artists of any age or background. If you are interested in pursuing a career in the arts, whether as an artist, art educator, curator, gallerist, or museum/nonprofit professional, please come along!

Small groups of participants will move around to each table in a "speed-networking" format. You will learn how each of the Art Stars achieved their successes and will have a chance to ask them questions that will help in your future career. Engage in meaningful conversations, expand your network, and find community with our esteemed panel of Bay Area arts luminaries.

NCWCA Members $10, General Admission $15. A limited number of STUDENT tickets are FREE

2024 ART STAR BIOGRAPHIES

Archana Horsting
Founding Director Emeritus
​Kala Art Institute​

Annette Schutz
Principal
​ArtHaus Consulting​​
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​Archana Horsting, Founding Director Emeritus, co-founder, and Executive Director of Kala Art Institute for 48 years, she is now a board member and advises on special projects. She received a B.A. with honors from the University of California, Santa Cruz, studied art history at the University of Padova, Italy, and art practice at Academia di Belle Arti di Venezia in Venice, Italy. In 2012 she was recognized with an Alameda County Arts Leadership award. In 2014, she was given a Bay Area Visionaries award from the Southern Graphics International Conference. In 2015, she received Berkeley Community Fund’s Benjamin Ide Wheeler Medal.

Twyla Ruby
Assoc. Curator
​di Rosa Center for Contemporary Art​

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Twyla Ruby is Associate Curator at di Rosa Center for Contemporary Art in Napa, CA. Her research and curatorial work focus on contemporary art of Northern California since 1960. She has organized over 20 exhibitions and been published in numerous catalogs.

Na Omi Shintani
CA Arts Council Artist Fellow
Artivist and Culture Bearer​

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​Na Omi Judy Shintani’s art focuses on remembrance, connection, and storytelling. She makes assemblages, produces installations, creates performances, and facilitates social engagement activities to generate visual stories that bring vital issues to light. She offers participants ways to become art collaborators by interacting with her work and inviting feedback. 
As a Japanese American Artist, she has focused much of her art career on researching and creating works that give voice to internee memories and hidden stories about this time. She has exhibited in California, Washington, and New Mexico, and has been an artist in residence at Santa Fe Art Institute, Creativity Explored for Disabled Adults, and with ISKME’s Big Idea Fest. Shintani was nominated for a Joan Mitchell emerging artist grant. Na Omi speaks about Asian American Art and historical trauma at venues including SF State, De Anza College, ArtXchange in Seattle, Center for Contemporary for Art Santa Fe, and 516 Arts in Albuquerque. She founded the Kitsune Community Art Studio in Half Moon Bay and is a teaching artist at Creativity Explored for Disabled Adults and FootHill College, and has taught with the Institute on Aging. She has a Masters in Transformative Art from JFK University and a Bachelor’s of Science in Graphic Design from San Jose State University.
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Annette Schutz has been a San Francisco-based gallerist, curator and art advisor for more than 25 years. Her dedication and love for the arts has been a lifelong journey, not only as a businesswoman in the arts, but also in her many efforts to give back to the Bay Area community. She is currently the owner of ArtHaus Consulting and was the co-founder of ArtHaus Gallery with James Bacchi, established in 1996.
 
Annette is a longstanding volunteer for many Bay Area art organizations, including SFAN, where she has conducted bi-annual portfolio reviews since 2015. For the Academy of Art, she reviewed master student’s portfolios for eight years and was an acting judge for their annual Spring Show. She has also judged shows for ArtSpan and the International Mobile Photo Awards since 2012. Annette has also been a guest speaker on artist topics at the Arc and curator for Chaos, a national invitational show at Arc Gallery (2016), to name a few of her passion projects.

Rupy C Tut
SFMOMA SECA and
​Joan Mitchell Fellowship Awardee​

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Rupy C. Tut studied calligraphy and traditional Indian painting at the Prince’s Foundation School of Traditional Arts, London in 2016. She previously received a BS from UCLA and MPH from Loma Linda University, CA. Tut’s work is in the permanent collection of San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, CA; Crocker Art Museum, Sacramento, CA; the de Young, Fine Arts Museum of San Francisco; Asian Art Museum, San Francisco; and Eiteljorg Museum, Indianapolis, IN. She has enjoyed solo exhibitions, including at ICA San Francisco; Jessica Silverman, San Francisco; Crown Point Press, San Francisco; Triton Museum of Art, Santa Clara, CA; and Peel Art Gallery and Museum Archives, Ontario. Her work has been exhibited in group exhibitions at the Asian Art Museum, San Francisco; Phoenix Art Museum, AZ; Fowler Art Museum, Los Angeles; Kala Art Institute, Berkeley and Eiteljorg Museum, Indianapolis, among others. She is a 2024 recipient of the Joan Mitchell Fellowship, as well as the SFMOMA SECA Art Award, and will enjoy a solo exhibition at SFMOMA in December 2024. She will have her second solo exhibition with Jessica Silverman in 2025. She lives and works in Oakland, CA and is represented by Jessica Silverman, San Francisco.

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