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Mary Miss, Founder & Artistic Director
Mary Miss, Founder & Artistic Director

Mary Miss has reshaped the boundaries between sculpture, architecture, landscape design and installation art by articulating a vision of the public sphere where it is possible for an artist to address the issues of our time. Her installations focus on social, cultural and environmental sustainability to reveal history, ecology or aspects of sites that have gone unnoticed. In addition to BROADWAY: 1000 Steps, she recently completed a project for the Indianapolis Museum of Art focusing on a 6-mile stretch of the White River. Miss was one of four artists who developed concepts for envisioning the future of Long Island City as part of the exhibition, Civic Action: A Vision for Long Island City at the Noguchi Museum and Socrates Sculpture Park. She has received grants from the NEA, NOAA, and the National Science Foundation. In 2012 she was awarded NYC Design Commission’s Award for Excellence in Design for The Passage: A Moving Memorial on Staten Island. See www.marymiss.com for details of Mary's work. 

Olivia Georgia, Executive Director
Olivia Georgia, Executive Director

Olivia Georgia has worked in the arts as an administrator, curator, and teacher for over thirty years.  Prior to joining CALL, she served as Executive Director of The House Foundation for the Arts, Director of the Bronx Museum of the Arts, Director of Visual Arts/Newhouse Center for Contemporary Art, Snug Harbor Cultural Center, and Executive Director of Maryland Art Place, She has taught arts administration at the NYU Steinhardt Department of Art and Arts Professionals and at Goucher College.

Aaron Asis, Project Designer
Aaron Asis, Project Designer

Aaron Asis was born and raised in New York City, and holds degrees in Fine Art, Architecture and Urban Design. At the nexus of these three disciplines, his work explores ideas related to the significance of under-appreciated urban experiences and the ways in which these experiences impact our everyday lives. Aaron is currently working as a projects designer for City as Living Laboratory, and as an independent artist and filmmaker, where his work focuses on promoting access, awareness and appreciation—in an urban context.

Rebecca Lucher, Programs and Operations Manager
Rebecca Lucher, Programs and Operations Manager

Rebecca Lucher joined CALL in 2023 as the Programs and Operations Manager after completing her MA in Visual Arts Administration at NYU. She received her BS in Visual Arts with a concentration in Drawing and Painting and a BA in Communication Studies concentrating in Public Relations at the State University of New York (SUNY). Lucher is passionate about using the arts as a tool for sharing stories, building relationships, fostering connections, and as a strategy for urban revitalization. As a New York Native she grew going to museums and which help her form her passion for the arts.

Adrián Cerezo, Ph.D., M.E.Sc., Consultant, for WaterMarks Milwaukee
Adrián Cerezo, Ph.D., M.E.Sc., Consultant, for WaterMarks Milwaukee

Dr. Cerezo has more than 25 years of experience in the field of science communication, museum design and informal education. His work integrates his expertise in science and policy with his experience in informal education and science communication to produce educational design, visualisations, animations, websites, and community-based art interventions. Dr. Cerezo is a Visiting Researcher at the Yale Child Study Centre. He serves as Senior Advisor on Early Childhood Development and Climate Change for Asia Pacific Regional Network for Early Childhood (ARNEC) and UNICEF Pacific. He is the Senior Knowledge Platform and Visualisation Design Fellow for the Early Childhood Development Action Network (ECDAN). Since 2007, he has collaborated extensively with Dr. Pia Rebello Britto (UNICEF) to communicate the intricacies of global ECD policy to decision makers in the public and private sector.

Isabel Halama, Communications & Development Manager
Isabel Halama, Communications & Development Manager

Isabel Halama joined CALL in 2024 as the Communications & Development Manager after completing her BA in Anthropology (Political Ecology) at Barnard College. While at Barnard, she wrote her senior thesis on sand mining, social infrastructure, and expectations of environmental harm in rural Wisconsin. Before coming to us at CALL, Isabel interned at the Climate Museum and the Minnesota Department of Health, experiences which reiterated and reinforced her conviction that arts and cultural programs are critical facets of just solutions to the climate crisis.

 

Board of Directors

CALL is Funded by:

City as Living Laboratory is made possible through the generous contribution of Agnes Gund.

Peter T. Joseph Foundation

Sponsors

Thomas Bishop

Susanna Church

Wendy Evans Joseph

Dorothy Lichtenstein

Jeffrey Lydon

Charles McKinney

Donors

Dan Alterman, Patricia Aluisi, Naomi Antonakos, Alberta Arthurs, Elizabeth Asawa, Marlon Blackwell, Mitchell Blutt, Gale A. Brewer, Lynn Burditt, Owen Cantor, James Carpenter, Irwin Cohen, Peter Coombe, Lynne Cucco, Jenny Dixon, Stephenie Foster, Jonie Fu, Ray Gastil, Olivia Georgia, Joseph Giovannini, Marita Glodt, Alain Groenendaal, Abby Hamlin, Wendy Harrison Hashmall, Alexandra Herzan, Tracey Hummer, Beverly Hyman and Larry Birnbach, Eva Kedar, Cindy Mary Kelly, Don Lessem, Carol Lewitt, Sabine Marx, Marty Matlock, Jennifer McGregor, Andrea Miller, Ward Mintz, Jacob Miss, Christine Mondor, William Moorhead, Susan Nitze, Emily Pulitzer, Spafford Robbins, Mia Ruyter, William Ryall, Cristina Salane, Ritasue Siegel, Patterson Sims, Jill Steinberg, Marquise Stillwell, Phyllis Urman-Klein, Eric Wechsler, John Woldenberg, Gwendolyn Wright, Zach Youngerman, Elyn Zimmerman

Contributors

Stuart Ahlum, Lucy Anda Hardison, Kwame Anthony Appiah, Christopher Drew Armstrong, Margaret Bach, Tom Balsley, Thomas Bender, Adrian Benepe, Hunter Bergschneider, Deborah Berke, Iman Blackwell, Jonathan Boelkins, Suby T. Bowden, Uwe Brandes, Wendy Brawer, Robyn Brentano, Sherry Buckberrough, Noreen Buckfire, Amanda Burden, Katy Burgio, Elizabeth Chau, Judy Chen, Tim Cheux, Steve Chivers, Erica Cochran Hameen, Elizabeth Coleman, Jeannette Compton, Elizabeth A Cooke Levy, Susan Crile, Liza Cucco, Christine Davis, Christine Dimmick, Stephen Dover, Vivian Drohan, Deborah Evangelakos, Colleen Fahey, Tory Fair, Alexander Felson, Ann Fessler, Wendy Feuer, Laura Flanders, George Foelschow, Lucas Foglia, John Folan, Paul Freitas, David Freudenthal, Marshall Fuss, Joshua Ginsberg, Jeanne Giordano, William & Peggy Godley, Lisa Goldberg, Bette Golik, Alice Adams Gordy, Elka Gould, Nicky Grist, Fredye Gross, John Guare, Steven Handel, Frank Harmon, Jeff Hebert, Susan Hockenberry, John Hoffman, Ryan Holifield, Roman Jackson, Julie Jensen, Bree Jeppson, Kathleen John-Alder, Susan Jones, Andrea Joyce, Stephanie Kane, Melanie A. Katzman, Deborah Kern, Janet Koplos, Ellen Kozak, Sandra Landsman, Jeremy Levine, Larry Liddle, Lucy Lippard, Diane Looney, Carey Lovelace, Stephen Luoni, Lucy Lydon, Peter Mackeith, Dorothy Mackevich Marks, Nicole Mackinlay Hahn, Sandro Marpillero, Jonathan Marvel, Scott Mauvais, Patricia McKee, John Miles, Brenda Miller, Christian Miss, Mary Miss, Kathleen Modrowski, Lynn Moffat, Francine Monaco, Marilouise Morgan, Cliff Moser, Anneq Musso, George Myers, Juliet Myers, Rona Nelson, Cynthia Parillo, Maria Parlapiano, Nicole Parlapiano, Sherida E Paulsen, LC Pei, Sandi Pei, Mary Virginia, Rickel Pelletier, Jamie Phear, Steward Pickett, Ronnie Planalp, Sandra Power, Nina Rappaport, Zora Rasmussen, Ann Rauch, Edward Robbins, Jeff B. Rodgers, Brian Rosenberg, Joel Ross, Susan Rothschild, Chase Rynd, Linda Safran, Jennifer Sage, Mary Salter, Ronnie Leah Scharfman, Elizabeth Scheuer, Joyce Schwartz, Marsha Sehler, Richard Sennett, John Sherwood, Laurence Shopmaker, Lucia Skwarek, Carl Smith, Calvin Tsao, Barbara Tsumagari, Tricia Van Eck, Cynthia Vance, Claire Weisz, Barbara Wilks, Jim Woldenberg, Chris Young, Ethan Youngerman, Rena Zurofsky