Staff
Jamie Blosser, Executive Director
jblosser@sfai.org
Robert Gomez Hernandez, Development & Communications Director
rgomezhernandez@sfai.org
Toni Gentilli, Residency Program Manager
tgentilli@sfai.org
Franco Andres, SFAI Post-Graduate Fellow & Logistics Manager
fandres@sfai.org
Kourtney Andar, SFAI Works Manager
kandar@sfai.org
Board of Trustees
Joyce Idema, Chair
Roger Gullickson, Vice Chair
Lael F. Johnson, Treasurer
Edith Dillman, Secretary
Sydney Cooper
Zane Fischer
Joseph Kunkel
Richard Martinez
Emeritus:
Gay Block
John L. Marion
Marilyn Lee Steinbright
Edwin Thorne
Meet our team
Jamie Blosser, Executive Director, jblosser@sfai.org
Jamie Blosser is the Executive Director of Santa Fe Art Institute, and a licensed architect working to creatively address equity in the arts and built environment through participatory processes. Her community design work with Ohkay Owingeh over the last 17 years led to revitalization of their historic plaza area, and has been published in several magazines and books, including Architectural Record and the Public Interest Design Practice Guidebook. Jamie served as a delegate for the UN Habitat III convening in Quito in October 2016. She founded the Sustainable Native Communities Collaborative to support culturally appropriate and sustainable development in American Indian communities, and was the Director of the Santa Fe office of AOS Architects for 10 years. Jamie is Executive Producer of a PBS Natural Heroes documentary, which aired in Spring 2016. She received her Masters in Architecture from the University of Pennsylvania, and completed a Loeb Fellowship in 2015 at the Harvard Graduate School of Design, focusing on equity, resilience, and effects of global urbanization in rural communities.
Robert Gomez Hernandez, Development & Communications Director, rgomezhernandez@sfai.org
Robert is a visual storyteller whose work changes what people feel and know about ideas, products, and companies. He has directed films, social entrepreneurship projects, and company launches in the United States, France, Brazil, Mexico, Canada, Jamaica, Haiti, and Italy. His work focuses on the applied impact of story, design, brand, and image. His portfolio includes work within areas of conflict in Mexico & Brazil, 6 million aggregate online video views, and $20 million in sales & investment. He received his Masters Degrees from California College of the Arts (Masters of Fine Arts in Media Arts, & Masters of Arts in Visual Critical Studies), his Bachelors Degrees from the University of New Mexico (Bachelors of Arts in Latin Languages, & Bachelors of Fine Arts in Painting), and attended the United States Military Academy at West Point.
Toni Gentilli, Residency Program Manager, tgentilli@sfai.org
Toni Gentilli is an artist, curator, and anthropologist whose research-based mixed media work explores relationships between technology, nature, perception and consciousness. She collects and creates her own pigments and often incorporates found natural objects, antique optical equipment, and modern digital devices into her art. Toni received her MFA in Photography from the San Francisco Art Institute, her MA in Anthropology with an emphasis in Museum Studies from Arizona State University, and her BA with double majors in Art History and Anthropology from the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee. Before relocating to Santa Fe, she spent six years in the San Francisco Bay Area working as an Arts Administrator, Independent Curator, and Exhibition Preparator. Prior to that, Toni was an Archaeologist and Cultural Resources Project Director for an environmental planning firm in Phoenix, AZ (2000-2010), and in Milwaukee, WI (1996-2000). Her work has been included in international exhibitions juried by Corey Keller (SFMOMA), Rebecca Senf (CCP), Katherine Ware (NMMA), Christopher James, and Tom Persinger. In 2012, the San Francisco Art Institute awarded her the Graduate Fellowship in Photography. In 2016 she received the Alternative Exposure Grant funded by the Andy Warhol Foundation for the Visual Arts to support her curatorial projects at the Compound Gallery in Oakland, CA.
Franco Andres, SFAI Post-Graduate Fellow & Logistics Manager, fandres@sfai.org
Franco Andres makes work located at the intersection of the naturally occurring and the manufactured. Careful attention is paid to material content and socially inscribed relationships firmly situating his oeuvre within the sculpture tradition. Andres grew up in Miami, FL and after a stint as a pre-medical student at the University of Miami moved to New York City where he studied at the School of Visual Arts and embarked on a career working with interiors. A move From San Francisco to Santa Fe prompted a shift in sensibility contributing to his current work’s gestural aesthetic. As the SFAI Post-Graduate Fellow, Andres liaises between SFAI, community organizations, and schools including Santa Fe University of Art and Design to develop meaningful engagement designed to link SFAI artists-in-residence with students, faculty, and community partners resulting in reciprocal collaborative programming. Andres also oversees the SFAI Volunteer and SFAI Internship-for-Credit programs to assist students in honing existing talents and cultivating new professional skills as part of a not-for-profit focused on addressing the most pressing social issues of our time. Andres holds a BFA in Studio Arts from Santa Fe University of Art and Design and is a SITE Scholar.
Kourtney Andar, SFAI Works Manager, kandar@sfai.org
As a writer, activist, and social justice educator for more than ten years, Kourtney has trained hundreds of young men and women on violence prevention, pro-feminism, and environmental justice. As a current member of the Veterans For Peace Board of Directors, he leads membership recruitment efforts, serves as the Board Secretary, and is organizing a dismantling patriarchy committee. At the University of Missouri-Columbia, Kourtney co-advised a male ally program and sexual violence prevention student organization, and assisted with implementing a comprehensive bystander intervention program. After having worked as an office administrator for the Center for Social Justice, Kourtney lead the People of Color Caucus with Fertile Ground Institute, worked as the administrative assistant for Culture Reframed – a leading NGO educating on commercial sexual exploitation – and was a featured speaker at the 2014 Earth At Risk: The Justice & Sustainability Conference. Kourtney is a published author and his articles are available on several activist websites. He grew up in Illinois, served four years in the Army National Guard, and moved to Santa Fe with his wife in July 2016.