Sara Maud Lydiatt-Vanier became a Jerome Foundation Member in 2009. As a direct family relation to Jerome she grew up appreciating his life, work and legacy. On a daily basis, she is surrounded by his art; Jerome Hill’s paintings decorate her office. Lydiatt-Vanier also has a strong connection to the Camargo foundation, having spent a year living in France and often visiting the Foundation over the last 25 years.

In her own professional life Lydiatt-Vanier owns an art gallery in Montreal, Canada that specializes in photography, and oversees her family businesses serving as administrator for some 20 companies in the areas of farming, forestry and land development in Canada, the USA, and New Zealand. Lydiatt-Vanier also serves as director of the Hill Farm Historical Society, the Organix Foundation, and the Kenauk Institute.

Lydiatt-Vanier has a Masters of Arts in the history of the decorative arts, design history, and material culture from the Bard Graduate Center in New York, USA (2002). Her love for trains, travel, design, and her own family history, inspired her MA thesis: Transcontinental Travels: Two American Limited Trains, 1900-1914, which examined the interiors of early twentieth-century transcontinental railcars, exploring the relationship between railcar design features that impacted early tourism, comfort of travel, and had influence on the newly opened American West. Lydiatt-Vanier has BA in English Literature (1994) and a BFA in Art History from Concordia University (1999). She is married and has two young children.

Christine Ljungkull, a friend of the Hill family, was elected as a Member of the Jerome Foundation in 1998. She has served on planning committees for both the Centennial Celebration of Jerome Hill’s birth with events held in Minnesota, New York, and Cassis, France and the 50th Anniversary Celebration of the Jerome Foundation with events in Minnesota and New York. She has also served as Member Liaison to numerous Jerome Foundation committees.

Ljungkull was born and raised in St. Paul, Minnesota where her early love for painting and drawing often had her spending summer weekends at Art-in-the-Park events meeting local artists. She eventually settled in the beautiful Eastern Townships of Quebec, Canada where she became Director of the Bishop’s University Artists’ Centre in Sherbrooke, Quebec.

After retiring, Ms. Ljungkull joined the Board of Directors of the Lennoxville Historical and Museum Society, serving as President of the Board and working on the management of their property, archival collection, exhibition preparation, and fundraising. Most recently she served on the Board of Directors of The Eastern Townships Research Centre and their Archives Committee dedicated to preserving and promoting the history of the area.

Since moving to Ottawa, Canada in 2014 Ljungkull continues to pursue volunteer opportunities. She and her husband are fitness and outdoor enthusiasts enjoying a wide range of activities, most recently a passion for running. They have five children and nine grandchildren.

Libby Hlavka has been a Jerome Foundation Member since 2015. She is a member of the Hill family and grew up in St. Paul hearing wonderful stories about Jerome Hill, a first cousin of her grandfather. Several of his paintings hang in her home and remind her daily of Jerome’s legacy—his vivid example of a passionate life devoted to creating art and supporting artists. 

Hlavka has over twenty years of experience in strategic planning, program development, and financial management within academic, corporate, and non-profit organizations. She currently serves as President of the Driscoll Foundation. Before returning to Minnesota, she held several senior administrative positions within Stanford University, focused on strategy and curriculum development. Prior to Stanford, Hlavka was a consultant with McKinsey & Company. She began her career as a financial manager at GE.

In addition to the Jerome Foundation, Hlavka serves on the boards of the Northwest Area Foundation and Minnesota Public Radio. Her past board experience includes College Possible, Franconia Sculpture Park, Milkweed Editions, and St. Paul Academy and Summit School, and she is an active volunteer and fundraiser for a number of other schools and non-profit organizations.

Hlavka received a BA in History from Yale University, an MBA from Stanford Graduate School of Business, and an MFA in Literature and Creative Writing from Bennington College. She lives in Minneapolis with her husband and their three children.

Ryan Lee Wong (elected 2018) is a writer and arts organizer based in Brooklyn. His curatorial work connects Asian American activist histories to the present, and includes the exhibition Roots: Asian American Movements in Los Angeles 1968-80s at the Chinese American Museum and Serve the People at Interference Archive. His arts criticism, focused on the intersections between art and politics, has appeared in The Village Voice, T Magazine, and Hyperallergic, as well as catalogues for the New Museum and Social Practice Queens.

Wong has served as a Visiting Scholar at the A/P/A Institute at NYU, Managing Director of Kundiman, a Visiting Critic at RISD, Assistant Curator at the Museum of Chinese in America, and an exhibitions administrator at the Metropolitan Museum. He has presented talks at Brooklyn Museum, Boston Museum of Fine Arts, Asia Art Archive, Independent Curators International, and numerous universities.

Mark Tribe (elected 2017) is an artist who works across media and forms, including painting, photography, installation, video and performance. His recent work explores the relationship between landscape and technology.

He has had solo exhibitions at the Corcoran Gallery of Art in Washington, D.C.; Momenta Art in New York; Los Angeles Contemporary Exhibitions; the Queen Victoria Museum in Launceston, Australia; and DiverseWorks in Houston. His work has also been shown at Jack Shainman Gallery in New York; Ronald Feldman Gallery in New York; Yossi Milo Gallery in New York; the Palais de Tokyo in Paris; the Menil Collection in Houston; the Centre Georges Pompidou in Paris; the New Museum of Contemporary Art in New York; the National Center for Contemporary Arts in Moscow; MUAC in Mexico City; SITE Santa Fe; the San Diego Museum of Art; el Museo de Antioquia in Medellín; the Blanton Museum of Art in Austin; the Telfair Museum of Art in Savannah; the Montclair Art Museum in New Jersey; the DeCordova Museum in Lincoln, Mass; and the Contemporary Museum in Baltimore. His work has been reviewed or discussed in  Artforum,  Art in America,  Artnews, the Brooklyn Rail,  Die Welt,  El Pais,  Flash Art,  Frieze,  Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung,  Hyperallergic, the  Los Angeles Times,  Modern Painters,  Newsweek, and the  New York Times. He has received grants from Creative Capital and the New York Foundation for the Arts. He is the author of two books, The Port Huron Project: Reenactments of New Left Protest Speeches (Charta, 2010) and New Media Art (Taschen, 2006), and numerous articles.

Tribe is Chair of the MFA Fine Arts Department at School of Visual Arts in New York City. In 1996, he founded Rhizome, an organization that supports the creation, presentation, preservation, and critique of emerging artistic practices that engage technology.

Elizabeth Streb (elected 2012), has dived through glass, walked down London's City Hall, dumped a ton of dirt on her head, and set herself on fire, among many other feats of extreme action. She founded the STREB EXTREME ACTION COMPANY in 1979 and established SLAM (STREB Lab for Action Mechanics) in Brooklyn, NY in 2003. Streb holds a MA in Humanities and Social Thought from New York University, a BS in Modern Dance from SUNY Brockport, and two honorary doctorates SUNY Brockport and Rhode Island College and has received numerous honors including the John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation 'Genius' Award, the Guggenheim Fellowship and a Doris Duke Artist Award.

A board member of the Jerome Foundation, Streb has been a featured speaker at TED2018: The Age of Amazement, BRAINWAVE at The Rubin Museum, TEDxMET, the Institute for Technology and Education, POPTECH, the Institute of Contemporary Art, the Brooklyn Museum of Art, the Rochester Institute of Technology, the Association of Performing Arts Presenters, the Penny Stamps Speaker Series, Chorus America, and on NPR's Science Friday.  Streb was profiled by Alec Wilkinson in an extended essay for the New Yorker magazine, was featured in the Smithsonian Magazine (“The New American Circus”), and in 2019 was featured on the front page of the Wall Street Journal.  Streb is the subject of two documentaries: Born to Fly, directed by Catherine Gund (Aubin Pictures), which premiered at the SXSW Festival and was featured at the Film Forum in NYC and OXD, directed by Craig Lowy, which premiered at Doc NYC. In 20I0, Feminist Press published her book, STREB: How to Become an Extreme Action Hero.

Lori Lea Pourier, (Oglala Lakota) (elected 2018) has served as the President/CEO, First Peoples Fund (FPF) since 1998. Dedicated to a vision of restoring and strengthening cultural assets within tribal communities for nearly 30 years, she focuses her efforts on bringing philanthropic resources to Native artist entrepreneurs and culture bearers. Through its Indigenous Arts Ecology program, FPF partners with Native CDFI's and community-based nonprofits to strengthen the support for arts and culture in tribal communities.

Her early work began at First Nations Development Institute and the executive director of the International Indigenous Women’s Network (IWN). She is a 2017 Ford Foundation Art of Change Fellow, a 2013 Women’s World Summit Foundation Prize for Creativity in Rural Life, and a 2013 Louis T. Delgado Distinguished Grantmaker Award. Pourier is an alumnus of the American’s for Indian Opportunities (AIO) American Indian Ambassadors Leadership Program where she stands with more than 350 Indigenous leaders.

She has served two terms on the board of directors of the Grantmakers in the Arts (GIA) and Native Americans in Philanthropy and currently serves on the Library of Congress American Folklife Center Board of Trustees. She holds a Master of Science degree from New Hampshire College Graduate School of Business.

Unpredictable & unbound, Daniel Alexander Jones (elected 2017) is an artist whose wildflower body of work has long been recognized by a wide range of communities. Jones extends traditions of art-making rooted in Black & Queer histories of performance, music, literature, and civic practice. 2023 marks Jones’s 30th year of professional practice. This year, Jones has thus far released his new album Aquarius; presented May As Well Be a Rainbow, an offering commissioned by the McCarter Theatre honoring Toni Morrison & her archive; & Altar No. 3: I Choose to Remember Us Whole, an installation at The Henry Gallery in Seattle & public processional produced by The Meany Center at UW. Jones’s past projects include Black Light (Public Theater); Duat (Soho Rep); Radiate (Soho Rep & national tour) and Phoenix Fabrik (Pillsbury House Theatre). As his “altar-ego” Jomama Jones, named “a true theatrical original” by Backstage Magazine, he has released six albums and toured widely to critical acclaim. Jones’s ongoing ALTAREDSTATES initiative is housed at CalArts’ Center for New Performance and may be encountered at www.aten.life.

Daniel Alexander Jones is a TED Fellow, a Doris Duke Artist Award recipient, a Guggenheim Fellow, a USA Artists Fellow, a two-time Art Matters Grantee, a five-time MAP Fund recipient, an inaugural Creative Capital Grantee, an Alpert Award in the Arts Awardee, and has received the PEN/America Laura Pels Award in Theatre and the IDEA Award in Theatre. A collection of his plays and performance texts, Love Like Light, is available from 53rd State Press alongside a volume of conversation with Alexis Pauline Gumbs entitled Particle & Wave. All These Things, a volume of discussion with Sharon Bridgforth is forthcoming in Summer 2023. Jones apprenticed with legendary artists Robbie McCauley, Laurie Carlos, Jessica Hagedorn, Rebecca Rice, and Aishah Rahman and is considered an innovator for his own contributions to the field, and a mentor to dozens of young artists. Jones is delighted to serve as a Producing Artist at CalArts’ Center for New Performance. He is on the board of the Jerome Foundation. He lives in Los Angeles.

Linda Earle is Professor of Practice in Art History at Tyler School of Art, Temple University. She is especially interested advancing artists, cultural managers and curators who will create new platforms for cultural practice, participation, and discourse, and challenge institutions to define and adopt equitable practices.

Previously Linda worked as Executive Director the Great Lakes Colleges Association’s New York Arts Program, as Director at the Skowhegan School of Painting and Sculpture, and as a senior Program Director at the New York State Council on the Arts where she crafted the Individual Artists Program and worked in program and fiscal analysis of and support for museums and contemporary visual arts organizations. She has taught film and cultural studies at Mason Gross School of the Arts, Rutgers University, Hunter College, and Barnard College and has served on numerous grants and commissioning panels and artist advocacy groups. She has also worked in independent film, theatre, and visual arts curatorial projects over the years.

Sarah Bellamy (elected 2018) is a nationally renowned racial equity facilitator and practitioner of racial healing. Her methods are holistic, profound, and foster powerful intimacy and authenticity for clients. She brings a wealth of scholarship, strategic acuity, and deep compassion to consultative and coaching relationships. Her writing focuses on memoir, personal essays, plays, and short stories. She is a stage director and the president of Penumbra, a center for racial healing that houses one of the nation’s oldest and largest African American theatre companies.

Sarah is a graduate of Sarah Lawrence College and holds an M.A. in the Humanities from the University of Chicago. She has taught at Macalester College, the University of Minnesota, and served as Visiting Professor of Theatre and Culture at United Theological Seminary of the Twin Cities. Her lectures on the power of race and representation have been presented across the country illuminating the ways in which images, narratives, and media influence perception and ultimately shape lives. She is a skilled and dynamic public speaker offering audiences fresh, big-hearted, and courageous perspectives on a wide range of topics. She is especially recognized for her work on racial healing, authenticity, and resiliency. 

Sarah has been awarded the Hubert H. Humphrey Public Leadership Award, a Bush Foundation Fellowship, and served on the Board of Directors for Theatre Communications Group. She currently serves on the Board of Directors for the Jerome Foundation. She lives in St. Paul, Minnesota with her husband and two small children. More at www.sbellamy.com

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