Board of Directors
Kate Arford, Treasurer
Craig Drehmel
Chee Hallowell
Dianne Kramer
Jessica Shaykett
Heidi Vardeman, Co-Chair
Thomas Wegner, Vice Chair
Nathan RP Young, Co-Chair
Craig Drehmel
Chee Hallowell
Dianne Kramer
Jessica Shaykett
Heidi Vardeman, Co-Chair
Thomas Wegner, Vice Chair
Nathan RP Young, Co-Chair
Katherine Smith-Flores, Director, info at artlending.org
Katherine oversees MALL's staff, finances, and fundraising initiatives. She also is the Advancement Coordinator at Interact Center for the Visual & Performing Arts where she assists in marketing, communication, fundraising, and event planning. Previously, she taught modern and contemporary art history at the Art Institutes International. From 2007-2010, she was the Assistant Curator at the El Paso Museum of Art and the recipient of the Smithsonian Latino Museum Studies Fellowship in 2009. She has a BA in History of Art & Architecture from the University of California, Santa Barbara and an MA in Modern and Contemporary Art History from State University of New York College at Purchase. Before becoming curator, educator, and arts administrator, she joined AmeriCorps and spent six months living in a tent doing environmental work for various state and national parks in Alaska.
Larsen Husby, Arts & Program Manager, submissions at artlending.org
Larsen administers the MALL's circulating collection, including calls for submissions and fellowships. In January 2013, he co-founded the Ledge Gallery, an apartment exhibition space in the Stevens Square neighborhood of Minneapolis, which featured the works of local artists until closing in March 2014. During that time, he also co-founded the MALL, eventually transitioning it into its own nonprofit in 2015. He served as the Chair of the Board of Directors from May 2015 to May 2016. He graduated from Macalester College with a BA in Studio Art. In addition to his work on the MALL, he is a practicing artist, and has exhibited in venues across the Twin Cities and the Midwest. He works in a variety of media, including painting, printmaking, and sculpture.
Amelia Foster, Outreach & Volunteer Coordinator, outreach at artlending.org
Amelia leads the MALL's outreach and publicity efforts, including media relations and volunteer coordination. She works as a freelance writer, arts administrator, and bookseller at Moon Palace Books. Her background includes work with the Art Shanty Projects, Coffee House Press, Forecast Public Art, and the Friends of the Saint Paul Public Library. She has contributed feature articles and reviews to Public Art Review magazine and City Pages. In 2012, she co-founded a feminist poetry collective called Our Flow is Hard, which performed interactive poetry events in public spaces around the Twin Cities. Her work with public art and engagement continues as a part of the Art Shanty Projects' on-ice program.
