Lib Bevacqua

Lib Bevacqua is a student at Appalachian State University where she is studying Art Management, she is expected to graduate December 2018 with a B.A. in Arts and Visual Culture. After completing an Art History program in 2017 with the Lorenzo di Medici International Institute in Rome, Italy she worked as an intern for the Green Chair Project in Raleigh, North Carolina. Bevacqua is collaborating on curating an online exhibition on Black Mountain College, which will be her first public collaborative work.

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Ryan Beverley

Ryan Beverley is a senior at Appalachian State University planning on graduating with a Bachelor of Arts in Art and Visual Culture with a focus in Studio Art, as well as a minor in Nonprofit Management and Experiential, Integrative Learning, in the fall of 2018. Beverley is from Raleigh, North Carolina and hopes to continue his education once completing his undergraduate degree. Beverley has participated in many opportunities to volunteer with local galleries and museums, such as the Blowing Rock Art and History Museum, in the Boone, NC area.

Emma Bouma

Emma Bouma was born in Amsterdam, the Netherlands and has traveled throughout her childhood to places like Vietnam and South Africa, she currently resides in Boone, NC. Bouma is a student at Appalachian State University, she is studying Art Management under a B.A. in Arts and Visual Culture and is expected to graduate May 2019 after completing an internship with the Rijksmuseum in Amsterdam. Her experience in the field includes a Research Assistantship under director of the Art Management faculty, Jody Servon. She has also interned in the Business and Development department at the Weatherspoon Art Museum. She is currently working on an exhibition exploring the Colonial Gaze through Ruin Art in South and Southeast Asia as well as working on a paper on Art Activism in which she analyzes the Whitney Museum of American Art’s (2018) exhibition: An Incomplete History of Protest. Bouma is also collaborating on an online exhibition on Black Mountain College, which will be her first public-curatorial project.

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Jordan Evans

Jordan Evans is a student at Appalachian State University and currently in her Senior year. She is double majoring in Studio Art and Art Management and is planning on graduating in December of 2018. Evans is from Mooresville, North Carolina but currently lives in Boone, North Carolina. She has participated in several volunteer opportunities in local galleries like the Blowing Rock Art and History Museum and the Smith Gallery located on the campus of Appalachian State University. This volunteer work ranges from operating the front desk to installing and deinstalling work in the gallery spaces. Evans enjoys handling art in and installing exhibitions. Currently she is working collaboratively to create an online exhibition focused on Black Mountain College.

Mackenzie Holland

Mackenzie Holland was born in Charlotte, North Carolina. Holland currently lives in Boone North Carolina where she is getting a Bachelor’s degree in Fine Art and Visual Culture, concentrating in Art management and minoring in Nonprofit management at Appalachian State University. Developing curatorial and collections experience while interning at the Blowing Rock Art and History Museum, Holland has discovered an inner love for experience art in the exhibition space. Holland has interned at Allison Sprock Fine Art in Charlotte North Carolina and has worked for Shed Brand Studios where she developed as an artist, worked as stain-glass restorer, and designer. Holland is involved in the Art Management Organization and the American Sign Language Organization on campus. Holland has worked in collaboration with the local nonprofit, Watauga County Arts Council to develop a college community around the arts. In high school, Holland first experienced collecting people through art by working on a collaborative glass sculpture with peers that was donated to the Romare Bearden Foundation. Staying true to her discovery, Holland believes in connecting people through the experiences surrounding art.

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Ant M Lobo

Ant M Lobo is a student at Appalachian State University where he is a candidate for a bachelor of fine art in studio art with a concentration in photography. He is from Raleigh, North Carolina and currently lives and practices in Boone, North Carolina. Currently, Lobo is working on designing two different exhibitions. With a curatorial team he is working collaboratively on creating an exhibition that highlights the women and minoritized artists that studied and taught at Black Mountain College. He is also working as a co-curator in designing the exhibition of his senior thesis work. In August he is starting graduate school at the School of Visual Art in New York where he will be getting his masters degree in Curatorial Practice.

Sallie Oliver

Currently an Art Management student at Appalachian State University, Oliver is interested in local and international art policy studies as an art lawyer in training. She was born in Winston-Salem, North Carolina and her curatorial strategy seeks to identify artworks with hybrid influence from the natural landscape to innovative technologies.

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Hannah Palladino

Hannah Palladino was born in High Point, North Carolina, but was raised in Concord, North Carolina. She is currently a student at Appalachian State University studying Art Management and Non-Profit Management with an expected graduation date of May 2019. She is a Gallery Assistant at the Smith Gallery on Appalachian State’s campus, and she will be an intern for the Cabarrus Arts Council this coming summer. She is also an active member of the Art Management Organization, a club at Appalachian which seeks to promote professionalism and networking within art fields by increasing the awareness of the arts on ASU's campus and in the community.  This online exhibition on Black Mountain College will be her first collaborative work, but she hopes to do more in the future.