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ATCH 2 - Soscol Selection Panel Revised

Napa City Council
August 15, 2023

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ATCH 2 - Soscol Selection Panel Revised
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Soscol Median

Pr
oject
Art Selection Panel
Three Appointed Art Professionals
:

Sharon

Bliss
Sharon

Bliss

is

currently

the

director

of

the

Fine

Arts

Gallery

at
S
a
n
Francisc
o
State

University

where

she

started

i
n
2001.

Bliss
has

curated

and

coordinated

many

exhibitions,

including

i
n 2013
"The

Illuminated

Library."
H
er

publications

include

"The
Moment

for

INK"
(
2013: SF
S
tate), "México: Política
y
P
oética"
(
2011: Nordiska
A
kvarellmuseet)
a
nd
"
Prison
C
ulture"
(
2010:

City

Lights

Foundation

Books).

Bliss

has

guest

curated

exhibitions

for

Fototeca

de

Cuba,

SF

C
amerawork,

the

San

Marco
Gallery
a
t

Dominican
U
nive
rsity
a
nd
o
ther venues.

She

holds

a B.A.

from

Haverford College

and an

M.A.

in

Museum

Studies

from

SF
State.

Jim

Campbell
Jim

Campbell’s

wor
k
has

been

exhibited internationally

and throughout

North

America in

institutions

such

as

the Whitney
Museu
m

of

American

Art,

New

York;

the

San

Francisco

Museum

of

Modern

Art;

The

International

Center

for
Photography,

New

York;

The

J.

Paul

Getty

Museum,

Los

Angeles

an
d
the

Museum

of

Contemporary

Art,

Sydney,
Australia.

His

electronic

art

work

is
i
nclude
d
in

the

permanent

collections
o
f

the

Museum

of

Modern

Art,

New

York;

the
Smithsonian

American

Art

Museum,

Washington,

DC;

the

Whitney

Museu
m
of

American

Art;

the

Metropolitan

Museu
m
of
Art,

New

York;

the

San

Francisco Museum

of

Modern

Art;

the de Young Museum,

San

Fra
ncisc
o
and

the

Berkeley

Art
Museum.

I
n
2012,
h
e

was

the

recipien
t
o
f
the

San

Francisco

Museum

o
f
Modern

Art’s 13th

Annual

Bay

Area

Treasure
Award.

Previous honors

include

a

Rockefeller

Foundation

Fellowship

Award

in

Multim
edia,

three

Langlois

Foundation
Gr
ants
a
n
d a
Guggenheim

Fellowship Award.

Campbell

has

two

Bachelor

of

Science

degrees

in

Mathematics

and

Engineering

from

MIT

and

as

an

engineer

holds
nearly

twenty

patents

i
n
the

field

of

vide
o
image

processing.

His
2 018

piece

‘Day

for

Night’
i
s
a

permanent

LED

installation

that

comprises
t
he

to
p
nine

floors
o
f

the

61 -s
tory Salesforce
Tower

in

San

Francisco.

Kat
e
Eilertsen
Kate

Eilertse
n
is

currentl
y
the

E
xecutive Director

and Chief

Curator

at

di

Rosa Center

for

Contemporary

Art.

She has

thirty
years

of

museum

and

nonprofit

executive

experience

and

is

a

dedicated

educator

deepl
y
committed

to

public
engagement.

Eilertsen

has

a

curatorial

specialization

in

contemporary

craft

and

art

and

has

her

own

ongoin
g
curatorial
consultancy

with

organizations.

Previously

sh
e
has

held

Executiv
e
Director

positions

at

Sonoma

Valley

Museum

of

Art,
Museu
m

of

Craft

and

Folk

Art,

and

Director

of

Visual

Arts

at

Yerba

Buena

C
en
ter

for

the

Arts.

She

holds

a Master

of

Arts

from

Hunter

College,

NY.

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Pu
b
l
i
c A
rt Steering Committee (PASC) Advisory Committee
:

Miki

Hsu
L
eavey

–
PASC

Member

Miki

Hsu

Leavey

is

an

artist

with

lifetime

work

experience

as

a

professional

practicing

painter

and

collagist,

a

Teaching
Artist,

an

Arts

Integration

Specialist

an
d
as

a
Museum

Arts

Educator

specializing

in

Community

Engagement.

Leave
y
has
worked

in

the

mu
seum

field

locally since

2000,

starting

with

COPIA,

Napa

Valley

Museum,

an
d
the

di

Rosa

Center

for
Contemp
orary

Art
.

Currently

she
i
s

an

integra
l
part

of

the

Education

department

at

the

Sonoma

Valley

Museum

of

Art.

She

and her

husband have

been

residents
o
f

Napa
since

1987,

have

raised
t
heir two
s
ons

in

Napa,

working

to

provide
the

ar
ts
i
n
o
ur public
s
chools
. She

has

worked

closely

wit
h
the

Arts

Council

Napa

Valley

for

many

years

i
n
the

past,

and
currently,

still

resides

in

their

Victorian

hom
e
in

downtown

Napa.

Garret

Murphy

–
PASC

Member
Garret

Murphy
i
s

the

founder

and

managing

partner

of

the

Vintner’s

Collective

in

Napa.

He

is

a
Parisian,

who

settle
d
in
Napa
Valley

in

1994

where

the

landscape,

the

people

an
d
the

foo
d
reminds

him

of

France.

A
p
erfect

pla
ce
t
o
be
inspire
d!

He

is
a

self
-t
au
ght

painter,

sculptor

an
d
photographer;

an
d
is

mostly

a

landscape

and

portrait

artist.

In
a
ddition
t
o
h
is
c
urrent
t
erm
o
n
t
he
P
ublic
A
rt
S
teering
C
omm
ittee, he
h
as
s
erved
o
n

the

Downtown

Specific

Plan
steering

committee

and

the

Napa

County landmark board.

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