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BOARD OF DIRECTORS
President
Mike Robillard, Kinzie Street Partners
Vice President
Christopher A. McVety, Reed Smith LLP
Secretary
Marci M. Price, Easter Seals, Inc.
Treasurer
Mark Richardson, Certified Public Accountant

Paul Klein, artletter.com
Bob Markey, Acorn Investment
Julia Marsh, Member at Large
David Meeker, effectiveUI
Sara Schnadt, Chicago Department of Cultural Affairs

STAFF
Executive Director
Anne Mills has been working in the arts since 2003, with a focus on community-based arts organizations. She received her BA in Arts Administration from Columbia College Chicago, and studied Photography at Grand Rapids Community College (Michigan). Before coming to Chicago, she resided in San Francisco, working with the arts organizations such as ArtSpan and the artist communities there. She has worked for the Center for Asian Arts and Media in Chicago, and is involved with the Asian American community, and also the Korean Adoptee community as co-founder and co-director of KAtCH (Korean Adoptees in Chicago). Anne joined Around the Coyote in 2008 and is excited to work with the arts community of Chicago, supporting artists and art patrons through innovative and creative programming and events.

Director of Development
Allison Stites has been an emerging art curator since 1998, first in New York City as the director of Franklin Parrasch Gallery in Midtown (a contemporary sculpture gallery) and then as head curator of 65 Hope Street Gallery in Williamsburg, Brooklyn (an emerging art gallery) before joining Around the Coyote in March of 2005. Allison's organizational focus is on further integrating Chicago emerging art with the national and international emerging art scene. In addition to her curating, Allison started Maezo Art Consulting, a company that assists clients in building, documenting and maintaining contemporary art collections. She has produced two movies for Amnesty Pictures and her art reviews have been published in Block Magazine and Gallery Bill Magazine. She did most of her graduate work for her Masters in Art History at Hunter College in Manhattan focusing on contemporary art and is currently working on her thesis while contemplating another Masters in Arts Administration from the School of the Art Institute. Allison was voted one of the top 5 curators of 2005 by New City.

After School Art Program Teacher
Lara Kastner, our After-School Art Teacher, studied Graphic Design from 1991-1993 at the University of Arizona, then studied abroad in 1994 at Lorenzo di Medici Institute of Arts in Florence. From 1995 to 1997, she lived in Prague, Czech Republic where she was a freelance artist as well as a teacher at Bumble Bee Preschool, an international English language school in Prague. In 2001 Kastner received her BFA in photography and fine art printmaking from the Columbus College of Art and Design, Columbus Ohio. Upon graduating she worked in the curatorial department at the Columbus Museum of Art, became a member of Phoenix Rising Printmaking cooperative, with whom she exhibited her work in 2001 and 2002. Since 2002, she has been working as a professional photographer in Chicago. Her photos have been published in Metropolis, Gourmet, NY Times Magazine, Technology Review, Wall Street Journal, Saveur and many other newspapers and magazines. Kastner has been teaching for Around the Coyote since the fall of 2007.

CURATORS
FILM AND VIDEO
Abigail Satinsky has a degree in video and electronic media from Carnegie Mellon and is currently a graduate student at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago, studying Art History and Art Administration and Policy. Before coming to Chicago, she worked in Boston at the Harvard Film Archive, Art Interactive, and taught sculpture, video production and printmaking in an arts afterschool program. She is a Board member of Harold Jeffers Memorial Residency Program and is one of the founding members of InCUBATE, a research institute and residency program dedicated to challenging current infrastructures for arts production.

Catherine Forster is a filmmaker, artist, curator and educator. Her artwork explores themes of identity, social development and the impact of pop culture on individuality. She completed her artistic training at The School of The Art Institute of Chicago. Catherine Forster exhibits internationally, recent screenings and exhibitions include: the South Bend Regional Art Museum, Orange County Contemporary Art Center, Exit Art (NY), Contemporary Art Centre (Vilnius, Lithuania), Hyde Park Art Center (Chicago), Liverpool Biennial The Projection Gallery, Kasia Kay Art Projects (Chicago), San Diego Women Film Festival, Magmart Film Festival, Casoria International Contemporary Art Museum, and the Portsmouth Film Festival. Forster is the founder and director of LiveBox Gallery, a not-for-profit focused on filmic and new media art. Curatorial projects in 2007 include programs for The Directors Lounge, Berlin; Three Walls, Chicago; Kasia Kay Art Projects, Chicago; and the Around the Coyote Art Festival, Chicago.

GALLERY LITERARY READING SERIES
Margot Bordelon is a Chicago based writer and director. She has worked for such companies as Steppenwolf, Collaboraction, Timeline, Serendipity, Pavement Group, Live Bait, Around the Coyote, Bailiwick, Hell in a Handbag and Appetite Theater. Before moving to Chicago in 2004, Margot lived in Seattle where she worked with Seattle Repertory Theatre, Empty Space, University of Washington PATP, Live Girls! and Double Shot Productions. She is a founding member of Theatre Seven of Chicago and currently serves as the Literary Associate at Lookingglass Theatre Company.

J. Adams Oaks is the author of the novel, Why I Fight (Simon and Schuster, 2008). His short stories have appeared in Sleepwalk, The Madison Review, and River-Oak Review. His work has won the National Society of Arts and Letters regional competition and Chicago Public Radio's "Stories on Stage: Now Hear This" contest. He is both a storyteller and a member of the story development team for Serendipity Theatre's "2nd Story Festival."

LITERARY
Kristi McGuire collects master's degrees from local institutions (the University of Chicago, the School of the Art Institute) en route to retheorizing the theory of the critical space-out. A native Detroiter transplanted to Chicago via New York , she's an associate editor at Chicago Review, a worker bee at the University of Chicago Press, and the writer of more than one impenetrable thesis.

MUSIC
Homeroom believes that collective effort amplifies a project's impact. We partner with a range of local organizations to feature the best of Chicago's jazz/improv, pop, folk, rock, spoken word, hip-hop, literary readings, film, and art. We currently work with several local venues to provide diverse arts programming, with the ultimate goal of establishing a physical space for the Homeroom network.

THEATRE
Megan Shuchman, our Third Thursday Theatre Reading Series curator, graduated in 2005 from the University of Michigan- Ann Arbor with a Bachelor of Arts in Drama and Women's Studies. Her university directing credits include several student productions and showcases, culminating in an award-winning production of Eve Ensler's FLOATING RHODA AND THE GLUE MAN . In addition to active participation in a variety of campus theatre groups, Megan piloted a creative arts program, directing and producing plays in prisons and juvenile detention centers across Michigan. In relationship to this organization, upon graduation, Megan accepted a job with Big Brothers Big Sisters, managing a mentoring program for children of incarcerated parents. After moving to Chicago in September 2007, she began serving as the Literary Department Apprentice at Steppenwolf Theatre Company. Currently, she is assistant directing and House Managing at Steppenwolf, and is thrilled to be working with Around the Coyote. (change "<=at=>" to @ and "!" to "." in email address before sending)

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Around the Coyote
at the Splat Flats
1815-25 W Division St.
Chicago, IL 60622

Office Hours: Monday - Friday: 10-6
Our offices are located in the Splat Flats Studios at 1815-25 W Division St. in Wicker Park. Office visits are by appointment only.

Gallery Hours: The gallery is only open during exhibitions. Please visit our Gallery page for the current exhibition and gallery schedule.
Our gallery is located in the L. Miller Lumber building at 1817 W Division St. in Wicker Park. The gallery entrance is located off of Honore Street, just around the corner from the entrance to the L. Miller Lumber building.