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MEET THE 2023 JRACRAFT CHRYSALIS AWARD JURORS
Kelly Valletta is an artist, art educator, and the Co-Founder and Executive Director of Textile Arts Center, a NYC-based resource facility dedicated to raising awareness and understanding of textiles through creative educational programs. Since its founding, the Textile Arts Center has hosted over 15,000 adult students, introduced roughly 20,000 NYC youth to textiles, mentored over 200 interns, and graduated over 50 artists in residence. Valletta attended Pratt Institute where she received her Masters in Art Education. She believes that the arts can play a vital role in community engagement, and thoroughly enjoys sharing her broad knowledge of art with people of all ages. |
LaiSun Keane has been involved in the Boston art scene since 2015, at first volunteering and working from junior level for non-profits and art galleries. She then became a co-owner of a gallery for two years before starting her own in April 2020. Her eponymous gallery located in South End’s Sowa Art District focuses on showcasing non-mainstream voices and are thematic and narrative based. Besides in person and online exhibitions, her gallery has participated in Art Fairs in New York, Los Angeles and Miami. LaiSun received her Bachelor of Art Theory from University of New South Wales, Sydney Australia. |
Laura L. Camerlengo is Curator in Charge of Costume and Textile Arts at the Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco. Camerlengo joined the Museums’ staff as Assistant Curator of Costume and Textile Arts in 2015, after tenures with the Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum and the Philadelphia Museum of Art, among other institutions. As a writer, she is the author of The Miser’s Purse (2013) and volume editor of Patrick Kelly: Runway of Love (2021). Camerlengo serves in several leadership roles for the Costume Society of America, and is a former Textile Society of America Board Member. She holds a M.A. in the History of Decorative Arts and Design from Parsons, the New School of Design/Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum. |