Board of Trustees
Bruce Burnett, Antrev Inc.
John Cross, Artist
Alan Fishman
Francis Greenburger, Chairman of Omi, Inc.,
Chairman and CEO of Time Equities, Inc.
Abby Hamlin, Hamlin Ventures
Andy Humphrey
Robert Kantor, President, Time Equities, Inc
Heidi Neuhoff, Heidi Neuhoff Gallery
Anders U. Schroeder, Chairman, Asgard Group
Joe Thompson, Director, MASS MoCA

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Staff

Administrative Director
Ruth Adams Contact
Former Residency Program Director at The Ucross Foundation, Wyoming, 1991-93. Artist, Columbia County resident.


Architecture Omi Director
Marisa Jahn Contact
Marisa Jahn is an artist/writer/curator who co-founded of REV- , a non-profit organization that fosters socially-engaged art, design, and pedagogy. Her work has been presented at the MIT Museum; ICA Philadelphia; ISEA/Zero One; Eyebeam; Yerba Buena Center for the Arts, the Asian Art Museum, etc. Jahn received a MS from the Visual Arts Program in MIT’s Department of Architecture and studied art and urbanism at UC Berkeley. She has received awards and recognition for her work from Franklin Furnace, UNESCO, CEC Artslink Award. In 2009 she was an artist-in-residence at MIT’s Media Lab, artist teacher with Center for Urban Pedagogy, and curator-in-residence at the Elizabeth Foundation for the Arts. She is the co-editor of ‘Recipes for an Encounter’, ‘Byproducts: On the Excess of Embedded Art Practices’ (2010), and Where We Are Now’.

Art Omi International Artists Residency Director
Claudia Cannizzaro Contact
Born in a small town in the southern tip of Sicily, Claudia Cannizzaro studied painting and architecture in Rome, Italy.
As a visual artist, she recently showed at Under Minerva, Brooklyn (2009) Galleria Spazio A, Pistoia, Italy (2007), Centro Cultural Sao Paolo, Brazil (2006), Torreao, Porto Alegre, Brazil (2006); HDC Gallery, New York (2004), Philomatean Society of the University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia (2001) Korean Cultural Center, New York (2000).
For more information please visit: www.claudiacannizzaro.com
Parallel to her artistic production, Claudia has been involved in the non-profit world since her arrival in New York City in 1997. Prior to her post at Art Omi, she has worked in various capacities at Independent Curators International, Artists Space, Civitella Ranieri Foundation, apexart and the American Academy in Rome.


Dance Omi International Dance Collective Director
Christopher K. Morgan Contact
Christopher K. Morgan is a choreographer, performer, teacher and arts facilitator who divides his time between New York and Washington DC. Said to be "charming and poignant" by The New York Times, his work stems from his belief in the urgency of live performance art in an increasingly isolating, commercial, and digital world. A skilled facilitator committed to artist development, Morgan has directed Dance Omi since 2005. His choreography has been presented in Bahrain, Jordan, Israel, The Palestinian Territories, The United Arab Emirates, Chile, Germany, Lithuania, Poland, Ireland, Hong Kong, US venues including The Kennedy Center (Washington DC), La Mama (New York), Joyce Soho (New York) and Theater Artaud (San Francisco). In 2007, Morgan was named Choreographer in Residence & Rehearsal Director for Washington, DC based CityDance Ensemble (www.citydance.net), where he has been instrumental in the organization’s recent dynamic growth. His recent commission +1/-1, created for both CityDance Ensemble and Sarryet Ramallah, opened the 5th Annual Ramallah International Contemporary Dance Festival on April 19, 2010, and was hailed as “exquisitely athletic…the kind of crooked choreography where the simple quiver of fingertips is enough to spark goose bumps” (artspost.net). From 2005 until 2008 he also created work independently for his New York based pick up company, Muse. Teaching credits include Hong Kong Academy of Performing Arts, Shawbrook (Ireland), Iwanson Schule (Munich), Stephens College (Missouri), Western Kentucky University, Towson University (Maryland), and University of Idaho among others. He has lectured and spoken on panels for the Alliance of Artist Communities, University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign, New York City Ballet’s Education Department, Dance Theater Workshop. He has served as a panelist to the National Endowment for the Arts. Performing credits include David Gordon & the Pick-Up Performance Co., Liz Lerman Dance Exchange, Fabulous Beast Dance Theater (Ireland/UK), Malashock Dance & Co., Verb Ballets, Selfish Shellfish (Germany) and as a soloist with the Washington National, Houston Grand, San Diego and New York City Operas. He was in the original Olivier nominated cast of Fabulous Beast Dance Theater’s Giselle. TV and film credits include a PBS Great Performance with Placido Domingo, and on film dancing with Kate Winslet and Christopher Walken.

Education Omi Director
Sasha Sicurella Contact
Sasha Sicurella is the Education Director at Omi International Arts Center, and has been the Director of Camp Omi since its inception in 2005. She has taught art to grades Pre K-12 in both public and independent schools since 2000. She is a faculty member at is183 Art School of the Berkshires and heads an after-school arts enrichment program at Berkshire Country Day School. Sasha received her BFA from the University of British Columbia in Vancouver, Canada, and her MFA from New York University. She is currently working on a project entitled, I AM:, a series of international workshops designed to provide underprivileged children and/or children living in densely populated regions hands-on opportunities to explore the notion of individuality through art. The project will launch with I AM: India in March 2010.


The Fields Sculpture Park Director
Bill Maynes Contact
Before becoming Director of the Fields Sculpture Park, Bill Maynes owned BMI; directing, videotaping and editing documentaries of artists, writers, and art historians. His clients included: The New York Studio School of Drawing, Painting, and Sculpture, New York; The Erie Art Museum, Pennsylvania; Royal Pavilion and Museums, Brighton, United Kingdom; Alexandre Gallery, New York; and Rubicon Gallery, Dublin. A feature length documentary of the art historian and critic, Dore Ashton, is currently in production, with an expected date of completion in summer 2010.
From 1993 to 2004, he owned and directed three separate art galleries; two in New York City, and, early on, one in Hudson, New York. Bill Maynes Gallery, Inc., which opened in the Chelsea district in 1996, represented twenty contemporary artists working in painting, sculpture, photography and new media, whose careers were in their early stages of development. His exhibitions were regularly reviewed in The New York Times, ARTnews, Art in America, and Artforum.
From 1988-1991, Bill was director of the Marisa del Re Gallery, in New York. While there he curated, designed and supervised the installation of the IIIème Biennale de Sculpture in Monte Carlo in 1990; which included over thirty renowned sculptors, including Louise Bourgeois, Richard Nonas, Fernando Botero, Robert Indiana, Antony Gormley, Lynda Benglis, Barry Flanagan, Andy Goldsworthy, and Arman, among others. He was responsible for organizing the first one-person exhibition of paintings and sculpture by Robert Indiana in New York in over a decade, and wrote the essay for the catalogue.
Bill graduated from the State University of New York at Buffalo with a degree in Literature and Theater, where his studied with author, Anthony Burgess, and Brecht scholar and translator, Eric Bentley.


Ledig House International Writers Residency Director
DW Gibson Contact
DW Gibson currently serves as Executive Director of the Ledig House International Writer’s Colony in Hudson, New York, which is part of the Art Omi International Arts Center. He is also the co-founder and co-director of Sangam House, a writers’ residency program in Pondicherry, India. His work has appeared in several publications including The New York Observer, Oxford Magazine, Tin House, and Atlas. His children’s novel, FUNDORADO ISLAND, was published by Random House in 2006. He spent some time working on documentaries for the A&E Television Network and MSNBC. His credits include “The Hate Network” and “Inside Alcoholics Anonymous.” He holds a BA in English Literature from the University of Texas and a MS from the Columbia School of Journalism.



Music Omi International Musicians Residency Director
Jeffrey Lependorf Contact
Jeffrey Lependorf, himself an alumnus of Music Omi, creates operas, chamber music, and sound installations, and is also a 'certified master' of the shakuhachi, a traditional Japanese bamboo flute (he received the venerable name Koku-"empty nothingness"-from Kinko Master Yoshinobu Taniguchi in 1984). He has performed and had work performed around the globe; literally, in fact: a recording of his "Night Pond" for solo shakuhachi was launched into space when the shuttle Atlantis took off on May 15, 1997 and remained for a year aboard the Russian space station Mir. Most recently, his music composition concentrates on opera projects that utilize transcriptions of real speech combined with appropriated musical materials to explore multifaceted layerings of opera, language and history.