Maria Rosario Jackson- Anthropological Methodologies Seminar I & II: stay posted for bio.

Karen Moss- Curatorial Practices Lecture

Karen Moss is the Curator of Collections and Director of Education and Public Programs

Orange County Museum of Art.

Linda Vallejo- Grant Writing Seminar I & I

Linda Vallejo is highly regarded and accomplished artist and grant writer. She has written and received over $25 million in grants from foundation, corporate, government and individual donors for her many clients. She has owned her own grant writing consultation business and has presented grant writing seminars throughout the country for over twenty years.

As an artist, Linda has received numerous fellowships, awards and commissions including the Brody Arts Fund Fellowship, Outstanding Young Woman of America, the UCLA Chicano Studies Research Center Artist Award, and the Comision Femenil de Los Angeles Latinas Making History Award. Her solo exhibitions include the Carnegie Art Museum, the Patricia Correia Gallery, the Social and Public Art Resource Center (SPARC), and the Natural History Museum, Los Angeles County. Her work is in the permanent collections of the Los Angeles County Museum of Art, the Carnegie Art Museum, and the UC Santa Barbara and Stanford Archive Collections.uzanne Lacy is an artist and writer whose work includes large-scale public performances and installations, photographs and text on issues of social justice and equity. She is Chair of the new Master’s in Fine Arts: Public Practices at Otis College of Art and Design in Los Angeles.

www.lindavallejo.com

Dr. Maria Rosario Jackson is a senior research associate in theMetropolitan Housing and Communities Center at the Urban Institute (UI) and director of UI's Culture, Creativity and Communities Program.  Her research focuses on urban policy, neighborhood revitalization and comprehensive community planning, the politics of race, ethnicity and gender in urban settings, and the role of arts and culture in communities.

Projects that Dr. Jackson has directed or in which she has played a key role have focused on economic development, public safety, education, parks, housing, community cultural vitality and artists in communities as well as the development of quality of life indicators. Her work has typically integrated both quantitative and qualitative research methods. Dr. Jackson's work has appeared in academic and professional journals as well as edited volumes in the fields of urban planning, sociology, community development and the arts. She has been a speaker at numerous national and international conferences focusing on quality of life, changing demographics, communities and cities of the future, and arts and society.

Dr. Jackson is also a consultant and has provided technical assistance in planning and program implementation to numerous organizations including various community development corporations, community based collaboratives, organizations serving inner city youth, public housing resident organizations, service organizations and advocacy groups in the U.S. She has consulted with a range of cultural organizations about their role in promoting civic engagement and community development.Additionally, Dr.Jackson has taught university courses in urban planning, community development and cultural policy.