Gail Nathan
Executive Director
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Adam Flores Gay
Media Programs Coordinator
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Jose Ruiz
Gallery Director/Curator
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Kim Beazer
Education Coordinator
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Dianne Bocanegra-Cruz
Administrative Assistant
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Courtney Burstion
Education/Office Assistant
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BIOGRAPHY:

Gail Nathan - Executive Director
Gail was born and raised in the Bronx, and she attended the Fierello La Guardia High School of Music and Art. She received a Bachelors of Fine Arts Degree from the New York State College of Ceramics at Alfred University and a Masters of Fine Arts degree from Rutgers University. Currently, she is Executive Director of the Bronx River Art Center. Nathan has been an artist, educator and arts administrator for over 30 years, and she has been an outspoken advocate for the value of the arts for underprivileged urban communities.

Nathan served as Public Relations Director for the Bronx Museum of the Arts from 1977 to 1980, and in 1979 and 1980, she produced two public art murals in the Bronx in collaboration with Puerto Rican Artists Nitza Tufino and Rafael Colon Morales.

For more than a decade, Nathan traveled as an artist in residence to colleges and universities throughout the US and Europe, including: Virginia Commonwealth University, Maryland Institute - College of Art, Kansas City Art Institute, Princeton University and the Academy of Fine Arts in Bratislava, Slovakia. From 1993 to 1997, she served as Public Art Administrator for the City of Richmond in Virginia, and she is currently a peer panelist for the US General Services Administration - Art in Architecture Program. She has won several prestigious fellowships and awards, including a 1995 individual Support Grant from the Adolph and Ester Gottlieb Foundation and a 1987 Virginia Museum Professional fellowship. In the summer of 2002, she was a Fellow in the prestigious Museum Management Institute Program of The Getty Museum.

Nathan is included in numerous public and private collections, including the Virginia Museum of Fine Arts and the New Orleans Museum of Art. She was included in the 1998 New Orleans Museum of Art Triennial of Contemporary American Art, and in 2000, she completed two public art commissions for the City of Richmond, VA. In 2001, she was appointed to the Board of Directors of The Bronx River Alliance, a consortium of organizations with interest in preserving the ecological life of the Bronx River and instilling stewardship responsibilities in community residents.