Isabel Ann Castro
Isabel Ann Castro (she/her) is a visual artist and zine maker from the Southside of San Antonio, Texas and has a BFA in Communication Design from Texas State University. Isabel co-founded St. Sucia, a DIY, international Latina/x feminist magazine that collects, curates, and publishes contemporary writing and art. She co-organizes the San Anto Zine Fest and is the local zine librarian, pushing a rasquache library made out of a yellow shopping cart. Isabel spins with Chulita Vinyl Club San Anto as Bueno Kitty and collects Tejano Conjunto music from 1940-1980 in order to archive, preserve and share history and culture through corridos.
Leslie Moody Castro,
Board Secretary
Leslie Moody Castro is an independent curator and writer whose practice is based on itinerancy and collaboration. She has produced, organized, and collaborated on projects in Mexico and the United States for more than a decade, and her repertoire of critical writing is also reflective of her commitment to place. She is committed to creating moments of artistic exchange and dialogue and as such is a co-founder of Unlisted Projects, an artist residency program in Austin, Texas. In 2017, she was selected as Curator and Artistic Director of the sixth edition of the Texas Biennial, and was recently the first invited curator in residence at the Galveston Artist Residency. Moody Castro earned a Master's degree at The University of Texas at Austin in Museum Education with a portfolio supplement in Museum Studies in 2010, and a Bachelor's degree in Art History at DePaul University in Chicago in 2004, and has been awarded two grants from the National Endowment of the Arts for her curatorial projects (2016, 2017). In addition to her firm belief that the visual arts creates moments of empathy, Moody Castro also believes that Mariachis make everything better.
Steven Darby
Steven Darby was born in New Orleans to really smart parents working in local news and politics. He became interested in graphic design at least as early as 4th grade and got his first design job at 17. He spent 10 years on community and college radio, about 15 years DJing, and has been making hip-hop on laptops and drum machines since high school. Darby’s been hanging out with his second-favorite person for 15 years, and together, they made his favorite person 13 years ago. In 2013, Darby started a creative studio called Heavy Heavy, with a lot of help form the smartest people he knows. Heavy Heavy makes new thing using computers, machines, and their brains, for money, food, and fun.
Barbara Felix
Barbara Felix is an Afro-Latinx contemporary figurative artist. Most known for her self-portrait dance series, Bailando con Mi Misma, where Felix explores relationships, gender, cross cultural identity, body language and sensuality. Her newest work, The Color of Women, expands to celebrate diverse female connections in mixed media collage portraiture.
She received a BFA in Graphic Communication at Texas State University where her TSU coursework fired her love of the human figure and inspired her long pursuit to work as an artist. Felix has participated in numerous exhibitions in San Antonio and throughout Texas. Her recent video work has been screened in festivals and exhibitions across the country.
Roberta “Nina” Hassele, Executive Director/Board Chair
Roberta “ Nina” Hassele is a Brooklyn-raised, Texas-based curator, arts supporter, and arts organizer. As a child, New York’s museums and galleries were her playgrounds and safe spaces. After moving to Texas, Nina found her joy and refuge in art again, falling in love with San Antonio’s vibrant and inclusive downtown art scene. Nina has spent over 25 years immersed in the arts community, first as a friend, volunteer, collector, and fundraiser, and now curating local and traveling exhibitions and serving as an advisor to art institutions. Her mission is to increase recognition and support for all of San Antonio’s artists. She has been the Executive Director of Contemporary Art Month San Antonio since 2011.
Photo credit Bria Woods.
Maverick Pascal
Mav is a San Antonio-based multi-disciplinary visual artist and product manager with a degree in Business Administration from Texas A&M University–San Antonio. His work focuses on mental health and space travel, aiming to spark meaningful conversations about healing and resilience. In 2020, Mav completed a year-long project, creating daily artworks across multiple mediums.
In addition to his art, Mav applies his growing experience as a product manager to advocate for the integration of art and technology, firmly believing that creativity is essential to innovation.
Photo Credit Raeann Alcorta.
Sarah Lasley
Sarah Lasley is an artist and filmmaker from Louisville, Kentucky and currently an Assistant Professor of New Media at University of Texas San Antonio. Her films have screened internationally at film festivals and universities, notably the Cannes Art Film Festival in France and National Chiao Tung University in Taiwan. Her museum and gallery exhibitions include Luis Leu Gallery in Karlsruhe, Germany, Leslie Hellar Workspace in New York City, and LAXART in Los Angeles. She was recently included in the KMAC Triennial at the Kentucky Museum of Art and Craft and in Video Snack at Virginia Commonwealth University. Lasley worked as an animator for Martha Stewart Omnimedia and title animator on Todd Haynes’s Academy Award Nominated film Carol, Panda Bear, and MGMT music videos. Her theatre credits as a projection designer include the Baryshnikov Arts Center, Harlem Stage, and Ars Nova in New York City. She is recipient of the Toby Devan Lewis Grant from Yale School of Art, where she taught as a Lecturer for over a decade. She holds an MFA from Yale School of Art and a BFA from University of Louisville, and she was a resident at the Skowhegan School of Painting and Sculpture in 2004.
Casie Lomeli Board Co-chair
Casie Lomeli studied Art History and Business at Trinity University in San Antonio. During her senior year at Trinity, Lomeli earned an internship at Ruiz-Healy Art gallery where she went on to become the Senior Gallery Assistant and worked with local and international artists for numerous exhibitions and national print fairs. Lomeli has been a studio assistant to local artist Jesse Amado and has collaborated with artist Ethel Shipton to manage community projects and curation. Currently, Lomeli is the Communications Manager at Artpace San Antonio.
Susan Michael Sorensen Board Co-chair
Susan Michael Sorensen is a design strategist and artist based in San Antonio. Her interests in the arts are broad, from visual to musical to culinary, earning her the nickname, “Culture Vulture” among her friends. She has exhibited her paintings in NY, CA, TX, has received numerous awards, and is included in personal collections across the world. She is an active member of San Antonio artists collective GAGA, and has exhibited with the group at unique spaces around Texas. She earned both her BFA in Design and her MSLS in Information Science from University of North Texas. Susan was very excited to move to San Antonio from San Francisco in 2011 because of the stimulating art and cultural scene here. Now, serving on the CAM Board gives her opportunity to actively contribute to the success of artists and contemporary art in our fair city.