Team
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Natalie Renganeschi | Acting Director | She/Her/Hers Natalie Renganeschi is a practicing artist and art educator who joined the staff in 2017. Since then, she has supported the organization in the areas of internal and external communications, development, marketing, residency management, and the sale of artists’ books. Natalie’s keen eye, attention to detail, and deep knowledge of all aspects of our work will offer the organization both stability and leadership, grounded in thoughtfulness and collaboration. natalie(at)wsworkshop.org |
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Chris Petrone | Studio Manager | She/Her/Hers Chris Petrone facilitates and collaborates on all studio programming and projects in the printmaking and papermaking studios. She manages all technical aspects of the artists- in-residence opportunities, maintaining the studios’ equipment and leading artist book production. She came to WSW as a studio intern in 2004, a year after getting her BFA from SUNY Purchase, and has been a part of WSW’s operations ever since. She sees herself as a practicing technician and collaborator playing a part in a professional workspace that encourages experimentation, mistakes, and play. chris(at)wsworkshop.org |
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Rhonda Lowry | Operations Manager | She/Her/Hers Rhonda Lowry joins WSW as an experienced art administrator with a demonstrated passion for artist-run spaces. Throughout her young adulthood, she actively participated in many underground art galleries and music venues in cities such as Atlanta, Chicago and NYC, both as an organizer and participating artist. From 2016 to 2020, she served on the staff of Flux Factory, a celebrated artist residency and nonprofit exhibition space in Long Island City. Her responsibilities encompassed grant writing, fundraising events, daily financial operations and artist services. After relocating to Kingston in 2020, she expanded her operational skill set as the Warehouse Manager of MINNA, a B-corp certified home goods business specializing in handmade textiles. Her partner of 10 years is a native of Rosendale, encouraging her to build strong ties with the local community surrounding WSW. She is a drummer, DJ and electronic musician and has toured internationally as part of the band Erica Eso. She holds a BA in Visual and Critical Studies from the School of the Art Institute of Chicago. rhonda(at)wsworkshop.org |
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Faythe Levine | Hauser & Wirth Institute Archivist for Women’s Studio Workshop | She/Her/Hers Levine joins WSW with over twenty years of experience as an arts laborer, advocating for creativity to be used as a vehicle to build community, personal independence, and empowerment. As the Archivist for Women’s Studio Workshop, Levine manages and oversees WSW’s archives and special collections, allowing the materials to be accessible to residents and the public by appointment. Before her position as an Archivist, Levine worked as a research assistant for WSW’s 50th anniversary exhibition and catalog. Between 2017 and 2021, Levine was the Director of the Art/Industry program at the John Michael Kohler Arts Center. Additional milestones include directing and authoring two widely distributed feature-length independent documentaries with accompanying books published by Princeton Architectural Press, Sign Painters (2013) and Handmade Nation: The Rise of DIY Art, Craft and Design (2009). Bar Dykes (2016) was published by Pegacorn Press, and her most recent book, As Ever, Miriam (2024), is published by OK Stamp Press. faythe(at)wsworkshop.org |
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Ruth McKinney Burket | Ceramics Studio Manager & Volunteer Coordinator | She/Her/Hers |
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Robert “Woody” Woodruff | Electrician and Maintenance | He/Him/His Woody has been a core member of the WSW staff since 1979. He is a technician, innovator, artist and electrician. He has supported WSW’s mission for decades by assisting artists with inventions and technical support while managing the campus and facilities. Additionally, he is a builder and a licensed electrician. |
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Steph Moss | Studio Coordinator | She/Her/Hers Stephanie Moss joins the WSW staff as Studio Coordinator; focusing her time and experience on supporting Chris and Woody in managing the facilities and assisting artists. She interned at WSW in 2011, a year after receiving her BFA from the University of Delaware. Before returning to WSW, she spent some years living in the Bronx and Manhattan, volunteering at Robert Blackburn Printmaking Workshop, Endless Editions and the Brooklyn Art Book Fair while art handling and working as a Journeyman Scenic Artist in Film, Television, and Broadway productions. She is a proud union member of Local 829 United Scenic Artists. |
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Natalie Thomas | Digital Marketing Assistant | She/Her/Hers |
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Andrea Andalis | Education Program Coordinator | She/Her Andrea Andalis joins Women’s Studio Workshop as the Summer Art Institute and Education Program Coordinator. Andrea helps ensure the program runs smoothly as well as welcoming the teaching artists and their students. In 2023 she received her Bachelors of Science in Visual Arts at SUNY New Paltz. Andrea is a textile artist and uses materials such as found fabrics, beads, and embroidery to create her illustrations. Her interest in learning from other artists is what brought her to WSW. To view Andrea’s work, find her on Instagram @Messy.Pockets. aandalis(at)wsworkshop.org |
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Celia Shaheen | Assistant Studio Manager | She/Her Celia Shaheen is an artist and educator from North Texas. In 2020, Celia graduated with a BFA in studio art, a BA in honors art history, and a museum studies certificate from the University of Texas at Austin. Celia’s studio practice oscillates at the intersection of archiving and making, using materials across the spectrum of textiles, printmaking, papermaking, and metals to investigate the shared language of textiles and storytelling, Lebanese culinary traditions, folklores of the animate and inanimate, and webs of lineage and longing. Celia was a 2022-24 Core Fellow at Penland School of Craft, a 2021 Textiles Studio Assistant at Peters Valley School of Craft, and has exhibited in galleries in Texas, California, Florida, New Jersey, and North Carolina. |
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Julia Maisel-Berick | Nonprofit Management Intern | She/Her Julia Maisel-Berick uses repurposed materials, such as vintage lifestyle magazines, deadstock crayons, salvaged paints, and found natural objects in her work. Julia reflects her interest in Americana, kitsch, communal living, and the culture of domesticity in her compositions. Grounded in a sense of history, her work crosses disciplines to include collage, painting, and three-dimensional elements that evoke the familiar and the peculiar. |
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Gil Dickinson | Studio Intern | They/Them Gil Dickinson is an artist from Boynton Beach, Florida. Inspired by their interest in ecology, Dickinson’s practice explores change, death, and permanence. They depict the complex relationships between animals and their environments through a variety of techniques, including etching, relief, and lithography. Dickinson received their BFA from Maryland Institute College of Art in 2023, where they studied printmaking and book arts. While at MICA, they worked with Globe Press, and would later serve as the coordinator of Dolphin Press, developing a passion for collaborative print. Dickinson has exhibited work across the country, including shows at the Center for Contemporary Printmaking in Connecticut, the LUX Center for the Arts in Nebraska, and Marisa Newman Projects in New York. To view Gil’s work, visit their website GilDickinson.com or find them on Instagram @RatherTenderSubject. |
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Board of Directors
Jenn Bratovich, Chief Curator at Print Center New York, NY
Jenn Bratovich (she/her) is Chief Curator at Print Center New York, where she uses her decade of curatorial experience to lead all aspects of the organization’s artistic programming. Since joining Print Center in 2019, she has played a key role in leading the organization through a transformational strategic plan that included a move to a new, ground-floor exhibition space in the heart of Chelsea, growing the organization’s operational and programmatic capacity; and sharpening its artistic vision. Working with invited guest curators, she has developed a program of exhibitions that have solidified the Center’s reputation for its rigorous yet accessible approach. She has also significantly expanded the organization’s educational and public program offerings and led development of a new exhibition and artist development program that aims to provide meaningful material, artistic, and community support to emerging artists working in print. In 2025, the launched the Center’s first open call for emerging curators. Bratovich has previously held positions at Hunter College Art Galleries and Women’s Studio Workshop. She received her BA from the University of Rochester and her MA in art history from Hunter College. Her curatorial work is informed by the idea of the exhibition as a forum for public learning and discourse, and byartist-centered approaches to both expanding histories and uplifting emerging artists.
Timothy (Tim) Delaney, Retired, Glenford, NY – Executive Committee, Treasurer
Tim has been a WSW member, supporter and student since 1980. He retired as General Manager of Negotiation Analysis at K&R Negotiation Associates. He worked to create and teach negotiating techniques in more than 20 countries negotiating business proposals of up to $2.2B US across a variety of industries. He also created and taught methods to express business value in negotiations. Previously, he worked for IBM as a large project development manager and as Program Director, Premier Accounts, negotiating and managing partnership agreements in numerous countries. Tim’s non-profit experience includes 7 years with Ulster County Habitat. He graduated from the University of Connecticut as a Departmental Honors Fellow in Mathematics.
Elizabeth Donsky, Artist, Queens, NY – Executive Committee, Vice President
Since her beginnings as a practicing artist, Elizabeth has concentrated on multiple drawings in site-specific installations. Her projects begin with hundreds of works on paper and an investigation of how discrete still, permanent images can account for the passage of time and the unending transformation of matter. In her installations she de-centers the individual artwork within an ever-shifting whole in an array of shifting sculptural pictures that create multiple points of view. Her work has been exhibited in commercial, nonprofit and academic spaces. Alongside her studio practice, Donsky has many years of financial management experience in nonprofits and with artists, galleries and in the tech sector. Born in Buffalo, New York, Elizabeth has lived and worked in Puerto Rico; she currently lives in New York City. Elizabeth received a MA in Arts and Humanities from New York University and a BFA from the School of the Art Institute of Chicago. She currently teaches drawing at the Rhode Island School of Design; she has taught at Brown, Hofstra and Drexel universities.
Sneha Kapadia, Attorney, Glenford, NY
Sneha attended the University of Virginia where she received her B.A. in 1993 with a double major in Foreign Affairs and Russian Studies. She received her J.D. in 2001 from the Benjamin N. Cardozo School of Law. Sneha is admitted to practice in New York. She has worked as an Assistant District Attorney at the New York County District Attorney’s Office and as an Employment Discrimination Attorney for Goddard Law and Associates. From September 2009 to 2012, Sneha served on the Board of Trustees and Executive Committee for the Woodstock Day School. From 2011 to 2022, Sneha was the sole proprietor of the WFG Gallery in Woodstock, NY where she curated numerous art exhibitions featuring local, national and international artists and served as guest juror for the Woodstock Artists Association Museum and the Woodstock Byrdcliffe Guild.
Bhavna Mehta, Artist, San Diego, CA – Executive Committee, Secretary
Bhavna Mehta works with paper and fabric; cutting and embroidering to tell stories that combine figurative and landscape imagery with botanical motifs, text, and shadows. Using paper as skin and thread to connect and mend, she makes work about relating and remembering. Mehta has exhibited widely in San Diego and Southern California. She is the recipient of the Individual Artist Fellowship grant (2021), Artists In Communities grant (2017, 2019) from the California Arts Council and the Creative Catalyst grant from The San Diego Foundation (2015). She has won multiple awards in juried shows and she was one of the San Diego Art Prize emerging artist winners. She collaborates with artists making public art, using paper as a design medium. She has engineering degrees from both India and US and worked as a software engineer for many years before turning to art. http://bhavnamehta.com/
Timea Tihanyi, Artist, Founder of Slip Rabbit, Seattle, WA
Timea Tihanyi is a Hungarian born interdisciplinary visual artist and ceramicist living and working in Seattle, Washington. Tihanyi holds a Doctor of Medicine degree from Semmelweis University, Budapest, Hungary; a BFA in Ceramics from the Massachusetts College of Art in Boston; and an MFA in ceramics from the University of Washington. Tihanyi’s work has been exhibited in the United States, Brazil, Australia, Denmark, Spain and the Netherlands, including the American Museum for Ceramic Art, Shepparton Art Museum, Henry Art Gallery, Bellevue Arts Museum, Mint Museum of Art and Design, Society for Contemporary Craft in Pittsburg, Clay Center for the Arts and Sciences, Foundry Art Center, International Museum of Surgical Science, SculptureSpace NYC and the Museum of Glass, Tacoma. She has received many recognitions, including the 2018 Neddy Award in Open Media and a 2021 Mellon Foundation grant. Tihanyi is a Teaching Professor in the Interdisciplinary Visual Arts program at the University of Washington and the founder and director of Slip Rabbit, a pioneering technoceramics studio located in Seattle.
Lauren V. Walling, Advising Member
As former Co-Executive Director, Lauren Walling has grown the organization’s financial capacity by increasing the donor base and investing in projects that promote self-reliance. Currently, she is responsible for all strategic advancement, fundraising and fiscal management including annual audits. She deeply understands the financial management needs specific to the arts nonprofit sector and is committed to creating economic opportunities for all artists as a matter of principle and right. Prior to her time at WSW, she was an art educator for 15 years. She has degrees from Wells College, Yale University, and Columbia University.
Rachel Weiss, Curator and Writer – Executive Committee, President
Rachel is a curator and writer, and Professor Emerita at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago, where she founded and then led the graduate program in Arts Administration & Policy. She brings decades of experience in organizational governance and leadership, through her work on Boards ranging from artist-run spaces to national service associations. Rachel’s curatorial work has included the landmark exhibitions “Global Conceptualism: Points of Origin 1950s-1980s” (with Luis Camnitzer and Jane Farver) and “Ante América” (with Gerardo Mosquera and Carolina Ponce de León). Her writing addresses issues in contemporary art, and especially about the dynamics between art and social change. She has published widely in the US, Latin America, and Europe, and is the recipient of numerous grants and awards. Rachel has a BA from Marlboro College and an MFA from Massachusetts College of Art.
Cat Willett, Artist, Brooklyn
Cat Willett is a Brooklyn-based artist. She has written, illustrated, and published two full-length books, The Queen of Wands: The Story of Pamela Colman Smith, the Artist Behind the Rider-Waite Tarot Deck, and Women of Tarot, An Illustrated History of Divinators, Card Readers, and Mystics. Cat is fascinated by tarot as a facet of art history, and the women behind its evolution. She’s dedicated the last few years to telling these magical stories in her published books. Cat also makes illustrated comics about parenting, motherhood, gender, and animals, and is a regular contributor to the Washington Post. Her comics channel personal experiences with pregnancy and postpartum, as well as other topics like travel and animals. Cat holds her MFA from the Fashion Institute of Technology in Illustration. She received her BFA from the University at Buffalo with a minor in Art History and also studied at the Scuola Lorenzo de’Medici in Florence, Italy.
Cori Wolff, Executive Director of the Cincinnati Memorial Hall Society and Longworth-Anderson Series
Cori is the Executive Director of the Cincinnati Memorial Hall Society and Longworth-Anderson Series, where she works to preserve and enhance historic Memorial Hall as a place for culture, arts, and community. Cori earned her BA in Art History and Philosophy (2006), MA in Art History (2008), and Graduate Certificate in Critical Museum Studies (2008) from the University of Rochester and University at Buffalo. She served for six years as Executive/Artistic Director and Gallery Curator of Buffalo Arts Studio and the Olean Public Library Visual Arts Program before relocating to Cincinnati, OH, to work as the Director of Public Art at ArtWorks (2014-2018). For the past fifteen years, Cori has been actively involved as an independent curator, artist, board member, teacher, consultant, social justice advocate, and volunteer. She is a former ambassador of The United State of Women and graduate of the Leadership Buffalo Rising Leaders, C-Change, and City Council Bootcamp programs. In her free time, Cori competes professionally as a long-distance and downhill skateboarder, also serving on the board of the nonprofit Skate International Distance and Supercross Association and organizing a weekly all-wheels group ride called Social Push Cincy.
Founders
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Ann Kalmbach, Co-founder of WSW Ann Kalmbach has an M.F.A. from Rochester Institute of Technology and a B.F.A. from SUNY New Paltz. Ann has produced a number of artists’ books with her long-time collaborator, Tatana Kellner, under the acronym KaKe Art. She has also been a resident artist at Visual Studies Workshop, University of Southern Maine, and the MacDowell Colony. As a co-founder of WSW, Ann has helped hundreds of artists print portfolio editions and artists’ books over the years. |
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Tatana Kellner, Co-founder of WSW Tana Kellner holds an M.F.A. from Rochester Institute of Technology and a B.A. from the University of Toledo. Tatana (Tana) has received numerous awards for her work including two New York Foundation for the Arts individual artists’ grants. She has been an artist-in-residence at the MacDowell Colony, Yaddo, Ragdale, Virginia Center for the Creative Arts, Banff Centre, Lightworks, the Millay Colony, ArtPark and Visual Studies Workshop. Her work can be viewed at tatanakellner.com. |
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Anita Wetzel (1949 – 2021), Co-founder of WSW Anita Wetzel held a B.F.A. in Painting from SUNY New Paltz. Anita was an artist-in-residence at Blue Mountain Lake Center for the Arts, Virginia Center for the Creative Arts, Weir Farm Trust, as well as at international residencies in France, Spain and Costa Rica. Her work can be viewed at https://anitawetzel.com/. In memory of Anita Wetzel: 1949 – 2021 |
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Barbara Leoff Burge, Co-founder of WSW Barbara Leoff Burge is a founder of Women’s Studio Workshop. Her work is in university and museum collections, including Yale, Harvard, Metropolitan Museum of Art, and Museum of Modern Art. She’s a graduate of the School of the Art Institute of Chicago and is a practicing and teaching artist in New Paltz. |
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