Managing Editor

Kathleen Quillian is the Managing Editor of the ATA Webzine. She enjoys working with artists, promoting their work and helping them to expostulate on their ideas. By day she works as the Communications Associate for Leonardo/the International Society for the Arts, Sciences and Technology. Though she knows that the human mind is wired to detect patterns, she is constantly amazed at the myriad points of connection within her life, the community and society-at-large.

Art Director

Gilbert Guerrero is a native of California and has spent all but two years of his life here. He is a "dabbler-artist" who has exhibited work internationally in film, video, experimental performance, paint on canvas, stencil graffiti, comedy, avant-garde folk music, and ancient forms of Aztec karate. Outside of his professional career as a designer and information architect, he dedicates time to several nonprofit alternative arts organizations doing what he describes as, "Grassroots community activism and cleaning toilets." In 1998, he completed a Bachelor of the Arts degree in Mathematics at UC Berkeley.

Contributors

Ivan Jaigirdar's cultural influences include growing up in Japan and Finland before ending up in San Francisco. He studied film at U.C. Berkeley, SFSU and at ATA, and has made several short films including: Brown Face and The Hate Man. He is currently working on a film titled: Head Nods. He is the Co-founder of 3rd I South Asian Films (www.thirdi.org), and is the Artistic Director of the SFISAFF.

Kent Howie has been a volunteer with ATA since 1996. He is presently the President of the Board and a member of the Programming, Financial and Television comittees. Kent was raised in Canada in South Western Alberta and Eastern British Columbia. Long winters and constantly flying in a small plane through the mountains at night with his father made him spend long hours contemplating his own existence and what he was spending his time doing. Kent studied with Angela Davis and Robert Frank and continues to study Chinese painting and Morandi. He received an MFA in photography from the San Francisco Art Institute in the 1980s and has been doing a one-of-a-kind photography book project for the last few years and draws and paints for the hell of it. Kent has continually become interested more in the social function of art and how it brings people together.

Sarah Lockhart is an accountant. She is also a co-founder and Programming Director of 21 Grand--an Oakland arts and performance non-profit. Sarah Lockhart has an MA from San Francisco State in Radio and Television (2004), and a BA in Modern Culture and Media from Brown University (1996).

Norman Long (b. 1973) attended Illinois State University and the San Francisco Art Institute. He is a local installation and sound artist with interests in Japanese garden design. He has exhibited and performed at the Exploratorium, Artists Television Access, San Francisco Art Commission Galleries, Walter/McBean Galleries, 21 Grand, Intersection for the Arts and Southern Exposure.