PresidentRudy Manning
As the Co-Founder and Chief Creative Officer of Pastilla, a Creative & Marketing Digital Agency, Rudy has helped launch and shape some of the world's most successful products and businesses. His creative vision is blended with a strategic transmedia mindset. He helped Microsoft introduce the Surface tablet to the world with an award-winning advertising campaign that proved to the world that Microsoft was taking its focus on hardware to the next level. He also helped ESPN transition Monday Night Football from ABC with the new branding and the on-air creative. The agency has grown over the past 15 years to become one of Los Angeles’ leading branding, creative and marketing agencies, and has worked with Fortune 100 & 500 companies on global advertising campaigns, as well as public agencies, such as OCTA, City of Pasadena and City of Glendale. |
Vice PresidentPaula Holt
Paula Holt served as Commissioner of Cultural Affairs, City of Los Angeles, President of Tiffany Theatres for two decades, President of the Southern Calif. chapter of International Women’s Forum. At USC, she served on Board of Councilors for the School of Theatre, and as an adjunct professor in the department. She is currently Chair of the Board of Rogue Machine Theatre, the Board of Los Angeles Stage Alliance, and part of the Center Theatre Group Task Force on sustainability. |
TreasurerGregory Breen
A graduate of Claremont Men’s College and UCLA, and a member of the California State Bar, Gregory Breen has 40 years experience in tax and finance, both in public accounting and for private companies. He currently resides in Hermosa Beach with his wife. They have two adult sons. Greg served as an elected member of the local school board and remains active as a community volunteer. |
SecretaryMatthew Brown
Matthew Brown studied at the University of San Diego receiving a BA in International Relations and an MA from UCLA in Latin American Studies. He lived in Oaxaca, Mexico for ten years working in a Zapotec Indian village where he oversaw the production of hand woven carpets designed by international artists such as Richard Tuttle, Kiki Smith and Rosemarie Trockel. He currently lives in Los Angeles and started Matthew Brown Landscape Design working in residential, commercial and hotel design. |
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James Fawcett
James has two roles at USC; as a professor, he teaches marine environmental policy in both the Environmental Studies Program and the Sol Price School of Public Policy. In addition, he is the Director of Marine Science and Policy Outreach for the Sea Grant Program where his research focuses on the environmental impacts of seaports and the marine transportation industry. He was a member of the Advisory Board for six years and joined the board in 2017 taking the seat of his late wife, Nancy Fawcett who was a founding member of the Art Division Board. |
Maria Galicia
Maria Galicia was instrumental in the creation of Art Division and had assisted Dan McCleary since the inception of the program. She was the Art Coordinator at HOLA where she started and taught at Taller de Madres, a weekly art workshop offered to students’ mothers. Maria is also an artist and has been included in many exhibitions. She is currently the Director of Education and Programming at USC Fisher Museum. |
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Salomon Huerta
Salomón Huerta is a painter based in Los Angeles, California who comes from Tijuana, Mexico and grew up in the Boyle Heights Projects in East Los Angeles. Huerta received a full scholarship to attend the Art Center College of Design in Pasadena, and completed his MFA at UCLA in 1998. Huerta gained critical acclaim and commercial attention in the late 1990s for his minimalist portraits of the backs of people's heads and color saturated depictions of domestic urban architecture. He was included in the 2000 Whitney Biennial and has been featured in numerous exhibitions around the US, Europe, and Latin America such as The Gagosian Gallery in London, England and Studio La Città in Verona, Italy. |
Glenn Kawahara
Glenn Kawahara attended and graduated from the University of Southern California in May 1974. Attended Southwestern School of Law from August 1974 until graduating in May 1977. Glenn passed the California Bar exam and sworn in as an attorney in December 1977. |
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Candace Lee
Candace Lee has directed and managed art galleries including Saxon-Lee Gallery, Margo Leavin Gallery and Flow Ace Gallery-Los Angeles. She also has an extensive background in education - she was the Principal at West Valley Occupational Center, LAUSD, Division of Adult and Career Education (DACE) and Principal at the South Region High School #12A, Technology, Arts & Design, LAUSD. She has received several awards including Association of California Administrators Region XVI 2018 Adult School Principal of the Year among others. Candace is also a board member at the Friends of Chinatown Library, a non-profit foundation which annually gives scholarships to LAUSD high school and Evans Adult School graduates. |
Ramone Muñoz
Ramone Muñoz earned his BFA in Graphic Design in 1977 and his MFA in Fine Art in 1990 at Art Center College of Design. He is currently Full Professor at Art Center in the Graphic Design and Liberal Arts departments where he has taught since 1984. He was also the Associate Chair of the Graphics Dept. from 1986 to 1990 and Chair of the Foundation Studies Program from 1990 to 2000 at Art Center. Muñoz, an active artist living in Los Angeles, exhibits his fine art internationally. He has served as a grants panelist for the Los Angeles County Arts Commission, the Los Angeles Department of Cultural Affairs and the National Endowment for the Arts. |
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Les Traub
Les Traub holds a BS and MBA from UCLA and is Chief Financial Officer of First Credit Bank. He serves as Chairman of the Board of Musical Theatre Guild, is a board member of Friends of Greystone and is a member of the Finance Committee of Los Angeles County Neighborhood Housing Services. He is the president of the nonprofit Cabaret West and is a staff writer for Cabaret Scenes, a publication of American Songbook Association. He has previously served on the board of Centro Latino for Literacy. |
Mary Woodward
Mary Woodward majored in Art History at U.C Berkeley. While living in San Francisco, she worked as an art consultant for designers and architects as well as selling fabrics, furniture, and accessories for wholesale showrooms at the Icehouse and The Galleria. She is a board member of Queenscare Charitable Board, which provides medical intervention and health guidance for people with low income and little access to health aid. She is also a head shopper for NGA, a national women’s organization that donates clothing and other needed items for battered and homeless women, children and men. |
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