Arts Board

Meeting Information

Meeting dates and rooms are announced publicly, two weeks in advance of each meeting. Agendas will be posted at least 72 hours before the meeting with the meeting announcement.

Dates & Time: The Arts Board meets every third Wednesday of the month at 4 p.m. This schedule is subject to change.

Location: Room 7002, DMD Conference room, 7th floor of City Hall or via Zoom

Arts Board Meeting Announcement:

Wednesday, April 16, 2025 at 4:00 p.m.

Arts Board Documents

All Albuquerque Arts Board documents, including agendas, minutes, resolutions, and other related materials, are available through the OnBase database.

Follow the steps below to access the documents:

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*All Arts Board meetings and agendas since 1978 are available online

Board Members

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District 1

Cara Gordon Potter

District 2 Chair
Term Expires July 31, 2025

Cara represents District 2. Cara is a small business owner and supporter of the arts. She has a BA from Vassar College with a major in Art History. She was a Fellow at the Whitney Museum and interned at the Metropolitan Museum. She holds an MBA and continues to support small businesses as a Board member of WESST.

Vacant

District 3

Gabe Gomez

District 4
Term Expires July 31, 2027

Gabe represents District 4. Gabe Gomez's first poetry collection, The Outer Bands, won the Andres Montoya Poetry Prize and was published by the University of Notre Dame Press in 2007. The book focuses on his experiences and those affected by Hurricane Katrina. His second collection of poetry, The Seed Bank, was published by Mouthfeel Press, who will also publish his third book, Samsara at Quantum Zeno, in 2024. He completed his bachelor's degree in creative writing at the College of Santa Fe. He earned a master's degree in fine arts from Saint Mary's College of California. Gabe has taught at institutions such as Tulane University, the University of New Orleans, and the Institute of American Indian Arts. Gabe is pursuing an Executive MBA at the UNM Anderson School of Management, and he is expected to graduate in the Class of 2024. He serves as the Managing Director of Marketing and Communications at the University of New Mexico Foundation and is the editor-at-large for TABLE Magazine New Mexico, where he covers topics related to food, wine, and New Mexico's cultural heritage. Additionally, Gabe is the President of the American Marketing Association, New Mexico Chapter.

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District 5

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District 6

Caleb Ferganchick

District 7 Vice-Chair
Term Expires July 31, 2027

Caleb represents District 7. Caleb Ferganchick is a queer slam poet, community organizer, and the author of The Secret of Sunflowers (2021) and Poetry Heels (2018). His work has been featured and published by the Western Colorado Writer's Forum, South Broadway Ghost Society, "Slam Ur Ex ((the podcast))," the Colorado Mesa University Literary Review, and displayed in various art shows. He was the 2021 Artist in Residence for Mesa County Public Libraries. He organized the annual Slamming Bricks poetry slam competition in Grand Junction, CO in honor of the 1969 Stonewall Riots (2019-2023) for which he received a Rockstar Spotlight award from the Colorado Office of Suicide Prevention. Caleb has served on various non-profit boards and is an avid believer in the art's ability to foster intersectional community and its use as a healing modality. He now lives and performs in Albuquerque, New Mexico.

Charlotte Schoenmann

District 8
Term Expires July 31, 2024

Charlotte represents District 8. She is passionate about art, both visual and performance. She worked for 15 years at the J. Paul Getty Trust in Los Angeles where she was a project manager for the construction for the Getty Arts Center. She has been a board member and or volunteer of several organizations throughout Albuquerque including: St. Chads Foundation, Sunset Mesa Schools, Albuquerque Little Theater and the New Mexico Museum of Natural History Foundation.

Teisha Holloway

District 9
Term Expires July 31, 2026

Teisha represents District 9. Ms. Holloway is an artist and educator living in the Albuquerque Area. She holds an MFA from Alfred University in Sculpture and Dimensional Studies. Holloway's art practices are focused on highlighting invisible labors such as domestic labor of women and military families. Holloway often works in social practice. Currently Holloway works both as an artist and an educator with grades 7-12 teaching art, technology, and art history/social practice. She currently works at Digital Arts and Technology Academy and is a dual credit adjunct instructor for both CNM and IAIA.

Dr. Bernadine M. Hernandez

At-Large
Term Expires July 31, 2025

Bernadine is an associate professor in the Department of English at the University of New Mexico. She specializes in transnational feminism and sexual economies of the US-Mexico borderlands, along with American Literary Studies and Empire, border and mitigation history, and Chicana/Latina Literature and Sexualities. Her book with UNC press is titled Border Bodies: Racialized Sexuality, Sexual Capital, and Violence in the Nineteenth Century Borderlands and is the first book length study that focuses on sexual capital and gender and sexual violence in the borderlands in the nineteenth and early twentieth-centuries through recovered archival work.

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At-Large