NEW ORLEANS – KID smART, the New Orleans-based nonprofit dedicated to ensuring the arts are accessible to all, proudly announces the addition of Terrence Sanders-Smith to its board of directors.
“We are extremely excited to welcome Terrence to the KID smART board,” said Elise Gallinot Goldman, executive director of KID smART. “His deep knowledge of the arts, commitment to elevating artists and decades of leadership across creative sectors will be an incredible asset as we continue expanding access to arts-rich learning throughout our community.”
Terrence Sanders-Smith has contributed to the landscape of contemporary art as an artist, gallerist, curator, publisher and editor-in-chief of Artvoices Magazine, Turnstile Magazine, Art Thug Magazine (ATM) and Artvoices Books. His mission as Editor-In-Chief of Artvoices Magazine (Established 2008) was to create a platform for emerging, neglected and under-recognized artists who were creating necessary, important and relevant works of art.
Sanders-Smith has directed and curated art spaces: Terrence Sanders Gallery (New Orleans), Untitled Art Projects (Los Angeles), Sanders, Smith & Stokes (New Orleans), Artists 101 (Los Angeles) and the Makeshift Museum (Los Angeles) exhibiting hundreds of artists. He has curated over 50 exhibitions and private art collections including: ’60 Americans, ‘We Got Next,’ (CalArts MFA Students), the ‘Saratoga and the Smith & Wisznia’ collections now in the permanent collection of the Alexandria Museum of Art.
In addition to welcoming Sanders-Smith to the board, KID smART named Michael Mimeles board chair, Erin Hymel, DDS, vice chair and Jeremy Jones as treasurer. For more information about KID smART’s board and its work to expand access to the arts, visit kidsmart.org.
Founded in 1999, KID smART has served more than 70,000 students and 15,000 teachers, providing underserved students with the opportunity to experience dynamic, creative and relevant learning through the arts.
About KID smART
Over the last two decades, KID smART has collaborated with more than 40 New Orleans public schools to blend the arts into academic lessons to make classrooms more effective and joyful places to learn. Through full-year artist residencies, students in KID smART Creative Schools prove to grow academically, artistically and emotionally. KID smART also partners with national thought leaders, including Harvard’s Project Zero Classroom, to incorporate best practices in arts and education into its program model.