Public Art Committee
Brian
Cheguis:
Planning/Design Professional - Alternate
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Mr. Cheguis has worked as a
professional Urban Planner/Site Designer with Cotleur &
Hearing, Inc. since 2001. He has assisted public
and private section clients through the entitlement
process and with the development of a wide variety of
residential, retail, office, mixed-use and industrial
projects throughout South Florida. He has
specialized in pedestrian network connectivity and
analysis of the interaction of people and the static and
mobile walking environments. He has assisted his
clients with the coordination and siting of required
public artwork within new developments. He is a
member of the American Planning Association and past
board member of Northwood Renaissance. Brian
resides in West Palm Beach, Florida.
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Commissioner Mary McCarty:
Board of County Commissioners
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Appointed to the Palm Beach County Committee for Public
Art by the Board of County Commissioners on February
4, 2003, Commissioner McCarty serves as its Chair.
Commissioner McCarty has served as a County Commissioner
since 1990 representing District IV. Previously, she was
the Vice Mayor and a City Commissioner for the City of
Delray Beach. She serves on many boards including the
Northern Palm Beach Campus Advisory Board for Florida
Atlantic University and is a member of the Board of
Governors for the Old School Square Cultural Arts Center
in Delray Beach. Commissioner McCarty is a 30 year
resident of Palm Beach County and resides in Delray Beach,
FL.
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W. “Rod”
Faulds:
Professional Non-profit Visual Art Administrator |
Mr. Faulds has been the Director of University Galleries at the Dorothy F. Schmidt College of Arts and Letters, Florida Atlantic University
since 1997. Previously, he served as the Associate Director of the Williams College Museum and as the Assistant Director for Operations and Programs at the Soloman R. Guggenheim Museum in New York City.
Rod resides in Boynton Beach, FL.
Sarah Gavlak:
County Citizen with Significant Art Background |
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Ms. Gavlak is an
independent curator, writer and private art dealer
who has organized exhibitions in Chicago, Florida,
New York, Los Angeles, Las Vegas, Austria, Germany,
Japan and Scandinavia. After more than ten
years of formal education and experience in the
contemporary art world, Miss Gavlak opened Gavlak,
an eponymous gallery on Antique Row in West Palm
Beach in November of 2005. Her gallery
features primary market international emerging and
established artists. Sarah resides in West
Palm Beach, Florida.
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F. Joan Goldberg:
Professional Non-profit Visual
Art Administrator |
Ms. Goldberg is the Cultural Affairs Advisor to the City
of West Palm Beach and is President of Diversified Circle,
Inc., a management consulting firm servicing the art world.
From June 2000- 2004, she served as Program director for Palm
Beach County's Public Art program. Joan is a Board
member of the Palm Beach Photographic Center and the Arthur
Marshall Foundation. She also serves on a number of
committees including the marketing committee for the Norton
Museum of Art, the adult programming committee of the Armory
Art Center and the Delray Beach Public Art Task Force.
Joan resides in Jupiter, FL.
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Rick
Gonzalez:
Planning/Design Professional |
Mr. Gonzalez is the president of REG Architects Inc. a
local firm specializing in architecture, interior design and
planning. He was appointed to the DPR Board of Architecture
and Interior Design in 2000 by Governor Jeb Bush. He also
has served on the boards of Economic Council of Palm Beach
County and the United Way of Palm Beach County. Rick resides
in Jupiter, FL.
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Lucy M. F. Keshavarz:
County Citizen with Significant Art Background |
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Ms. Keshavarz is an artist and
President of Art & Culture Group, Inc. For the past 8
years Ms. Keshavarz has worked as both an arts consultant
and artist in the public art field. Prior to this, she
worked with the Demetrius Klein Dance Company and managed
the GardensArt program for the City of Palm Beach Gardens.
She is a founding member and currently the President of
Artists of Palm Beach County, an emerging coalition for
artists of all disciplines, living and working in Palm Beach
County. Ms Keshavarz also serves on the board of Keep
Palm Beach County Beautiful. Lucy is a fifteenth
generation Floridian. Lucy has live in Palm Beach
County since 1980 and currently resides in Palm Beach
Gardens.
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Jo Ellen Leisinger:
Landscape Architect
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Ms Leisinger is a Florida
licensed Landscape Architect with a focus on the design of
public open spaces. Since 1991 she has been the
President/Owner of the Land Stewardship Company, located in
West Palm Beach and providing landscape architectural, land
planning and urban design services in South Florida.
For the past 19 years she has served on the Board of Keep
Palm Beach County Beautiful in many capacities; she is
currently the Board President. Ms Leisinger is also an
appointed member of the West Palm Beach Downtown Action
Committee, a quasi-judicial Planning Board that for the
Downtown Master Plan area. Jo Ellen resides in West
Palm Beach.
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William M. "Bill" Nix:
Palm Beach County Cultural Council |
Mr.
Nix is Vice President for
Marketing and Governmental Affairs for the Palm Beach County
Cultural Council. In that capacity he is responsible for
planning and overseeing programs in marketing, public
relations, cultural tourism and advocacy on behalf of the
cultural industry in the county. Under Bill's
leadership, Palm Beach County began a community based cultural
development fund which, since 1999, has provided over two
million dollars to expand multicultural organizations and
programs that enhance children's arts education. Bill
also hosts both radio and television programs on behalf of the
arts and culture community of Palm Beach County. Bill
resides in Delray Beach, FL.
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Ms.
Kara Walker-Tomé:
County
Citizen
with Significant Art Background |
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Ms. Kara Walker-Tomé is
a curator and program developer with over ten years of
experience in non-profit arts. Kara has created,
developed and administrated arts education programs for
children, families, teens, artists and the public and has
curated contemporary art exhibitions at several venues in
Palm Beach County. She is the creator and curator of
SHOWTEL the only independent, annual, alternative art event
of its kind in the area, now in its fifth year. Kara
is in the process of opening ArtSite, a gallery space to
showcase emerging contemporary artists from the South
Florida region. Kara resides in Lake Worth, Florida.
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