Sandra Napua • Administration Manager • Chimera Educational Outreach Program Director
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Sandra brings a wealth of experience and skills to the Center for Contemporary Arts. She studied Fine Art in Paris through the University of Florida’s European Art Program. For twenty years Sandra cultivated her love of art and its impact on people’s lives while directing fine art galleries in Boston, New York, Palm Springs and on the beautiful island of Maui. She then tapped into her artistic, organizational and interpersonal skills to form her own business in the huge destination wedding industry of Hawai’i. In addition, she developed, coordinated and guided international tours to sacred sites in Peru and with an eye toward indigenous art and music to foster cultural understanding. The experience Sandra has gleaned through gallery direction, entrepreneurial endeavors, and facilitating educational tours has given her a keen understanding of the power art has to uplift, inspire and empower us in our lives. Sandra is excited to be a part of the CCA team and its mission of bringing the many forms of contemporary art to the Santa Fe community.

Jason Silverman • Cinematheque Director
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Jason is a 2011 Sundance Documentary Fellow and 2010 New Visions Award winner. Films as producer include Olympia (opening night, SXSW Film, closing night, Slamdance, broadcast, Sundance Channel). His current work-in-progress SEMBENE! was recepient of Sundance Documentary Fund Awards in 2008 and 2010 and was included in the prestigious Toronto Documentary Forum and Tribeca All Access programs. He has curated and produced programs that have drawn more than 340,000 in attendance, including large-scale events for the Smithsonian, the Lensic and SITE Santa Fe, and curated programs for the Bioneers Conference, El Museo del Barrio, the Santa Fe Opera and the True/False Film Festival. He has served as a staff member at the Telluride Film Festival for 20 years, is former artistic director of Taos Talking Pictures (named one of the world's top ten film festivals), and has served as a panelist, juror or nominator for the SXSW and Sundance Film Festivals, the Rockefeller Media Arts Fellowships and Creative Capital. He has published more than 400 pieces for Wired, along with pieces for the Santa Fean, Austin Chronicle, Time Out New York, Psychology Today and UTNE Reader, and his collection of essays Untold New Mexico (Sunstone Press, 2006) is used as a textbook at the University of New Mexico. His essays on film and culture have been published in eight other collections, and translated into more than a dozen languages. He is an adjunct professor at the Institute of American Indian Arts.

Jason holds a BA in English from the University of Michigan and a MA in English from Middlebury College.

Jesse Hockersmith • Cinematheque Manager
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Jesse Hockersmith is a proud Santa Fe native with roots in New Mexico for 7 generations. Having persisted through the Santa Fe public school system, he attended Humboldt State University in Arcata, California to receive a B.A. in Broadcast Journalism with a minor in Public Relations. While in school, Jesse assumed leadership roles at KRFH 610 AM, a student-run radio station, and received the distinction of “Most Outstanding Graduate in the field of Broadcast Journalism.” Jesse has won awards for contributions to short films in the 3 Minute Film Festival and the Attention Span Film Festival. This Eagle Scout likes to ride his bicycle, hike, camp, walk, and, of course, watch films.

BOX OFFICE
Rawson Adams
Chris Bredenberg
Rachel Hessheimer
Ruth Ortiz
Charlie Brady
Francisco Aschwanden

PROJECTION
Rawson Adams
Chris Brendenberg
Sibel Melik
Francisco Aschwanden