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2025 Emerging Curators Fellow - NJ Mvondo is an artist, social entrepreneur, and advocate for social justice, cultural diversity, and environmental sustainability. As an immigrant from France and Cameroon, NJ's work centers on uplifting marginalized voices, celebrating cultural diversity, and promoting community healing. NJ has been actively involved in fostering resilience locally and beyond through initiatives like the Interactive Healing Arts Project, which brings together artists, a variety of organizations, and community members by using art as a medium for healing and empowerment.
NJ is also the founder of Multiculturalism Rocks LLC, a social enterprise dedicated to building solidarity through education, cultural enrichment, and advocacy. 2025 Emerging Curators Fellowship Mentor Susie Kantor is Associate Curator & Exhibition Department Head at the Jan Shrem and Maria Manetti Shrem Museum of Art at UC Davis. Her curatorial projects at the Manetti Shrem Museum include A Woman’s Place: Selections from the Fondazione Sandretto Re Rebaudengo (forthcoming), Phillip Byrne, Beatriz Cortez, Kang Seung Lee, Candice Lin: Entangled Writing, Shiva Ahmadi: Strands of Resilience, Loie Hollowell: Tick Tock Belly Clock, From Moment to Movement: Picturing Protest in the Kramlich Collection, Wayne Thiebaud Influencer: A New Generation (co-curated with Rachel Teagle), New Flavors: Collected at the Candy Store (co-curated with Jenna Blair), and organizing the museum’s presentation of Young, Gifted and Black: The Lumpkin-Boccuzzi Family Collection of Contemporary Art. Previously, she worked at Yerba Buena Center for the Arts and the Asian Art Museum in San Francisco. She holds an MA in Art History with a focus on 17th century Dutch painting from New York University, Institute of Fine Arts and a BA in Art History and Political Science from Wellesley College.
2025 Emerging Curators Mentor - Susie Kantor is Associate Curator & Exhibition Department Head at the Jan Shrem and Maria Manetti Shrem Museum of Art at UC Davis. Her curatorial projects at the Manetti Shrem Museum include A Woman’s Place: Selections from the Fondazione Sandretto Re Rebaudengo (forthcoming), Phillip Byrne, Beatriz Cortez, Kang Seung Lee, Candice Lin: Entangled Writing, Shiva Ahmadi: Strands of Resilience, Loie Hollowell: Tick Tock Belly Clock, From Moment to Movement: Picturing Protest in the Kramlich Collection, Wayne Thiebaud Influencer: A New Generation (co-curated with Rachel Teagle), New Flavors: Collected at the Candy Store (co-curated with Jenna Blair), and organizing the museum’s presentation of Young, Gifted and Black: The Lumpkin-Boccuzzi Family Collection of Contemporary Art.
Previously, she worked at Yerba Buena Center for the Arts and the Asian Art Museum in San Francisco. She holds an MA in Art History with a focus on 17th century Dutch painting from New York University, Institute of Fine Arts and a BA in Art History and Political Science from Wellesley College.
2024 Emerging Curators Fellow – Bridgètt Rangel Rexford
Going forward as both a Curator and arts leader, Bridgètt finds that her soft skills are incredibly useful in day-to-day operations. She feels that you can’t learn everything you need to know in school. Bridgètt enjoys working in this capacity because it allows her to interact with artists and art lovers, often meeting people who are constantly dreaming. She loves contributing time to an industry where imagination never stays stagnant.
Bridgètt was the inaugural Curator Fellowship recipient for the Sacramento Office of Arts and Culture. She previously served as Exhibitions Manager for both the Barn Gallery and Gallery 625 in Woodland, CA. She is also co-curator for SOMArts’ annual Día de los Muertos Exhibition in San Francisco, now in her third consecutive year. Most recently, Bridgètt has stepped into the role of Executive Director of the Latino Center of Art and Culture in Sacramento, where she continues to stay closely connected to the community and the ever-beating local art heartbeat.
2024 Emerging Curators Mentor – Faith J. McKinnie is a cultural critic and curator practicing on the unceded land of the Nisenan (Sacramento, CA). Her practice is multidimensional but remains rooted in the prioritization and care of artists who find their work outside the imperialist white supremacist capitalist patriarchal margins of the art historical canon. Through curatorial intervention and critical discourse, she interrogates visual culture and its relationship to post-colonialism, feminist & race theories, migration, land degradation, and the historicity of the personal narrative.
She has lectured on curatorial activism at the University of Chicago, the University of California Davis, Sierra College, the University of Nevada Reno, and both California State Universities, Sacramento and Stanislaus. she served as a curatorial mentor for the City of Sacramento's inaugural Emerging Curator's Program and Community Consultant for the Sacramento Public Library's Parks and Tranquility Project, she is the founder of the Sacramento Curatorial Collective, served as the DEIA board chair at Capital Creative Alliance, and was a founding board member of the Sacramento Alliance for Regional Art. She holds a B.A. in Art History and an M.S. in Management and Leadership.
She is the recipient of:
- Sacramento Bee Nehemiah Emerging Leadership Program's 2022 Top 25 Black Change Maker award.
- Sacramento Kings Crown Royal's 2022 Culture Creator Award.
- National Endowment for the Arts City of Sacramento's 2022 Seeding Creativity Award.
- 18th Street Arts Center's 2023 California Creative Corps Finalist
- Center for Cultural Innovation's 2023 CALI Catalyst Award
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