Meet Our Board

Ari Leon Fruchter. Photo by Ari Gottesmann/Nomadigo

Ari Fruchter (INTERIM Chair)

Tech Executive, Environmental Entrepreneur

Ari Fruchter is an environmental entrepreneur and former tech executive who specializes in business development strategy. Fruchter specializes in early growth development of start-ups, he served in senior positions at Microsoft and SanDisk among others. He is a co-founder of the Dead Sea Revival Project and the initiator of the Dead Sea Museum. Fruchter is a philanthropist and art collector. His family were among the founders of the Israel Museum and Ari is a member of the Board of Governors of the Tel Aviv Museum of Art.

ANDREA FRANK

ARTIST & EDUCATOR

Andrea Frank is an artist and educator based in the Hudson Valley. She is an Associate Professor and head of the Photography Program at SUNY New Paltz. Through an artist's lens, she explores the climate, biodiversity, social justice, and psychological impacts of our current way of life. In dialogue with her studio practice, she embraces creative experimental collaborative processes as a tool for transformation and connection. She is a core collaborator of Eddy at New Paltz, an evolving, open, trans-disciplinary, co-creative, and embodied learning lab on the SUNY New Paltz campus. Frank is the recipient of numerous grants and fellowships, and exhibits her work internationally. From 2003 -12 Frank served as a lecturer in Photography and Related Media at the MIT Program in Art, Culture and Technology.

Charles Dennis (Treasurer)

Artist, co-founder of PS122

Charles Dennis is an interdisciplinary artist, choreographer, filmmaker/videographer and curator who produces festivals of performance. In 1979 Charles co-founded Performance Space 122 in New York City, one of this country’s most active presenters of new dance and performance art.He co-directed the space from 1980-83 and was deeply involved with the organization for 25 years as a board member and performer. Charles moved from New York City to Hurley, NY. in 2019. Since then, through Charles Dennis Productions, he has been curating and producing multimedia performance festivals in the Mid-Hudson Valley.

Shanti Grumbine

Shanti Grumbine (SECRETARY)

Artist, Community Organizer

Shanti Grumbine is a New York-based multimedia artist. She has been an artist in residence at the Millay Colony, Ucross, Yaddo, Vermont Studio Center, Saltonstall Foundation, Wave Hill Winter Workspace Residency, Lower East Side Printshop Keyholder Residency, Artist in the Marketplace (AIM), Women’s Studio Workshop, the Bemis Center for Contemporary Art, BRIC Workspace, and the Roswell Artist-in-Residence Program. Fellowships and grants include the NYSCA/NYFA Artist Fellowship in Printmaking/Drawing/Book Arts, the Santo Foundation Individual Artist Grant, RVAC Money and Materials Grant, Arts Mid-Hudson Individual Artist Grant, Taking Care Fund, A.I.R Gallery Fellowship, and the LABA Fellowship at the 14th Street Y. Select exhibition venues include The Bronx Museum, Dorsky Gallery, Dorsky Museum, CCA Sante Fe, Love Apple Art Space, Magnan-Metz Gallery, Fridman Gallery, Planthouse Gallery, PS 122, Smack Mellon, Visual Arts Center of New Jersey, Glasshouse and IPCNY. Shanti received an MFA from the University of Pennsylvania and a BFA from the School of the Art Institute of Chicago. She is an MSW candidate at the University at Albany, SUNY.

Lital Dotan

LITAL DOTAN

Non voting Board Member, Executive Artistic Director

Lital Dotan is a visual artist and the co-founder and artistic director of Glasshouse Project.
In 2015 Dotan founded Que sal mah, a clothing brand that merges performance art, choreography and fashion. Her immersive art works and performances were exhibited in museums and galleries world-wide such as the Israel Museum, National Museum Cracow, Queens Museum, Dorsky Museum, Haifa Museum, Jewish Contemporary SF to name a few and was featured in magazines such as The NY Times, Hyperallergic, DNA Info, NY Mag, Paper Mag, ArtSlant, Haaretz, Huffington Post, VISION China, TAR Magazine and many more.

Eyal Perry

non voting Board Member, DIRECTOR OF ARCHIVES

Eyal Perry is a photographer, educator and co-founder of Glasshouse Project. He was the Artistic Director of Art&Lounge project at Newark Liberty Airport and Artistic Advisor at Artish Group. He is a co-founder of Glasshouse Tours which specializes in socially focused cultural tours in NYC. Prior to moving to NY he was a senior lecturer at leading colleges in Israel including Beit-Berl Midrasha, Bezalel Academy, Musrara among others. He co-founded the first Photo-Therapy graduate program in Israel. Perry is an avid antique collector and archiving specialist.