Anne Pasternak, President and Artistic Director

During Pasternak's tenure, since the Fall of 1994, the organization has increased its commitment to artists working with untried media and has offered established artists fresh opportunities to experiment and engage new audiences. Renowned projects under her artistic direction range from exhibitions and performances in the historic Brooklyn Bridge Anchorage, new sculptures in Grand Central Station, paintings in Coney Island and skywriting over Manhattan to the Tribute in Light, the twin beacons of light that illuminated the former World Trade Center site six months after 9/11, in honor of the lives lost there. Pasternak has been committed to initiating projects that give artists the opportunity to innovate their practice, celebrate New York life, and reflect on contemporary society while engaging millions of people with art that permeates everyday urban life.

In addition to her work at Creative Time, Pasternak curates independent exhibitions and contributes essays to cultural publications. She lectures extensively throughout the United States and Europe.

Mark Beasley, Curator & Producer

For the last decade Mark Beasley has practiced as an independent curator, writer and artist based in London. Recent projects include Beasley Street, Camden Arts Centre, London; The Thinking with John Russell at PS1/MoMA, New York; co-curating the international touring show Electric Earth: Film and Video from Britain, for the British Council and guest curating Infra thin Projects, a series of publications and performance events with Mark Titchner, Bonnie Camplin, Mark Leckey, Lawrence Weiner & Ned Sublette, Fabienne Audeoud & John Russell for Book Works, London. Between 2004-2005 he was the Stanley Picker Research Fellow in Fine Art at Kingston University, London and has lectured internationally on issues related to contemporary art. He has contributed articles and essays to numerous exhibition catalogues and journals including Art Monthly and Frieze. Forthcoming projects and publications include ADVENTURE: Showdown at the Pig Palace, City Projects, London with Stephen Beasley and Nick Bullen (Napalm Death, Scorn, Black Galaxy) and LOUDSPEAKER: An anthology of spoken word projects, with Matthew Higgs, White Columns, New York and Book Works, London. 

Click here to read an interview between Anne and Mark

SHANE BRENNAN, CURATORIAL ASSISTANT

Shane Brennan left his aquatic home in the Pacific Northwest to complete an honors BA in art, critical theory and media studies at Brown University. During a sojourn in London, he took courses in curating and contemporary art at Goldsmiths College, furthering a discontinuous solo practice as a writer, curator, and artist. Experiences at a variety of art institutions—including the Whitney Museum, Rhizome.org, and the Lisson Gallery—prepared him for a migration to the New York City art nexus. He joined Creative Time in 2007 as its first ever Curatorial Assistant.

BRENDAN GRIFFITHS, MARKETING PRODUCER

Brendan Griffiths crashed his escape capsule in the East River in 2005. He emerged unscathed, but remembered little of his home planet. Having been frozen in cryogenic stasis for 4,000 years, he decided to attend the University of Oregon to refresh his aesthetic skills and successfully earned a BFA degree in Multimedia Design. He went on to work for Apple Computer, TODA, ROOM Studio, and other notable human institutions. When he's not designing flashing pop-up banner ads for Creative Time, he enjoys trips to the zoo, eating falafel sandwiches, and putting himself into a state of sensory deprivation in an attempt to recover his millennias-old memory.

KATIE HOLLANDER, Deputy Director of Development and Finance

Katie has worked in the nonprofit community for almost 15 years and has experience both as an executive director and development director, with a focus on special events, fundraising and financial management. Most recently she was the Director of Development at the Support Center for Nonprofit Management; and prior to that she served as the Executive Director at ArtTable, Inc. a nonprofit association for 1,600+ women professionals in the visual arts.  Katie launched her career at the College Art Association serving as Assistant to the Executive Director, Manager of Governance and Advocacy and Director of Development and Special Projects. Katie received her BS in Business Management from Ithaca College, an MA in Art History from The Victoria University of Manchester, England, as well as an MA in Arts Administration from New York University.

MEREDITH JOHNSON, Curator and Producer, Consulting Program

Originally hailing from St. Louis, MO, Meredith Johnson came to Creative Time in 2007 to lead the organization’s Consulting Program. Prior to Creative Time, Meredith was the Assistant Director at Minetta Brook, a New York based public arts organization that presented projects like Robert Smithson’s Floating Island to Travel Around Manhattan Island and Watershed: The Hudson Valley Art Project. Meredith has worked as an independent curator and for a number of non-profit institutions in San Francisco, CA and Washington, D.C. She received her BA in Art from St. Mary’s College of Maryland and her MA in Curatorial Practice from the California College of the Arts. In addition to her work at Creative Time, Meredith is also a curator at Artists Space in New York.

Gavin Kroeber, PRODUCER

Originally from the new-age-hippie-surfer-skate-punk mecca of Santa Cruz, CA, Gavin's work in public and processional art began as a theater student at Reed College (Portland, OR, B.A. '00) and continued in Oakland, CA, where he worked heavily with the Idiot Machine event-production collective. A jack-of-all-trades, Gavin brings extensive production experience to Creative Time, having worked variously as production manager, stage designer, video editor, technician and producer for Velocity Circus, Dodeska Performance Ensemble, Lunatique Fantastique and the American Circus Festival, among others. He is a founding member of the Bushwick Department of Public Works, who warmly invite you over for dinner (seriously).

Anna Muessig, Development Assistant

Born and bred on the banks of the mighty Mississippi, Anna came to the East Coast for college and stayed, joining the Creative Time team in 2007. Holding an Honors BA in Urban Studies from Vassar College, with special interest in Modern and Contemporary Art, English, and Critical Race Theory, Anna began her love affair with public art as a street art aficionado, an interest that evolved into academic and professional ambitions. Now instead of writing 100-page theses on the subject, she writes grant narratives! Before coming to Creative Time, Anna worked as a production assistant for Public Art Review, and for four years gave tours of the collection and grounds of the Frances Lehman Loeb Art Center. As the Development Assistant, she supports the Directors of Individual and Institutional Giving.

Heather Peterson, Deputy Director

Heather Peterson came to Creative Time in May of 2003 while pursuing a Master's Degree in Modern Art and Curatorial Studies from Columbia University, which she completed in 2004. After making the rounds through most departments — as a Curatorial Intern, Project Manager/ Producer, and Director of Development — Heather stepped into her role as Deputy Director in 2005, utilizing her cumulative knowledge to oversee the organization's day-to-day operations and long-range planning.

Before joining the non-profit sector, Heather had a successful career producing imagery with a wide range of commercial and editorial photographers and illustrators, working as an Art Buyer for advertising agencies including Merkley Newman Harty, SS+K, ZPFM, and M+C Saatchi, and as a Photo Editor for Real Simple magazine. She holds an honors English degree from Vassar College.

Cynthia PRINGLE, Manager, Executive Office and Operations

Cynthia officially joined Creative Time in January 2007 after interning and working on short-term special projects in various departments since 2005. Born in San Francisco, Cynthia moved to New York in 1999 to attend New York University with a concentration in Studio Art. Currently, as Manager of the Executive Office and Operations, Cynthia supports both the President and the Deputy Director.

Yael Reinharz, Director of Individual Giving

Yael joined Creative Time in 2002 after receiving her MA from New York University and BA from Bowdoin College. With experience working in both the commercial and nonprofit art world, including work at Matthew Marks Gallery, Christie's Contemporary Art, and The Peggy Guggenheim Collection in Venice, she now directs Creative Time's program of Individual Giving. In addition to working closely with the Board of Directors and organization's donors, Yael directs the organization's membership programs, events, and art editions. Yael also keeps busy directing Artis, an organization which supports and promotes Israeli artists worldwide.

Maureen Sullivan, Director of Marketing and PR

Maureen Sullivan joined Creative Time in June 2004. She contributes to the strategic planning for the organization and oversees marketing, communications, and special projects.

She brings over 12 years experience working in the fields of contemporary art, film, and architecture providing support for marketing, development, public relations, special events, and limited edition programs. After serving as Director of Marketing, Communications, and Special Events at the New Museum of Contemporary Art for 5 1/2 years, she consulted for clients including Yerba Buena Center for the Arts (San Francisco), The Skyscraper Museum (New York) , SculptureCenter (New York), La Coleccion Jumex (Mexico City), JVC Architecture Center and Anhelo Productions (Guadalajara, Mexico), and Contemporary Magazine (London), as well as individual clients and private art dealing. She presently serves on the programming committee for ArtTable.

Nato Thompson, Curator & Producer

Nato Thompson is a writer and curator. Previous to Creative Time, he worked as Curator at MASS MoCA where he completed numerous large-scale exhibitions over five years. In 2004, he curated The Interventionists: Art in the Social Sphere, a survey of political art of the 1990s with a catalogue distributed by MIT Press. In 2006, he presented Ahistoric Occasion: Artists Making History, an exhibition that explored the uses of history in contemporary art. His writings have appeared in numerous publications including Art Journal, tema celeste, Parkett, Cabinet and The Journal of Aesthetics and Protest. The College Art Association awarded him for distinguished writing in Art Journal in 2004. He continues to lecture on political art and culture as well as produce independent exhibitions. He holds a BA in Political Theory from the University of California at Berkeley and an MA in Arts Administration from the School of the Art Institute of Chicago.

G. Douglas Wagner, Financial Management Consultant

G. Douglas Wagner has been affiliated with Creative Time since its founding in 1973.  Working for the NY Cultural Council Foundation throughout the 70s, he assisted with financial matters and fundraising for such diverse organizations as Playwrights Horizons, Production Company, Cabin Creek Films (Harlen County USA), Cityarts Workshops, Art Without Walls, International Women's Writing Guild, Off Off Broadway Alliance, and the Theatre Development Fund (TKTS and voucher program).  He assumed the job of Financial Management Consultant at Creative Time in 1980.  His other non-profit clients included NYC Landmarks Preservation Foundation, Visual Aids for the Arts, and Clark Center for the Performing Arts.  Douglas is Business Manager for lighting designer Ken Billington and spent many years doing the same for playwright John Guare. He oversees budgets, grant reports, cash flow, and many other tasks pertaining to the finances at Creative Time.

NICHOLAS WEIST, MARKETING ASSISTANT

Nicholas Weist was born in Manhattan and reared variously in the city and its surrounding environs. He comes to Creative Time from a past life as a curator, writer and editor, and producer of books by visual artists. His writing and projects have been featured in V, i-D, Arena Homme +, L’Uomo Vogue, The New York Times, Book Forum, Tokion, Useless, The Fader, and many others; and his promotional events have frequently had as many strippers as celebrities. Weist is a founding director of Why + Wherefore, an online art fanzine and theoretical show space.