Artist Communities Alliance is thrilled to welcome four new board members in 2025:
You can read the full Press Release here.
Kevin Bitterman
Executive Director, Thomas S. Kenan Institute for the Arts
Kevin Bitterman joined the Thomas S. Kenan Institute for the Arts at the University of North Carolina School of the Arts in 2021. Under his leadership, the Institute is focused on serving as an incubator and accelerator for new ideas and programs spanning arts and cultural research, building sustainable creative careers, and promoting thought leadership on the future of creative practice and the social impact of the arts.
Previously, Bitterman served as Director of Institutional Advancement & Partnerships for Theatre Communications Group and Assistant Director of the Bush Foundation’s Artist Fellows program. He has participated in national relief and recovery efforts during the COVID-19 pandemic and Hurricane Helene, in addition to developing grantmaking, capacity-building initiatives, conveinings, and professional development programs for early- to mid-career artists and leaders with a range of national philanthropic partners. Most recently, Bitterman co-led a multi-sector partnership with arts, municipal, and public health leaders, securing Winston-Salem’s selection as one of 18 communities in the national One Nation/One Project initiative, Arts For EveryBody, to highlight the the role of the arts in fostering healthier communities.
Holly Doll
Program Director, Ignite Rural
Holly Doll/Anpao Win (First Light Woman) is an enrolled citizen of the Standing Rock Sioux Tribe and resides in her home state of North Dakota. In addition to being an artist who specializes in Lakota cultural art, Holly brings over a decade of experience in the nonprofit sector, specializing in designing equity-based initiatives and collaborative projects. Holly started off her career by managing a Native American gallery, later co-founding and serving as President of Native Artists United, an artist cooperative dedicated to supporting Native American artists. She was then invited to join the Waterers, a collective of arts, cultural, and community leaders who are committed to transforming traditional philanthropy by centering trust and cultural values in grantmaking efforts.
Holly is currently a Program Manager with Arts Midwest, where she collaborates with the other USRAOs to co-design national grantmaking initiatives and deepen relationships with Native Nations in the Midwest region. She also is the Program Director with the Department of Public Transformation, where she oversees Ignite Rural, an artist residency program designed to support emerging, rural BIPOC artists.
Alana Hernandez
Senior Curator, ASU Art Museum
Alana Hernandez is Senior Curator at the ASU Art Museum. In her curatorial practice, Hernandez co-creates and develops relational projects and exhibitions that amplify intersectional and multifaceted interpretations of Latinx art. She actively engages in a curatorial and methodological model that prioritizes visibility, decentralized institutional authorship, and community-embedded agency. She works directly with constituencies to facilitate meaning-making that is generative, mobilizing, and transformative. In recent years, much of Hernandez’s curatorial work centers on Latinx art and artists working with print and craft-based mediums and investigates how the aesthetic statements thus employed are integral, often political producers of cultural consciousness. Her practice endeavors to bolster critical engagement with U.S. Latinx art that is inclusive of Afro-Latinx, Indigenous, and queer histories, underscoring that these narratives are formative to an understanding of the histories of this country. She has recently organized artist projects with Carolina Aranibar-Fernández, Sam Frésquez, Luis Rivera Jimenez, Alejandro Macias, Sarah Zapata, Mariana Ramos Ortiz, and Estephania González. She is currently at work on a major retrospective of Carmen Lomas Garza.
Hernandez was previously Executive Director & Curator at CALA Alliance. She has held curatorial positions at the Museum of Contemporary Art San Diego; the Whitney Museum of American Art, New York; Páramo, Guadalajara, Mexico; Hunter East Harlem, New York; the Museum of Modern Art, New York; the Phoenix Art Museum; and BRIC Arts Media, Brooklyn. Her writing has appeared in several exhibition catalogues and online journals. Hernandez received her M.A. from CUNY Hunter College, where she specialized in Modern and Contemporary Latin American Art. She currently lives and works in Phoenix, Arizona.
M. Carmen Lane
Founder + Director, ATNSC: Center for Healing and Creative Leadership
M. Carmen Lane (African-American, Mohawk, Tuscarora) is a two-spirit contemporary artist, writer and facilitator based in Cleveland, Ohio. Carmen’s work explores Black/Indigenous identities, two-spirit and non-binary masculinities, intergenerational grief and settler colonial behaviors within human systems. They are the founder and director of ATNSC: Center for Healing and Creative Leadership, an artist-led incubator and exhibition space for socially engaged Indigenous artists and artists of color. They also work with arts and culture leaders on equity leadership and change through their consulting firm MC Lane Consulting.