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Lacey Adams - Administrative Director
Lacey began at CCA as a box-office employee and quickly moved up through the ranks to her current position as Marketing Manager. Working with all staff members, she coordinates and supervises the marketing of CCA's diverse projects, including advertising, printed media and distribution of flyers. Lacey is also in charge of membership benefits and renewals and e-mail newsletters.
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Filip Celander – Digital Media and Education Outreach Director
Prior to joining CCA, Filip owned his own film production company in Stockholm, Sweden, where he directed and produced work for MTV, Kanal 5, TV3, and Viasat. Before moving to the US, he worked extensively throughout Europe as a freelance camera operator and editor. Filip has been involved in the educational programming department at the Telluride Film Festival for the past nine years. He also teaches classes in CCA's Digital Media Program.
Filip holds a BA in Moving Images from the College of Santa Fe.
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Cyndi Conn – Independent Curator
Cyndi is responsible for the overall visual arts department, including exhibitions, publications, outreach, and special events. Previously, Cyndi was the director of Santa Fe's EVO Gallery, where she was responsible for artist selection, exhibition, marketing, and playing a seminal role in the gallery's evolution to one of the premiere contemporary arts venues in the Southwest. Cyndi has also worked in the marketing department of a high-profile tech company in Paris.
Cyndi holds a BA (Magna Cum Laude with Honors) in Latin American studies, Tulane University, and studied at the Universidad Ibero Americana in Mexico City. Currently she is enrolled in the MA program at Skidmore College in Curatorial Practices and Arts Administration in conjunction with the Tang Museum.
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Lea Rekow – Executive Director
Lea Rekow is active in media-making, curating, publishing and programming. Lea was Founding Director of Gigantic Art Space [GAS] in New York , has curated for PS1 radio, is cultural advisor to the Australian Consulate NY, is an associate of Lalutta Media Collective, and a periodic arts advisor for NYFA. She has recently produced a book / DVD project, DRIFT, with Lee Ranaldo of Sonic Youth, and a documentary and oral history project on the war in Burma. Lea’s work has been shown at the Angelica, Lowes, and Village cinemas in NY, and at Cal Arts and SUNY Binghamton. Her work has played in Taiwan, Finland, Poland, Slovakia, Romania, Hungary, Canada, Australia, France, Korea, England and Ireland and others.
Lea was previously Director of Harmonic Ranch, and Director of Media at the Center for Peace and Human Security. She has taught at Pratt Institute, and performed with media activist group EBN. Lea has sat on panels for SVA, Parsons, Amnesty International, as juror for the MacArthur award, and as a residencies advisor for the Lower Manhattan Cultural Council. Her work as an arts practitioner, curator and gallerist has been reviewed in the NY Times, Art in America, Art Forum, TONY, Artlies, and others.
Lea holds a Masters degree in film and digital media, and a BA in painting and music video.
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Jason Silverman – Cinematheque Director
Jason has curated programs for the Smithsonian National Museum of the American Indian, Lensic Center for the Arts, SITE Santa Fe, Bioneers Conference, El Museo del Barrio, the Santa Fe Opera and the True/False Film Festival. He is director of publications and curatorial associate at the Telluride Film Festival, former artistic director of Taos Talking Pictures, 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 is contributing editor to Santa Fean magazine, a contributing writer for Wired.com, and a regular contributor to Wired magazine. Jason has also written for Utne Reader, Psychology Today, The Austin Chronicle, and Time Out New York. His collection of essays Untold New Mexico (Sunstone Press, 2006) features an introduction by Governor Bill Richardson, and his essays on film and culture have also been published in eight other collections.
Jason holds a BA in English from the University of Michigan and a MA in English from Middlebury College.
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Sandy Thompson – External Affairs Director
Sandy taught K-12 students in Santa Barbara County, focusing on art and environmental studies. He also taught youth through college soccer, as well as baseball, track and cross country, and basketball. He owned his own insurance agency in Santa Barbara for 20 years, before moving to Northern California. There he worked as a freelance arts writer, with articles published in Art & Antiques , ARTweekly , Glass Art , American Crafts , Stained Glass Quarterly , and others. He became the Development Associate for the Museum of Contemporary Arts in Santa Rosa, then Grants Manager for the Luther Burbank Center for the Arts (now the Wells Fargo Center for the Arts).
While in Santa Rosa he co-curated the public arts program for the City of Santa Rosa's Art in Public Places; and co-authored the first-ever Arts Element in the City Charter.
Sandy holds a BA in Art History and a MA in Education from the University of California, Santa Barbara, as well as elementary and secondary teaching credentials from UCSB.
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