ROULA SEIKALY
Oakland,CA
Summary
Seasons arts professional with 25+ years experience.
Focused Project Manager adept at planning, directing and maintaining continuous communication across departments. Skilled at identifying or anticipating problems and providing solutions. Excels through mentoring, training and empowering team to excel in performance. Organized and dependable candidate successful at managing multiple priorities with a positive attitude. Willingness to take on added responsibilities to meet team goals.
Overview
12
12
years of professional experience
Work History
Senior Editor and Co-Director
Humble Arts Foundation
01.2017 - Current
- Produce 35+ interviews with emerging and established photographers addressing range of contemporary issues
- Write 20+ reviews of nationwide exhibitions
- Represent organization as reviewer at six portfolio review events/festivals
- Co-curate three real time exhibitions and three virtual thematic open call exhibitions
Writer
01.2012 - Current
- Write and edit 2-3 monthly exhibition reviews, features, and interviews for KQED Arts, Hyperallergic, BOMB, photograph, and Strange Fire Collective
Curator
Quantum Art
11.2021 - 01.2023
- Cultivated and sustain relationships with artists interested in minting NFTs
- Contact for 25+ photographers selling NFTs on-platform from introduction to sale date
- Scheduled and lead all virtual studio visits and follow up conversations
- Planned and hosted 20+ artist interviews using Twitter Spaces for 50-75 audience members
- Mastered proprietary software and trained contracted artists to use software to sell their NFTs
- Represented Quantum Art as speaker/panelist at two live and four virtual industry events
Education
MA - Curatorial Practice
California College of Arts
San Francisco, CABA - Art History
Oberlin College
Oberlin, OHSkills
- Project Management
- Curation
- Editing
- Critical Thinking
- Active Listening
- Creative Collaboration
- Content Development
- Editorial Management
Accomplishments
- Editor and Curator - On Covid (2023), Humble Arts Foundation and KGP|Monolith
- Co-Curator, Beyond Binary - San Francisco State University Fine Arts Gallery (2022)
- Curator, All of Us All of Us - Berkeley Art Center (2022)
- Moderator, Zamin Project - Bay Area (2021)
Affiliations
Society for Photographic Education
Timeline
Curator
Quantum Art
11.2021 - 01.2023
Senior Editor and Co-Director
Humble Arts Foundation
01.2017 - Current
Writer
01.2012 - Current
MA - Curatorial Practice
California College of Arts
BA - Art History
Oberlin College
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