PEOPLE of the Professional Development Program

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STAFF

ALYSON POU, Associate Director of Creative Capital
Program Director, Professional Development Retreat Program
Alyson Pou has been making installation and performance work for over twenty years. With a background in visual art, dance, and writing, her work successfully combines movement, text, and objects. She has performed, exhibited and lectured at numerous museums, galleries, art centers and colleges around the country. Ms. Pou's performance work has been presented in New York by Danspace Project at St. Mark's Church, Performance Space 122, Franklin Furnace, The New Museum, Artists Space, Threadwaxing Space, Snug Harbor Cultural Center, Creative Time, Dixon Place, HERE, and The Downtown Performance Festival. She is the recipient of the New York Dance and Performance Award (aka The Bessie Award) in the category of Choreographer/Creator for “To Us at Twilight….” Pou has taught classes on the history of performance art and has lead hands-on workshops and classes for multi-media performance production at NYU, Cooper Union, the New School for Social Research, NYC, Williams College, Williamstown, Mass. and Smith College, North Hampton, Mass. She was the Director of Programming and Public Relations at Creative Time Inc. in NYC from 1985 to 1997. She has lectured extensively on the topic of temporary public art and the innovative projects that Creative Time has presented. She has extensive experience as a grantmaking panelist and as a developer of services for artists. An interview with her about fundraising for individual artists was recently published in Margaret Lazzari’s The Practical Handbook for the Emerging Artist and appears in the Creative Capital Artist Toolbox.

KRISTA FABIAN DECASTRO, Workshop Manager
Before joining Creative Capital in 2007, Krista Fabian DeCastro served as program director of Robert Wilson's Watermill Center in New York, manager of the international programming department at the John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts in Washington, DC, and manager of Africa Exchange, a program of Brooklyn-based 651 ARTS which supported collaborative exchanges between performing artists in the United States and Africa. She has guest lectured at Duke University, Brooklyn College, and the Marché des Arts du Spectacle Africain and is the co-author of African Artists in the United States: A Handbook for Presenting and Exchange. She holds a BA from The New School and a MA in Arts Administration from Columbia University.