Warren Keating, President
Warren Keating is the director of ViVO Contemporary, 725 Canyon Rd., one of the most celebrated and awarded artist collectives in Santa Fe. ViVO has been showing a unique collection of contemporary artworks by local artists here since 2003. Keating, at the forefront of the online art market for 15 years, continues to stay ahead of art market trends and is instrumental in creating policy and best practices for this emerging sector. He brought the same approach to ViVO’s physical gallery; an emphasis on education of the art-buying public, price transparency, measures that ensure buyer security, and community involvement and enrichment.
Keating is passionate about bringing his skill set and acquired knowledge to help the gallery association membership ensure the vibrancy and longevity of the Santa Fe art community. As a fine artist, Keating's work is collected world wide. His popular overhead series and distinctive mark-making leave an indelible impression on all who resonate with his work.
Kimberly Duncan - Board Secretary
Kimberly Duncan is the director at Gallery Wild, 203 Canyon Rd., an artist-owned gallery originally established in Jackson, WY in 2018. Gallery Wild represents artists with a focus on wildlife, wild places, and conservation. The gallery opened its second location here in Santa Fe in 2022, right on the corner of Canyon Road’s entrance.
Duncan has been working in the gallery world for over 4 years, previously directing a gallery in the Southeast before moving out West to help open Gallery Wild Santa Fe. She has a studio background with a focus on film photography and eco-art.
S. Islaewae Belle Tschanz - Treasurer
Islaewae Tschanz is the Gallery Director at Antieau Gallery Santa Fe at 130 Lincoln Avenue, the second artist-owned gallery of self-taught fabric appliqué and embroidery artist, Chris Roberts-Antieau, the first being in New Orleans, LA. Tschanz has worked within the nonprofit art scene since graduating from Savannah College of Art & Design in 2000 where she studied Textile and Fiber Art. Prior to operating her own healing business over the last 17 years, she has worked with the Boston Ballet, Museum of Fine Arts, Boston and an independent curatorial group called, Release 1.
Blair Vaughn-Gruler
Blair Vaughn-Gruler is co-owner and gallery director of GVG Contemporary in the Siler Road area of the SFXL arts district near Meow Wolf. A non-objective painter holding an MFA in Visual Art from Vermont College of Fine Art (2010), in addition to 12 years as a gallerist and curator on Canyon Road, Vaughn-Gruler exhibits her own work throughout the United States with a focus on the western regions of the country.
In an earlier life she co-owned multiple small retail businesses, worked in the mental health field as a rights advocate and mediator, and has mentored art students from school children to graduate students for over 30 years. She hopes to bring her relevant experience and skill sets to furthering the mission of SFGA, empowering member galleries and supporting diversity and high standards in Santa Fe’s unique and vibrant art scene .
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Lisa Stewart Keating - Executive Director
Lisa Stewart Keating is an entrepreneur, digital publisher, designer, performer and business manager. Ten years ago, she created an avid following and unique advertising model at EncinoMom.com which integrated editorial, video and traditional advertising to promote local and national businesses to her California lifestyle audience. She has managed the marketing and growth of businesses that range from theaters to roofing companies and recently completed working as the designer and business manager of the Teabag Project in Santa Fe.
Currently, Stewart Keating is collaborating with the Santa Fe Department of Arts and Culture to curate a series of fine art exhibitions at the new addition to the Santa Fe airport. As a performer, she has received awards and accolades for her work as a theatre actor and live jazz vocalist. An audience favorite on Sky Railway's jazz train you can often catch her at premier performance venues and private events.