Executive Director
A former Chair of Fine Arts at Heritage University, Greg has 25+ years of experience in arts-based higher education: teaching, mentoring, curating exhibitions, developing and leading innovative curriculum and programming, securing grants, and partnering with underserved communities.
Head of Outreach and Community Management
Ambra has built engagement initiatives across the arts, corporate communications, entrepreneurship, online education, and large-scale digital communities with expertise in combining strategic thinking with hands-on program design, facilitation, and community leadership.
Jasmin is an art consultant, curator, and creative strategist with more than two decades of experience working across the arts, design, hospitality, and cultural sectors. Through her practice she connects artists, collectors, designers, organizations, and communities to create meaningful opportunities for artists and bring ambitious creative projects to life. Jasmin’s work spans exhibitions, public art, artist commissions, creative placemaking, collection development, workshops, and cultural programming. She is particularly passionate about building relationships and creating pathways that allow artists to strengthen their practices, expand their professional networks, and connect their work with new audiences and opportunities. As a board member, Jasmin brings a combination of curatorial expertise, project management, community engagement, and a deep commitment to artist advocacy.
Susan is a visual artist whose career spans more than 30 years in the Pacific Northwest. She has exhibited widely in solo and group exhibits throughout Alaska and nationally. Her work is included in the permanent collections of the Alaska State Art Bank, Harborview Hospital Trauma Center, and numerous private collections. Susan executed several major public art commissions in Southeast Alaska and has served on the Alaska State Arts Council’s Visual Acquisitions panel. Since moving to Seattle in 2014, Susan has served on the board of directors of Gallery 110, volunteered at the Center on Contemporary Art, and given numerous artist talks at senior centers. Susan enjoys sharing with emerging artists her knowledge of what’s worked in professionally representing her own artwork.
Aaron was previously with Amazon where he held marketing leadership roles in the Amazon Fashion and Prime brands. As an abstract painter, whose own work explores the depiction of objects in states of change, he has also been deeply involved with local arts nonprofits for the past 15 years, including Root Division in San Francisco and Gallery 110 in Seattle. He co-founded LoCA to help provide new opportunities for emerging artists to connect with their communities. He brings expertise in scaling show and artist talk operations, enabling APDI to increase the scale of its impact.