Erin Rehberg - Founder/Executive Director
M.F.A., was Founder and Artistic Director of Core Project Chicago, a dance-based, interdisciplinary performing arts collective and...
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Tanner Melvin M.S. - Founder/Executive Director
Founder and Director of Side Street Studio Arts in Elgin, IL. Tanner brings an eclectic background that includes a B.A. in Theater with...
Ivette De Santiago - Director of Education & Inclusion
Ivette is an interdisciplinary artist focused on exploring stories through video, photography, and installations. In 2016 she graduated...
Chris Arrecis - Visual Art Coordinator
SSSA’s Visual Art Coordinator Chris Arrecis is an Illinois-based artist working primarily in photography and drawing. His studio practice...
Jess Rocha - Director of Operations
A bipedal lump of fungus filled with half-baked ideas and covered in a rash. Jess Rocha, hailing from Bartlett, Illinois, graduated from...
Nick Mataragas - Director of Special Projects
Nick is a director, actor, writer, producer, podcaster, and improviser, and is a graduate of the IO Chicago training center (so many...
Kirstin Dunlap - Artist Staff
Kirstin is a printmaker and bookmaker currently attending Syracuse University in Syracuse, New York where she is working towards her MFA....
Mary Sweeney - Artist Staff
Mary Sweeney (she/her/hers). Born in California and raised in Chicagoland, Mary graduated from Columbia College in Chicago with a B.A. in...
Alanis Johnson - Artist Staff
A student at the University of Illinois Chicago (UIC) pursuing a dual degree in Art History and Sociology with a Minor in Global Asian...
Nick Jostes - Artist Staff
Nick Jostes is an artist from Elgin originally from Fort Collins, Colorado. He specializes in customer success / account management with...
Yesenia Arroyo - Arts Ed Assistant
Yesenia Arroyo is a current Art Education student at Northern Illinois University with a passion for drawing. She has completed her...
Tony Ilivanov - Facilities Coordinator
Tony Ilivanov is an artist who works in a variety of mediums from printmaking, to poetry, to 3D, but his love for painting will always...
Alex Sharp - Artist Staff
Alex Sharp is a born and raised Elgin resident with Bachelor Degrees in Journalism and Art History from Northern Illinois University. She...
Christian Ulloa - Artist Staff
Christian Ulloa is an interdisciplinary artist who's work primarily consists of sculpture, printmaking, and video art. His body of work...
Nicole Prokop
Artist in Residence
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