Kathy Gallegos
Founding Executive & Artistic Director
Avenue50Studio@gmail.com“From 2000 to the present, I have been the Founding Executive and Artistic Director of Avenue 50 Studio,Inc., a 501(c)(3) nonprofit arts presentation organization located in the Los Angeles neighborhood of Highland Park. Previous to the Avenue 50 Studio, I had a successful career as a legal secretary with Stutman, Treister & Glatt, a bankruptcy law firm. I was also an exhibiting artist. In 1986, along with muralists Barbara Carrasco, Yreina Cervantez and Francisco Letelier, I painted a mural at the Plaza De las Madres in Managua, Nicaragua. In 1995-96, I lived in Honduras spending the year painting and teaching myself B&W photographic darkroom techniques. In 1996, I was asked by artist Leo Limon to teach photography to teens at the Aztlan Cultural Arts Center at the old Lincoln Heights Jail. I also operated their gift shop and organized exhibitions. I founded the Avenue 50 Studio in order to give artists a venue where their voice could be heard. In October of 2014, I was appointed by Governor Jerry Brown to sit as a Council member on the Board of the California Arts Council. In 2017, we received an award from World Learning to produce an international art exchange with Athar Lina Initiate in Cairo, Egypt to take place in 2018.”
Kevin Silva
Administrative Assistant
Avenue50StudioKevin@gmail.comKevin Silva is a Los Angeles Oaxacan Musician and multimedia artist. He has served Los Angeles youth and families through music lessons, art and garden workshops within an indigenous lens, storytelling, and live radio training for the past 9 years. He is one of the founders of the Jovenes Uniting Neighborhoods To Overcome Struggles (J.U.N.T.O.S.) Dream Resource Center. Kevin has also supported the community by developing relationships with local organizations through J.U.N.T.O.S. Dream Center for workshops that touch on immigrant rights, indigenous language preservation, resource centers, college access and mental health. Through his developed skills of organizing the community and art, he now serves the community of Avenue 50 Studios and Bridge the Gap KQBH live radio show.
A Thank You to Our Past Team Members:
Jovany Gonzalez, Administrative/Social Media Marketing
Jessica Ceballos y Campbell, Literary Programming Curator
Angelina Sáenz, La Palabra Poetry Coordinator
Hataya Tubtim, Grants Writer
Jade Puga, California Arts Council Arts Administrator of Color Fellow
Nica Aquino, Digital Content Creator
Elise Viapiano, Pasadena Unified School District Intern
Sara Aceves, Administrative Assistant
Kassidy Penso, Social Media, Marketing, and Administrative Assistant
