Joining the Board of American Friends of CASTRO Projects
I have joined the board of American Friends of CASTRO Projects.
Rome and New York have been talking to each other about art for centuries. The conversation is still one of the most interesting in the world, and it deserves better scaffolding than it currently has. AFOCASTRO is building some of that scaffolding.
CASTRO Projects, in Rome, is the organization being scaffolded. Founded by Gaia Di Lorenzo, it runs three programs: Studio, Public, and Academia. The shorthand: a place where emerging artists from anywhere come to study, make work, and think with people who take the question of what artistic education means in 2026 seriously. Which, increasingly, is the most useful question in the room.
AFOCASTRO is the American leg of that effort. Fundraising, programming, partnerships, and a way for US institutions to plug into what is happening in Rome with real intent. My piece of it is helping artists who are still figuring out what kind of careers they want, in a system that keeps redrawing the map under them. That work compounds.
I am joining a board that already does great work: Dr. Salvatore La Spada (President), Gaia Di Lorenzo (Vice President), Stella Scarpellini (Treasurer), Michaela Tupini (Secretary), Cheryl Calegari, and Hussa bint Bandar. Peter d'Agostino and Anna Silvia Tinelli sit on the Advisory Board. I could not ask for a better company.
More at castroprojects.it.
