Cristina González

I am a practicing artist, arts educator and arts administrator with more than twenty years of commitment to individual and community empowerment through creative public programs. Rooted in Drawing & Painting traditions, my own studio practice has recently involved the engagement of public spaces.As an educator and administrator, I specialize in art education program design, management, and administration. I help both established and start-up organizations build their programs, strategize and implement growth or reorganization, and cultivate talent. I am especially interested in working with projects and people who have the ambition and potential to transform lives.I enjoy building partnerships and networks among individual artists, communities, and organizations. As the founder of the Visual Arts Department at New Mexico School for the Arts, I learned the value of listening and collaboration. One of the most exciting aspects of my career at NMSA was working alongside a wide range of arts practitioners and leaders in Santa Fe, NM; from gifted artist-colleagues to museum directors, from teenage art students to world-renowned art collectors. Artistic and educational collaboration is the essence of my work: listening to others, reflecting, synthesizing, generating possibilities, and bringing all my experience as an artist, teacher, and/or administrator to address complex, creative challenges. Me identifico como Chicana y soy completamente bilingue y bicultural; I welcome opportunities to collaborate within diverse and/or underserved communities.Contact me for high-impact consultation, dynamic public projects, and/or program development.References available.