Contact Us

Contact Us
We welcome any questions and comments you may have regarding artHARLEM
or the Harlem Open Artist Studio Tours (HOAST).

Send your queries to info@artHARLEM.org
or by mail: Reuben Sinha,
Executive Director, artHARLEM
104 West 119th Street, #3,
New York, NY, 10026

artHARLEM Directors and Staff
In 2007, BOARD OF DIRECTORS met once a month to form a united vision for the organization, structure policies, and create a working plan towards clear goals. STAFF MEETINGS, to implement the organizations plans, disseminate work, and agree on expenditures, policies, and actions to be taken by the organization. The staff met regularly in 2007, over 30 times, on Sunday mornings at Sette Pane Café.

artHARLEM Directors
Reuben Sinha (Founder and Executive Director) is an painter, stained glass artist and teacher. He has been the recipient of a MacDowell Traveling Grant, and a Fulbright Fellowship, and has exhibitied nationally and internationally. Mr. Sinha has a MA in Art and Art Education from Teachers College, Columbia University, and currently teaches art at Explorations Academy, a public high school in the Bronx. He lives with his wife and daughter in Harlem.

Janice Taylor (Co-Founder and Director) is a Certified Hypnotist and Personal Life Coach, specializing in self-esteem, happiness and weight loss. She is the author of Our Lady of Weight Loss: Miraculous and Motivational Musings from the Patron Saint of Permanent Fat Removal and All Is Forgiven, Move On: Our Lady of Weight Loss’s 101 Fat-burning Stops on Your Journey to Sveltesville (publication date May 2008). Janice is also the creator of the popular e-newsletter Kick in the Tush Club and a 55-pound big-time-loser. She leads workshops at a number of wellness centers across America, and has been featured in many prominent national publications, major television and radio shows. She is a member of the International Coach Federation and Association for Integrative Psychology.

Gina Fuentes Walker (Co-Founder and Director) is an artist and curator based in New York. Her site-specific installations and photography are informed by an academic background in anthropology and documentary media. She has been awarded fellowships and residencies from the Smithsonian Institution, Chashama and The Bronx Museum for the Arts. She has had solo exhibitions in Massachusetts, North Carolina and Virginia, as well as site-specific installations in New York.

Staff Memebers
Zeina Assaf graduated with a BA in Art History from Boston University in 2002. After moving to New York she worked as the Programs Associate/ Intern Coordinator Artists Alliance, Inc from 2003-2007. Currently, the Gallery Manager at NY Studio Gallery, she has also curated and organized exhibits and events at various venues around the New York Area while developing her own work as an artist.

Harrigan McMahon Bowman works in a grant-writing capacity for artHARLEM, helping to identify potential funders and helping to create awareness about artHARLEM’s many facets and faces. Harrigan is a working photographer, primarily film-based in black and white, but has recently been experimenting in color and digital, merging the medium of photography with the approach and presentation of painting. Harrigan is also a doctoral candidate in the College Teaching of Art (EDDCT) at Columbia University’s Teachers College, with her research focusing on the reflective and effective practices and other pedagogical issues of the 21st century professor of art. She is also an adjunct professor of Introduction to Photography at Teachers College.

Leah Keller is a Harlem-based painter and sculptor. She was born in 1976 in La Crosse, Wisconsin. After earning degrees in Psychology (B.A., 1998) and English Literature (M.A., 2001), she studied painting under Peter Williams at Wayne State University in Detroit, Michigan. When not making art or preparing for upcoming exhibitions in New York and Paris, Leah works part-time as a personal fitness trainer.

Stephanie Mulvihill is an artist and educator living in West Harlem. She has been a staff member since May 2004 working primarily in an administrative role. When she is not painting, drawing, sculpting, she inspires young artists at a local public high school in East Harlem.

Daina Shobrys is a conceptual artist and writer who has done projects for the New Museum and P.S. 1 Museum in New York, the Museum of Contemporary Art in Chicago and her artists’ books are in the collection of the Brooklyn Museum. She has extensive volunteer experience having served on the board of Randolph Street Gallery in Chicago in the 1980’s, the board of Westside Cooperative Preschool in the 1990’s and having started and run an afterschool program at P.S. 75. She currently serves on the board of the Delaware Youth Center in Callicoon, NY. For ArtHarlem, she will be managing the mailing list, developing distribution outlets for tour maps and exploring mutually beneficial relationships with other arts groups like the Catskill Art Society.

Jason Swift (Proposal and Grant Writing) Originally from North Carolina. Currently finishing his EdD from Teachers College, Columbia University.he lives in New York City were he maintains his studio and teaches sculpture at Teachers College Columbia University. He was Artist in Residence for the Curatorial Experiences Program at MICA from 1998 to 1999, a recipient of the Amalie Rothchild Award and is an Enid Morse Fellow, and in 2003, he co-founded the Pearl Street Gallery in Brooklyn, New York.

Allicette Torres is originally from Dorado, Puerto Rico, and is an autodidactic artist living and working in Harlem, New York. At present, she is working on photographs that incorporate drawing and painting. She is also an Art Director for Scholastic, Inc.. In addition, she is contributing editor to the Brooklyn Art Project. Allicette is working on the artHARLEM/HOAST website to enrich and expand the user experience to offer more to the online artist community. She has shown her work in New York and Washington DC.

Other staff members include Christina Gundersun, in charge of our database, Misha McGlown, Kalpana NItzsche, webdesign