Executive Director, Curator of Exhibitions & Collections

Hardesty joined Washington State University’s Jordan Schnitzer Museum of Art curatorial team in 2014 as curator of art and exhibitions and was named director of the museum in 2020. He has curated a range of exhibition projects including Jim Dine: A Life in Printmaking, and more recently, Marie Watt: Companion Species (Underbelly), Jeffry Mitchell: Death of Buddha, and Persona: Portraiture from the Collections of Jordan D. Schnitzer for the Olson Kundig designed museum facility’s ambitious 2018 slate of inaugural exhibitions. For more info visit https://museum.wsu.edu/about/staff/

Shantell Jackson is a multidisciplinary artist who currently resides in Spokane WA, though originally from Buffalo NY. Shantell creates in process, each piece or creative journey starts internally and flows outward to create colorful, rhythmic, textural work.

Currently Shantell is the Program Director with Spokane Arts. Shantell has served in Higher Education for 17 years, as an administrator her focus was academic and multicultural programming. Shantell currently curates “The Chase Gallery” in Spokane, WA.

Through her work in the community and as a visual artist and writer Shantell hopes to take all her disciplines to create installations and performance art pieces that explore the human condition contemporarily and historically, in order to create dialogue across differences, that will build bridges and forge acceptance, and healing.

Reza Safavi examines how technology shapes experience. He uses video, code, sound, drawing, performance, sculpture, analog, and digital devices as well as living elements to create interactive experiences that highlight the interfaces between communities, technology, consciousness, and the environment.

Reza has been a member of several artists’ groups, in addition to his individual practice and his artwork has been exhibited nationally and internationally. Safavi holds an MFA from the University of Oregon, and a BFA from the University of Victoria. He is an Associate Professor in the Department of Fine Arts at Washington State University in Pullman, WA. hi-reza.com

Interdisciplinary Artist/Photographer/Education Coordinator

Megan Mack is an MFA graduate from Pratt Institute in 2021. She has worked predominantly as a portrait and commercial photographer for over ten years. Currently, she works as an interdisciplinary artist examining social and environmental issues within the more-than-human world. She is currently on staff as a photographer/videographer for Nimiipuu Protecting the Environment. As of late, she has taken on the role of Education Coordinator at Moscow Contemporary in Moscow, Idaho.

Artist/Educator/Curator

Krista Brand is an artist, educator, and curator living and working in eastern Washington. Brand’s work explores everyday encounters with litter and plastic waste, incorporating ceramics, painting, sculpture, and digital media into multi-dimensional installations. In 2020, Brand co-founded Side x Side Contemporary, an online exhibition space focused on supporting international and emerging artists. She was a resident artist at Arts Letters & Numbers (Averill Park, NY), and was grant-supported member at Saranac Art Projects (Spokane, WA). Brand is currently a scholarly assistant professor of art and graduate coordinator at Washington State University.

Executive Director, Moscow Contemporary

Executive Director, Roger Rowley, has an MFA from Visual Studies Workshop, where he worked in the exhibitions program immediately upon arrival, then running their traveling exhibitions services and ultimately becoming exhibition program coordinator.

In 2001, he became curator of exhibitions/collections manager at the Museum of Art/WSU in Pullman, WA, prior to becoming director of the Prichard Art Gallery.