Board of Directors

Chloe Redd
Secretary
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Chloe is an artist and college student currently majoring in computer science from Kingston, New York. She loves to draw and paint silly things, as well as play the cello and bass guitar. Chloe was previously a member of the Pop-Up Gallery Group/The D.R.A.W. Kingston, where she assisted with the hanging of shows in various local galleries (including ASK!!) and served as an artist’s assistant for both adult and youth classes.

Hannah Crisafulli
Director
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Hannah is a visual artist and avid supporter of the arts community in the Hudson Valley. Originally from a small town in Warren County, New Jersey, and moved to the Hudson Valley after receiving her BS in Cinema and Photography, with a concentration in photography, from Ithaca College in 2019. She quickly became involved in the Hudson Valley’s arts scene, and has also become involved the several of the community’s grassroots movements. She is passionate about creating and promoting inclusive, assessable, and empowering arts spaces for folks of all backgrounds.

Cari Marvelli
Director
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Cari's work as a photographer began as a teenager living in Reno, Nevada. Her first job was as co- publisher of a hardcore punk fanzine called Media Massacre, which captured the raw energy of the local scene. Cari got her first job as an actor in Gary Elam’s film American Leather, which then led to her involvement in the local theater scene. After a couple of years of performing ‘au naturel,’ Cari decided to move to San Francisco to receive formal classical theater training at the Bennett Theater Lab. She then moved to the East Village where she pounded the pavement for acting gigs while working as a waitress in a cocktail bar.

Cari moved to Kingston in 2001 and began focusing on screenwriting and filmmaking. In 2009, her short film man’aise was a selection at Mockfest in Hollywood where she won a ‘Mocky’ for best actress in a drama. Many of her early photos have since been published in print (Straight Edge by Tony Rettman, 2017; Untypical Girls by Sam Knee, 2017), and were part of a 2015 retrospective exhibit called Skeeno in Black & White & Words at the Holland Project in Reno. Currently, Cari uses original photographs to create digital collage pieces she refers to as “repurposed,” and is dabbling in encaustic work. Her vision for the Kingston art scene aligns well with those of ASK; inclusivity, with a focus on promoting local artists.

Kathleen Nolan
Director
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Kathleen Nolan, MD, MSL, is a physician, environmental and public health advocate, and elected representative to the Ulster County Legislature. Kathy also volunteers as President of the Board for Samadhi Center Inc., a mindfulness-based recovery outreach center in Kingston. Kathy writes haiku, draws, photographs, studies shodo (Japanese calligraphy), and is a lifelong supporter of the arts, especially art in public spaces.

Jamie Sanin
President
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Jamie is a visual artist, educator, and organizer living in New York's Hudson Valley. Raised in Orange County NY with B.S. in Visual Arts Education, her interest in teaching sprouted from her own experience with the arts; in addition to visual art, Jamie also studied dance, music, and theatre from a young age. Each experience provided them not only with a breadth of cultural knowledge but also the opportunity to consider the importance of community care via accessible arts, for which she is an advocate. 

Through their artwork, Jamie aims to create cultural commentary using a visual language and explores themes of identity, perception, and representation within the arts. Jamie is also the founder of Celebrate845, whose mission is to organize, recognize, and celebrate marginalized creatives via pop-up events across the Hudson Valley. She is thrilled to serve on the ASK Board and be a part of the Kingston arts community.

John Verner
Director
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John is a fine art, commercial, and stock photographer. He has had 12 solo shows of his work and regularly exhibits nationally in juried and gallery exhibitions. His commercial work includes portraiture, real estate, product, and event photography. And his stock photos are represented by Getty Images and iStockPhoto. John also teaches photography classes and has juried print completions. Additionally, he has won awards for his work.

His photography has appeared on numerous sites including the Huffington Post, Wall Street Journal, CNBC, the Daily Beast, Tennessee Department of Health, Daily Meal, Business.org, Tech News 2Day, ThinkGen, Food & Wine, Daily Star, News24, Movement, Rarey Bird, Medicaid and the Law, Lovely House, Common Wealth Fund, ThoughtCo, Home Decor Bliss, Red Bubble, Future of Personal Health, and others.

Staats Fasoldt
Director
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Staats is President of the Board of the Woodstock School of Art’ and has taught painting and drawing there for 35 years.

He is active member of the Woodstock Artist’s Association, The Art Society of Kingston and member of Longreach Arts, the Hudson Valley’s premier mobile Artists Co-op.

Staats has an MFA in painting from Suny New Paltz and has had numerous one-person and group exhibits.

Daniel Venture
Director
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Daniel has explored a variety of art media throughout his life. Dancing, choreography, cinematography, painting. However, photography has always been a constant form of creation and
expression.

His visual stories are the sum of a wide-raging collection of erotic imagery, architecture, people, urban landscapes, art appropriation, and past painting experiences organized in a new space that
defines a world that goes beyond the realm of comfortable realities and conventional appropriateness. As a storyteller, layering images has become his visual vocabulary and emotional language through which he intends to create a vehicle for the observer to experience a new realm of possibilities.

Born in La Plata, Argentina, he resides in Kingston NY since 2017.

Denise Fryburg
Director
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Denise is a visual artist that has been actively engaged in contributing to ASK since 2014. An ongoing member of the gallery and educational committees, Denise has also supported “behind the scenes” and collaborated toward the successful outcomes of panel discussions, gallery activities for families, gallery talks and other ASK projects. Denise has decades of experience as an educator and a long history of community volunteerism.

Sharon "Sascha" Ascher
Director
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Born in Brooklyn, NY, Sharon received her BFA from Pratt and is a professional multi-media and visual artist, climate activist, educator, innovator, designer, and costume designer. A recipient of the Andy Goldsworthy award among many others, Sascha’s works have been showcased in multiple galleries and museums. She currently creates, curates, and archives artwork at her studio, Wabi Sabi Art Lab, in Stone Ridge. Sascha’s expressive works are often a combination of materials including fabrics, paints, photography, and collage.

Richard Baronio
Vice President
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Richard grew up in the suburbs north of New York City, and having tinkered with objects his whole childhood, discovered sculpture in college when he was failing out of freshman engineering. He went on to graduate school in sculpture and then taught sculpture at the University of Illinois, Chicago, and Kenyon College in Ohio. From there he moved to New Haven where he spent three years designing and installing exhibitions at the Yale Art Gallery and the Yale Center for British Art. Following that, he moved to New York City and started a residential construction business which he ran until 2020. He has been a permanent resident of Kingston since June 2021 and was happily surprised to find the atmosphere at ASK to be so supportive and considerate. As a result, he looks forward to serving on this new board of directors.

Lee Worden
Director
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Lee is a queer artist and small business owner. They have been creating and vending as Firefly Resin for 4 years, dabbling in multiple mediums with an emphasis on Jewish witchcraft. They are a proud member of Team Celebrate845. Born and raised here in Ulster County, they are thrilled to be a part of the valley’s art legacy.

Priscilla DeConti
Director
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Priscilla is a retired RN who found her voice in the creative arts back in 2015. After finishing a graphic design degree, she began dabbling in acrylic and oil painting. She was introduced to the Zentangle method in 2016 and became a Certified Zentangle teacher in 2017. She currently uses her Zentangle patterns and method to create unique multifaceted pieces of art. Her love of art and her love of her community will be an asset to the ASK community. It is an honor and pleasure to be a part of growing ASK for the future.

Tovah Goldfarb
Director
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Tovah is a lifelong lover of the arts in the Hudson Valley and delighted to join the interim board. She is an artist and activist. They are a proud public educator in the Poughkeepsie City School District.

Natalie Fisk
Treasurer
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Natalie is a Mexican American artist. She was the curator for the NU Perspectives art program at NU Hotel Brooklyn which facilitated murals, lobby exhibitions, performances, hosted Fridge Art Fair, and collaborated with local galleries and artists from Brooklyn. Fisk has the goal of utilizing her creative and professional skills toward building strong support networks for communities that have been intentionally, historically, and systemically ignored. She received her BFA from the Pacific Northwest College of Art in 2011, has attended the Vermont Studio Center Residency, and has been showing her work nationally for over 15 years. Her curation has been mentioned in the New York Times, Hyperallergic, and Bushwick Daily.