Welcome Reception for Tere Romo

David Friedman, Chair, Board of Trustees, and Sandra R. Hernández, M.D., Chief Executive Officer invite you to a reception to welcome Tere Romo, our new Program Officer for Arts and Culture.

Monday, June 27, 2011
5:00 p.m. to 7:00 p.m.

The San Francisco Foundation
225 Bush Street, Suite 500
Directions

Hors d’oeuvres will be served

Space is limited, registration is required.

RSVP to mxh@sff.org or 415.733.8572.

Terezita (Tere) Romo is the program officer for arts and culture. An independent curator and scholar, she recently served as the arts project coordinator at the UCLA Chicano Studies Research Center (CSRC). Previously, she was the arts director at the Mexican Fine Arts Center Museum in Chicago and resident curator at The Mexican Museum in San Francisco, where she organized exhibitions and public programs. She was the program manager for the Organizational Support Program at the California Arts Council, where she developed a Traditional Arts Program and participated in the development of the Multi-Cultural Arts Programs. She has served as reviewer for the National Endowment for the Arts, Alpert Awards, Denver Airport, and Sacramento Public Art Programs. An art historian, she has published essays on Chicana/o art and is the author of “Malaquias Montoya” (2011), an artist monograph within the UCLA CSRC book series “A Ver: Revisioning Art History.” She was also the lead curator for “Art Along the Hyphen: the Mexican-American Generation,” one of four exhibitions organized within the CSRC’s “LA Xicano,” a collaborative project within the Getty Foundation’s regional initiative called “Pacific Standard Time: Art in LA 1945-1980.” She holds a Master’s degree in art history.