CAP Team

CAP Team

Megan Barber
Executive Director
director@artspartner.org
 

Robin Schwartz
Grant & Program Director
programs@artspartner.org

Via Carpenter
Community Engagement Coordinator
Via@artspartner.org
 

Community Arts Partnership Board 2025

Tom Bouman, President
Tom is a fiction writer and attorney with Coughlin & Gearhart, LLP.
Dara Engler, Vice President
Dara is a visual artist and serves as Associate Professor and Associate Chair of Art, Art History & Architecture at Ithaca College.
Seth Hiland, Treasurer
Seth in an attorney with Harris Beach, PLLC
Whitney Tassie, Secretary
Whitney is a Grants and Award Coordinator at the Einhorn Center for Community Engagement at Cornell University. 

Gladys Brangman
Founder of Business Leaders of Colors, a group of small business owners committed to social justice.
Ritza Francois
Ritza is an arts aficionado and development professional.
Nick Goldsmith
Nick is a performance artist and program officer with the Park Foundation.
Kathryn Henion
Kathy is a fiction writer and serves as a Communications Specialist for Cornell Engineering.
Carrie Irwin
Director of Human Resources at the Cornell Ann S. Bowers College of Computing and Information Science.
Paulina Velázquez Solís
Paulina is a visual artist and lecturer at the Art, Art History and Architecture department at Ithaca College, and a visiting critic at Cornell University's School of Art, Architecture and Planning.